Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
HONEY FOR The LADIES.


Small shoulder capes are made entirely
uf jet.
Belts and handbags are made of real
leather.
White chips are trimmed with maroon
feathers.
Crimson shades are in favor for library
windows.
An Alsatian bow of shaded ribbon trims
the new hats.
Feathers are solid colors, half gold and
half cardinal.
Camelettes are trimmed with Bayadere
stripes or Foulee cloths
Cherries are dowdyish, and aristocratic
milliners refuse to handle them.
A Cincinnati paper says that Cincinnati
girls study boxing Paper collars, for in
stance
The average woman is composed Of 243
bones, l69 muscles, - old newspapers, and
30 hair-pins.
Hosiery are of silk and Isle thread,
made OF open work. Old gold and fawns
are tavorite Colors.
The handsome thin window. curtains are
of black silk gau2e on which are brocaded
figures in old.god silk.
The favorite colors in Paris are lobster
pink, parrot green, red, moss-grecn, and
mustard, both dark and light.
1t is very fashionable for young ladies' to
learn to play the violin, and there are
several orchestras throughout the states
said to make very good music.
Deadwood woman tried to open a can
of nitro.glycerine with hatchet, andwhen
she lit about nine miles down the Cheyenne
road she said she never was so surprised in
all her life.
We have heard considerable about the
habit girls have of sitting on one lcg, It's
very bad one, particularly if the leg
doesn't belong to the young lady Hart
ford Sunday journal.
y The most admired hats of the season are
the old Panama straw, with the brim lined
with white Surah or black or brown velvet
while white pompons and feathers, but no
ribbons, decorate the outside.
The latest Partisan gloves are in un.
dressed kid, viii h fit the hand Perfectly.
ibut the wrist and arm are full and large
They are eight il, hes deep, fastened with
two buttons, and called "Mosquitaire."
Among the new French linen fashions
are delicately colored table.cloths, which
throw up in greater distinctness and re-
vases whith now adorn the dinner table.
Miss Belle Redman, of Dubuque, has a
patchwork quilt, made by herself at odd
times which contains lO,049 pieces. Miss
Redman is now at work on another quilt,
which will be composed of 1000 pieces.
The SARATOGA wave is succeeded by the
water wave, VIII ch is made of natural curls
and fitted to the head by metali spring.
This wave defes heat or water, is light,
comfortable, and not only easily adjusted,
but always ready.
Sleeves are skin tight for plump arms
and have four-inch scallops lined with
, rlches of colored satin and Spanish or
point gauze. Sara Bernhardt arms have
close cuffs and the elbow trimmed with a
full shirred pleat, confined with bows of
silk or ribbon.
Miss Cools sharp-ponted icicle: Mr..
Gush: ooh. what ecstatic music 1t
would make stick dance!" Miss Cool,
with great occurrences: won't you try
a turn, Mr.. GushT' And vet Gush didn't
see it, and said, "Chawmed. I'm sure. -
London Punch.
indianapolis has had a novel funeral-a
woman followed to the grave by band of
music, with female pail hearers, and men
and women in procession. 1t was fun
eral of u member of the new order of
Chosen Friends a benevolent society com
posed of both sexes.
A Norristown woman returned from
days visit to New York yesterday, and
when asked how she enioyed herself, re.
piled: 81 had delightful time; | spent
four hours at the morgue, and five dead
bodies were brought in while | was there.
1t was better than funeral. Il Norristown
Herald.
The old set of jewelry used by ladies so
long is completely thing of the past.
Earrings are preferred in a different de-
sign from the pin, Egyptian and Cesnola
designs prevail III all jewelry The asp
the lotus leaf, the Nile key and other pat
terms are shown, suggestive of the land of
/he Nile.
! The Hungarian women are described as
very beautiful, as with fine figures as the
Vienna ladies, but preserving their willowy
r ~lightness long after the Austrian has be-
come fat and shapeless. They are dark
skinned, with glorious eyes. and one can
often find traces of the vagabond blood of
the gypsy i'll their faces
Two young men, unmarried and having
some money to squander, promised to give
ladies sewing circle in Frankfort, ky.,
$40 if its members wonld keep absolute 81
hour The ladies' took ten minutes to en-
press, all together, their opinion of these
young men, and then resolutely set to work
and actually won the money.
A philanthropic young woman of Tes
Moines, one of the praying band" became
infatuated with n prisoner awaiting trans
FER to the state prison, and conceived the
= heme of aiding his escape by making him
one of the band in the disguise of female
Apparel. Being discovered, she has now
left town for season, and the object of her
misplaced affection is safely lodged at Fort
Madison.
Emporia News: A strong. minded female
went through Emporia yesterday, in charge
of two carloads of cattle, en- route for Col
orada. She stepped off the train at this
place to attend to some business at the sta.
ton, and in paying her respects to the rail
road company showed a far familiarity with
vigorous Anglo-Saxon that would do credit
to an old rancher.
As he sat on the steps on Sunday evening
he claimed the right to kiss for every shoot.
ing star. She at first demurred, as became
a modest maiden, but finally yielded. She
was even so accom- modatins as to call his
attention to flying meteors that were about
to escape his obser yation, and then got to
''calling" him on lightning bugs, and at
last got him down to steady worl; on the
light of a lantern that man was swinging
about depot in the distance where trains
were switching.
The latest mode for dressing the hair is a
twist of coils in the shape of figure eight,
which reaches from the nape of the neck
to the crown of the head The front hair
is then parted and waved as near to the
part as possible. Brads are still worn,
and crown braids are popular with many
people. Scollops for the front hair are
entirely gone by A false piece of natu-
rally wayy hair is worn by many ladies', as
III saves the front hair from being injured