Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

lilly, MIS-. ttDt.F Us. IndUl IL uII.' LAnU
you get them into society so early" ''Thatis
mart" And you find rich husbands for
them" 'That is smart.n s
'"The Rose She Wore in White III is the
title of a poem recently written by Louise
Chandler Moulton. The man who paid for
the rose wonders how Mrs. Moulton could
have found any poetry in such a subject.
Twelve states have given women the right
of suffrage on the school question. Many
women in these states do not avail themselves
of the privilege of casting the ballot, which
makes people ask, do women want the bal
lot!
Amanda herself-'No, George; / esteem
you highly as a dear and valued friend, but L
cannot be your wife. will always be a sis
ter To- George himself bitterly
into the night to think.
There is no truth in the rumor that Lady
Colin Campbell is thinking of starting a
lady's paper. Her ladyship is, we are in
formed, to be seen in the black stuff dress
and white cap and apron of a hospital nurse
at st. Georges hospital
Foulards and pam surahs divide the
choice in summer silks. The excellent wear
ing quality of the stamped India foulards
has made them popular for several seasons
for morning and afternoon dresses. In plain
colors they may even be laundried.
"Weight sociables'' are the latest craze at
Yankton. The gentlemen pick their ladies,
take them to the scales, weigh them, pay, a
quarter of a cent a pound into the general
fund, and then escort them to supper. The
latter costs not far from six bits q pound.
Watered silks are extensively imported
this season. There are moires and MORE an
tiques, the former term applying to the pat
terms of silk where the watered effect forms
distinct stripes, while in MORE antique the
watered pattern extends in irregular wave
lines all over the goods.
Rider Haggard is the brother of the secre-
tary of the British legation in this country,
whose marriage at Washington in 1876 to
Miss Carrie Carroll, a lady considerably
older than himself, caused much talk at the
time. The marriage was not a happy one,
and u divorce-the second one in the Wife's
case-was the result.
Out in Leadville two young men were in
love with the same girl and she was willing
to marry either of them. They settled the
affair amicably at a match game of seven-up,
the six best games in eleven deciding. With
some this will be looked upon as entirely APP
propriate, since they regard marriage itself
as q game Of chance.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard is evidently a
handy young lady. She is in Stuttgart, and
writing a book, nursing several cases of
diphtheria, helping to educate a host of
nieces and nephews, translating some of her
works into French and Italian, and is becom-
ing an expert on the typewriter.
Even throwing kisses is attended with
more risks than is generally supposed. A
Waterbury Comm doctor has discovered
this to his sorrow. While thus engaged on
the rear platform of q railroad train the
brakeman shut the door, so badly MASKING
the Doctors fingers that he is now prose
cutor in a suit for 81 900 damages.
The Coreans composing the embassy now
visiting Washington are truly simple youths.
They have been knocked silly by. the ball
dressed beauties, and the older and more
staid member are alarmed for the conse.
qgences. L. is even limited that the effect of
their visit here will be perceived in a revolu-
ton when they return TO their native land.
AS the last note of that touching little bal
Lad, '"The Letter That he Loneed For Never
Came,' vibrpted on the evening air she
turned to find a tear tricklIng slowly down
his check. 'Ah, Mr.. SAMPSON she said
sympathetically, 'you, too, have 'longed' ~
YES he replied, huskily, two years ago
a very dear friend of mine went west on S25
that | loaned him, and for aught l know he
may be dead"
Among the forthcoming materials for ele.
CANT summer evening wear, are Oriental
fabrics striped with gold and eXqulsitely rich
colors, transparent and silky, rare MORE tev-
tiles appearing like thick watered silks skele-
tpnized, yet retaining ali their gloss and rich
ness of tone; open-work silk grenadines and
canvas materials of the daintiest description
and tint, striped with Watered ribbon, and
lovely semidiaphanous silk musllns from far
India, figured with designs embroidered IN
gold or silver.
A young woman near Troy, N. Y, is maxi
ing her fortune at selling Dutch cheese. A
neighbor with a stock farm make great
quantities of butter. She bought all his sour
milk at a nominal price and began making
Dutch cheese. She made it into little pats
and sold them at 5 cents each. She drove
into the city eight miles-eyery morning
with a wagon full of shallow pans. Soon she
had a route and regular customers. Then a
boy took her place on the wagon, while she
attended to the making the cheese. She has
succeeded beyond her expectation.
The first woolens imported by merchants
for dresses for early spring are Henrietta
cloths in silk and wool, Atwood chuddahs,
cancels hairs and Scotch cheviots of silken
quality and feather weight. These are warm
enough for the coolest spring days, though
much lighter in weight than the winter goods
now worn. They are displayed in a great
variety of mixed colors of the neutral tints
called ''beige Effects and also in a variety
of plain colors and fancy plaid and cross-bar
patterns. There are many shades OF copper
color in brown and in red tones. Sevrcs blue
colors range from a pale-bfue, less gray than
cadet-blue, to a dark shade as deep in color
as navy blue,
Among some beautiful costumes lately ex-
hibited was one of an Old rusty, copperish
shade of green cloth, which was cut In the
princesse form, no fullness at all appearing
in front, The two seams, each SIDE OF the
front, were left open TO the hem over a
plated petticoat of ecru faille, but were
caught down so that there was no loose
flying about of the panels. Heading these
openings were beautiful of passe-
menterie. From like on the
shoulders extended a fiat braid and cord
trimming down the fronts of the waist, out
lining sharply a pointed ecru vest, dividing
again and outlining the sides of the panels,
turning at the bottom and passing across the
front of the skirt. Tight sleeves, with wide,
hanging, braided cuffs, braided collar and
pockets on the hips, a plain, straight, full
back, II made a most taking costume II IT only
sisted upon. These wide cuffs, much longer
than the sleeves, are to be a popular new fea-
ture.
There is a climbing rosebush over the door
of Henri +. Gardeners nome in Orange, Cal,
of the white La Marque variety, which covers