Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 6, 1887, Page 11

R — THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1887.~TWEI PAGES. 1 That Coal nas Been Dis- covered in Omaha There can now be no doubt. The most skeptical are ready to admit that such is the case, | and the future of Omaha is Man- ifacturing of all kinds will be wlved beyond a doubt. m full force within one year. Packing houges will spring up like magic in South Omaha. In fact we can not hold Omaha down. Now is the time to buy. Do not wait, as property is ad- vancing every day, and you are looging money every day you wait. WE HAVE SOME ice Bargais SOUTH OMAHA Lipton Place TAKES THE LEAD. rerybody is rushing for lots E in this addition on account of its location. Be sure and look at this addition, Lipton Place, before buying elsewhere. First some, first served, is our motto. We Have Bargains in All Parts of Town [n improved and unimproved property. door at all times to take you out. Call and see D. R. Archer AND C. H. Sohotker ROOM 9, REDICK BLOCK UP-STAIRS. Carriages at the THE MATRIMONIAL BUREAU. The Ideal Splice in Homer's Days Oom pared With The Modern Hitch, ADVICE TO THE UNMARRIED. The Tin Wedding and the Wedding For Tin—Common Senso in Selects ing a Wife—A Lodge, atrimonial The Tin Wedding. From the Clipper. ‘Ten_vears have elapsed—ah! how fast the Jur hoste were made on And it needs but a glanee at their faces to see Thiat their lives since that lour have ran asantly on. rizing wedlock all blessings above, They propose the old story once more to be- ging But f1¢ lady who married the trst tine for ove, and host, nothing loth, 1 time marries, as usual, for tin, life is a bore: when in Eden alone m dozed, of liis ownstupid company tireds awakening, hone, Something more on this earth that young fellow desired. A bachelor’s Robinson Crusoe-life Seems to me to a prison life nearest aking A man's morally poor till he's best with a wife, Thouzh nis bank book may show that he’s ocean of tin. i men yet unwed, of your freedom on’t boast, Kuow the v erty hally nv\.lm question it, look at our hostess and 10st, And tell us, now, which of them looks like a thrall, No, wedlock's w lock that, when love turns the ki 1san Eden of bliss to eneh pair it bolts in. 1 h;n- tried it myself ana 1 would not go e Forall California’s afirifarous tin, What say vou young ladies? Pray tell us the tiuth; Don’t you think a good husband of good is the stim Spinster 1if yout Bat i L elum, Tis you duty to comfort our sex all you ean, For yours Wi the eause of originai sin, S0 eachi of you chouse a good lovking young man, And don't mind if he's sence of tin, But and sceing his beautiful arried man's home 1s true lib- s well enoush in the heyday of age, let we tell you, ‘tis awful worthy, the ab- Homeric and Modern Marriages. Honorable marri for a maiden meant i Home; S, S0yS 1 writer in the Queen, inge with o husband well- born, straight of limb, fair to look upon. Honorable marriage means now-a-davs too often n with money. The husband may be crooked, low-born, ill- favored, but if his moncy buy for him position all is well; or it he we do not go as low as that, we desire that the husband be well-born, but he may be ill-favored. I never heavd of u a yet object to a Suitor for his danghter b cause that suitor was uncomely to 1o upon. Weare nota beautiful’ nation at best, hut our men still possess suflicient instinct of ruce to demand, as a rule, that their wives should not be uncouth in nce, though b , too, money s the day; but itis a lament fact at convention se unst d woman for physica s, and quite 1 ance a woman will present ad of his tabl Leta woman also, an-like, give a thought to the ap- nee this man will present at the foot . where she will have to contem plate him possibly for the rest of her hife- time, But there1s a last thought before we leave N a, and it comes from the Lips of Odysscus; after all the chict things —and it zounds a little strange from the ps of & man—is, that wben the gods ant to the maiden a husband and a fome thoy grant also “a mind at one with his.”” Only very scldom now -a-days does the world e the Homerie mar| Odysseus had no thoughts that Nausicaa might not shave. Allow- ing for the difference i muse 3 training was the sume, their intellectual atmosphere precisely’ identical, both could sing and dance, both listened to the minstrel. but how is it now in the marriage of eultivated socioty? 