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Another nephew (Allyn Joslyn) is an innocent dramatic critic engaged in a fine, sane courtship with the minister's daughter who lives next door. When she runs home for family prayers before going to the theatre with him, he reminds her that "if the prayer isn't too long I'd have time to lead you beside distilled waters." But that same evening he discovers the evidence of his aunts' latest charity in the window seat, awaiting burial. And that evening also marks the dreadful homecoming of a third nephew, an international killer, bringing with...
Only thing Nebraska had ever seen to rival Mrs. Joslyn's gift was a prairie sunset. But the Memorial's art had nearly all been bought in that happy era when money was good and taste was bad. Typical of its contents: a large, lush Bouguereau, Bonheur's Cattle and Landscape, a collection of Egyptian antiquities. Little of the $1,700,000 endowment Mrs. Joslyn gave it was spent on accessions...
When Teddy Roosevelt was trustbusting, Omaha's most grandiose mansion was Joslyn Castle. Daring schoolboys pressed their noses against the glass of its greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife...
Sarah Selleck Joslyn spent years planning a memorial for her husband, finally hit on a combined art gallery and concert hall which could house the beloved organ he had played with player rolls. After the $2,900,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial was opened in 1931, she used to visit it and put player rolls on the organ herself. This winter, too feeble to venture out, she stayed bedridden in Joslyn Castle...
...first five days last week, the Association's show drew 15,000 of Lincoln's 86,000 citizens. On the week's fourth day, 89-year-old Sarah Selleck Joslyn died in Joslyn Castle. Behind her, solid and pink, she left her marble gesture to the prairies, a reminder to other mortal Nebraskans not to be too proud...