Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-11
FEMININE ODDITIES.


The use Of tobacco among women is
on the increase in France, and even in
London it is not unusual to see lady
produce her silver or en0meled cigar case
in the drawing-room. Cigarettes are
giving place to cigars in Paris, and some
fears are entertained of the smoking
habit among women becoming uncon-
trollable.
THE female bookmaker is the latest
departure. She made her first appear
ance at Kempton Park, clad in flash
costume, and gave or took the odds as
nonchalantly as man, shouting in mu-
steal tones what her prices were, and
cashing up promptly when each race was
over. The next in order will be, no
doubt, the woman horse jockey, and with
them in the pool room and on the horse,
racing will have more fascination than
ever.
A MOST peculiar will made by a de-
ceased duchess in Paris sets forth her
desire to be buried without any floral
decorations about her coffin, but to have
at the funeral ceremony some good mu-
sic, for cit elevates the soul and in
spires one to pray BETTER" and concludes
with the strange request that her body
may be buried by the side of her hus-
band, and her heart taken out and con-
veyed in an urn to be buried in the cof-
fin with her mother.
THERE is great flutter among the Ger
man girls on account of recent order
which excludes candidates from being
confirmed if not dressed entirely in
black. From time immemorial white
hoo khn o..
we'll as for wedding gowns. The new
regulation emanates partly from Ger
man thrift, which considers that poor
people can not afford the expense of
white confirmation dresses for which
they have no other use, and partly &C.
clesiastical authority based upon his
torical supposition that true Protestant
ism Is always connected with black.
Some girls who presented themselves in
white and were refused have aroused q
great deal of bitter feeling between the
clergy and the people.
LONDON women do not seem to be
what Jennie June calls ''clubable"
women, for, Notwithstanding the in
creasingly prominent place they occupy
in sport and recreation, their amuse-
ments are as rule unorganized. The
Row is each season crowded with eoues-
triennes, and in the winter, too, when
the riding is something besides "gen-
teel cantering." All manner Of smart
ponies and carts and jaunting cars 60
the pace continually, and last season a
lady "tooted" four-in-hand each day
around the drive, her horses held SPLEEN
didly in hand. Tho prejudice against
the cycle for ladies is fast dying out,
and though at present not so general in
London as. among the provinces, one
may expect soon to see it command the
situation in London streets.
LADIES fire brigades have been Or
yanized at Girton College, st. Michaers
House, and other large institutions for
women in England. They are said to
understand and perform their duties
we'll, and to find their greatest difficult
ties come from lack of suitable dress.
The new ladies' fire drill dress is to con-
sist In the future of q waterproof over
skirt, with q belt three inches wide and
two buttons, just tight enough to keep
1t from slipping down over the hips.
This overskirt will reach just below the
knees, and cover an all-wool divided
nnderskirt, fastening around each leg at
tho top of the boots, which it ovcrhanCs
little to carry the water outside. A
Norfolk jacket Of fine waterproof cloth
and fireman's hat complete the dress,
beneath which corsets must not be
worn.
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