Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-23
HONEY FOR The LADIES.

Ombre net, in all colors, is pretty for
strings or scarfs on summer bonnets.
A woman in Philadelphia has been
bound over by a magistrate as common
scold.
A lady in lemon colored dress at one
of our watering places appears picturesque
in a big rocking chair
At picnic party the other day the
youth who recklessly hugged all the girls
was put down as free and squeezy fell
low.
Fashionable mountain and seaside
dresses are made of awning stripes. They
harmonize with the shade of the front
stoop.
From the steamers deck she beheld a
barge laden with cotton. "Ah!' murmur-
ed the fair Angelica, ''my bosom friend is
baled out"
The Detroit Free Press wonders why
colored ladies do not wear bits of white
court plaster on their faces and become
perfectly bewildering.
A pretty pink gingham for house dress
is garnitured with coarse wheel embroidery
and a dark green one appears darker by
the use of the same white trimming.
A dress of cigar shade of velvet is trim
med with almond. .colored satin, with cigar
colored leaves. The hat, chip, has brown
leaves and great almond-colored feather.
Tarring and feathering women is
diversion which appears to be practiced in
this country only in the New England
States. 1t is to be hopeu their monopoly
may never be disturbed
The winds were whispering low and the
sentinel stars had set their watch in the
sky as she leaned from her chamber window
and tenderly asked: SIS that you Henry?"
"Coursh 'tiz; pretty oman dozen know
'er own husband when sh' seezim."
Ohio State Journal: Harvest hands are
so scarce in Marion county that the young
ladies are assisting. a young lady, who
graduated at Delaware, last week drove
self-raking reaper all day the Fourth, not
withstanding the hot weather, and other
girls are equally plucky.
Can any body tell us why woman
emerging from. a crowded car, always
makes believe she is going to get out at
one side of the platform, until two or three
men have jumped off in the mud, and then
steps off at the other side? She always
does it; and we want to know the reason
why.
An Ohio paper says that ga girl who
graduated in q calico dress few years ago
is now married to wealthy man, and
rides to church in her own carriage every
Sunday" A Chicago girl who graduated
in calico dress a few years ago is now
married, and does her own washing every
Monday.
About 5000 pounds of roses are required
to produce one pound of the otto of roses.
This delightful perfume is chiefly produced
in Bulgaria, where the annual average
production of otto between 1867 and 1871
was 400, 900 meticals; that of 1873 SOC, 0O0
valued at $780, 900. The produce of 1880
was estimated at the value of about GI,-
100000.
The handsomest parasols for general
wear are the large black ones with interior
lining, border of handsome Spanish lace,
and sword handle. The finest parasols
are the pretty miniature ones of white,
pink or heliotrope silk or satin, hand.
painted, or covered with white lace or
shirred muslin, and ornamented with
bouquet of flowers.
A woman has called at the Washington
jail with basket of mice eatables" for
Guiteau, which proves that Washington
holds at least one sympathetic idiot. The
woman was turned away with her basket,
which was sensible. Whatever the scoun.
drel's deserts are let him receive them
without any surroundings of gushing dam
sells with bouquets and spring chickens.
Mrs. Mary Hopkins, the woman mil.
lionaire of San Francisco, was assessed in
the supplementary list filed week ago for
Sl7, ,2ll,0 900. She has 81, 800, 900 in rail.
road bonds, 1913 shares Western Devel-
opment company stock, $40, 900, ,OO0 495
shares Mission Bay Ridge company stock,
"a, OOO, 900, and quantities of bank, insur-
ance, railroad and other stocks of lesser
value.
The japanese style of combing the hair
straight off the face, and twisting it into
tight coils, fastened by long jewelled pins,
is now as greatly favored by many leaders
of fashion as the Greek coiffure, which is
really becoming to but few faces. The
former style of hair dressing is quite as
becoming to blondes as to brunettes though
the fashion seems to be more followed by
ladies who have dark or black hair; but
where the face is oval and the features
regular there can be no more becoming
manner OF arranging tho hair than in this
novel and unique style.
An Ohio paper says that young lady
who graduated in calico dress few wears
aSo rs now married TO railroad suDerin- |
tendent who has an income of half a mil. |
lion year, This may be taken as a basis
for the regulation of graduating dress here
after Had she worn alpaca she might
have done even better, and caught the gen
eral manager of the road. On the other
hand, had she bloomed forth in white
Swiss, she might have captured the presi-
dent of the concern, with his untold mil
lions; while, had she worn silk, with point
lace and diamonds, she might have SCOOP
ed in the conductor of passenger train,
and had onyx staircases and alabaster
walls to her house, and cut the wives of
the officers of the road as society altogeth-
er too thin for her style. This thing ought
tn be a lesson to girl graduates and a sharp
warning to patronize their tailors literally.
Gine ehams, cheviots, percales and cali.
Goes show no change since they were intro
duced at the beginning of the season. In
making them, 1t is noticeable that there
are more decorated with embroidery and
self.trimming than with lace, this being
dedicated to more diaphanous goods. A
pretty gingham dress is in dark blue. The
skirt is trimmed with deep killing and
the tablier is finished with plating Of the