Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-10
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

Grass fringe Is as ds
ever and quite as expensive.
Pink and blue is one of the popu-
lar combinations in evening dresses.
The Princess Nellie had nine
black silk dresses in her trosseau.
White line n suits are all trim
with open-work embroidery.
Black satin fans trimmed with
white lace are something new.
Sleeveless jackets of white linen
areShown for morning wear.
Sandal-wood jewelry is new. The
earrings are in the shape of ros
Black silk skirts are corded with
velvet, by the ultra fashiOnables.
Lace scarfs worn around the neck
are now beaded.
Feather fans are in vogue. They
look well, but give little air.
Large bows of handsome ribbon
surmount the new sun-shades.
New French flowers come highly
perfumed, and are alike pleasant to
look upon and smell.
Those deep lace collars Worn by
our great grandmothers are in FASH
ion once more.
Trains continue to be worn for
full dress at home, butnO one thinks
of wearing them i'm the street.
Alady is now captain ola schooner
plying between jacksonville and st.
Augustine.
Gray, blue, dark brown and wal
nut black are the four most fashion,
able eolors of the season.
The first lady doctor in Holland
has just passed her examination.
The candidate was Miss Jacobs, and
she has obtained her diploma at
Croningen.
Maud Muller laughed heartily
at a young haymaker when the yell
low jackets got up his nankin trou-
sers. But when they got up her'n,
twas no joke.
The Los Angeles Express says:
carrying bouquets to Vasquez by
foolish females is 'love'slaborlost,"
for they are confiscated by the I'M
poetic jailer, and are not permitted
to reach the Gagged scoundrel."
Among all the statistics of female
hygiene there is lone more sug-
gestive than this, than no woman
was ever attacked with a fainting
fit in church while wearing her last
years bonnet.
The number of old bachelors and
old maids is greatly OF the increase.
Club life is taking the place of home
life. In Massachusetts there are
two hundred thousand old maids.
Think of that dear ladies! Isn't
there something wrong i'm society?
An editorial writer in the Cincin-
natl Times says that "the Buckeye
girl fiirts desperately down to the
proposal. Then she accepts, OIL she
refuses and the young man is turned
out like to an empty ass, to shade
his ears and Craze i'm commons"
A Lewisville (Oregon) lady was
recently blackballed by a grange.
She blamed q man, a neighbOr, for
casting the vote, and meeting him
Of ahrrrnh nrnanndnA 70 nix-a hin, N
drubbing. The lady is fifty years
old, and the man seventy.
An exchange, hat irresponsible
source, is responsible for the state
ment that the Southern gentleman
who received $4,000 from the rail-
road that killed his wife has inves-
ted in another, and is continually
planning railroad excursions for his
wife and two mothers-in-law.
The young ladiesof Valdosta, Ga,
are reversing the usual order of
things by striking the light guitar,
ETC., nocturnally under the windows
of their masculine inamoratoes, and
the local papers very appropriately
speu the performances sarrah-nadeS.
The Christian Register says:
"Without doubt sewing machines
are to do the work of the future.
and the making of whole wardrObes
will become more and more the
business of large establishments,
but it is hardly possible that this
generation of girls will outlive home
manufacture; and a woman who
cannot i'm an emergency make or
repair a garment, has one art less
than a Pottawattamie's squaw.
Mrs. Stevens, of Grass Valley,
California, takes a shot gun with her
when she goes into the garden, just
to frighten off the quails, which are