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FASHIONS FOR MEN:
jiv-HE tne 3'0UD8 &" ; fwhton walks forth as the first warm
Iff days of summer approach he will wear the new neglige shirt
" that is just making its appearance. These shirts replace
entirely the flannel and cashmere articles that have won such wide
popularity that it is probable only the man of ultra-fashion will re
linquish the comfort of them altogether, The new shirt is made of
madras, 6xf ord or cheviot. It has a narrow plait down the front to
be ornamented by three tiny gold or silver studs. The cuffs are
attached and the two collars that come with each garment are de
tached. One collar is a high turn-down, the other rolls over. The
tie also comes with the shirt of the same material and is four-in-hand
style with the wide flowing ends. The vest may be omitted and the
tan or white leather belt worn as a finish. In design these goods
are checked and pin-etriped and colors are blue, pink, lavender and
brown.
The "fin de siecle" tie of the moment is the stock tie. It is a re
vised fashion of our fore-fathers modernized. It goes about the
neck twice and is worn principally with the Polk collar. The swell
est ones are of plain, heavy black satin though they come in all sorts
of small designs in color in black grounds. They are tied four-in-hand
style and also in "string style. The Polk collar is another in
novation of fashion that originated two generations or more
back. It is high, the ends meeting together in front bo as not to
disclose a vestige of the throat. As a throat protector the new col
lar is of every advantage provided one never changes the style for
even tbe least susceptible of throats will be affected if protected one
day and exposed the next. There is nothing especially new as re
gards gloves, unless one notes the high favor given to Easter egg
red ones for street wear but in handkerchiefs the latest fad demands
that they be for summer on all business and demi-dress occasions of
white linen bordered with a narrow bit of color in harmony or to
match the shirt worn. For all "real dress" wear the fine white linen
hemstitched is used entirely.
The Bword run in and out the scarf as one would darn with a pin
is the most popular design in scarf pin. By' the way a man who
knows much about fashion and observes a great deal as to the style
of other men says: "A well-dressed man alwayB ties his own tie. A
bought knot shows a lack of taste and feeling.'
THE NEWER NORTHWEST.
The northwestern extension of the Burlington railroad now com
pleted through northern Wyoming almost to the Montana line, has
opened for development an immense territory, whose resources have
hitherto been hardly suspected by the general public and not half
understood Tjy those who were most familiar with them. The line
traverses, for more than three hundred miles, a section previously
wholly without rail connection, and although such an incident as the
opening up of such a new and magnificent region would, a score of
years ago, have attracted national attention, it occurred last year
without exciting much more than a passing paragraph in the press.
So much-railroad building has been done and so much zeal has been
displayed in advertising the extreme northwest and the Pacific
coast that this near-by territory has been comparatively neglected.
So far as the public has had an' impression of this region, it has
been that it was, if not actually a desert, at least sufficiently arid and
uninviting to be the foundation for tbe now-acknowledged mythB
concerning the existence of the "Great American Desert.'
It has, however, been of late years pretty thoroughly demonstrated
and rather generally conceded that this region is admirably adapted
to the breeding of cattle on a large scale, and this degree of know
ledge of its resources is being succeeded by the inevitable discovery
that much of it is well fitted by quality of soil and other conditions
for successful agriculture.
There, is real romance in the way the great west has gradually
and with much difficulty struggled out from beneath the Cloud cast
upon it nearly a century ago, when early explorers misnamed it the
Great American Desert State by state, county by county, single
tile, it has emerged in small detachments, with much fear and tremb
ling of those first settlers whom it has taken into its confidence and
invited to make their homes upon its bosom. It was almost as if a
work of redemption was going on rather than a work of develop
ment of what already exists. In that development the Burlington
railroad has done more, perhaps than all other agencies combined.
It was the first line to push out, without the encouragement and as
sistance subsidies, into the vast region over which hung the blight
ing reputation of aridity and barrenness. It has pioneered the way
for the sturdy homesteader, made his path easy and invited him to
follow in convenience and comfort. It has opened up for him- vast
areas of inviting territory, almost against his protest, and he has
gone into them doubtingly, but has remained in prosperity and peace.
