The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-03-31

Delng with our lovely maids anc
matrons. Numbers of fashionable
dressmakers are at work night and
day, and the one important ques
tion of dress engrosses the female
mind to the exclusion of all others.
What a dream of lovliness the Eas.
ter girl of '95 will be, when she is
ready for inspection, a veritable
combination of hufiiness, quaint
occurrences and piquancy. The
silk waist adds quite the Fin de
Seicle touch to every woman's ward
robe, and no wonder for it conven.
iently adds beauty to economy.
This year these dainty bodices come
in every variety Of color and de.
sign. Some are fanciful enough to
form part of an evening gown, while
others are worn with either moire
silk or satin skirt,
Nobody is kissed ON the mouth
these days, and it betrays bad form,
not to say bad hygiene, And in
this age, when it's a crime to be old,
and every woman over eighteen
powders, a kiss anywhere on the
face is a positive annoyance. Ev-
cry man of the world knows this,
and that's why he kisses his wife's
back hair, and that's why women
brush and perfume their hair until
it's fluffy and fragrant A little
book, has just been read and tossed
aside, but its memory will be with
one for many days, SIN Varying
Moods" " the volume is called, and it
consists Of a bakers half dozen, that
is, seven stories of various lengths,
The varying" is entirely in the
length of these stories for the
wood" is the same in all of them,
and that is very much the mood in
"Ships that pass in the night, "
They are not lively stories, neither
was that lively story, but it was a
wonderful story, and so are these
wonderful stories,
Notwithstanding, the note Of
pathos that Miss Harraden always
sounds, there is at the same time,
a touch Of humor that goes with it,
1t is as one who is impressed by the
weariness Of 1t all and yet could
laugh it of, OF all the women
writer's who have recently come to
the front, she is the least feminine,
by that I mean her style is the
least feminine.
OF Oscar Wilde's latest play, can
Ideal Husband, a celebrated critic
has this to say "The chief agent
of charm in this new work of Oscar
Wilde, it is superb impudence, At
every turn in the fantastic maze,
into which his skill and wit have
woven an indnity of delightful non.
sense, he surprises you by some
audacious impertinence, some bra2-
en- freshness, Everybody in the
play is impudent to everybody else,
and to cap the climaa, the author is
impudent to his audience-gayly
bouyantly, brilliantly impudentj but
impudence it Is none the less, and
50 on.
New York is to have baby show,
not one of low degree, but one
where all the babies must be cele-
brated either for beauty or high
connections,
Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Smith
and their two charming dauRh-
ters, Mabel and Bljou will
leave for their home in New York
Sunday, Their departure islament-
ed on all sides in tones of deepest
regret and a host Of warm friends
unite In wishing them bon voyage,
at the same time taking pleasure In
the knowledge, shat the first cold
blasts of next winter will bring
them again to our sunny south
land,
Miss Cora Huckins will return
from Fort Worth Monday, to the
delight of her many friends,
Messrs, Homer Vaughan, VIM,
Mosby and Harry Taylor went down
to Whaley on the cannon ball Tues
day, for a little snipe shooting, and
report has It, that Mr. Mosby chas-
ed one snipe all afternoon
Numerous are the regrets at the
decision of Mr. and Mrs Tom Evans
to make Dallas their future home,
where Mr.. Evans will enter his IA
theirs law Office. TO know them is
but to admire the one and love the
other and we can only hope that
some kind fate will watt them back
TO our little city soon,
Mr. Lawrence Biedleman takes
the premium for gardening, as his
work In that line on Maple street
can testify,
Mrs, s, B. Andrews, accompanied