Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-06-05
FOR WOMEN ONLY.

A fashion writer speaking OF wells says
bit Of gauze covers multitude OF
blemishes.
Sarah Bernhard is studying English
with a view to capturing every dollar the
language viii produce.
Genealogy cuts no figure in New
York society because il is so certain to
revive unpleasant memories.
The fashionable exodus to Europe and
to country places has begun much ear
lier this season than usual.
A new wrinkle ia the little satohel
worn with a strap SO as to come directly
under the elbow OF tho left arm.
Big hats, wasp like waists and Jum-
DO hustle make the average woman on
the streets an absurd earieature.
Mme. Jude, it appears, la to be mar
riea after all to Milland Of the Paris
Figaro, He proposes to write new
play for her az a wedding gift.
Newadaya. the largest white rose
ebtainable is not big enough for the but
tonhele of the youth who does duty
as usher at fashionable wedding.
Milliners declare the higher the bon
net in front, the better and more fashion
able. Some OF the latest imported have
an elevation quite equal to half a yard.
Ex-Gov. Dick Hubbard OF Texas, now
minister to Japan, writes that the jap
unese women do their surf bathing in
the water proof costumes provided by
nature.
The disgraceful behavior among the
fashionables at church weddings grows
more and more vulgarly offensive, but of
course woman goes to wedding to see
and see she will.
Recent events indicate that a coming
''craze" among society women of promi-
nence will be to have their portraits
painted for exhibition at places where
the public can see them.
twenty-five years ago an artificial
complexion branded woman" says an
admirer of pristine simplicity. So it
does now. It makes her look as if she
had forgotten to wash her face.
Nine. Marie Sasse, who was chosen
by Meyerbeer to personate Selika when
'L'Africane" was brought forth at the
grand opera house in Paris, and who,
after a twelve years stay in Paris, visit
ed Italy and Spain, has retired from the
stage to devote herself to teaching.
At last John R. Rogers confesses that
he loves Minnie Palmer with sufficient
ardor to make her his wife. He writes
from London that the Lord willing, Miss
Minnie will become Mrs. Rodgers, Sep
TENDER 8. The happy couple will sail
from London per steamer Yorick, on
September 9.
Chaplain Milburn of the house of rep
resentatives, has let up trying to con-
vert congressman and begun to talk
about the sins of other great men-that
Is, he is lecturing on Goethe's love affair.
His audiences are said to consist entirely
of ladies some of whom were schocked
by "Ostler Joe." How and where do
women draw the line?
Charles Dudley Warner writes to For
est and Stream concerning the millinery
bird business: "a dead bird does not
help the appearance of an ugly woman,
and a pretty woman needs no such
adornment. If you can get the women
to recognize these two things great
deal will be done for the protection of
our song BIRDS"
When the woman tackles the tobacco
problem she invariably turns up her nose,
gathers her skirts about her and tip-toes
along as if she were afraid of stepping
on tacks. Her vocabulary is replete
with words suggestive of disgust, con-
tempt and loathing, and she may have to
coin few expressions in order to fifty
describe the man who chews and smokes.
The writings and sayings of doctors,
preachers and men of letters, as far as
they apply to her side of the case, are
freely used, and those against it as freely
left alone.
The Princess Metternich of Pesth has
organized novel charitable entertain
ment This is an amateur ballet troupe
composed of the Australian nobility.
What will be the length Of the belt skirts
is the question that is troubling Viennese
society. The same thing in New York
would be catch, and if taken up by the
"right people," of course, there would be
no harm in it. 1t would hardly do for
the troupe, however, to ''star," as the
fair prudish citizenness of Washington
might object. The male dollar however,
is Of equal value with the female.
The superstition of luck in horse shoes
has been verified by the continued pros
perity of the possessors of the shoes worn
by Maud s. in her early triumphs as a
trotter. One of them, through influence
of this ''Mascotte," as he judges, married
the woman of his choice and has been so
triumphantly happy in all other ventures
that he has paid homage to the mysteri-
our talisman by painting and framing it
and considers it the most potent of
HOUSEHOLD gods. Bair, the driver Of
Maud 8. had one of her shoes stuffey in
to the cushion Of his sulky and attributed
his unvarying success with the little
mare to that fact.
Charity concerts are well patronized
in the Italian capital, ladies of high
social position frequently leanding their
talents, musical or dramatic, to the adj
vancment Of some benevolent enterprise.
A concert OF this kind was given recently