Omaha daily bee., 1874-08-12
HONEY FOR THE D

The autumn silk will be striped.
Oxford linen dresses are pretty.
A leather braid for binding dresses
is in the market.
Powdered meerchaum isnow used
by ladies as a cosmetic.
Paper sunshades are something
new.
Necklaces of large coral beads are
fashionable.
Imported black silks are now one
mass of embroidery and very small
jet beads.
Ida Greeley knows how to bake
bread, sweep, dust, make beds,
clean house, and cut over old dresses.
There doesn't appear to be any
abatement in the Hamburg edging
mania.
White null trimmed with black
velvet and lace folms a beautiful
dress.
The kid glove for full dress now
comes within three inches of the ell
bow, and has the unusual number
of fifteen buttons
No fashion retains its popularity
so well as the sash. Some new and
pretty ones for summer wear are of
Brussels net.
care you a burglar, sir? If so, do
not come in, as 1 am all alone" said
a Somerville, Mass, servant girl
when a man called the Othe- day.
A mass of finger puffs covers the
head of the fashionable girl of the
period, coming from the forehead to
the nape of the neck.
Round basque waists are in FASH
ion, and more's the pity /; FOR unless
a lady has been favored by nature
with a good figure, she looks very
awkward liz the garment.
A gentleman, on presenting q
lace collar to his adnred one, said,
carefully: "Do not let any one else
rumple it." "No, dear" she re-
piled, "rI take it off"
The "beautiful and accAmplished
daughters" around Plate CIly go out
coon hunting with their beau, and,
on returning home, climb into the
second-story window, so as not to
arouse the old man,
The people at a ball in Science
tady wondered where one of the
young ladies got so many flowers.
She had stolen them from a ceme-
terry, where a widow had put them
on her husbands grave.
A Missouri to wn has organized
an anti-fashion society. One of the
pledges taken by the female men,
bers is 'to trample on all dresses
worn by ladies in public with long
trains, or which come below the
ankle,n
When a Michigan woman was
taken from the cow-catcher of a To-
connective upon which she had been
caught and carried half a mile, she
said with feeling, ~ was just SCOOP
ed like gosh almighty, wasn't II"
Frederick Bastier, a halter of San
Francisco, declared that he was the
inventor of an apparatus by which
a woman can be prevented from
talking, and at the same time re-
main happy. He was sent to the
insane asylum.
During the late Ere in Iowa Falls
a woman rushed frantically into a
burning building. The spectators
looked anXiously for her appear
ance, expecting to see in her arms a
forgotten infant or a decrepit grand
mother. She returned safely car
back chair.
The women of Chicago are said
to have been seized with Il spasm of
economy, so novel in its sensations
that they appear to enjoy the situa-
ton. Last seasons dresses are seen
on the streets in greater number
than ever before, and the sensible
DANES are said to be actually content
with delaines and cheaper fabrics
than they have eve attempted to
bewitch mankind with before.
What can be more startling, asks
the Washington Star, than to e a
delicate and fascinating young lady
with a long train suddenly turn
around, without giving the unsus-
pecting individual behind her any
warning whatever, gently stoop, ]
reach back with her right foot, and
kick desperately? She is going to
cross the street, and is merely
off her train in the new
The following Is said to be the
way visitors kill time at Saratoga:
At 8, the great procession to Con-
gress and Hathorn Springs COM
mences. AT 8 comes breakfast, and
then Theodore Thomas concerts on
the piazzas of the hotels. These
concerts bring out the brains and
beauty of all Saratoga, and the bal
comics are filled with regiments of
chattering women. At 2 it is din
ner time, and at some of the hotels
the band plays while the people eat.
AT 5 the spanking tandems, dog
carts and landaulets come up, and
Did, fashionable Saratoga takes an
while the young people
sumter off to walk and fiirt in the
park and graveyard. IN the eve
ming come the full-dress hops at all
he hotels, the promenading on
he balconies, and orrcr flirting by
he sentimental young people,
Everybody in Paraguay smokes,
md every female above the age of
thirteen chews. / am wr.gg; they
10 not chew. but mt t...scpo IN