Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-27
aFOR THE LADIES

One of the New York dressmakera
re emily charged $3.50 for a dress OF
dark blue Lyons satin, with NJ trim
mings but cords and tasaels.
An ordinary woman's waist is thirty
inches around. An ordinary mans
arm is about Thirty inches long. How
admirable are thy works, Oh, Nature!
When a Canada girl loves, she does
love. In a breach of promise suit the
other day it was shown that a young
lady wrote to her lover eight times rer
day.
Small white japanese fans are
trimmed with frills Of lace or muslin
on Il side, the reverse side beirg
ornamented with a water color paint
ing.
Ronnel fchus made entirely of
cashmere beads in meshes and finished
on the edge with a deep fringe of the
same beads are worn with handsome
toilets of any color.
A comfortable variety of drawers
for GUNNER wear is made with yoke,
which does away with all unpleasant
gathers around the waist, and is es
pecially c~ommendable for stout ladies'.
A Philadelphia woman who gave
her age as ten years younger than she
+, ally is, explained to a friend that
she was overlooked at the last census
and did not want to gst the records
mixed up.
Rough-and-siraw, both black and
white, and with wide Irregular brims,
are worn as archery, lawn, garden and
coaching hats, trimmed profusely with
feathers and bright flowers.
81 am an independent voter, and I
can't support you until I've seen your
platform" she said, as he finished pro-
posing. A couple Of hours later it
dawned upsn the young mans mind
that she wanted to know the amount
of his salary.
Some very pretty carriage parasols
are Of small-Ggured brocade, lined
with cbapgeable silk and bordered
with beautiful lace; bat there is this
difficulty about ell the figured Cover.
ings, that they must correspond with
the toilet, or they do not look well at
all.
"Not one American woman in
twenty-five can walk FIVE miles" says
an English physician. See here, Doc
you just show an American woman a
street five miles Ion, -;.h bonnet
stores every ten rods, a.: .es if she
can't walk the whole distance.
"My wife," remarked a prominent
manufacture, never attends auc.
tions. She went once, and, seeing a
friend at the opposite side of thereon
nodded very politely, whersupon the
auction er knocked down a patent
cradle, and asked her where
che wished it delivered"
French dress designers make the
sides Of some Of their skirts to repre-
sent five large bo1-plaits. Eyelet
holes or bound bu ten holes are then
made in the frcnt edges of two of these
two plaits, and the front of the skirt
is laced across with cords that tie ard
fslt in a cluster of spikes, ball or tas-
sells near the bottom of the shirt.
The double pins attached by chains,
that have been out of fashion for 50
many years, are now being revived,
and are used for caps and cravats. Ia
the caps they are placed either across
the front or one side, and on the era
watts they are fastened in one above
the other. They are also to te seer
the new velvet and lace toques for
outdoor wear.
1t is Eaid that hair dressers have dis
covered how to dye or bleach the hair !
to the faded ashy blonde Appearance, |
fashionable t. some extent at present.
The theory is that the hair must be
made to correspond with the colors in
favor for the moment, and the ~favorits |
color being heliotrope, which is most
becoming to faded blondes, faded
blondes are having their day.
The Ph;ladelphia Times thinks that
persons who lose large SUMS of money
on burning steamboats, and are rescued
with but enc or two garments apiece,
should not travel at all. It is time
that somebody m sde a remark of this
kind to the women who do not seem
to know the difference between their
W bedrooms and a stateroom or
berth in a Sleeping car.
A widow lady of London, Ont.
feeling the heat oppressive Friday
night, arose and got Into the cistsrn
in her yard to take a bath. She was
unable to get out again, and next
morning was heard screaming for help
by two young men passing. They
went to her assistance, and pulling her
out n OF them enveloped her in his
buster, in which condition she returned
indoors.
Mittens, long and short, heavily
embroidered in gold thread, and
stockings overweight in the same
way, are among the present novelties,
as also a stocking of crimson SPOOL
silk, hand knit in a crochet stitch. and
tenueo W pe Drawn over another
stocking of spider-web-llks texture,
and for the purpose of displaying
which what is called the "thong sin.
per is worn. This novelty is a mod
lfication of a Greek sandal, which can
be slipped on like any other slipper,
but has a sandal effect which is ex.
treme'y becoming to the foot. The =.
Mexican shoe is another novelty. /
which the effect of fringe is given s
TO the edge of the shoe by a short
'ufted friDge-like border of raw elk,
which initiates a Mexican Indian shoe
similarly trimmed. Small buckles T,
.dorn this shoe, having a natural !
Mexican shell upon them. Still :
mother beautiful novelty for footwear ;
5 the richly-embroidered silk boot. ,
having q vine pattern running up the !
nstep and ankle, and also the back of
he boot above the heel. In black
headed, this boot is extremely
handsome, as well IS in white silk.
nth white let for trousseaux.
AND DRAMATIC.