Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-20
HONEY FOR HE LADIES.

Pail nantes are short In the back.
Shoulder capes are in favor at present.
The blouse bodice Is in request for young
Urls.
New winter nantes alo rather long than
short.
Terra Gotta color is still popular on the Other
side.
Blne shades, especially gray blues, arc very
popular.
White china Is again in favor for dinner and
tea sets.
Furriers say that sable Is revived as u fash
ionable fur.
Redingotes for winter wear have short shout
der capes.
Gray felt is the rage for tho moment for
hats and bonnet,.
Tiny checks arc fashionable In both silk and
woollen fabrics.
Combinations Of brocado and shot glace are
very fashionable.
Combinations OF stuffs are as popular for
cloaks as for dresses.
Basque figures, unless they are very fine, nre
excessively vulgar.
Dots, macaroons and stars are popular de
signs in wsol broches.o
Velveteen is tho favorlte fabric for retrim-
ming old WOODEN dresses.
Checked and brocaded fabrics arc prettil,
combined with plain stuffs.
The blouse redingote will be the favorite
with tall and slender women.
Imported hats and bonnets are noticeably
larger than those Of last fall.
Dark Russian furs black fox, hare, otter,
and sable, will DO much worn.
A grass widow" IL not one whose husband
| left her ON account of hay fever,
Capes or large collars are worn on tight
walking jackets by young ladies.
New shoulder capes are cut to produce a
full epaulet o effect on the shoulders.
Moss green, rescda, sage green, and all
shades of dark green are very fashionable.
Hats have high crowns and small brims, or
else moderate crowns aud broad brins.
Young Fastboy says the first girl that he
ever waltzed with was all the whirled t.
him.
Many new felt hats are high crow ned with
narrow brims aud tho TRAININGS all on one
side.
The combination of velvet or velveteen with
WOODEN fabrics grows In favor as the season adj
vances.
Egyptian rod IL the most lasting of all the
msthetic colOis; it will be as popular N eve,
this season.
Blessed il that young lady whose small
brother never hides behind the parlor sofa on
"beau nights"
Coifee-tinted lace Is the latest. The ladies
wear 1t to the theater; it matches their escorts
breath 80 well.
Wide worsted braids are much used in tim.
ming fall suits. Sometimes n line of fine gold
s~outache edges the wide brai 1, but this is only
for house wear.
A lady in Kansas went out walking in a
Mother Hubbard" dress and was arrested for
"sonn 4mbulisn." The Kansas idea of eti
quette may be somewhat sweeping, but it is
very tight laced.
Among the new winter N ,terials are wsol-
ems, with patterns In chenille; these patterns
are flowers or leaves in cameo shades On plain
grounds; some ara outlined in fine cords
around the chenille figure.
Wisconsin reports u hail storm which knock
cd the horn off u steer; but that is n thing;
Pennsylvania had q hail storm last summer
which split the top orust of n pie baked by IL
Vassar College girl.
Square parasols and square plates having
come into fashion, there should be more infor.
nation about them. Are the square parasols
more effective IN ~stabbing than tho old onesy
And are the square plates more convincing
In a domestic discussion than tho round
plates!
IL lhSulon Nv IloUlDuIR QUIZ appear 40 ne
to walk about with IA crook stick, between the
sizes of AN ordinary walking stick and an al
penstock. Both ladies and gentlemen put on
a fashionable, equity limp. II it rains, or the
sun IL too trying, the crook-stick is carried On
the arm, while the sunshade IL used.
Amber.tinted %velours of long, strong pile,
with inarabouJ fringes of the same color, form,
many elegant sorties do ball, the ornamental.
ton consisting Of passementeries Of brown
and old gold silken cord, outlined with gold
soutache; pendants Of at.tail chenille show
ing gold and brown complete the DECORATIVE,
effect.
A Baltimore dealer In ladies' hosiery says:
18th sizes range from eight to ten. In Bait
more the average is froi eight to eight and II
half. In Boston and Chicago 1t is from nin,,
To nine aud a half, aud In New York from
eight and a half t nine. 1t Ia n we'll know,
fact among hosiery dealers thai the women
Of baltimore have the smallent feet in the
country"