Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-17
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

Black satin fans trimmed with
white lace are something new.
New shoes of French manufac-
ture are tipped with Russian leather.
Those very pretty and becoming
white gauze wells r again in
fashion. .
Gray, blue, dark brown and wal
nut black are the four most fash
iOnable cOlOrs of the season.
New French flowers come highly
perfumed, and are alike pleasant to
look upon and smell.
Many women who are counted
honest steel their petticoats, bone
their stays, crib their baby, and
even hook their dresses.
Emily Faithful insists that the
incorporate use of ice water is the
chief cause of bad health among
American women.
The popular walking dress con
sists of q loose sacque and long
overskirt of gray or drab wooden
stuff with skirt of silk.
A Missouri man who snapped
wives with another Missourian, got
q COW, a calf, thirty steel traps, and
four children "to boot"
Cape May has an ancient lady
who has worn the same bonnet
since 1872. If any watering place
al lay claim to superior attractions,
it should ".ante up" at once.
A poor old colored woman in
Virginia, was never SO happy in her
life as when she learned to read a
a few days ago, and she went right
off and sold eight geese, and bought
% dime novels.
The fashionable world is informed
that 10000 worth of mirrors have
just been put i'm the Grand Union
Hotel, at Saratoga, to enable ladies
to see themselves as Others e
them.
The Train-tearing Society Of Wen
ma and Frankfort-on-the-M Main each
has several thousand members who
are pledged to omit no opportunity
to step on a womau's train, and ruin
the dress to which it Is attached if
possible.
Sacramento boasts of having sew
eral negro women who are the hap
py, or unhappy, possessors of con-
siderable boards. The Bee thinks
these women may be the vanguard
of the good time coming when there
shall be ono distinction on account
Of race, color, previous condition or
sex.o
The Virginia Enterprise says an
interesting suit for the possession Of
a baby is. going on in Eureka be-
tween a white and eOlOred woman,
each claiming to be the mother of
the child. The baby Is perfectly
white, and one Of the contestants
for il is as black as the ace of spades.
As the Judge is not a Solomon, the
case bids fair to last for some time.
We don't know how Dana, of the
New York Sun, found it out, but he
says: "No French or English wo-
of cultivation nowadays
wears her carriers below her knees.
The principal vein Of the leg sinks
there beneath the muscle, and var
loose veins, cold feet and even pal
pitat.ol of the heart may be brought
on by a tight garter In the wrong
When it Is fastener above
the knee all this pain and deformity
may be avoided.
Orange peels, says the San Fran
cisco Alta, are found to be much in
for upsetsing purposes, to
large California peapods. Our
Rrevity-man saw q lady step on one
Of the latter yesterday. She kicked
with both feet as high as . ballet
star, gave the peculiar feminine
scream, sat down, said "Oh N.Y."
smoothed down her dis0rdered at
ire, looked around wildly, rose
quickly, shook herself to see il
was loose, gave y wither-
|p9 Rlance at the place where she
had fallen, and, with all the spare
she had in her face, went on
With her shopping.