Omaha daily bee., 1894-02-25
FASHION NOTES.

FhoIlloN w Tb'
There are striped changeable mohairs for
making long travelling capes and redingotes.
A pretty conceit, in high favor among
young women, are dresses and hats to
match.
The fancy for fabrics with black grounds
and colored figures has brought out many
twilled woods of various light weights.
Dressy toilets of fine black wooden and
silk-warp fabrics are prettily made up with
yoke. crush collar. and belt of colored shot
velvet.
Some of the French zephyrines and crepa-
lines are now woven so wide that they can
be made into seamless skirts or long Grecian
overdresses.
Dark bengalines shot with a color and
figured with a silk dot make admirable
vests and sleevepuffs for wooden costumes
of medium weight.
Pointed wreaths of lowers are used to
trim berthas and the bodices of evening
gowns. Upright bouquets of the blossoms
are worn on the shoulders.
New sleeves are more dropping and limp
than ever, and the long-shouldered effects
are emphasized by several rows of shirring
in the upper parts of the sleeve.
Handsome new gowns are made Of soft
teXtured seeded satin in black or dark
colors with black watered silk skirt frills,
and full mutton-leg sleeves. Any extra
garnitures are of black lace.
There are some new hopsacking weaves
which are converted into costumes that are
made up with black MORE sleeves, revers,
blouse and directoire neck scarf, with long
lace-edged ends and wide bows.
Many of the spring patterns in satins,
bengaline silks and silk and wool mixtures
are so woven as to give them a changeable
effect, and the designs on their simmer
ing surface are small as a rule.
Tan in all tones is still a favorite dye.
Some of the tan cloths and fancy heather
mixtures, which include the tan shades in
the melange, are made up with trimmings
OF green velvet shot with dead-leaf brown.
Very attractive white waists are trimmed
with lace or embroidery, edging and in
%sertion. and all the models show the re-
fined ideas of a tasteful designer combined
with practical wear and easy laundering.
Short waists and blouses made of wash
able fabrics in plain beautiful colors, in pink,
ciel blue, cream, etc, and in stripes, checks
and fancy combinations, Will again be. highly
favored for both city and country wear.
Embroidery done by intricate machine
processes, but having all the fine, dainty eff
feet of handiwork, is to be this year more
than ever favored, as it can be so constantly
utilized on both bodices and skirts of new
gowns.
The short directoire waist, with immense
revers and cape collar, is still used by de-
signers and for gowns of wool
bengaline and camel's hair, and also the pop
ular Persian woods in changeable shadow
stripes.
FEMININE NOTES.
Nine. Mary Anderson Navarro is said to be
an accomplished banjo player.
Thirty women have Just been graduated
by the Royal University of Ireland.
1t is said that the fashions in Lapland
have not changed for 900 years.
The death is announced of Mrs. Austen,
the sole surviving sister Of Cardinal Man
ming, whose senior she was.
Among the graduates Of the DreXel Insti-
tute School of Stenography and T%ypewriting
Is a young Indian girl, Edna Eaglefeather.
More women than men go blind in Sweden,
Norway and Ireland; more men than women
in the rest of Europe and in the United
States.
Pathology" sounds obscure, but it is not.
1t is a new science-'child study"-which
Mr.. Oscar Chrisman of Clark university has
promulgated.
The French senate has just passed a law
which confers upon women engaged in bust
ness the right of taking part in the elections
of judges of the tribunal Of
A woman writer who has won reputation
writing under a masculine pseudonym is
Mrs. Clairmonte, who, as George Egerton,"
is the author Ct that very successful book,
'Keynotes,"
Miss A. G. f. Hope, a graduate of the
Liverpool (England) Training school. and one
Of the first teachers employed by Mrs. Hem
enway, is the efficient superintendent OF the
Boston cooking schools.
Miss Grace White. the youthful laughter
of Mrs. Sallie Joy White of the Boston Her
aid, inherits her mothers journalistic ability
and is winning her way to an honorable
place among the younger newspaper women.
The crown princess of Roumania inherits
the taste of her grandmother, the late en-
press CT Russia, for perfumery bottles. She
already possesses a large collection of these
articles, though 1t does not yet represent
the value of that left by her ancestor
$25, 900.
Among the judges at the coming dog shcw
at Madison Square Garden is a woman, Miss
A.. II. Whitney Of Lancaster. The three
classes of dogs upon which Miss Whitney is
exceptionally well informed are st. Ber-
nards, Newfoundlands and pugs.
Mrs, Sophia Braeunlich, business manager
Of the Engineering and Mining Journal Of
New York, was by a recent action CT the
British Imperial institute made one OF the
tweny life fellows of that honorable organi-
cation. She is the only woman member in
the United States.
The Detroit News-Tribune is Worrying
over the proper title for young wcmen who
are graduated from colleges. Bachelor Of
Arts IL objects to as being a purely mascu-
line Designation. and suggests as suitable and
correct Bachelette Of Arts! What's the
matter with Maid of Arts?
Mrs. Yates, who was recently elected
mayor in an important town Of New Zealand,
British Empire. AS in New Zealand mayors
are e~x-oficio justices Of the peace, Mrs.
Yates is the first woman magistrate in the