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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1900)
Tnminry 28 , 1000. OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. What Not to Buy in Paris Quo of ninny precautions a woman should bear In mltv.1 , it she proposes visiting Paris during the exposition this year , is to pack In nor steamer trunk some essentials of llfo thnt the French capital does not afford at American prices. While delicate soaps , per fumes and toilet waters are cheap and good In Paris , drugs are dilllrult to find and ex pensive and not nearly so compactly put up as at our home apothecary's. The artful American traveler who knows this should not fall In loading a capacious medicine case to the nntzzlo hcforo sailing away , adding to the usual voyager's Hat a good many things that may not scorn Immediately es sential , for in that gay French city It is not possible , as In our own least town or vil lage , to shop for powders and potions all night long If necessary. In France , and with few exceptions In Paris , the exception l > elng a Franco-Ameri can depot , Uio drug stores close at sundown and It is only In a case of llfo or death and by the aid of a policeman that a clerk can bo roused and the purchase of a precious for the busy fcmlntno visitor to take every precaution against overstraining her eyes. The sun on the white stouo of the Parisian buildings results In a glare like that on water , and if a shady chlffun veil , with a wide brimmed hat , Is not adopted , then smoked glasses will go a long way toward mitigating the Intense light and on many days can bo worn with the greatest c.-m- fort. Another Invaluable adjunct to hap piness Is an eyeglass and bottle of solution of boric acid tha.t can bo put up by the homo druggist and used to .sooth overtired eyes or to wash out an Irritating particle of dust or coal. Paris Is the haunt of the laundress , who washes clothes to .snowy whiteness and at small expense , but the hard water mtpplicd to tbo city and the number of snda-lllled compounds used by the clover blanchlssouso will in the Icng run play the mischief with handsome underwear. It Is in consequence a good place and opportunity for finishing the use of old garments In which rents and the crumbling of trimming will bring no SATIN LOUNGING KOBE. commodity made after S o'clock in the even ing. Ciiiiiforlnlile I ' < I. When the exposition visitor has given the most particular attention to her medicluo case her next care must bo to equip her feet properly for the unusual task before them. The pavements In Paris are not unduly hard , but because of the poor facil ities for transportation a visitor is obliged to walk them with greater industry than she is over forced to In an American town. Then , too , on clear summer days they grow so hot that any shoo trimmed with patent leather Is scarcely less torturing than the "boot" of mediaeval memory. Paris Itself la not , moreover , the place In which to purchase regular pedestrian's gear , while hero at homo one may lay In a stock of travelers' shoes that cannot be surpassed for comfort. The stock should include at least ono pair of laced dongola walking shoes with a medium solo , low heels , fitted with rubber caps and toe ? rounded like those of golfers' boots. Add to this a pair of Oxford tics of thu same shape , with a pair of flat old lady's slippers , and the exposi tion tripper won't sigh for the good offices of a chiropodist or the ease of a cab at command. Thcso cool soft shoes will not rub a corn , provided the same pair Is never wcrn many days In succession ; also , pro vided the slippers are adopted for the restIng - Ing hours at homo and the traveler's stock- ingu don't require many darns. After a long day of tramping through exhibit halls and the fascinating French stieots It Is a good plan and preventive of foot weariness to sit a half hour poring over homo letters and papers with the tired extremities In an ankle-deep hath of cold salt and water. If , after this , they arc dried gently and propped , In clean hose and cool slippers , on a chair , they will be ready for any calls made upon their strength day by day. ( inoil Can * of ( In * KycH , Should the exposition be visited after Juno , when Paris can produce from her as phalted EtreotH as finely penetrating a dust and intcnso a heat OH wo know In any city of our own , It Is the better part of wisdom heart-break. It IH also the place where water for drinking purposes must be aban doned. Wine that the French substitute and light beer are not as a rule satisfactory to the American woman , who should make up her mind to Invest a certain small amount of her allowance every week In bottled water that is Bllghtly effervescent and quite imperative for the good health of the for eigner. ' .SlKipiiliiff In I'arlH. It does not come easily to