1 pass over the really ill-mated couple. A very elever, d-working man often «a pretty woman without an idea d, and finds her—well, ting for a year, and simply a rather irk- some cipher in his life for the of lus days. .There are not wanting signs that we shall soon have the reverse pioture: there is no doubt that clever women who work at a hich, mental piteh find the handsomie young do-nothing athlete at- tractive and refreshing; this is the mar riage almost by antipathies, the attrac- tion of the positive and negative. Among the unreflecting certain pereentage of this sort of marriage will always o on. Butl speak of. the aize well- matehed, intellectual couple, Their minds are as one, so far as they go. The, honestly love, reverence and sympath with each other; they go outto dmner, and the modern Nausieaa talks as well and brilliantly as the modern Odysseus; her comments and eriticisms when the; ome home are just as well worth he: ing; she reads the last novel from the li- Lrary, and her opinion is just as pointed and notoworthy. But there always come: a space beyond, a path down which Odys sous goes whers Nausicaa cannot foliow. He has had the training of school and college, his mind is_ground to o sharper edge, he argues with a nicer logic, his very phraseology 1s charged with associa- tions foreign to her language, and so, when he wants to discuss the last issues of his work, when he seeks to utter the Jast fine lower of his thought, the point he has made for himself—in advance— bhis own, in comes the man friend (in Greece it was the woman friend), and the best moments, the finest sensations life has to give are for the friend’s sharing. And the odd thing is that the wife is not jealous of this man friend who takes what should be hers. She says, *‘0, Odys- seus hates learned women;he shouldn’t like me to be blue,” and so she never knows that she has lost the crown of marriage—though’ wedded to thonght, There have been a fow, there wil more of the modern Homerio marriages, and theirs is a rapture sometimes, an abiding content always, I need not de- seribe; “‘their own hearts know it best.’ Single Blessednesa, The lives of many unmarried people are unbappy because they have failed to find an objeet in life; but when they are more fortunate their love and powers may be drawn out quite as much as those of the married by interesting work They are married to some art or utility, or instead of loving oue they love u.( When this last is the case they go down into the haunts of evil, seek out the wretehed, and spare neither themselves nor their monel\: i their mflwworflly enthusiasm for .umlu\t.}'. smployment is a “‘perennial fireproof joy" that will always m%puplnhuupy.llmngh ngle. Af celibacy be an evil, remember what Jean Paul says of evil, that it is “‘like a nightmare—the instant you begin to stir yourself it is aiready gone.” No doubt, says a writer in Cassell's Family Magazine, it is diflicult to find the work we like, but then the work we like is Seldom the best for us, Those who pre- fer any work to no work need never be idle. The “‘spinster's sweet arts” are are unsoltishness, temper, tact and taste. Live for others. ou have mo ides of the value of kindness. is very reficetive, and if you give 1t you feel it, and pleasure which you gaye DLy a little kinduess of manner returns to you 70 with compound interest. Tt is related in the life of a eclebrated mathematician, William Hatton, that a_respectable-look- ing conntrywoman called upon him one day, anxious to speak with him. She told him, with an air of seerecy, that her hus. band behaved unkindly to her, and sought other company, frequently pass- ing his evenings away from home, which made her_feel extremely unhappy, and knowing Mr. Hutton to be a wise man she thought he might be able to tel! her how she could manage to cure her hus. band. The case was a common one and he thought ho could prescribe for it with- out loosing his reputdtion of a conjurer. “The remedy isa simplo _one, 1l he, “but [ have never known it il. Al treat your husha a smile."* The woman expressed her thanks,dropped a courtosy and retired. A “few months afterw rfi* she waited on Mr. Hutton with « couple of fine f which she begged him to acc told him, whilo a tear of joy tened in het o advice and he nd was cured. no lonver sought the company of others, constant love and 1 woman it is much sary for a marri to smile away mmn?m.w.i_ more so in the case ol the unmarried, They must treat their friends with the smile of good humor If old maids some times feel de trop in’ the world and not much wanted by their ances it must be beed eyl no tact to please. You may not be able to leap into thefavor of others as the Duke of Gram- mont did, but you ean get a hint which can be applied” in other ways from the following anecdot The Duke of - mont was the most adroit and witty cour- tier of his day. He entered onc day the closet of Cardinal Mazarin without being announced. His eminence was amusing imself by jumping against the wall. To surprise 4 prime minister in so boyish an occupation was