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About The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1891)
THE FARMEKS'BALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY MAY 7, 1891. FOK OUR LADY READERS. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE GENTLE StX. Cotton DresTh Brunette1 Day A Bit of a Woman A House Gown by Worth Sensible Ciris. Cotton Dresses. There is revival of dainty old fashioned muslins for the cotton dresses in preparation for next sum mer, of corded dimities,, of lawns soft as mull, the pretty batistes, and transparent organdie. These sheer fabrics will rival without displacing the thicker ginghams, percales, cotton Cheviots, and satteens that have so long been popular. In thin fabrics the first choice is for those with clear white grounds strewn w ith flowers, or branching designs in pink, lilac, or blue, but there are also many with dark colors as well as with black grounds. The new dimities are thin ner than those formerly worn, and are woven in corded stripes powdered with colored figures; they are thirty two inches wide, and cost thirty cents a yard. Striped lawns are1 in great favor in broad widths, and in narrow-quarter-inch stripes of yellow, pink, pale violet, or china blue, alternating with white; tlu'se come in the soft mousseline de l'lnde, entirely without dressing, that is sold for t went y-eight cents a yard. Embroidered batistes are liked in colors, while thinner or gandies and dotted Swiss muslins have large designi of flowers printed upon them. Tailors are making tucked bodices and shirt waists of duck or of cotton Chevoits for young ladies at board school and for yatching dreHxes. The prettiest tucked bodice, with seams only under the arms, falls low on the hips, and is fitted entirely by tucks stitched in the front and back, begin ing above the waist line and extend ing just below it. Ten lengthwise tucks below the bust lit in the front easily, and eight are sufficient in the back. In thinner fabrics, such as washable silks, there are bodices with lengthwise tucks stitched all around the waist, giving the effect of a corse let, with the siik drooping above, like a blouse. Coat sleeves, square culfs, and a turned-over collar complete tucked bodieeKofduckorCheviot. The straight skirt has a fan-pleated back. Youthful lookingcottonCheviotdres aes, white striped with blue or pink, or with the color for the ground and the lines of white, are made with a shirt waist and sloped skirt fastened on by buttons iir the belt. The shirt usually has a shallow yoke, that may be in the back only, stitched on ma point, while the front is straight, and the fulness is gathered under it. A plain pink Cheviot shirt waist is worn with a bias skirt of pink and white striped Cheviot. A dress of striped blue and white Cheviot has the skirt bias and the shirt in straight stripes, except in the yoke, where they are cut to meet in points in the middle. Such shirts have, shirt sleeves with deep cuffs and turned-over pointed collars. Stitched edges and pearl buttons give the neat finish needed. Spencer waists with yoke and belt are cut out in square tabs that fall low on the hips and give a coat effect, or else they are scalloped deeply and egded with embroidery. This design is pretty for ginghams and percales. The sleeves fall full on deep cuffs of nibroidery. The belt is pointed in front, and may be of velvet, with nquare clasps of jet or steel set upon it, or else a Cleopatra girdle of passe menterie is worn. Harper's Bazar. , The Brunette's Day. The brunette is going to have her Innings. "Bab's" reason for saying this is that most of the new bonnets are decorated with white ribbon and have white ribbon strings. These are absolutely impossible to any blonde except the natural one with a skin like peaches and cream. The woman who Las had dark hair and has been idiot enough to bleach it usually baa to make up to suit her hair or else her skin is of a leaden hue. Now, white ribbons will bring out everypartiele of powder and rouge on her face and make a shocking sjiectacle of the fool and her folly. The brunette will wear the white ribbons and triumph in this way over the blonde, who will not dare to assume them. In the way of fashion her blondeship has triumphed for a longtime, and it is only just that the brunette should at last have some rights. The bleached blonde will un doubtedly try the white ties for any woman who has been silly enough to believe that nobody knows that the Ijord did not make