Omaha daily bee., 1890-03-10
Young Men Who Sleep in Silk anE
Are Vainer Than Girls


An idea that seems to have permeated
thoroughly throughout the masculine
world is that women are vainer than
men, says "a New York letter to tho
Philadelphia Times. Now, there il
not u word of truth in this. No woman
ever fingered with such loving delight
before lOoking-glas rs will a man
with the least pretention to beauty, and
no woman ever got mad or swore as
often as will man over the kind of
soap he uses, or the prOclivity of his
shirt front TO bulge out and give him Il
feminine bust. Naturally it does not
take man as long To buy nat as it
does woman, but then he doesn't huvD
to trouble about different shades or
shapes, although he is informed to
a II as to whether the brim
curls u bit more, stands out
straight, or is gradually growing
smaller. He is never so happy as when
he is in Il house get-up of llannels in
which he thinks his figure shows to
good advantage. And from the ugliest
down to the most perfect Adonis among
men, Il woman can always govern if she
praises his good looks. If lie is bearded
like the pard he qulvers with delight
at being told he is manly looking. Ii
has few straggly hairs on his chin he
that it is aristocratic not to have much
hair on you and that it would make him
II great catch-in Japan. If he has
quite smooth face he yearns for the
feminine appreciation as expressed in
her opinion that when a man has IL
really intellectual face it shows to much
better advantage if it is quite smooth;
although once year he may have to
use "a razor he likes womankind to think
that he sacrifices himself on the altar
of intellectually and has to apply the
sharp razor twice n day.
A man will tell you, like blatant
donkey, that if the fire alarm rang he
would present as good an appearance il
he had to get up in the middle OF the
night as he would during the day, and
/ am bound to believe this is true, judg-
ing from some of the retiring robes de-
dicated to himself and to be bought at
for more money than a woman would
ever dream Of spending on her night
gown. One of the most effective is OF
white silk, with tiny mauve dots on it.
1t reaches to the ground and is beauti-
fully hemstitched; the collar is broad
one cut in sailor fashion and thrown
back far enough TO oeXpose the neck very
well. The sleeves arc full and have
deep cuffs, and on the left side is a
pocket in which Is stuck white silk
handkerchief with monogram in
mauve upon 1T. The cuffs are of mauve
silk caught with white sleeve
links, and the collar is also of the
colored silk A OF white silk tie is
knotted in front in sailor fashion. The
haberdasher announces that this is per-
fumed so thoroughly with violet that
even two or three visits to the cleaners
will not dispel the odor. A more feml-
uine-looklng robe de mutt is of pale rose
silk, with its collar and cuffs edged with
lace, and cravat Of lawn and lace, sucn
as the gentlemen of the court OF Louis
Quatorze wore. The height OF folly, or
harmony, as you choose to call it, was
reached by a-a-a asomething-l should
hate to call il man-who mourned
deeply, in a material sense, for an uncle
who left him a pile of money. His
sleeping robes were of white silk, with
cuffs, collar and pocket OF white Grape,
while black -bordered handkerchief
was the other adjunct.