dangerous. A less skill- ful courtier might have stammered ex. cuses and retired, But the duke entered Dbriskly, and eriod out: “I'll bet you 100 crowns that I jump higher thah cminenc And the duke and began to jump for their lives took care'to jump a few inches lower than the cardinal, o six month after wards was marsh Unmarried people who that they have not to earn their wl should _cultivate a taste for 5 Nothing drives away ennui like a good hobby.” On the wed ding day of the celebrated M. Pasteur, who made such extraordinary discover about germs, the hour for the ceremony hac ived but the bridegroom was not there. Some friends rushed off to the laboratory and found him very busy with his agron on. He was excessiy at being disturbed, and d marriage migit wait, but his could not do so. The unmarried coutd wait more patiently for marr and be »py should they neve 3 it they would acquire o taste for snee, and good i <ing Out a W unfortu art s} $ was par tial to the ladies and did a great deal of gallanting them around —and making them have as good a time as myself, Bat when I eame to the age at wiich most young men fall in love [wus very careful to single out & lady of my own age, and one who had an extra’ amount of com- won sense and good breeding: one who ys considerate of others’ wel- B she kent houde for three younger children left orphans when quite youn “Now, after three years of married life, [ have neyer seen my wife untidy She makes it her pusiness to keep herself looking a3 neat as her house, and yet to see her out of humor, or in the least ways cross, and although 1 do not make auything like big vel she manages to keep the house in all neces- { T have more moncy inmy pocke the end of the month than 'l ever had, or could ma w save, before I was ma o, think if more young men would look on the praciical of matrimony there would not bo so many disappoint- ing unions. Common sense is the thing. Never mind the pretty face, brigh s or small feet. Huos she ipply of common pse? It beats m and” drawing far enough. A controve the Citizens’ Savings bank culminated by five young women bringing out some in- [z ing facts concerning matrimonial lodges in the Fourth district court, writes a New York correspondent of The St. Louis Republican. Rosa Singer; | Gross, Eleanor Sumpter, Rachel ! ter, and Theresa Greenstein several y ago organized a lodge knowr “First Daughters of tlungaria,’’ for one of its chief obje members in the event of lian During the existence of the lod, several of the members were married, proving that the society had been suc cessful in its objects. The club did not prove u suceess in point of numbers, and the name changed. The president, Max Goldberg, secured possession of the bank book he elaimed, under author- ity of the grand lodge, showing a deposit it favor of the young women. They dis- puted his rightto hold the book, and de- manded its possession, but he refused to rive it up. Then the young women took £ procecdings to secure the bank- book, and Judge Steckler has just passed upon the ease, heresa Greenstein young and pretty Jewess, who has not yet scen the young man who is worthy of her hand and affections, wus the principal witness before the court. She asserted that the bank-book had been taken against the wishes of herself and associates, ‘The following questions and answers followed: Who ran the lodge nd lodget” “There was a young man in charge.” “1 suppose he was a good-looking young man?’ *0 yos' (smiling). “What was the object of the society? Were you organized for the purposs of becoming engaged and married?” **Yes, sir." *“Then your society was organized to assist the young ladies in matrimony " “Yos, sir,” (blushing). “How much would you society in cnse o, Iurringe “*A member would give as much as she pleased.” “In case of death how much would be given?" ‘‘About 25 cents,”” “How many ladiesin the society are married " *‘About five out of the lodge; one lady is in eourt.” 'She was the lucky one?" es, sir,” (laughing). Who started this lodge?" “*A certain youngman,'” sheanswered “‘Is he & married many" “No, sir.” He is the president?"” *Yes, sir.”! “Do you always select a single man as president ¥’ **Yes, sir. ‘“‘He must be a single man?" *Yes, sir,” (smiling). “Why would not a married man do as well» he could not be taken at all.” rimonial you ladies or the get from the “Oh, (Laughter). “He could not marry anyone of the members of the society; was that the reasont” “He was not compelled to.” “If a man became a member of the society would be become such for the purpose of"umyhx one of the female SRORE. 1 s nob altogether for that , 8ir. or at.” “H“:‘mn ra.alnn;ar_ry;'mhu expelied from the association! . “No, sir; I guess not.