Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-22


1t Is a hint that comes from a woman
recently returned from a considerable
residence in one OF the German art
cities, that the closest inquiries should
he made, before taking lodgings or
apartments, into the cleanliness OF he
beds and furnishings.
"In some of the most attractive-ap-
pearing and apparently faultless places"
she says, Eve have beer fairly driven out
after a short stay, FORGETTING the rent
rather than undertake to accept the con-
d~itions. AT last we put the question
bluntly every time, expressly stating
that II on trial the apartment was found
to be infested We should claim the right
to move at once"
This travellers experience may have
been exceptional; it is at least actual
and as such, perhaps, is a note OF warm
ing.
A representative woman who has
adopted the habit of cross riding, or rid
ing astride the horse, declares IL to be
the only safe and satisfactory way to
ride, and she believes that the old way
will be entirely superseded by the new.
WHO would have believed a few
years ago." she argues, that women
would ride bicycles in our city streets?"
Yet now a woman on a safety does not
attract a second glance" She explains
logically enough the difference between
the insecure seat, the distorted spine
and compressed chest of the old method
and the sturdy, straightforward, even
balance OF the new, and she asks per-
tinently: "After all, what is there in
the least degree shocking or immodest
about it? The curves of the figure are
thrown into far less prominence and the
habit is easily managed by wearing a
divided skirt under an ordinary riding
skirt open down the back so that it falls
gracefully on both sides of the horse.
The Goa can of course be made in the
most conventional style if one wishes,
and equestrienne leggings should al
ways form q part OF any riding costume"
Fashionable makers Of riding habits say,
however, that they make almost none
for the new way ofriding and see no signs
of such an innovation, although it pre-
walls to some small extent in England
and in our western states.
~.
The English woman? All, that's an
other thing. The American woman
comes to Paris to choose clothes; the
English woman to buy them The latter
has probably been brought up on a
single color--at least, she comes into the
place with a very definite idea of what
she wants, says the Paris correspondent
of the Philadelphia Times. If we ven-
ture to offer a suggestion that some.
thing else would perhaps become her
equally as well she says very frigidly,
!, II think | am perfectly able to judge for
! myself, strip
AS for the American woman, she has
plenty of mind of her own. She knows
. very well what she wants, and what she
/, does not like, and she says so very
n1air1x too Arr amount Of fol1yf~r
, wouldn't make her take a shade she
, thinks not pretty, but she is not bull
headed about it. She is open to convic
: tion, and does not cut off q well-mean
a criticism by any iciness.
! Then. too, the American woman ha
. some appreciation. If a gown suits her
= she says so, and just as emphatically a
q she tells you she dislikes another. Now
" u costumer likes this. Money is wha
y he works for, but a little appreciation
n with it is a good thing. In a large ind
vidual order-particularly tor a perso
Of more than ordinary consequence
"a every one who works over the material
"a from the cutter On up to the man VIII
=, puts on the last button or bit of fun
>, takes q personal interest in his worl
Y and he likes to have it appreciated.
is more satisfactory to succeed With
costume of a woman who can say'Than
you!' or How perfectly lovely!!' That
the American way!
The English woman is not at a
VI backward in finding fault. In fact, 81
10 often seems to consider it a part of til
Us process n does SO indiscriminatel
10 She receives her gowns always with 9
.. SIT is satisfactory, but and then fc
I'll lows the criticism. But she new,
40 praises. Very often she brings her hu
" band with her and refers a question
W his taste. Catch an American WON,
We doing that! No, indeed; if she brings>h
pe husband at all, she leaves him with
IN newspaper in the waiting room and h
her say herself.
10. French women of fashionable Pal
III spent a great deal of money on sire
US dresses, sums which would make ev
prodigal New Workers. stare. 1t is Il
'ai so much on the value of the materi,
g, ~ used as in the number OF costumes. Tt
ie arises in part from the French love
variety and change, and in part fro
vi the dislike to be seen often in the sal
W gown. Sometimes the French WON
overreaches her purse limit and fir
M her bill so large that she cannot pay
III A. herself and is afraid to tell her husbai
le' Then we nave to walt while she still
gu herself of pin money.
Lhs The reason why comparatively pt
ne women oil Paris are able to dress
fashionably lies in the large number
costumes ordered every season by
fashionable Parisienne. At the end of
season the costumes are very far fr
SEES worn, and your Understandable won
OH here would not be seen in clothes
lme season old, so she sells them, sometlr
for a song. There are large numbers
,,t oi private agents who buy these and
them again to smaller dealers. Some
ahu them are altered, as far as possible, i
Pc. a good imitation of the prevailing sty
and bring a fairly good price at qr
, ,Ie tionable dealers houses. Others
soldd by second rate dealers in the |
fashionable quarters of the city
l iuh their prices bring them within the re;
AZ of the shop girl of the Place Vendo
ihg or the brasserie girl of the Latin Qu
'n ter.
pun This reselling of costumes has m,
to do with the chic toilets Of Pa
''su poorer women. So fashionable T.,
al keeps up the style for its lower elias
o"u The universal taste which this fost
reacts, of course, upon the women hig
,ros in the social scale, and furnishes an
iaaas ditional spur to their leaders to keel
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