every foreign woman to shop In Paris. Too many Ameri cans who have a llttlo money to spend In clothes complain that Paris Is as costly and twlco as inconvcnlont-as any American city. Now , as a matter of fact , Paris Is not the place In which to buy cheap , elaborate un derwear , Btout , handsome , Inexpensive shoes , and the dozen and ono species of at tractive ready-mado suits , silk waists , coats , etc. , that the merchant in the United States provides so cleverly. If an exposition tripper has made up her mind to lay out to the limit set by the cus toms rules , then let her devote her energies to the small things of the toilet that do cost very llttlo In Franco and which are admir ably made , that Is to say , handkerchiefs , gloves , hats , neckties , etc. These are to beget got easily and at the smallest prices by findIng - Ing at the superintendent's olllco of one of the big department stores what days are de voted to "occasions. " An occasion Is noth ing lees than a bargain , and a bargain Is really and honestly a bargain In ono of the great Parisian .shops , The daintiest llttlo mucholrs are to bo bought for 15 and 20 cents apiece , gloves that a duchess would not hesitate to wear go lor 40 and & 0 cents per pair , anil a bewitching theater bonnet for $2 Is no uncommon thing. ( Bargain days are as regular an felo days In the big magazines , and the woman who speaks English1 only VUahdg as "feood chance . of getting the desirable things as any daugh ter of France. Apropos of bargains and Parisian shopping , It does not coma amiss to let the American woman Into the secret of the faultless system of transfers that obtains In the big department stores over the water and that expedites purchasing Im mensely. At the door of ono of the great dry goods houses the shopper asks ( or a transfer card that Is punched by the sales woman with the amount of her purchase at every counter , and at the same door by which she entered the sum total of her ex penditure IH quickly calculated and the transaction completed In much less time than our own system of transfers requires. Now , on the other hand. If a shopper pro poses to go In rather extensively for gowns , hats , underwear , etc. . mi it both her Him- and strength are limited. It Is perfectly pos sible for her to hop luxuriously In the morn ing In lied or late in the nftcrmum on the sofa. The Parisian modistes and mil liners are thoroughly accustomed to the ways of case-loving women and do not hesitate t. > send to u hotel or pension bed room big baskets full of purple and tine linen , all under the rare of an expert saleswoman , who , If she knows her business , ean sell double the amount of g. oils when a shopper is at homo at onso and In good humor. Gossip About Literary Women -Miss Alice French Octavo Thanot con fesses to have taken keen pleasure in car pentry. " 1 love the very planing and sawing and measuring and squaring. To bo sure , my carpentry Is mostly done by the light of naiuro , and there la nothing line about It , except , the tools , but with assistance 1 have made two picket fences , one heavy and three light wire lences and nine or ton gales , all 01 which can shut. " Another woman who wields a saw and plane with as much skill as her pen Is Beatrice Harraden. While liv ing on a ranch In California , U > r her health's sai\o she became quite an expert as a car penter , helping upon occasions to build a li'iice , or fences. She set out , with her own hands , a small orchard ami attended to the grafting and pruning. It was also her proud boast that falio could hurnws a horse as well as any cowboy. \ ery musical , a composer of music and a skilled player on the vio.oiiLOllo , .Mlbs lia.ni- cien wati the llfu ot tlio lancli. bhe is an ar- iknt snllragist. ' Although "Ships That lass In the Night" brought her fame , It added but little to her folium. , as the. sold the book uutrlght for a trilling sum. The sluiy was rejt'CU'd by .Mr. Uluckwoud of Iliiiekuojd's magazine , In which her Hi til published btjry , "The Umbrella Mender , " appeared. Ho said that the story was toj had to anil the pu.nle. taste. Ootiuo Thanei's Ural puulished story , Tommunist and Capitalist , " was published In Lippincott's and br.ughl the writer ex actly 4.12 . , her Ihst chuck lor literary work. One of Mary B. Wllkins' recreations Is litter writing , although her penmanship she her&eir pronounces "shocking. " Once upon a time she made the odd discovery thai writing - ing to her friends she distinctively 1ml- taled thu writing of thu person shu was ad- dicsfaing a queer circumstance which sug gests strange possibilities. It is pleasant to ki.ow that Miss Wllkins was successful from the first. There wore no long , heartrendIng - Ing struggles on bread and water diet for her. Her first publication was a poem ; her llrst "grown-up" story "Two Old Lovers. " If you nsk Mrs. Margaiet Sangstor her pel recreation or diversion whether music , reading , Iho opera , etc. she replies : "Writ- Ing essays. " Her first work was a collection ot religious essays and poems and was pub lished without a thought of pecuniary gain , bill simply as a means of enabling her to ihako a few holiday presents. