Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-19

white silk rose, and the consequence al
ways inspires %enyious admiration.
Spring school Clothes.
How shall the BARNS be prepared for the
school days following Easter vacation Is a
question that mothers are already trying to
solve. The shopkeepers are lending serv-
iceable aid by showing the handsome light
wool cheviots for early April and the cotton
cheviots to follow.
At the boys outntters they are making, for
little chaps, madras n~egligee shirts, in exact
imitation of those their fathers and big
brothers wear in hot weather. Under the
starchless madras collar the fashionable boy
will wear a butterfly bow tie of canvas;
knee breeches of dark blue mohair and a
canvas belt will complete the play day suit,
the most sensible ever seen. Short double
breasted REFER coats of dark blue and brown
mohair, unlined, are made up for wear next
summer by youngsters still in knickerbock-
ers. and a Scotch bonnet of navy blue serge
or canvas, with two ribbon ends fluttering
at the rear, are what the little fellows will
wear on their heads.
Sensible mothers now buy all the shoes
for their children to wear in the country of
pigskin yellow or black oiled leather with
rubber soles. These shoes have spring heels
and lace and both boys and girls under 10
years Of age will wear at play with those
shoes half hose. Manila hats are to pre-
dominate in every play ground when the
warm weather comes. e.
Fashion for Little Lnssics.
Girls in short skirts have gone back to
the dear old style of wearing their hair in
big, round, dangling curls made on a stick.
The curls are not conned at any point and
are adopted of course only with the dress
of occasion, for dancing school, Sunday
school and parties. With their half hose
and low-neck, short-sleeved muslin gowns
the little maids will be charming pictures in
the May days.
In the interim of fierce March weather
the little women wear most charming red
lined riding hood cloaks to school. These
cloaks are shaped just like the fashionable
pelerines their mothers wear, with the eX-
ception that to the child's cloak is a very
useful hood that gathers with a ribbon
round the face. The. hood and cape are
usually edged with a bright fox fur and
the girls wear canvas or cloth leggins
buckled up at the side of the leg.
Bags n Necessity.
No woman reckons herself any longer
able or fitted to get about her daily duties
without the aid of a bag. The handbag of
various types used to be the totem of the
tribe of Boston women, but the New York,
the Philadelphia and the Chicago women
have come to count the little bag among
their dearest treasures. The suburbanite,
who comes in for a days hard shopping,
carries another, but they all belong to the
genus bag, and the funny thing is that
where, the woman is, and no matter where,
hon Inu p,nnc with hnr Lilo NprV'g little
lamb it follows her to church, on her calls,
to concerts, readings, the theater, opera,
weddings and to balls and dinners.
A well provided woman owns at least a
dozen types of bag; from a big net thing
| Of knitted silk or Irvine to a delicious lit
tie perfumed nestlike affair of rosy. bro
cade. Nobody has a pocket nowadays, and
on the ruins of the pocket the bag has
risen. 1t is usually made of tough green
cloth, quite unlike the pretty double bag
| of dark silk hung on a silver ring that the
sample hatcher gaily carries in place Of
the silk reticule with an expanding metal
top, so popular a year ago. Very small
leather catches of more or less spiendor OF
| material and makeup are in exceeding favor
with shoppers. too, and some women, who
have an absent-minded way of leaving
purses, etc, on counters, have their little
SuOplliS pu5o ioNhNu ~ a "tSNS NhS
bank messengers.
The sort of bag that goes calling and to
concerts is a tiny elongated satchel of
the finest leather mounted on a gold or
silver frame and to the leather exterior
the owners initials in silver are fastened.
Such a bag is always carried on the arm,
for its handle is made sufficiently large to
admit of its being pushed up as high as
the elbow, and many of them have secret
locks, where a key is not concerned. Cards,
purse, smelling salts, handkerchief, etc,
are carried in such a bag, while those that
go to weddings and balls are long beaded
or brocaded silk affairs mounted on mouths
Of metal and fastening like a wallet. BY
a gold chain they hang from the arm, else
by means of a stout pin fixture your bag
can be made fast to your side as you dance.
MARY DEAN.