Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-20
HONEY FUE THE LAUIEB.

HONEY F0K THE LADIES.
A Georgia girl is going to lecture
on "Kisses," in Washington. She
She will borrow a man to illustrate
on.
Notices are posted in the st. Louis
street cars announcing that "this
a can't wait for ladies to kiss good
bye"
A Brooklyn Dorcas Society fines
gossips one dollar for each offense.
The proceeds will be used to pay the
national debt.
The most popular Judge in Mis-
souri, just now is the one who has
decided that q woman is not an old
maid until she is thirty-five.
There is q passion for embroidery
this year which has been stimulated
by the revival of the English
wheeled and eyelet-hOled needle
work upon linen and batiste.
For country wear pretty striped
cambrics are also in preparation,
with edging or ruffes of needlework
and uniformly made into skirt and
pOlonaise.
White outdoor suits of linen and
pique are not i'm vogue this season.
Their place is taken by the embroid-
cred linen suits and the ecru batiste,
trimmed or worked with English
embroidery.
Nelson, the actress, is said to
have cleared $50, 900 since coming
to the United States. She would be
worth more but for her unfortunate
habit of giving diamond rings to
newspaper reporters.
A Porter county, Indiana, young
lady has the lofty ambition to raise
1000 chickens this season. How
much nObler it would be were she
to devote her heaven-born energies
to poetry, pianos and crOquet.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to
have a beau until she bake bread
and knit stockings; and as a conse-
quence every girl can bake bread
and knit long before she can read or
write, and she does't have to be
coaxed into her industry either.
A Washington belle has forty
eight pairs of shoes. Some curious
wretch calculates that If they were
arranged, heel and toe, in a straight
line, its shortest possible length
would be a fraction over ITO feet.
He adds by the way of postscript,
"That girl came from Chicago"
More elegant dresses for morning
wear for tho springs and for eoun-
try-house visiting n plain lawns
trimmed with deep bands of open
n~eedlework put on as fiounoes, and
dresses Of embroidered muslin,
which trim up so prettily with rib
bOns.
All linen suits are embroidered or
trimmed with embroidered linen
bands, imported in dark blue and
ecru. Stripped linen embroidered
can also be procured wrought in diff
ferent shades of brown, so that if
ladies wish to trim their own suits
according to their own design they
can do so at very slight cost.
Flowers are as thick as umbrellas,
as sashes, as neckties, as black lace
scaifs-everybody wears them, and
as they are popularity selected for
their prettiness. without any refer
ence to the hat or ribbon, or dress
or other articles they r to be
worn with, the effect is frequently
more striking than artistic.
A novelty in suits are the embrOi-
dered patterns in black iron grena-
dine. The designs are very bold,
and form a striking contrast to the
fabric, which Is now usually made
up over black twilled crinoline in
stead of silk as heretofore, a change
which makes an immense differ
ence in the cost. Beaded fringe or
beaded laces are used for trimmings.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, the sculp-
tor, Is half Indian and half African,
but the blending of these natures Is
not altogether perfect. Her jet
black hair on one side of her head
is short, crisp and crinky, like that
of the African, and ON the other
side it is long and wavy, more like
that of an Indian
A lady formerly living in New
Bedford, was standing on a wharf in
New York the other day, bidding
adieu to friends about to sail for New
Bedford, when the head Of huge
cask of m~olasses, that was being
hoisted on an elevator above her,
burst out, and she was deluged with
the sweet, sticky fluid. Any gallant
remark to her about sweetness"
10 Ire said to be not very highly
appreciated.
The fashionable polonaises for
spring and summer wear, are quite
an Independent garment, and may
be worn with black or any kind of
skirt that agrees with the other de-
tails of the costume. Foremost
among them are beautiful designsin
solid and Mechlin embroidery upon
silk camel's hair, a new fabric i'm
ecru tints, upon fine black CASH
mere, silk batiste, and silken can
vas, also new this season.
There Is one very decided change
i'm the fashions. After having for 9
years comparatively short "waists,"
the ladies r gradually going back
to the old-fashioned long ones. 1t is
predicted that this fashion will
bring tight-lacing into vogue. In
fact, slim figures, are already be-
coming more common than for
merly, and art is accused of having
something to do with it. Doctors
are glad, and SO are corset-makers.
The new thing for the present
month for e with black suits is
a small black cashmere mantle, ex-
quisitely embroidered with silk
slightly beaded with jet. There Is
no cutting to these, the only seams
being about a finger long upon the
shoulders; but there is an incision
round which the lace is carried at
the back, and a belt is placed under
meath to hold it into the waist. The
only trimming required is a finish
ing of lace or beaded fringe.
New Orleans Picayune: care
those gay widowers and middle