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth used to de clare that her chief clakn to distinction was having been born In a house hi which Wash ington had lived , and In the very room whK'h had been his. Her llrst story , "Ketribu- tlon , " published In 1SIO , in the National Era , is said to have been the llrst novel pub lished serially In this country. In public libraries her novels are rebound iflenor lhan any other works of fiction. Mrs. Knto Douglas Wiggln KIggs' chief aversion 'before her marriage to Mr. Hlggs was being addressed as Mrs. Wiggins 'ho "s" tacked to bur name being most oh noxious lo her. Imagine her feelings , there fore , when the postmaster at her h me < In Hronxvillo announced to her with an easy elision that both prellxed and Hiilllxed the "s , " "Well , I've been reading KOIIIO of your books , Mrs. S. Wiggins. " Madame lllanc's ( "The. lient/on" ) , tin1 French writer , pet annoyance Is coming across an English translation of eno < f her own stories. They are so badly done that she has never had the courage to road many Her first published Hlory , "Divorce , " was a novel which attracted Immediate attention Pf divorce she wrote feelingly , for nmrrlol at 10 , Eho was divorced at 19 , Mathlldo Illlnd , the English pules , ( jualntly tells her friends that she is H | k unto death cf the very name of MarieHa. . - < li klrtself whoso "Diary" she translated for the reason that for a long time shu ho.irl of nothing elBO wherever she went , at the dinner nor table , at the theater , In the drawing room , she was stormed , In the e-miversa tlonal sense , on the subject of the book she had Introduced to the English public Women Call Her St.Julia Women are the great hero worshipers of the social world. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe received a remark able tribute of respect recently at a grithur Ing of Unitarian women In All Souls' ehurch , Twentieth street and Fourth avenue , in Now York. Mrs. Howe , 80 years old , but still In her prime In wit and charm , grow tired bo- fpro her speech was finished and was unable to pitch her voice so that the women In the re'ar could hear. "Can Mrs. Howe ralso her voice ? " came a call from the back. "No , " replied Mrs. Howe frankly , ' 'I said ycbterduy I should not kill myself even for this august body. You can't expect an old lady of SO to explode In ono gigantic off or t There was a ripple of laughter at thN an 1 then thi' women In the bae'k newts rive an 1 made tholr way to want the front , when seats and platform we're already rro\\ ted They deliberately sat down on the Hoar when * they stayed throughout Mrs. Howes address. Gray-haired women mingled wl h young girls In this humble- position Mrs. A. Wendell Jackson , who prosl led Introduced Mrs. Howe us "Our dear S' Julia , who will glvo us mnuo bright. sparK ling dewdropa. " The entire uudlcuri' rose to gre'et Mrs Howe. "I can't promise you the dowdi-ops , " she began , "and I don't recognize myself by the bountiful title of St. Julia. " 1 was asked to spunk on the" progioss of thu century In manners , " she continued. " 1 can't say whoher ! In the sphere of my own jbservntlon the manners of the general pub lie can bo said to have Improved at all " 1 remember the rarolul training of my > outh , the strl.-t construction of what then passed for good English , when no word of slang was permitted ; the respeel shown to elders , the authority of their opinion , the bonds of the family and the neighborly g"i > 'l ' will. 1 contrast with this picture many pic lures of our later limes , the present patron Izllig attltudo of the young toward the old Iho free use In high soi'luly. or wh.it many call high hocloly , of what we may rail the dhilectH ot low life , but , far more ami worst ot all , thu mo.leru aristocracy of the mil llonalro class , the aping by Amrrt .ins it foreign tastes and nmbitl ins , the iitiMgr n Hlon from the noble genius of our hisiorl-1 record to the dellclts of old world Moiety In Aosop'fl fables Hie. ass put on ( Inlion's skin , but In our modern society the lion puti on thu HKfi' skin. The American lion would gladly be mistaken for the Europe in ass and has hero and theio acquired the foreign bray. Hut 1 must not be undcrstrod as say ing that these are. Ihe leading traits of American society us a wl'.olo. 