Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-26

tistic blending of the shamrock and harp in
every pattern.
Irish lace is not the only manufacture
from the Emerald isle that is winning it's
way this season with American women. All
shades of green Irish frieze are used for
outing skirts and stout yachting and travel
ing dresses. The best Irish make of this
goods produces a practically indestructible
fabric that is light, springy, almost water
proof, and IL the frieze comes from the cen
ter of the cottage industries and is hand
woven and hand dyed its color and quality
cannot be too highly extolled. Some of the
smartest deck listers are wrought of green
frieze and made up with fiat brass or silver
buttons to copy the picturesque model of the
long coat worn by the peasant in the west
Of Ireland.
For light weight dust coats, used so much
by women who knock about the country in
railroads, are built chiefly of a fine goods
| known as p%orter's linen. 1t Is blue, of a
| deep ragged robin tone such as the railway
and steamship porters wear in summer, but
/ for the feminine traveller a very light weight
Is adopted, and shawl capes and tasteful
braiding give the linen ulster a grand air.
In place of an ulster a silk dust cape is quite
as frequently adopted. The cool wrap falls
to the knees and in all respects is cut on
the pattern Of the Inverness cape now so
despised and rejected of the fashionable
man.
One neat device utilized with the brown
pongee dust cape Is the cocky and becoming
little railroad hat a woman can assume
when she is making a short or long trip by
rail. Her own best headgear with all it's
tulle and Powered ~fragility she can carry in
an ample box on the seat beside her, as
L suminU unhpr tba Shnwprc Df railroad Grit
a modified edition of what the bloodthirsty
Engiishman has contrivcd for hunting trips
into the Indian Jungle. This is the thinnest
felt, string brown, or ash grey in color, so
soft that it folds into the pocket, and with
a crown capable of so holding that 1t sits
lightly on any couture. Around the brim a
darker brown grenadine veil is SO tied that
two ends float out behind and the forepart
is capable of being drawn down curtain wise
over the face, else left folded about the
crown.
Waterproof Wraps.
Tucked into a silk reticule, no bigger than
the bag that holds her bath sponge, the smart
traveller carries her new and improved
waterproof coat. 1t Is made of a taffeta i'm
pervious to water, or a perfectly soft Chinese
silk that is treated so that it is as water
tight as a guttapercha BOWL. Patterned ex-
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brown robe, the silk rain coats cover the
wearer from neck to heels and are the cool
est, lightest protectors yet invented. The
sleeves fall away from the wrist, or can be
buttoned tightly about the hand, and a hood
at the back is so almost imponderable that
it can be drawn up to protect, without in the
least crush, the most fragile hat.
Any one who closely observes the little
details OF dress cannot fail to note how many
and wide spreading the gathers are In the
rear of the newest skirts, what a number
Of novel shapes are given the waists of even
ing dresses, where they are cut out over
the shoulders, and that ropes and beads are
worn about white necks at dances.
The most striking throat garniture, and
one of the most costly a woman can now
display. is a double row OF opal beans,
strung on silver wire and with disks OF
crystal between the beans. Emeralds, to-
paz, amethyst and the dozen and one yari-
cites of semi-precious stones now SO greatly
in demand are all cut to resemble small
beans and feXibly wired for the neck. Moth
ing in the way OF a jeweled neck orna-
ment is worn high and close, from the base
of the throat and circling out broadly on the
chest all decoration is fastened.
The most charming result OF the craze
after transparent colored beads is the
opaiescent UNITS that llsht through ths
stones casts on the white flesh beneath
them. All signs point TO a continued use
of excessively high trimmings about tho
necks OF daylight costumes. Long-neckeC
women pass broad ribbons about theil
threats twice and then tying a naring bow
under the chin, pin the loops and end.
so that they stick out like a double pat
OF wings under the ears. Another attract
I've method is TO gather great ~rosettes o.
the crispsst black or white tuiie in tn,