™ | ing] I have | | after thr CLARA BELLE'S LETTER. Leopard Skins Taking the Place of Seal Skins Among the Ultra-Fastionable DANCING SEASON NEAR AN END. Langtry and Gebhard—Sunshine Once More In the Stewart ana Tilden Mansions—Amateur Acts ors the Rage, New Yonrx, Feb, 8. of the BEE,]--The spots of the leopard are traditionally changeable, but his skin gets transferred now-a-days from bis own back to that of the most ultra fash- jonable girls in all Vamity kair. Only a fow of these sleek and glistening gar ments have yet been seen in New York but by the elose of this season the prom enaae will present the appearance of a drove ot leopards out for forage. leopard skin is wrre, that two hence ¢ wraps made of dyed eat skins, at # As yet, only th who have reduced liv- to the science of gratitying their whims are indulging in the luxury of making themsclves look slick and shiny beasts of prey. The skin worn only in short wraps, and for e of these 1o from choicely mottled skins in the styld of the best you pay at least %500, and j much more as you like. A wom those ck and sycllow spots \ her natural self, but she 1 you think of a mermaid who has taken to” the woods, To me there is something suggestive of rattlesnakes about a leopard skin, ana if 1 were to wear one of those wraps [ should feel as 1f I had been stufted inside a snake’s skin and had the rattles stick- ing up above my bonnet. But, undonbt- edly, the leopard is a very boeantitul though wicked, beast, and his hide has this advan over that of the gentle and long-sutiering seal, that the woman who wears it is twice as conspicuous for three times the distance as she would be if she wore the best garment obtainable of that material. At any rate, the new whim will give the seals a rost, the peo. ple who i leopards a frosh citement, and the manufacturers nee to exercise their ingenuity in g ting out leopard-skin cotton plushes. THE DANCING SEASON We are well along towards the end of the dancing season. last of the Patriarehs’ assemblie iven week, and altogether the Astor-Vandoer- bilt set has out enongh of the heel- and-toe exercise for the winter. ad death are si ly 18 my mind as L revert to this particular oc casion. I remember that, at midnight, T atehing young August Belmont ancing o gavotte with Mrs. M ldortl” Astol Thisas our society, having bee sinee the holida nd it quickened the fagging interest in the sport of the waxed floor. It is rather alet likem its aspeet—an intrieate com- bination of waltz and polka, and orig- inally intended, I believe, for little boys and “girls, But the active and ux like to show athletie ahility now- and so the, ave ken up the suddenly.” To it you have 1o take three quick & steps to one side, then walk a step farther in same direction, and finally make athree step pe It turn, before peating the oper You eap sen t the slow step, comin, so L year or each introduced omewhat contini rofession- Never- sort of skip theless thos look well pride in spectators and the b nd-go-one cupe who are_apt and while doing it, anc fixing the admiration I'he junior August wtiful hter-m-law of the Astors werd partienlarly suceessful in zavolte, and their performance w most distinetive ure of the ball n reealling it [ discover that, at the time August Belmont was thus idsomely making merry, his brother ymond was shooting limself to death wt home in his father’s cellar. How shiverimgly eclose the comedies and ie§ 0f real life are played together, LANGTRY AND GEBIARD, o somewhat outside of exclu- i et to Mrs. Langtry; s even Frediy Gebhard, thongh conne by fawmily with the inner ci under tabboo by reason of his soeial gymnasties; and yet, in announcing, as L do, on undounted authority, the forth- coming wedloek of the two ' persons so long coupled in public adventure, I am Vi 1 marriage that will be a di cussed subject amongthe nobs. Strangely enough, as my readers may think, Mrs Langtry is the one who hesitates to zo to altar. She can be rid by divorce of husband in any week that she desires, he has abandoned her, and lawyers are almost through the nec procecd- But she i a most ive sort of womun, despite w may generally be thought of her; she is not in the least a sensationalist, beyond turning her fame 1s o court beanty to advertising account as an actre now she is so rich, so well along on stage, and so desirons of leading a deco ous life t she has no mind to m: with a tle-bramed fellow, But sl loves Fred, he loves her, they hav marked out a life of marital happiness and the wedding will oceur within thre months. ‘I hey will bave money in plent between them, and they will expect to go into society. How about that? 