Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-06


she's really pretty and slender. Well, |
then Anna thought she would try Mr.. |
Martial. Everything had progressed |
between them until then. |
But when he saw himself with cast in |
his eye, an awfully hooked nose and u
sort of Mephistophelean leer, he was a
little startled. He asked her in panied |
tones il he really looked like that, and
Anna had got so pulled up by that time
that she told him stiffiy that she had re-
produced his face as it seemed to her.
So he went away with his S3,000,00O, and
now Anna is modelling the consumptive
Clergyman who's there for his health"
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So far this summer the New York girl
has faithfully followed the fashions of
her brother. She wears tho vest and
four-in-hand with easy grace, and 1t
should be recorded to her everlasting
credit that she is learning to tie the
latter with some skill.
Her brother has evened matters by
wearing her broad -brim,ned sailor hat
and by appearing in the most brilliantly
colored shirts.
The gentlcmanly girl will be glad to
know that the craze for masculine at
tire will continue into the fall. The
young lady in the ulster is not
yet reality, but the garment has
been made and a certain New
of one worn by her English cousin.
There is no apparent difference between
it and the one which every man owns,
IL he can afford it. The hat is supposed
to be fashionable walking hat, but
you couldn't tell it from mans derby
If you tried. Shooting jackets and
capes have also made their appearance.
Fashion alone knows why. They are
strictly masculine, even to their in
Vulnerable pockets. ~. ret
~ -4n7sai,
If a thing is good say 50! st5~
Whether it be an entertainment,
glass of soda, a newly-made gown or a
book. If you like it give praise where
it can be heard-or heard of-by. the
person or persons who are responsible
for it.. 4....
OF course there are persons who can't
digest praise. "-{e
1t makes them conceited, and at times
verbearing, but they are OF the empty
headed minority, who ought not to be
considered. .r.,,
| went into little country shop not
long since on very warm day, lured by
the sign, lice Cream" ,l.,.
| didn't expect much. att
Something moist and cold would have
satisfied me.
A thin, worn, haggard-looking woman,
carrying a young baby, came for my
order. ..,....
There was no choice. 1t was straw
berry or nothing.
She brought me the cream with one
hand and clutched the child with the
other.
The cream was surprisingly good
homemade, with the real Strawberries
thickly strewn through it,
When paid her l said:
"That's the best ice cream I've eaten
this summer, and I'm from New York,
too"
You ought to have seen her face light
up.
She absolutely looked ten years
younger
There was little quaver in her voice
as she replied:
"I'm glad you like it. used to make
good ice cream when was a girl, but
don't get much time now"
And she sang to the baby as l left the
shop. .. .aal.g,s .isAs -.
rsS Z, osx&.npfs pa.3
Mr.. -L-, newly made millionaire,
has distinct social aspirations, and does
y
he thinks is his somewhat plebeian line
age. Notwithstanding this little weak
ness, however, he was ever an. affection
ate and dutiful son to the plain old
farmer and his wife, who toiled and
mailed to give him his first start in the
world. One of his inheritances, when
they died, was pair of portraits. done
by rural painter-two pictures with no
merit whatever from an artistic stand
point, but startlingly like as such daubs
often are, with the homely Sunday
clothes of the wearers realistically
represented. Mr.. -, meanwhile, had
become quite celebrated for his art col
lection, and his first impulse on receiv-
ing these staring and Enthusiastically
bourgeois portraits was to relegate
however, pleaded for the familiar old
| figures, and in the midst of his per-
plexity a brilliant idea struck him. He
| sent for Mr.. A., a famous artist, and in
duced him to dress up his old parents in
| the most aristocratic garments of their
day, leaving the dear old faces intact,
| but even going to the length of arrang-
ing the old lady's hair, so that when the
picture was hung in his magnificent hall
she might have been taken for a
duchess, so regal were her attire and
| surroundings; while the old gentleman,
fondling the head of the setter between
his knees, looked like "a real old En-
glish gentleman all of the olden time.
~ u.
"If I must become a martyr to mid
summer days | want to suffer like @
lady,"
The speaker rocked back and forth in
one corner OF her town piazza, looking
in trim little toilet as If she had dis
covered the secret.
"Am not bit warmer" she continued
mot bit, dressed up in decent fitting
pair of corsets and a regulation gowI
than would, be if / were trailing abou
in sloppy wrapper minus corsets.
always have on hand an interesting piec,
of work, and when this becomes trih'
wearisome a good book, so that tn,
warmest days OF the season hold but lit
tie terror for me. l don't incline to icet
drinks, fans anu the like. believe tina
this kind Of pampering is all nonsense.
Have you ever thought how much tn,
mind has to do with your comfort ant
discomfort, especially during the warm
est days of the year?
know any number OF women VIII
actually send their pulses up to feve
heat by simply talking over the warn
weather situation. The very best rul
| to follow is to ignore the question.