Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-22
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

IhC largest round hats are a perfect gar
den of flowers.
French challie polonaises nre drained oveI
skirts of more.
Simply trimmed English walking hats are
liked with street suits.
White cloth jackets will be much used fol
extra wraps during the summer.
Grasses of a vivid shade of green make 6
stylish garniture for black lace bonnets.
Skirts are growing wider, but this differ
ence is made entirely in the back widths.
Tweed in big checks of light and dark blue
is a favorite material for English tailors'
suits.
An old fashion revived is that of decorat-
ing tulle dancing gowns with gold or silver
spangles.
Narrow tucks run by hand are used as
trimming for summer dresses of thin and
transparent material.
Crepe is again in high favor as a stuff for
headgear; but bonnet or hat, it must be self
trimmed to be stylish.
A st. Louis man wants a divorce because
his wife SHORES, whistles, smokes and swears.
She evidently made q mistake in being a
omar
The number of women who walk for exer-
else regularly In New York is increasing so
rapidly that the doctors are beginning to
complain.
There is a sort of war for ascendency wag-
ing between artificial flowers and ribbons.
The limits of both have transgressed ali
former bounds.
New black silk jerseys, deliberately braided,
fastened with one button, and then round off
over a vest of white pilot cloth closed with
handsome pearl buttons is.
Milan straw and French chip are again
conspicuously fashionable; yet Neapolitan
and mixtures of various fancy braids hold
them a very good second.
Women's gowns are much bettered in the
manner of weight now that designers have
bethought them TO make drapery simply by
slightly looping a heightened skirt.
The new Suede glove in French gray tints,
which are imported to take the place of tan
shades, are generally finished on the backs
with very narrow white stitching.
The finest solitaire earrings in Washing
ton, it is stated, are those worn by the wife
OF a Virginia gentleman who made a fortune
in tobacco. They are fine cut gems.
The very latest idea for spring and half
season wraps, is to cut them with fronts so
long and cumbrous that the luckless wearer
perforce holds them up when walking.
Ten young women in New York have Just
sprung into notoriety by engaging in a public
gum chewing match. The winner was a
Miss Grimes. who chewed eighteen boxes.
Says high authority concerning low bon
nets: They must be spiky till the hair is
lowered. A fiat bonnet on high hair is like a
postage stamp on the peak of Mont Blanc.n
Crepe lisse ~parasols formed of a succession
OF tiny plaitings have costly and beautiful
handles set with semi-precious stones. They
are to be carried only on elegant dress occa-
sionS.
PLAIN corsages are no longer popular. No
matter how simple the skirt of a costume may
be the waist much lave vest, revers, drapery
or trimming of some sort in order to look
stylish:
Miss Virginia M. Hallyday, of Carroll, Md,
has been granted a patent for a bonnet.holder
Considering the size of the contemporary
bonnet the holder Is doubtless somewhat like
a coal derrick.
Matching all parts of the toilet is again in
fashion. The best dressed women this spring
have their dress, wrap, bonnet, gloves and
gaining ground.
Among the daintiest and most desirable of
summer materials is the new mohair challie,
with almostt the lustre and softness Of China
SILK, along with the same graceful patterns
and delicate hues.
The garland of crushed roses, either under
or around the crown, is the ~favorite garni-
ture for summer wide hats, while many tur-
bans are appropriately made of roses
yelled with lace.
Tulle, net, lace, silk muslin, all appear IN
new hats for driving; and airy as they be,
are garnished with thick ribbon, or shells of
narrower lace and towering clusters of the
Softest ostrich tips.
Feather fans of the Portia and Prince of
Wales style in vogue, but to be effective they
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these fans are plentiful and nave a very
taWdry appearance.
A young lady at Heyworth, ILL.,, has made
a crazy quilt with 2S,O62 pieces in it, and it's
dollars to doughnuts that her husband-if she
ever has one-Will have to pin his coat-tails
to his trousers for want Of a single patch.
For balls the newest thing is the flower
gown, of which one lately constructed had
the skirts wholly of big red silk poppy petals,
while another is made entirely of silken
shamrocks, three shades paler than nature or
the Emerald Isle.
New serges, showing bars and blocks of
red, terra Gotta suede, navy and gobelin blue,
upon a cream white ground, will very largely
take the place of the so-long worn plain
cream, both for the entire gowns and in
combination toilets.
Basques are lavishly trimmed, and are ex- |
hibited in countless varieties. Velvet basques
to be worn with light skirts have a Pompa-
dour neck filled in with crepe, which also
forms the pulled sleeve below the velvet one
v~andyked at the elbow.
Bodices of thin material suitable for even |
ing toilets are shocked front and back at the
waist and shoulders. Another style is
shirred on the shoulders, and crosses at the
waist in surplice fashion, showing a V inser-
ton front and back made of tulle covered
with pearl embroidery.
For a school girl a gray and white striped
diagonal cloth or a plain gray ALPACA, is
trimmed or BRAIDED with white and has a cape
to match. The braiding is carried in a long
piece up the side of the front, over the shoul-
ders and down the back seams like bretelles.
Peat-dyed homespun cloth is made into
ladies' ~negligee jackets for travelling. This
cloth is woven ana dyed in the cottages of
peasant women in Ireland and the Shetland
isles, and is nearly impervious to water. The
jackets are close fitting at the back and loose
in front, buttoned diagonally with quaint,
horn buttons. Z
Some pretty dresses for children have a
yoke on one side only; the other is fulled in
from the shoulder TO the waist, where it is
gathered in easy folds. Sleeves are tucked
from shoulder to elbow and plain to the wrist.
The shocking is sometimes done about FIVE
inches from the shoulder-seam and on the
outside of the arm only, making what is TO
all appearance a ''capp on the high-set
sleeve, full where the outside seem would be,
and plain on either side.
Tuscan, buttercup, primrose and daffodl
are the leading colors in yellow this season.
A new shade in pink is called Venus, and a
new shade of red Khedive. In violets, the
rosy tint known as wisteria Is the only fash
ionable tint, the rage for the heliotrope shades
having subsidized. Thu newest greens are the
aesthetic, Florentine and bronze shades, with
a pale shade in relief like tilleul, or willow
with yellow tints, clear, light Nile green, and
also the dark moss, myrtle and cypress col