'MATTER ¥ of the tion of a belle at that same s She what we call 1 bud—a acbutante —a girl in her first season of such amuse- ments. She was slim, gentle, demure and very, very sw Her costume was white and simple. She was a picture of fragile beauty as she shyly entered the ballroom, erossed the tloor on the arm of her doting papa, and sank down intoa scat, Quick as a flash she was on her tect again, with rage sparkling out from her bright eyes and a blush of fury red- dening her cheeks. She strode out into the dressing room and madly tore from the puffed tournure of her gown an em- bellishment of flowers. “‘What on carth is the matte; asked a friend. “*Matter enough,’’ she pettishly sobbed. “f ordered the most fragrant kind of roses, so that when I sat on them and erushed them, thew fragrance would arise. Do you see® But my stupid maid rot the vilést smelling orchids to be had or love or money—because they were rare, no doubt—and when 1 sat down and crushed them flat, just as ['d caleu- lated, no perfume was serunched out, but instead an odor like a bone faetory, or a smudge acid chimney, fairly made my nose curl, That's what ails me." THE CURTAINS ARE RAISED, 1'wo houses now have thewr front win- dow curtains raised. That is unusual in these two instances. They are the resi- dences of the late millionaires, Alexander T. Stewart and Samuel J. Tilden. For years past the Stewart house on Fifth avenue bas becn as shut and silentas a tomb; and the home which Tilden bmlt in Gramercy park has hkewise been tightly shut. The interiors held vast stores of fine pictures, statuary and books, which have been of no public usae, Now the executors of the estates bave let in the light, in order to inventory things. The boss of the Stewart property is Henry Hflwn. while Andrew H. Green is the potental executor of Tilden’s wealth, and two more taciturn, determined self willed men never bre athed. Neither ha ever been known to co-operate with any® body in anytfiing, and it is therefore as Correspondence The | 1 the shop girls will wear | run of ex- | this | Belmont | tounding, for I know it to be true, that they have held several conferences over the project of combining their trusts in & free museum of art. ‘Each holds some- where nigh two millions to exvend pra tically as he ehooses under the testator's eneral direction to apply the money to peneficiont. purposes. The iden wn dot Thlton-Green consideration is to turn the Stewart marblo house into a public gal lery of statuary and painting, combined with a library.” The of the dead merchant would be put into it, and more of the same sort of material purchased. Almost a miracle would be required to keep Hil ton and Green in_harmony, but together they could establish the fincst museum- library on the continent without hulf trying. esman AMATECR ACTO Murray Hill likes amateur play acting when it isn’t so good as to be mistaken for vrofessional work, but is not suro | that the usement is socially safe | Some slight blurring of lines has been detected by the watehful g % of 50 ciety, and it is attributed to the dramatic club ‘veople who really can act. ‘lhg fence-viewges of swelldom bhave inspe the bounds and report that these, having { been tampered with, need to be resct Accordingly, the me exquisite of the dramatic clubs has split itself into two ctions, one of which nments and the other “Uhe heayy swells of clu her and viewed with s eneo of dramatio corps at club ables which they emed entively too sociable, too pro- miscuous, In the dramatie corps of the b were people who had nothing but nt to qualify them for membership; had neithér money nor grandfathers. The swell element congratulated itsell upon possessing ancestors and boodle, and no talent whate L'or stage per- formances, talent was necessary, but in society affirs, the swells conchided, was not only uscless, but entirely out of place. They did not eare about associat ing on equal terms with people who had brains, Therefore they resolved, in swell club Bnglish, that *the ables bo abol- ished and discontinued That knocked out the dramatic corps. Then the swell element formed a neay hization of the most exclusive charvacter to give sociubles, and sceured permission to use the name of the old elub. The plain shoof it is that the ing mem- bers are crood enough 1o dothe wo and give the club the reputation of pos sessing some histrionie ability, but are not swell enough to attend the soviety rackets, and_therefore are set aside by snobdom, When these high-toned elubs give performances at a theater, they en gage professional actors to help them, the acting endurable to the This raises the momentous ques: tion ocial standing of uctors, and the clubs have been sadly worried by They did not know how far to go in o liying lady 1 been publiely an actor, sho | wm the the young hugged on the st couldl not tell just w to draw the line i of social distinetion. 