Omaha daily bee., 1874-08-05
HONEY FOB I'll LADIES

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Buttons have abdieated in favor
Of bows, for dresses.
Laura Fair contemplates going to
The hostile Apaehes ex.
press great anxiety to return to their
reservations.
When six young ladies sit down
to talk about q new dress-pattern, q
small boy with a tin horn is a refuge
fer the weary.
Hats are now worn low on the
forehead, and not or the crown OF
the head, in the ridiculous style OF
six weeks ago.
Diamond shaped fans are the
latest. They are Of black satin,
handsomely and cleverly braided
with gold cord.
The vests, plain and embroidered,
show that standing collars and ruf1s
are not yet abandoned, and that
pleated ruffs continue to find favor.
To secure q scowl of perfect dis
gust from q woman tell her that q
caterpillar is crawling on the back
of her dress. Ia! vT,t
An 10 va woman, who put vitriol
on her scalp toremove dandruH, says
it was the dandruffest experiment
she ever tried.
They have those little hanging
pockets Of ivory and cut-glass. Bor-
row maisasmallest fruit dish. and
hang ID please. 52i
A Petsluma lady has been fined
81 for keeping q parrot The
Court decided it to be- q public
nuisance.
A woman fifty years old, in Cum
berland, Md, married her fifth hus-
band two months after the death OF
her fourth. The last victim is 20
years old.
The fashionable tints for dresses
next season are to be marine blue,
bronze-green, mouse-gray, and q
new and reddish shade Of plum
color. s--f
In the whole controversy on the
woman question nothing truer has
been said than the remark Of Mark
Twain, that "Woman Is unrivaled
as a wet nurse"
A Saratoga belle was thrown into
| commissions and her health serious
ly impaired because her beau want
ed to dance with her without wear
ing gloves.
Dressmakers generally are re-
| ducing their charges. A few years
ago ladies paid SIS to make up q
$40 material, but we are not so rich
(ani so foolish) as we used to be. ~
The girl of the period now carries
her sewing machine with her when
she goes to the sec shore, 80 thatshe
may get ahead of her rivals in any
new style which may occur.
Caution to Young Men-Because
you find a young lady playing the
piano in the parlor, it is no sign her
mother is not at the corner grocery
running in debt for q peck of pota-
toes. e
She can stand 1t pretty well once
or twice ; but when you spill q sau-
Ger of raspberry jam into her lap the
third time things get uncomfort-
able. and she works her counte-
nance as If she wasn't born to be an
angel.
SAYS a Detroit editor "Chicago
may talk about the homely women
of Detsolt, but there is one redeem
ing quality. When one of them gets
mired we don't have to dig up hall
the street to get a 16-foot scantling
under her foot to pry."
If the fainting treasury girls had
only gone forth and got drunk, as
did the discharged male employees,
it would have been an argument in
favor Of the ability Of women to
"meet man on his own ground" as
the women suffrage people say.
This is the season in which
women put their heads out Of the
parlor windows and tell their neigh
bori how many flies they chased out
Of the dining-room before dinner,
and how many they swept off the
floor before breakfast.
The season Is fruitful in hat trim
mings. Pretty hat bonnets are
made Of black rice straw, and trim
with either currants or cherries,
with their respective leaves, the
fruit falling like large beads on the
back hair. The flowers, fruit and
leaves of the caper plant are used in
q similar manner.
A Nevada woman eloped from
her husband in the morning, but
thinking better Of her resolution,
returned before nightfall. When
she got back he was 50 changed that
she didn't know him. He bad en-
braced the opportunity Of her alb
sence to take q bath.