At every new invasion by this enterprising railroad of a new portion
of the western plains, this same thing has happened as if it were a
part of a regularly laid out program. First, the road; then a fringe
of the boldest and hardiest settlers, locating near its line as the
same kind of people fringed the navigable streams of the older states
in the olden times when there were no railroads; then a flow beyond
these, and then the taking possession of the entire territory and the
upbuilding of a rich and Btrong community.
These scenes are being repeated in the newly-reached region pene
trated by this road, located in northwestern Nebraska, southwestern
South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming. Contrary to the gener
ally accepted impression, this immense territory three hundred
miles long by one hundred miles wide, and in area equal to several
of the smaller states in the Union is possessed of resources that
qualify it to be the home of a million people, and its future inhab
itants are already moving in and taking possession in droves of thous
ands. New towns are springing up. Those already organized Al
liance, Hemingford, Crawford, Edgemont, Newcastle, Sheridan, etc
are enjoying a period of unprecedented prosperity. Gigantic en
terprises mining, irrigating, yes, even manufacturing have chosen
this as their field of operations and on all sides the results of wisely
directed enenry are apparent
The capitalist, however, is by no means the only person whose
presence in this newer northwest is noticeable. This is, if not a
veritable "poor man's country," at least as good a territory as the
man of moderate means can find anywhere. Most of the land still
belongs to the public domain and can be had only by homesteading.
except that in certain portions it may be taken under the Desert
Land act and title to it secured by putting it under ditches and sup
plying it with water for irrigating purposes. What remains is the
last of the once vast area that has given free homes to millions of
enterprising American citizens. It is rapidly being absorbed in the
same way the greater mass of it has gone.
MANSFIELD SAYS HE IS NOT A FREAK.
Following Richard Mansfield's engagement in Omaha, the follow
ing appeared in the society columns of the World-Herald:
Omaha has had the the grip, the babies have all had the measles
and the transients the smallpox, but the-hang-around-the-side-door
fever to worship an actor silently or to flirt with him openly never
struck the girls until the engagement of Ridhard Mansfield. Why,,
it was almost shocking the way the girls congregated around the
actor's door yesterday after the matinee. There were awfully swell
girls and timid girls and stunning girls and girls in -their new spring
gowns and girls in carriages and girls on foot and there was an army
of them. They waited and waited and somebody said in awe-struck
tones, "That's his carriage waiting for him," and then they congreg
ated around the carriage. It was too funny! Some of those girls
are awfully shy, and all that sort of thing, but the fever struck them
and they were bound to see him anyway, and to geY-a good look
at him, too. Finally Mrs. Mansfield came' out alone, entered her
carriage and drove around to the west door. There was Mansfield;
he had fled wasn't it conceited and self-conscious of him?
Mr. Mansfield has the reputation of being the most crotchety and
insufferably egotistical actor on the American stage. He sent the
following characteristic communication to the World-Herald office
on Tuesday:
Mr. Mansfield presents his compliments to the society editor of
the World-Herald of Omaha and begs to say that if he had enter
tained the slightest suspicion that a nearer view of his ugly face
could in any way have contributed to the happiness of any young
ladies of Omaha he would have exhibited himself outside of the the
atre as well as inside. Mr. Mansfield has been hitherto of the opin
ion that his duty in this respect ceased at the wings upon the stage.
Mr. Mansfield walked home a constitutional necessity yesterday
afternoon, and in this regard exercised the privilege of every free
born citizen. Mr. Mansfield, however, begs to add that in certain
cities like Baltimore, or Washington, or Philadelphia, where he has
so many generous and delightful friends, he often enjoys the honor
of greeting them at the stage door after the play but cela clest
autre chose and Mr. Mansfield is neither a show nor a curiosity nor
a freak; but a poor artist, doing, he hopes, his devoir. '
April 22, 1894.
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