1t was a v sling problem until one of the clibs hit upon a happy solution. The swells made the interesting discovery Court Thorpe, the dude the Vokes company, had ancos- tors and was really o of good family. Mr. Thorpe i on of the Cotntess of Pomfre ried 1. Thorpe, an Irish min - who oceastonally preached the royal family to sleep in the good old times, Tt wy also ascerta that Mr. Walden Ram sey. another actor of the dandy type, be- ( to a southern family that luid s to blne blood be 1t owned slaves before the war, Soen certainly conld receive the grandeur of a_countess and a southern gentleman without in- quiring how thi > their living, and | the question of standing being sct- | tled, it was fortanate that the gentlemen could act and help the swell elub give an endurable entertainment. The two act ors appeared in a recent amateur per- | formance and carried the play_ through, { and they suddenly find themsclves very popular on Murriy Iill, Iow the American will utilize his rec- ognition by fashion is as yet unknown, | bit the Englishman has “promptly de- cided that the doli: of Fifth avenue are vreferrable to mere smiles. He has cen atheatre for next Wednesday, and , tickets for which be is industriously peddling in the cir- s of swelldom where he might wise tind welcome, but which closed to him by his plebeian but | sensible grab af the no eash value. Crana Ber othe will b 1is Place was Wrong but was All Right, l‘lnl:ulvl‘l\hiu Pr A distinguished member of the profession told me the followiug story the other day of a brother comedian, William J, Florence: Florence, | in his younger dags, was a great speech: maker. On the leéast provoeation he would rush before the curtam and hurl cexpressions of gratitude and promises of aspeedy return at the backs of the re- treating audience. One eyening, when he was dome one-night stands on the New Englaud eircuit, a few injudicious auditors were bold enough to applaud at the full of the curtain on _the last act, Florence darted from behind and bowed to the audicnce. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “or fellow townsmen, as 1 may eall you, I thank you. Thouzh you miy not e se- quainted with the fact, it was in this old town of New Haven that 1lived as a boy. Under the shs of the college elms and by the side of the old court house I spent the happest days of my life. 1see many familiar s before me tonight who were boys with me tien. [ have mev with some approbation in my life, but nowhere 1s it more sweet and more dear than 1n this my ¢ town, To-day, as I walked the stre At this point a gentleman in front whispered in avery loud voice: *‘Mr. his Heart Florence, this isn’t New tlayen, its Hart- 'MID THE MERRY MASKERS. “Tripping the Light Fantastic” in Gay BABEL OF BUFFOONS AND BEAUX The French Can-Can—Kaleldoscopio Appearance of the Ball Roonm— After the Dancing is Over, Parrs, Jan. 21.—[Correspondence of the Beg,]—The first of the four masked balls given each year at tha grand opera is supposed to usher in the reign of King Misrule, when tho fantastic and g holds sway until thearrival of Lent sends us all back to do penance in sackeloth apd ashes. For the last y years and more, at every recurring carnival season, people of a grampy disposition complain that the one lis dead. The truth is that masked entertainments haye always been popular in Paris, and perbaps al- ways will be. From the days when Catherine de Medicis would occasionally nd amagk as a present to somo faiv lady of her court, who generally sickened and died soon after roeciving this mark of royal favor, a passion for burlesque and travesty has ever been a ture of the French mind, 0 8, ever, soine truth in the statement that change, after the manuer of all carthl things, has come over society in re to the stylo in which Parisians enjoy themselves now-a-days compared with alf a century ago. In the time of our andmothers, THE tosque NOY MASKED BALLS were all the rage in the upper o society. High-born dames, who w countad stars of fashion in the drawing room cirele, and noblemen of fortune all fell in with the prey taste, and graced by their presence such midnight revelries. 