Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26

Tussore SILK for summer Journeys by
Lnnd-wbite Cor the Sea.
NEW YORK, June 25.-Extravagant rs
the practice may seem, there Is a deal
Of deep-seated economy displayed by the
women this spring who have had their
travelling dresses made Of silk. Weighed
in the balance against this fabric all other
weaves will be found wanting for this
especial purpose. 1t is the one thing at
once cool, clean, light OF weight and defiant
OF dust and wrinkles. A good, simple
foulard, or better yet, a fair quality OF tus
sore can cross the continent in summer
weather and come forth from the ordeal
without even the smell of the stuffy sleep
ing berths in it's folds. This is more than
can be said for woolel. while linen. under
such a test, gathers stains and wrinkles at
every mile.
The silks that are as ring streaked,
speckled and spotted as Jacobs cattle, find
especial favor In the sight of the women
who are now voyaging about the country,
else they cling to a peculiar shade of pale
brown known as string color, and wear
soft white plque chemisettes and revers ad-
justed to the waist freshly every day.
Brown shoes, high or low, they adopt for
travelling both by sea and land, and as all
the skirts of travelling gowns are very alb
breviated, certain artful devices have been
resorted to by the shoemakers to give the
patroness, possessed of an unfortunate pair
of feet, more symmetrical proportions. The
p%rettiest brown shoes have darker vamps
than uppers. That is, the vamp is made
of vanished or enameled brown leather
and the upper of thinner, lusterless skin.
This helps to trim down the size of a foot
greatly, while the opening over the instep
is cut very wide and underneath the var
nished leather tongue a little strip of pad
ding is laid. BY such means a low instep
seems to gain height, especially when the
heel Is cut on what is known as the mil
itary form.
Women with pretty feet to show below
their short duck skirts wear ties of black,
highly polished veal skin, having tops of
sapphire blue dressed leather. This veal
skin is the hide of the very young calf, so
treated that it is as soft as dog skin and
assumes a high polish. With blue uppers
on these smart ties blue heels are used, the
rather. heavy extension soles are stitched
with blue, blue silk ribbons run through
the eyelets, and throughout the shoes are
lined with blue satin. Their shape is essen
TALLY sensible, however, and in contrast to
this footgear many women who sail for
foreign lands fit themselves out for the
voyage with white canvas rubber soled ties,
white duck short skirts, white linen shirt
waists and white straw round hats, trimmed
with a bias strip of wire-edged white taffeta.
For defense against breezes dark rough
serge capes and coats are carried. The
capes especially have all their edges bound
with white or dark colored glace kid.
From the laundress' point of view this
dressing in white on board steamer is an
eXtravagant thing to do, for decks are
daily powdered with black waste from the
tall tunnels. All this, however, is of ne
weight with the woman who knows how tc
look her best at sea, who protects hel
hands from sunburn by a pair of the new
washable glace gloves and ties over her face
a chiffon veil bearing big white silk dots.
Now, the veil manufacturers would have
us believe that in it's effect on the eye, the
white dot Is positively soothing, and there
fore a blessing to be courted. Such wells
and especially those for outdoor wear. ar,