Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08
HONEY FOR THE LADIES.

Amelia is as neat and trim
As any maiden can be;
In private she is thirty-one.
In public twenty-threel
The girl that hath dimple she
Doth know it,
And always bites her pretty lips
To show it.
Sash effects are multiplied.
Smoking gowns are popular.
Long wraps are open at the back.
Cater tops are much worn by ladies.
Ribbon is still used with its utmost pro-
fusion.
Gloves with heavily stitched back are no
longer in favor.
The pointed effect is aimed at in nearly all
elaborate wraps.
Black lace bonnets will be popular during
the spring and summer.
Novel fans of tan-colored gauze are orna-
mented with copper spangles.
Jewels and flowers in the hair are the
fashion at all evening entertainments.
Artificial flowers are going out of use in
England and lace is coming In at about an
equal rate.
The last use of the popular moonston is to
set it in flower brooches, differentiated by
backing of vari-colored foil.
Pale amber silk figured with shaded golden
green leaves with trimmings of pale olive
velvet makes dainty toilet.
Very new fans are studded with silver and
have nineteen ribs, down each of which run
ribbon, ending in tiny bow.
A butterfly brooch of silver filigree has a
diamond head, emerald eyes, ruby body and
wing dots of opal and moonstone.
The small Tranon mantle of white muslin
with ribbon bows and jaunty hoad, will be
the wear for summer wash dresses.
A Chicago woman can shop all the after
noon on fifty cents, and her tour will include
al least twenty stores and bazaars.
The tramp brooch-a knotted stick of
silver from which hang two wornout shoes of
gold--has the merit of startling novelty.
Straw hats appear in two colors, as brim
of ecru, with u crown of dark green, and are
trimmed with shot ribbon in the same tlnts.
The scarf pin of the season is a spray of
valley lilies, natural size, in white enamel,
hanging by flexible stems from stalk OF
bright gold. -
Velvet will again be used for collar, cuffs,
vests, revers and half girdle Of wash dresses
notably sateens--while moire is preferred
for the new and expensive ginghams.
Tiny silver cases holding a dozen strips of
vari-colored court plaster make pretty gifts
for intended travellers, as in case of accident,
they would be worth their weight in gold.
A girl in Finney, Kansas, ate arsenic to
remove pimples instead Of swearing off on
buckwheat cakes. The natural appearance
of the corpse was commented upon by all
who viewed it,
A woman at Albany, Ca. wanted new
set of false teeth, and hadn't money to pay
for it. She went around among the business
men of the place with a subscription paper
and succeeded in raising the required
sum.
"Clara," said the old man from the head of
the stairs, "hasn't that young man gone yet Z.
"Your daughter isn't here, sir" feebly re-
sponded the young man. ''She has just
stepped into the kitchen to fill and trim the
lamp"
The new eng agement ring in vogue in
Paris Is revival of the old Normandy be-
thothal ring-in the shape of two hearts. A
Erich variation is to have one heart ruby set
with diamonds and the other diamond set
with rubies.
dress made of white satin which had before
making been run through the press of one of
the great daiies, so that her costume was
the news Of the day. She won the prize for
the most novel costume.
New round corsages have tight fitted
lining, over which the material is fully
draped in long folds crossing in front, or else
drawn down to sharp point and outlined
with galloon, which is also sewed together to
orm the collar, cuffs and half belt.
Among the springs high novelties are
dress patterns of cloth or other close woven
fabrics, with pinked open-wOrk borders in
puipure patterns. These for the skirt are
some twelve inches deep, and all are lined
with fabric of "A lighter contrasting color.
Velvet corsages, beaded, plain, or braided
with gold or silver, made in pompadour style,
with square neck and elbow sleeves, will be
very faShiOnabY worn at the summer re-
sorts over skirts of black or white lace,
China silk, crepe llsse, or pale-tlnted fou-
lard.
GFlowers are more equiste than ever, and
great care has been taken to make them as
much like nature as possible. Each flower is
mounted with its own leaves; it may be
grouped with other foliage but they are not
made to spring from the same stem, as has
often been the case heretofore.
GIngham, chambery and percale dresses
for girls from four to ten years old have
high waists, plain and pointed in front, with
sash across the back, or else have belted
waist, with eight or ten feather stitched
tucks down the front and back and are
slightly gathered into the belt Three
breadths are in the full skirts of small
dresses and four in those for older girls.
Partisan houses are already sending over
a varied and elegant assortment of summer
wraps: vistes, pelerlnes with talma fronts,
scarf mantles, lace capes, and coats in blacd
and white, babet jackets of silk net piazza
wraps with very long scarf fronts to be knot
| ted carelessly below the waist, nand other
| rich and dressy garments, as stylish and at
| tractiye as they are expensive
| A charming La Tosca hat is OF dark green
| Milan straw, the brim faced with leaf-green
| velvet; with velvet and pink roses, with
| leaves, the spray apparently cut from the
parent stem and used as II grew. A long
| scarf of black net passes round the crown
| with the velvet, and it held at the back by a
| jeweled pin whence II is TO be brought for
ward and wrapped round the neck scarf
| fashion. .
Leaves are to the full as perfect as the
| blossoms and are effectively used without
| flowers. Thus on black tplle gable yoke a
vine of ivy trails over the crown and around
the brim, with enc tender spray climbing
| over the edge into the peak of the gable as
| though it had grown there Of its own will.
| The yariegated leaves of the wild anemOne,
| and of the begonias are popular, while marsh
| grasses, wheat and oats, barley and dainty
green mosses, crimson tipped make charming
mOntures.
| Ribbons are in endless variety. The new
| embossed patterns are wonderfully rich and
| effective, showing old cashmere, broche
| Persian, and other unique designs in brilliant
| oriental color combinations, in which green
and gold predominate. Fancy floral and
| geOmetrical patterns are everywhere dis
| played, 8nd make one wonder how much
| duplicated effects are achieved. This de
scripton gives but faint idea of the brilliant
| variety of ribbons which now illuminate the
| shop windows and counters
The new spring hats are trimmed for the
| most part with ombre ribbons. These are
| four or five inches wide, are soft and pliable
in texture, and shade softly from dull blue