her hair a color out of harmony with her skin, her lashes and her brows is idiot enough to try anything, for she believes that everybody in the world is blind. The glistening white ribbon is a judgment come upon the lady with the bleached locks. A House Gown by Worth. A charmingly simple dress for the house is of seii-colored woollen and dark otter brow velvet. Passemen terie of gold and chenille is the trim ming. The round bodice is a pretty variation of a design in great favor with Worth. The front is curved low at the top below a velvet plant ron. It is draped from the right shoulder and crossed to hook in a straight line on the smooth left side. All theedgt are bordered with passementerie. The Velvet plastron is draped in curves, and is rut in one pie wit li the collar, A velvet girdle is folded around tlis hips. The sleeve evpattd In a puff st the top, and are eitiln'ted in a rullle high on the shoulder; a baud of ri vet ami passenienteri trim lis wrists. The skirt front has slight movement, eatiwd by fold cn tight up on the left by a i hateiaiiie ot loop.; rows of the intiii'iiterie extend thru to tht foot. Ths right side falls forward tu a straight fold ld with the trimming. This design is being Ut fur sprint Bwie ot cirpott or rsshmere, or for t hah dt fursuni timr srsr. Sensible O ris, Koint u'xl pliiopher !. ss'ul that .i wins turn out td tn. hen a man wis thrown const sutly lt thee let of One wtiiiisn, Us would tad by mar tying Wr, Hut there a' someeirept hum to tht gnusral mis, ami a tu table ois Is to be fomut enuMii. the ilsas Of stlOJiiU h W Mil ploy ft in the big rets stores uptown. Said the manager of one of these establish ments: "It is a popular idea with tlw public that our female employes find husbands among the men in the store, with whom they work every day, but it is not true. Most of the gitU who marry select their mates from a class of men who are in some other and more remunerative busiiiv. The principal reason for this is to be found in the fact that the girls soon become imbued with sensible ideas in regard to the life of all who have to work for a living. A girl soon finds out all about the man who works at the same counter with her ami knows that he earns but little more than she does herself.-. Matrimonial bliss on ft salary just ''sufficient for one has no tempation for the average shopgirl!" New York Recorder. Conventionality. There was a young woman who said with earnestness and sincerity, "I would rather sit in a stupid parlor a whole evening with the stupidest iieople; I would rather feel the rain of dulhwss splashing down over my face and into my eyes, and know it was all right and proper, than be introduced to ths brightest people on earth if there wasabout them tlieleast trace of uneonventionality." And there was a woman who heard this dictum and who went from the hearing of it straightway to eat a dinner given to the only college president in the whole United States, probably, who would sit dow n in a ilannel shirt to a board surrounded in his honor by a luin c'red of his old students, half in swal-iow-tailed coats and the other half in rose-decked gowns. And when the woman looked at the fine, simple, scholarly face and then at the gray flannel, she said to herselfr "This man would not be the man he is if any self-consciousness hod made him so much as question with himself the propriety of wearing or laying aside his unconventional clothes." And so this woman further said to herself, "In this world there are many opin ions." Ornamental Buttons. We are once more to have buttons for ornament as well as use. The storesofthe antiquary will be ran sacked by his feminine relatives for miniature and dainty enamels. For evening dress these will be sot around with pearls and diamonds, and anti que gold and silver are to be worn en crusted with jewels. For the daytime they will be simpler, miniatures of Wedge wood china being the very smartest. Great care will be taken in selecting the costumes to be honored by these ornaments, for we shall have to dress "up" to our buttons, and the color ot our gowns must Harmonize with the ground of the miniature. I have seen a perfectly beautiful set, ornamented with portraits of the beauties of different reigns, set round with pearls, which made me feel very envious and several other sets in old paste, witfi which I should have been quite satisfied. Philadelphia Tele graph. A Bit of a Woman. Louise Lawson, the sculptor whose statue of Sunset Cox is occasioning considerable