Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-15
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

hack business In tndt place.
Tight lacing is again coming into
fashion I; this is good news for short
armed lovers.
The recent arrival in Berlin of a
party of thirty young lady tourists
from America, writes a correspond
ent, created a profound flutter.
We note that those tortoise shell
and gold butterflies are worn again
in the hair, and appropriately at
this time of the year.
Mrs. Sarah Kidder, of Livermore,
Me-, will be 1O3 years old next Oc-
tober, and is probably the Oldest per-
son in the state.
Delaware dame, during twenty
four years of matrimony, has pre-
sented to herhappy husband twenty
three little olive branches.
Accidentally, a Mrs. Smith APP
peared on the streets yesterday with
her bonnet on wrong side before,
and yet she was not arrested. How
long are these outrages to tolerated?
An article on female apparel,
built upon the model of DIR. Mary
Walkers pants, for mountain
climbing, is on exhibition in a
Broadway modiste's window.
The first exemplar of female
physic in Holland, is a Miss Jacobs,
Of Sappemeer, who has recently
taken her medical degree at ROtter-
dam.
Some of the ladies of Cape May
are wearing dresses made from the
silk washed ashore from the French
ship Independence, which was
wrecked on that coast half a GEN.
fury ago.
The most fashionable style of
shirts in Nev0da is made of cOlOred
muslin, having a bosom decorated
with prints of a full eucher deck.
The shirt is especially popular with
bachelors who ego j: alone" in the
game of life.
There seems to be some change
in the style of wearing the hair.
The back braid is not worn Sd low
in the neck, and on top of the
head "a number of finger puffs are
arranged in a most peculiar man
ner.
Pearls are very fashionable this
season. The a rings r a series
of bars or balls joined by gold chains,
and with these come a star to be
Worn IN the hair. Breastpi.ls and
brooches appear to be entirely out
of fashion.
An old lady writes to say that she
is warmly in favor of women doc
tors for women ; that a sick woman
will tell one of her own sex more
about her feelings in five minutes
than she would a male doctor i'm an
hour.
A young fellow in a. Western
town was fined $40 for kissing a
girl against her will, and the fol-
lowing day the damsel sent him
the amount of the fine, with a note
saying that the next time he kissed
her he must be less rough about it,
and be careful to do it when her
father was not about.
The Empress Eugene is an ar
fist i'm ecclesiastical needlework and
embroidery. During the last year
she has worked with her own hands
mere than one set of Investments"
for the little chapel, and also a stool
and cushion for the priest. The
Empress would not allow a single
stitch to be put in by any other hand
than her own.
A strong-minded woman In De-
troit made the following gentle re-
ply to a policeman who had called
at her house to get her husband to
go to the polls and vote: "No, sir;
he can't go he's washing now, and
he's going to iron tomorrow, and if
he wasn't doing anything at all he
couldn't go. Irun this here house,
l do, and if any one votes, it'll be
this same woman"
A Brooklyn writer ON street car
cOurtesies holds this opinion "To
vacate your place for every young
thing who enters, who has been on
a visit, or shopping, and who will
doubtless dance a half dozen sets
after she gets home, is not gallantry,
but the air of a fOp or downright
fool, and will never be performed by
a sensible man who has done a hard
days work.
They indulge in "Society Cos
sip" out in Kansas. A Dallas re-
porter is guilty of this: "Miss
Y wore a red bombazine dress,
ruched with point alpaca, and an
overskirt of rose Bingham, with a
border of parsley blossoms. Her
tournure was particularly noticea-
BILE, from tie fact that her hair was
SO deliciously scrambled in front.
She also wore No. 9 lilac double
but,onod gloves, No. 6 store-shoes,
slashed at the heels, and Pompa-
dour socks"
Cashmere shawls are shown in
fitness of variety and i'm qualities
hardly approached before. Prices
are wonderfully low for these costly
things, but there are numbers of
them ranging from $4,000 to $1,000.
Very desirable shawls, either in
antique or the modern designs, are
had fol $500. Below this nothing
is covetable except a few excep-
tionally handsome stella shawls,
with blue, white, black, or scarlet
centers and fine border for $50 to
$3.50. Camels hair shawls as low as
S25 are shown, but they are coarse,
not delightful In color, and are only
favored IS carriage rugs.
This is the somewhat spicy style
i'm which Mrs Smith advertises her
husband:
"Lost, strayed or stolen! An in
divi6ual whom /, i'm IN urgent mo-
ment of loneliness, was thoughtless
enough to adopt as my husband.
He is a CORD looking and feeble in
diyidual. not knowing enough, how