Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-02
ACHIEVEMENTS OF WOMEN.
The Peculiar Tricks of Partisan
DreSsmakers.
A GEORGIA GIRLS SACRIFICE.
a Fair Tricycler-Woman Inventors
and What Made Them went
"A Street Indicator
A Button Fasteners

1.-THE fair tricycler, who attracts most
attention hereabouts," says the New
York Mail and Express, lis an unusu-
ally tall girl who rides daily in Pros
pect Park, Brooklyn. Her figure from
the waist up is peculiarly lissome, and
its supple bendings and curvings as she
flashes by find a~ppreciatlve beholders.
Her face is round, with long-lashed blue
eyes, peachy cheeks like a ~two-year-old,
and heavy brown curls that drop to her
waist or stream in the breeze. And she
wears a gown-a gown of silver gray
surah which must have been fitted upon
her sitting, as tailors fit habits while
the rider is perched on n horse. Every
line of it belongs to the tricycle. and
would suggest the three-wheeler. 1t
has u wide collar of blue turning away
at the throat, blue cuffs and blue girdle
catching up s%uperiuous draperles.
With it gOes a gray helmet with blue
cord, and now and then one catches q
hint of blue bows on the riding shoes.
Her cheeks are always flushed, her ayes
bright, and some people go to the park
expressly to look atherand feel rested"
The Tricks of Partisan Dressmakers.
Ladies' Pictorial: Many ladies com
ing owe here for a few days or weeks,
anu udNlIg b yCuthluB w carry uOIlo
some gowns from the magic city, shrink
from the world famous establishments
on account OF the expense. And there
are hundred of d~ressmakers here who
could-''and if they would"-turn out a
costume every whit as elegant as those
made by their big neighbors at a much
lower figure. 1t is in dealing with these
that the stranger should be very eau
tious, and, to use q rather slangy express
sion ,'keep the weather eye opon."
These "little dressmakers" are full Of
playful tricks which must be guarded
against-slight but irritating devia-
tions from the paths of strict CONNER
cial morality, all of which are artfully
arranged to augment their profits at
the cost of the luckless customer.
Par example-and this particular
mode OF deception is far from uncommon
-one of these ladies will show you as q
pattern n very handsome dress in rich
material. You are charmed. OF course
the dress in hand does not fit you; it is
cleverly designed to fit nobody. The
obliging dressmaker, seeing that your
heart is fixed upon it, offers to make an
exact copy OF the coveted gar
ment and at a very low price.
The tempting bait is thrown out
and the innocent fish bites. The order is
RlNCus bub, ulNob WllCu ic uICSo 10 uc-
livered, what do you find? The shape
md style are copied admirably, but the
materials! Thin silk, cotton backed
velvet and satin, the commonest and
poorest of ribbons. The entire effect of
the costume is lost in cheap material.
Unfortunately there is no use sending
the dress back, oven on the obvious plea
that it is moi what what was bargained
for. The law will protect the %''little
dressmaker," and right we'll she knows
it, too. Tha mischief of the thing is
that she has the power to seize and de-
tain her customers trunks till the bill
is paid, and this power she will not hes
itate to employ Oh the slightest pretext.
Another most annoying device, but
one which answers that purpose splen-
didly, is to send home the dress ut the
last moment compatible with the actual
fulfllment of the contract. There is nc
time for examination, let alone altera-