Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-24
HONEY FOR THE D

the stage.
One of the most 1ourishing dress
makers in Paris is said to be q Con.
necticut man.
A girl in Georgia, though cross
eyed, has been the cause of three
duels and ten extempore fights. So
much for looking at two men stimuli
taneously.
Foulards, we need hardly say, al
ways pleasant to wear, are more SO
than ever in the spring and sum-
mer.
Newark, n. ]. is said to have a
female club for young women who
have no place to spend their eve
nings.
For dinner and evening dresses,
silk gauzes will be much worn, over
silk, of course, or Us a trimming to
silk dresses.
When a Chicago man takes a
young woman out riding he doesn't
need a dash board. Her foot an
swers every purpose.
The bodices of dresses are made
very closely fitting, the basques set
ting tightly at the front and hips,
and buttoned all the way down.
The London tradesman who adj
vertises himself as a "breeches ma
ker to the Queen" braves it mild.
Chicago Times.
Mrs. Jewett, a Vermont post
masters wife, has been detected in
robbing the mails. Most women
would have been satisfied in read
ing the letters.
For a young woman to begin to
pick lint off a young mans coat
collar is said to he the first symp-
toms that the young man is in peril.
f Chicago Times.
A beautiful incident of wOman's
love has Just occurred in Liverpool.
A woman, to shield her husband,
who was charged with removing
the end Of her nose, swore that she
bit it off herself.
Silk dresses, trimmed with grena-
dine of the same color, will be much
worn; n favOrite style for this ar
rangement consists of alternate
hOunoes of silk and grenadine, the
former gathered, the latter plated.
The feather trimming has not
''gone out" as was prOphesied, but
ia excessively fashionable made in
light color as an ornament to silk
dresses, it is elegant and very be-
coming.
Nothing hurts the feelings of a
Vassar girl so much as to be told in
the presence of strangers, at the
breakfast table, that she must '.limit
herself to thirty pancakes on this
occasion. "-BrOOkiyn argus.
Tho dark blue plain linen, or that
with spots, has become rather COM
mon, and though We should On no
account counsel any lady who pos
sesses one not TO wearit, at the same
time We do not advise its purchase.
1t is probably the changeable char
acter of the weather thatha brought
SO many mixed materials into fash
Ion ; of these, partly silk and partly
wool, there Is an immense variety,
and very fine toilets are made Of
them.
Grenadines will be more in favor
than ever. Black silk grenadines,
with satin stripes or fiounces, over
black silk, and worn with colored
ornaments; colored silk grenadines,
over silk bodices and skirts of the
same color, will also make very
elegant t~oilettes.
A few days ago a lady of Bloom
field, Iowa, went to the postoffice
and asked for some stamps. The
clerk handed her some green ones.
She asked him if he didn't have
any pink; her stationery was pink,
and she wanted stamps to match.
A Rome letter writer says; 81
have seen q woman, with a loud
American accent, sit on the steps
of an altar in st. Peters, and study
her guide-book with an eye-glass,
while her companion made wild
gestures with his umbrella"
Low bodices are also very much
whalebOned, and laced at the back.
Some have points; others, the new
est, have either the basque "moyen
age"-that is, tight-fitting and long
er at the back and front than at the
sides-Or a basque widening grad
ually into postillion plaits at the
back.
The washing materials of this sea-
son are charming, and appear in a
variety of lovely %colors; they are,
of course, trimmed In such a man
ner as to allow of their being washed
without remOvingall the ornaments.
For this purpose nothing is more
suitable, and at the same time ele-
CANT, than Open-wOrk embroidery,
and of this an immense quantity is
used.
The white toiles and nanzouk,
handsomely embroidered i'm broderi
anglaise OIL the material itself, and
made into polonaises Dr. tunics, with
mantelets of the same, will be very
fashiOnably worn. The newest cut
is the "POurtales." 1t is very long
both behind and before, and gath
cred up at the sides. The pattern
of the embroidery is always on a
large scale; effective, and quickly
done.
A correspondent wishes to know ,
elf every woman is not, to some eX-
tent, a kleptOmaniac." For Our
part, We have never been quite
willing to admit that there is con-
s,itutiOnally any such mania as
kleptomania; but in regard to the
propensity to which he refers, we
may say that the best authorities
are agreed that no lady can be left
alone in the presence of a box of
face-pOwder without trying a little,
just to see how it loOks.-BrOOklyn
argus.
Bonnets are, as far as shape goes,
much the same as last month, but
the materials are, of course, much
lighter both I'm hue and substance.
Tulle, gauze, grenadine, crepellisse
and lace being the transparent fab
RIGS, bonnets of these or of straw are
very much trimmed with flowers;
in fact, hardly any of the original
is seen. No strings are
worn, except by quite elderly ladies
and if there are anY floating ends