Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

I for Paris last night Or this: Miss Mod
iste, buyer for Messrs' Bonnethat & Co,
has gone to New York to inspect the east
ern models"
Blu beware lest any eastern or foreign
idea as to the proper way to listen to a
| concert or play be introduced! Yes, be-
ware OF, that.
We are I'm the wild west now, and If
you want to come in late, and trample over
a woman's best gown, or talk so loudly
that you disturb those who want to listen
and enjoy, you have a perfect right so to
do. You are in this glorious Wild west,
where every one Is as good as any one
| else, and you can do as you please. You've
paid your money, and you can rather guess
that you can do pretty much what you
want to do.
The wild west! What has been RESPONSE
BILE for this idea that because one wants
the better things in Omaha, he is necessar-
lily out of sorts with the west? 1t is alb
surd. If one did not love the real West,
and the real western people with their
naturalness and their self-reliance, he
would not be likely to live in 1t. But the
wild west is a different thing.
9Th Round Up" was a convincing play,
to a degree; the spirit of thorough inde-
| pendence (of yourself and everyone else)
was strongly depicted in that wonderfully
original and tremendously brilliant line
which the lover "Cai" gave utterance to,
when his sweetheart was restored to him,
after many years, and the suggestion was
made that the lovers settle down on the
ranch in Arizona, wasn't it? Do you re-
! member the line. Like hell we will?"
But do you want to live in a wild west"
such as was depicted there?
Omaha councilmen go to eastern cities
and to cities larger than Omaha in order to
find ideas for street cleaning. and they
bring home plans for improving omaha's
appearance.
Committees on buildings go east and look
over some of the finest buildings in order
to get pointers and apply them here.
Doctors go to Europe ana visit hospitals
m order to bring to Omgha the latest
thoughts In caring for the sick, in order
that Omaha may be more healthy or. at
least, that their patients may have the
best attention and the benefit OF the latest
research.
But let some one put up a statue in
Omaha and you dare to suggest eastern or
European standards and see what you will
get. Ask j. Laurie Wallace.
Tell visiting singers in song recitals that
they are doing work which is not up to
the standard of the best critics in the
best cities of the world. and see what
you will get, People who do not know
the things sung, or what are the require
ments thereof, will denounce you who do
know them. you who have given those
things the closest study. and you
are expected to say. Dear me.
quite So" when you are told that some
one sang ''charmingly." by people who do
not know the fret principles OF the real art
Of singing. and who have never given a
weeks study to the presentation Of a song
themselves.
Get up a sermon In Omaha with the germ
Of a thought in It. develop II by slow. pa
tlent watching, nurture 1t and let the dark
ness of midnight witness your brain labor,
present Il TO the hungry hundreds who
want 1t and you will get your full quota
in columns Of distorted quotation and abuse.
Bring together a 0 d Of people and try