1 remember, when boy, with what rapture of delight the old Comtesse de Cussae would allude to her dancing days atthe court of the Duchesse de Berri, and her cheeks glowed when- ever she recalled her first experience at a masked ball &t the opera. She was at- tired in the graceful costume of a dent,’” as students were want to array themselves in the time of Lows XUL Her cavalier was the Baron de Rouviere, who was richly clad in the costume of a gentleman at the court of Louis XVI. The costumes then were really grand and oviginal; people went to some troublo and expensc to dress themselves so that each should add something to the gaiety of the scene; the dancing was _therefor more hearty and enjoyable. The fact is that in this amusement as in every other, there is a high and low tid A LADY OF THE NOBL| FAUBOURG nt-German, if oflered a ticket to-day to a masked bali at the opera, would curl up her proud upperlip and perhaps take offence at the startling overture. This would not be the ease, however, with the young Irench girl of lowlier station, who, ever smee the announcement of the oper \; beer. roused from the athetic indifference of every-day hife to a state of great excitement. At twelve o’elock the doors of the opera are thrown open, and before long cvery tin the balcones is filled. The inter- ior of the theater presents a magmficent sectacle to the astonished beholder, who might well faney himself transported to i aluce in fai and. What a gal- beaut sthe eye; the triumph over art is to admire the mate :h the robe is made—your homage 1s paid to the form it covers. Arban, one of the kings of I an dance, leads the bulky orchestra of a_hundred 'musicians with'his usual pluck aad spirit; while Edouard Broustet offers relaxation from the ding-dong strains of the waltz and the clashing of the quadrille by a choice selection of classical and promenade music in the front crush-room. As I enter and gain the wide and spacious staircase, I sce that nothing has been left undone to enhance the natural ORCG iy OF THE 8P TACLE I have eame to enjoy. The glave of the lights, the extravagance and buffoonery of the motley crowd clbowing, jostling and hustling each other ont of the way, thedeafening babel of voices, pitched in the same key, all have a bewildering and dazzling effect which I have some pains to overcome. All Paris is here—Paris proper and Paris improper—elegant and inclegant, Ladies in domino elbow cis- pontine and transpontine lorcttes in skirts, and intrigne with gay Lotharios in dress-coats, while a kind of ‘“‘military health ofticer” comes jnuntily along, of- fering us gloved hand to a fat follow disguised as “Nounon,”’ the nurse; both are eseor by a score or 8o of attendant cavaliers who act as showmen, and 1 on the spectators to admire her beauty and phenomenal proportions. In the boxes, enthroned in sable splendor, sit aristocratic and exclusive ladies, who have come to sce and notenjoy; skipping and gyrating around the floor are the daugnters of Eve, who have come to enjoy and not to seo. In the way of cos- tumes there is little new. The incvitable Nanterre pompier, with exaggerated hel- met and erest ials of AL OF crAnRMS; 1, in tront of a sword girt, mail-c ickly-perspiring imversonation of Richard Cirur-de-Lion, gesticulates a nondeseript eastern dress, whicli a large label on his breast informs the public is that of an Arabian_knight, as he facetiously remarks to an in' isitive by-stander, the numerous tales complete; you do ' wmrsc hair ones) attached to all is person, keep up the character ‘“‘entertainments.’’ Theso, with & ablo sprinkling of the Thespian nood who exhibit the pooetry of moti Swiss Peasant Girls, Milk \{' ldsxl)l ors of tho Regiment, Titis, Postil Collegians; miss pen witches of nine dressed as Chloes of sixteen nymj and sirens, and a dainty little | dressed to represent a hand-box labell in honest faith “fragile;” these, Isa and many more, make ready to onter 8 dance. Then a thrilling punse of brest loss silence, during which Arban lool around with majestic dignity, slow grasps his baton, and suddenly, @ t8 mendous crash of harmony follows fro the musical battalion. { l'urwfii A VEST VIRGIN admiral rush wildly ot o hero of the Beresina and & wdne in tights; they retire and advand again, and so continue on, until & music of the dance quickens, the Vest Virgin 4wists madly around, with h head thrown back, piroucttes on o nd amid the applanse of the b standers, deftly raises her foot and sen the cocked hat the hero of the Ber ina high into the air. Theso are the pa fee, fivo francs and upwards fi And yet to them money is b a secondary consideration comvar with the glory to be acquired by thed vising of anew sten, that will " be_pe formed in the quadnlle figure of 't cavalior soul, To outshine his compeer {0 be distinguishod by the mgenuity] his invention in daneing or muumel the true aim of the paid row Like « true genius, he | for the originality | his dr msncked heaven and eart reconciled contradictions and earieaturs the truth; the more grotesque the ¢ ime, the greater the suceess, To defry the cost, he will beg, borrow and stet o supperless to bed, save and stay content if he be signalled out of h dreds, whereas a public ovation wo! secure his fame forever. By two o'clock, the vast building is 1} erally erowded to suffocation, And we wander PINCH A and