Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-27
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.
In the month of March | popped the que
tiOn.

In the month of March [ popped the ques-
ton;
Within a fortnight we were wed;
Within a month | writhed in indignation,
And even wished that | were dead;
Amelia was a charming woman,
A graduate of cooking school, of course,
But, really, such atroclous pies and pud'
dings
l couldn't stand, and 80 in May-divorce.
Tn fashionable strawberry short cake is
still cut short as TO strawberries.
The ;,'uular color this summer is green,
both in millinery and mint juleps.
Blood, orange aud English primrose are
lea ling colors in dress and millinery.
Mrs. Seely is eighty-seven years old and
has just cast her first vote in Kansas.
An odd design in hairpins represents a
serpent coiled about and supporting a large
pearl.
Russian enamel is the very newest craze
in jewelry. and one of the most ~pardonable
as well.
A certain style of shoe button is called
"Old Maids Wedding" because it never
comes off.
A Brazilian bag nearly two inches in
length is an odd brooch shown by a New
York ieweler.
'If you want your wife to be healthy make
her cry about once u fortnight" says u Phil
adelphia doctor.
Full bows of ribbon with a stiff quill or
two, are the only permissible trimming
worn for travelling hats.
1t begins to be whispered that the reign of
the tailor over wouicn's gowns will shortly
be a thing of the darkly widowed past.
Lille Fir 10y, daughter of Il Chinese cap
italist of San Francisco, is one of the most
richly dressed women on the Pacific coast.
An odd purse has a cover composed of Il
silver dollar which tightly closes over a
frame from which hang the silver meshes.
And now come green kid gloves, in all
shades, from which, along with envy, malice
and all observation-disclosures good Lord deliver
us.
The female horse thief is the latest from
Ohio, two pretty and stylishly dressed
ones having been jailed at Akron the other
day.
1t is said that Queen Elizabeth had more
than a thousand lace gowns. She. was evil
IDENTIFY the Berry Wall of the sixteenth cen
fury.
There are in England 347 female black
smiths who actually swing heavy ham
mers, and 9,l3S women employed in nail
making.
Miss Clara Foltz, lawyer, editor and lee
turer, has been voted $40, 600 by the common
council Of San Diego, Cal, to come and boom
that city.
Miss ANN Mccormick, a charming young
lady of Hawkinsville, Ga, can play two
pieces on the piano and sing a third at the
same time.
A Gala lily in pure white enamel. with a
gold stamen and having Il brilliant dewdrop
clinging to its side, is Il much admired design
in brooches.
Parasol handles of twisted silver, from
twelve to eighteen inches in length, are
shown in plain and oxydized patterns in
great variety.
An Atchison, Kan, woman did a big wash
ing the other day, cooked dinner and
whipped a child, and then fell dead from
oVer-eXertlon.
C. T. Richie, member of the English cabi.
net is the father of several musical daugh-
tiers, equally devoted to art, harmony and
the Primrose league.
Stout old lady Ito clerk)-You keep good
c%orsets, do you, young man. Clerk-Yes,
ma'am, our corsets are simply immense.
Stout old lady leaves in a huff.
The daughter just born to Van Shan Lee,
the Chinese Yale graduate who about II year
ago married Miss Jerome, of New Haven, is
to go through life as Jennie Lee.
Women nave cheek enough to wear mems
hats on their heads. But there's one thing
they dare not do. Not one of them dare
to remove her hat in public and dust off the
bald spot.
A costly comb recently seen had an intri-
cate lacework pattern in silver at the top, in
which the entire tracery was closely set with
small brilliants. Ten matched pearls topped
the whole.
Owls, which have lately become fashion.
able in Paris, appear to be coming into favor
here once more. Owl-head scarf pins, IN
enamel, with either ruby or diamond eyes,
are again being shown.
The British female, it is sand, fairly revels
in the present license of color, and one was
seen the other day upon a great occasion
wearing a heliotrope skirt, green mantle,
violet hat, white vest and black gloves.
Caroline Herchel, the discoverer of eight
comets, and th~eaccomplished partner of her
h.pt IA at.fa astronomical lnhnrS AVG npttl1
remember the MULTIPLICATION table, and al
ways had to cars y a copy of it about with
her.
OF all the mean things said by men, to and
about women, commend us to that grabbed
parson who told the sisters of his flock that
''Christ appeared first to women after the
resurrection, jest so as the news might spread
faster"
Three gowns are being made in Vienna
for the future empress of China-sky-blue,
| purple blue and darkest indigo-and they
are embroidered with the characters that
signify "eternal life,'' eternal love- p ''eter-
nal happiness"
For the first act of her new play, "Fran-
cillion," Bernhard has a gown of cream bro
cade embroiderie in gold and silver wild
roses, and worn over a petticoat OF China
crepe in Nile green and old rose, to which
shades she is more than partial.
Mrs. Robert Milngan, OF Bridgeport, w.
Va, gave birth to her twenty-tifth child,
Thursday. The mother is forty-eight years
old, and was married at the age of fourteen.
Her NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of whom are liv-
ing-include five sets of twins.
Thu female half breeds of Spanish and In
dian blood in Yucatan are said to be by far
the handsomest people in that country.
They are described as a gentle, docile, pleas
ure-loving race, not altogether lazy, perfect
~ honest and remarkably clearly in their
habits.
A Montreal lady ordered a cloak from a
tailor and refused to pay for it on the
ground of misft. The tailor has brought
suit to recover the price of the cloak and
claims that it did fit until the lady put on an
immense hustle. The court will have TO de-
eide the regulation size of a hustle.
Mrs. Lizzie w. Champney, of New York,
the author of "Three Vassar Girls'' and the
wife of Champney, the artist, is as pleasant
to the eye as her books are bright. She is
brown-haired, slender and rather delicate
looking, with a grave face. She has a Won
derful talent as a teller of dialect stories.
Mrs. Emily Crawford, the eminent Paris
journalist, is described as an IrishwOman,
who remembers as a child being carried
about ON O'Connor's shoulders. She has a
strong, handsome face, blue eyes, full of
merriment and expression, heavy black
lashes and very abundant white hair, which