Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
Leaves from FashIon,s Notebook.

mean who would ask his wife to give her
services to the family FOR nothing.
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Leaves from Fashions Notebook.
Some of the striped flannels make up
smartly, especially the hair lines. The
others are rather too conspicuous.
There is every indication that the waist
line Will be throughout the winter AS 1t is
now, a movable one dependent entirely on
individual taste Snd contour of the figure.
TussoTe is one of the best materials for
afternoon wear, as 1t is light, yet warmer
than the usual summer fabric, and Itp.s
Itself well to any degree of simplicity or
elaboration,
There has been an immense revival this
season of old-fashioned wash net both in
the narrow widths called footing, and in
ihe wide all-over pieces, which come per-
llously near mosquito netting.
The new cloth gowns show the same sim
plicity generally that characterized those of
the spring, but there is more OF a tendency
TO- balance the skirt and waist decoration.
Ihere is little choice, as far as popular
sentiment goes, between the lenEthwise
trimming and hat extending around, for
wherever the latter Is used there is almost
invariably a vertical line to counterfeit 1t,
so the effect OF length Is preserved.
A gown Of white flannel with a blue ring
has a plain gored skirt with three circu-
lar folds around the bottom, each stitched
twice on both edges. The blouse fastens
invisibly down one side of the front, form
mig a plain vest effect between three-side
Platlst SdCn Oh WnlCn is stretched close to
me edge. and the sleeves are slightly larger
than coat sleeves. but Of that shape, simply
hemmed up at the wrists.
A charmingly simple dress Of ecru NOUS
seline was worn recently over "A slip of
Copenhagen India silk. en- mousseline
was cut very long, with a four-inch hem at
the bottom, and above that was an inset
band or the mousseline, tucked crossWise,
and bordered on either side by a narrow
velvet ribbon. At the top the skirt was in
exaggerated empire effect, fitting in toward
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tiny tucks of varying lengths, but none OF
them reaching below the hips.
New variations in the overskirt continue
10 appear. one of the most recent is the
panel tuntc. In this the tunic Is cut circu-
lar, buS is not too full. Around the hips
1t Is glove-fitti1g and at the bottom it is
turned IN a deep hem and macbine-stitched
twice. Then at the center, front and back
ana at the sides, there are sash-like pane. s
gradually widening toward the bottom,
where each is cut in a long. curved point
which hangs below tn tunic and over the
unoerskirt. These panels are of emyro derry
or net or OF some contrasting material, and
are tltted to the skirt so that they ac-
Chat About Women.
Investigation of conditions in southern
cotton mills, upon which concentration
VIII be based for legislation to protect
women toilers, is to be made in Septem-
per by a COMMITTEES from the General Fed
Joseph Medill Mccormick, wife of the pub
Usher of the Chicago Tribune.
Miss Estelle Buchanan, a former st.
Louis girl, was nominated for treasurer OF
Rails county on the democratic ticket in
the recent state primary. Miss Buchanan
Is the daughter OF former United States
Marshal and Mrs. Buchanan, now living
in Billings, Mont. She is employed as
stenographer in the office OF Judge Reuben
f, Foy Of New London.
The Crown Princess Marie of Bucharest
is a practical little person and has Rounded
a large Quill tOOtlniOk faFfOrV naap bar
home, 1t is said. There will be an annual
output Of 100000 toothpicks and a large
to be more American than anything else,
judging from the prevalence upon all occa-
sions of what ought to be simply a toilet
woman did not take to making them.
Slgnora Rina Monti has just been APP
pointed professor of zoology and compare
tive anatomy at the University Of Sas-
sari, Italy. After the death of Prof. Maggi
of the University of Pavia, she taught com
parative my in that institution, and
then for two years at siena, but it is only
professorship conferred on her. Although
the wife Of Signor Augusta Stella and
the devoted mother Of a handsome boy, she
keeps her maiden name in her scientific
work.
Miss Ethel Everest has proposed to the
War department that she be allowed to
raise a fund to privately demonstrate the
capacity OF wemen to discharge duties in
defense Of their homes and countries if
the secretary Of war Viii say that such a
Young women Of Finland drill regularly
now in the militia. Swiss women, Italian
women and even a few American women
in the civil war have demonstrated that the
sex can fight.
Mrs. Constance Faunt Leroy Runcie of
st. Joseph, Mo, one of the honorary vice
presidents of the Federation Of Women's
Clubs, was the founder of the first woman's
club in the United States-the Minerva
club-organized under its written constitu-
tion at New Harmony, Ind, in 1859, Mrs.
Runcie is the granddaughter of the. cele-
brated philanthropist, Robert owen of New
Lanark, Scotland. A woman's club had
not been heard OF when the Minerva
sprang into existence, II preceding Sorosis
OF New York, by nine years.
Miss Sarah c. Murray OF Newton, Mass,
carried off high honors this year at
Munich. She secured the Phi. d. degree
and her name was placed on the honor
role Of the university. Miss Murray is a
Radcliffe college graduate. For the last
four years she has been studying at
Munich, making a specially Of classical
philology and archaeology. She has just
passed her sd birthday. She intends be-
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