jaded forms into the the ‘ballot—a g and a-Swi: ton FAC green room eful retreat, after t dust and stifling heat of the erowd hall ¥ iin, jostled and hustle | we go out into the corride and tot ernsh room, where the mask and domu afford us_quiet speeulation. As we ain the foyer, there are ereased sig imation. Recogmtions have be wnd rendez vous kept, and asueer sion of merry gronps, passing to and fi and bandying their racy witticisms, she || \eipient fun and “go.” It ly four o'clodk, dancing, mus and intrigue are at their ' height. ' Su denly, the first notes of the Infern | ssue from the orchestra. The ctrical. Look at the motl torrent! how 1t rolls onward with irres tible impetuosity! The pleasures of t dance, however, must at length have : end rtbly things, and the fin mar 1ds the hour of departu The *‘swells™ of the boxes signal to th footmen to order up the spanking grey others take a cab, or, thinking the mor . ing air will do them good, walk hon er buttoning up their conts to prote - them from the cold, and to conceal thy costumes from the eyes of the mark wrdencrs on their way to the halles rly hour. A nunicrous class frank | they don't know how they g home,” and, therefore, we shall not p: tend to be better informed than they s themsely CHAUVE-SOURIS ————— TaE quality of the blood depends mu upon good or bad digestion and ass | lation, to make the blood rich in life & strength giving constituents, use Dr, H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial a Blooa Purifier; it will nonrish the pr¢ crties of the blood from which the el ments of vitality are drawn. $1.00 § bottle. ‘When a carload of iron was opened Danbury, Conn., the other day, at Dblack dog was found amost. dead, had Dbeen in the car ten days withe 3| food. water or any protection from t iz _]i)l“'entner. He hasbeen cared fora wil HORSEMEN, And Lovers of Well-Bred Horse | TAKE ] H £ g | ] at’ | NOTICE. FOR SALE. | ALL TIME, by Almont 33, 1st dam On Time | War Dance, 8 ORIENTAL NO. 1919, by Almont Lightning, Ly Almont 53, st anm Kentucky Centy réeord ired by Balsora, he’ DK Al ander's Abdalluh, sire of Almont i REGALEI, brown mhre, und yearling Silg) § AliTimo, tnd dae to' foul” April 17th,1E | to All Timo. CARRY WOODWORTH, browm mare, by . NEBRASKA C Time, Ist dum Rewilott. : TRAL, chestnut two hi © toet white, sired by Orfontal 1910, 1stdi | Carry Woodworth: nd, Reguiott. He one of tho fincst colts | have rajsed. LAMUERTINE. buy colt, sired by Ali Time, dim Hogalett, DOLLY REED, dark bay filly, fonled in ' nta, 15t dam Lady Al Tie sired by Or by AliTime.. . ANNIR SCAMINGHORN, drab bay filly, foa * in'8i, sired by Oriental, I3t dam by & 2nd by Volunteer Chief, he by Volun For tull partioulars, divect to ! | ED. REED, Carc of Omaha Merchants Exprenl(i{ OMANA, NEB © The ahove stock enn be seen at any time,o | 20th St.,,One Block North of Lake { 1f these Stallions are not sold thoy will me thu seuson of 'K7 at the above plice—All Time | &35; Oriental at 80, J 8 CATALPA PLACE This is one of the handsomest plots in Omalw or inside the Belt Line. Indeed this is essentially insbde property., Lots can now be purchased at from §1,400 to | 1,800, one-quarter cash, balance in 1, 2 and 4 | : ¥ years, Parties looking for good lots and near to street cars, should by all means sce us before pltrt'hlllMa This plat lies immediately between Saunders street and Omaha View, and is onthe dir ot line to Fort (h»flhflg We say it without reserve, that no cheaper property, when location is considered, can be found in Omaba, We handle good property in all parts of the city, Lots in Washington Square, from $1,800 to $3,000, city water in front of every lot. Terms ensy. Lots in_Saunders & Himebaugh's Addi- tion to Walnut Hill, from §450 to $1,000. The Belt Line depot is within 1wo blocks of $his addition, Lots in Mt. Pleasant Addition, from $350 to $500. Ten per cent cash, balance in monthly payments, §5 or $10. Lots in Saunders & Himebaughs ¥ Iand Park Addition, from 250 to ). One-tenth eash, balance in monthly pay- wents of §5 or $10, We have for sale: Lots in Kilby Place, §900 to $2,870. Lots on Saunders street, from §1,3)0 to 7,000, Lots on North 20th street, trom §2,000 to §1,000. Loss in Hart's Addition, ncar Sac Heart Convent, for $1,500, Myers, Richards & Tilder’ one lot for $500, one-third for three days only. Furst class corner on Dodge streot, now renting for $3.000, Good for a few days for $33,000. Terms eusy. Addition, shy, Good 44 feet on Farnam strect, in busin portion, for $32,000, or <2 feet for §16,4 On Douglas street, 44 feot, between and 13th strects, two buildings on ud for $35,000. A bargain, A good corner bn Douglas for $25,0 44 feet on Farnam, well improved, $15,000, ! Good ot on South 16th strect. Call terms