'The world do move , ' and It Is moving In the right di rection. " 1 uulo the disappearance of the Invalid Idea. I remember at school envying Iho girls who fainted away. Now you see these six-footers among young women , with their ojes blacked from playing basket ball. Thu granddaughter of a friend ot mine only thu other day had her nose broken in Home uth- lollc sport. The body is now considered a ii'iist Important member of society. Satire Is not so common in society as II was. People ple used to say , 'It's so nice U > sll with Miss D at a ball , she says such sharp things al'ont ' ; every one who coine-s In. ' The young women ' of todav don't want that reputation. " Ah another sign of the world's progress Mrs. ! Ilbwo spoke of the great 'sums given for charity ' and of thu time and trouble taken by wevilthy people to aid others. "I Unit , " she went on , ' In the thinking world today an animus thai I did not llnd In my : earlier life. Time has developed a fallh In ' the recuperative power of humanity which was not Involved In Iho older systems of thought. Wo have como to recognize In the felons and the paupers thu dignity and ca pacity for good which belong to them as me-mbors of the great human family. Wo must help them to recover their high estate and ' consider their children as sacred as our own. "In my own study of our history during my llfo of eighty years I llnd man bocomcK less and less animal ami more and more a cicnluro transcending the limits and neces sities of physical life. The llrHl man was a living soul ; the second was a quickening spirit. Out of this quickening came the great and growing harmonics of our time , destined , I believe , to reconcile every dis cord. Is It for your convenience or mine , NEW FUENCII UNQBU1B. PARISIAN CASHMEUE EVENING IM.OAK IKInk you , that Jilt' telegraph runs around the world ? No , 11 Is In order thai human llfu and thoughl may have a fri'o current. U the commerce of the world for trade aene' ! . ' No. 11 asserts Ihe grevtt principle lha' each should contribute to thu well-being of all. In the growing predominance of elv- Illzed rni'cn 1 llnd Hie earnest or the illlt'uslon of knowledge. "Vou will not blame mu IT 1 llnd In Chris tianity the Hourco of growth and thu power which has most laid upon man ihu buiden of the higher life. " Living Fashion Models The fashion makers are outdoing them selves this season in producing new ull'ucls In all lines of woman's wew , as will be ruidlly seen from the pleliircu of lutivU garments repi educed here. Thu well- diihscil woman must keep up-to-date not only In street dresses , cloaks ami hatH , but also In parly gowns , lounging lobes and undergarments. Never beiore have Ihe makers of line clothing bestowed so much time and al- Untiou upon lounging robes as al this pres ent moment. Thu model photographed hero Is of geranium pink satin elaborately In serted with heavy cream lace. The pat tern recommends Itself for a happy union of llowlng lines , exceeding comfort and general bucomlngiioKB. Ono of our models Illustrates u Persian patterned cashmeru in blue and cream Hg- 111 es. The fronts are broadly faced with blno silk , while bands of eiderdown , knots of satin ribbon and frills of lace dccornlo the upper part of the gown. It is lined throughout with cream surah and may bo belted If desired by a fold of blue silk. Thu very newest French lingerie Is made with u view to accentuating the slenderness of the figure. This effect IH cleverly at tained by combining three garments In one , ua thu photograph shows. The material Is a line nainsook elaborately trimmed with re-nalssanco luce and tluy knots of rose- cclored satin ribbon placed here and there. Cnnfort , elegance and compactness are ad mirably arranged for In those Parisian union suits. The Chicago Style " .Mr. lliigglns , " ijin th our hostess , "you are a man of the world and read the morning papers and -and HO on. I want lo ask you a question. " The fork , transfixing a dullealo morsel , launed half way to our lips , writes a man > ii the Outlook , ami we leaned expectantly toward the fair woman , In whose glorluin eyis wiis the eager look of n houl hungering for knowledge. A thousand possible queries Hashed across our mind. Perhaps xlier hail HNIIO money to Invest ? Old shu want our I'plnk'ii ' on a new hut ? Had wo heard Mrs. TITO re , He thai puum about thu ( on of a Lambeth puhll'iin ? Or did she tee-k ; advice UK lo tin1 education of her young hupofjl ? "MudtiiH , " said wo , modi'htly , "our humble slot k of wisdom Is ul yutir dlHposal. " "Oh , it's nothing espei-lully particular"-- rtlth u deprecatory smile "but I should HO ilke In know If Kruger has anything to do with the II. IT war. " Scaring the Sultan Cleveland Plain Dealer " ' : "Tho sultan's lirotlur-ln-law says his august relative Is a bad man. Ho lays U largely to thu fact that he Is scared lo death most of thu time , sleeping - ing In a different room every night , In order to fool the expected assassins. " "Is this true ? " "I It the " saw In paper , "Sort of a roomer , I guess. "