discussion just now, is a bit of a woman, with golden-bvown hair, gray eyes, a lisp and vivacious manner, hue wears, when working in clay, a dark-blue blouse and trousers, and her studio costume is always ol w hite linen skirt and coat the latter finished with an extraordinary collar of coarse einbrodiety, tied with the, traditional knot of baby-blue ribbon. With this costume yellow shoes are worn. The whole effect is more bizarre than attractive. Whatever the critics say, the letter carriers sweirby Louise and her nine-loot image. New lorlf World. V Fashion's Late Freaks. String your neck with silver beads. Every black dress must have a dasb of color. Swell modistes fit their skirts to the customer while she is seated. Women are shorter now than at any time in the last 10 years, all be cause of the low-heeled English wal k- mg shoe. All the collars and cuffs on jackets and wraps flare. They are braided and loops are tacked down with but tons. Cleopatra's handkerchief is another innovation by "Sarah Bemdardt, made of 10 inches of fine batinte hemstitch ed, and wet with lily of the Nile. This sweet-scented flimsy rag is worn eon cealed in the palm of the hand, whether gloved or not. In beaut y shops you can buy a pot of some scarlot grease to put on your gums and make your teeth dazzling white by contrast. This is no secret to the I'attis, Bernhardt, Minnie Hanks and Ada Kehans, hut it is only recently that the belles and dames of society have bi-gttn to paint their gums. Hints for the Cuisine. Fried oysters are not suitable food for a dysix-ntic, but when roasted in the shell they are excellent and can be digested w ith ease by a weak stomach If doughnuts are cut out an hour before they are fried to allow a little time for rising, they will be much lighter. Try cutting st night and fry. iug in the morning. (Sravy will generalty be lumpy if the thickening is Kured in while the pan is over the fire. Set the pan off until the thickening is wrll stirred in, tln-a set it on the lim and cook thoroughly. Am Mkkimht.. To on quart of tart apples, atrwrd and jr4 through acicvii, add tht ylk of three wrll bratm. Sweflvn to taste and lUor. I Mats tit the ovrit, and when brown rover with the titrrineue mail lollnwe: Drat tht whites to a Stiff froth With tlllrt tlU'tKttl of jKtwdrrol sugar. VtJk far. -After wrll wunhipg on quart of sphl prsf, sosk litem for the tught, nd boil t .-& wits s hit Is rr Imitate t mhI in pint sil!U wtit wsttt to sllosr Ihetn t Itrsk loamasa, Thtti put tl.ttiito ibr t r four quart of In' brut h, and stt for mi bonrj l,cn wiit tht )! tlitoiitH slave, and best stain. fc-saon with st' and 'IHi 01m or two smalt hasd i4 ry. tliccd and suwwtintt, will be fo nt 1 grl litpio'tititt, ANXIOUSTO BE DRAWN OUT. But the Thoughtful Barber Declined to Take the Bait. He was waiting for his turn in a Crandrivtr Avenue barbershop, says the ltetroit Free Press, and he quietly remarked o the barber that be had been out in the Indian country. "Yes. lluntin' rabbits. I suppose?" replied the harU-r, seemingly not the least interested. "Rabbits! No, sir Indians.'' "Oh! Find any?-' "Of course I did! I was all through the late troubles at PineKidge." "les. (Jet frort -bitten? "Frost-bitten Whv. hang it, 1 was wounded in three places." "Cun go on accidentally: "No. it didn't! What sort of a man are you, anyhow?" "Beg pardon, tint can tncy raise artichokes out there?" iii-llnlifiiv Whv rflmi't vrvn iikk how many Indians I killed at Wound ed Knee?" Anvhndv wounded in the knee out there?" asked the barber a she reached for the water bottle. "Bad place to be wounded in. I broke my knee cap once. rext. "Not bv a ma-full!" exclaimed the waiting man as ho reached for his overcoat. "I was intending to have a liuin-'Mit- ulinvt fl ml lt.'l V 111 V U'llisk- ers dyed, but you are not the'inan to do it! 1 11 go to some shop where tncy know something and have gumption enough to draw a feller out!" He Paid the BUI. A few days ago the friends of a prom inent society w oman were startled by the report that who was seriously ill. The Town Talker, in speaking ot her illness to a particular friend of the lady, brought out the cause of the ill ness. She is allowed by her husband so much a month for dresses. During the last social season she bought so many handsome ball dresses that her allowance oiny seemed a drop in the bucket toward paying for them, Het costumes attracted so much atten tion that her vanity was excited," and she endeavored with each succeeding dress to surpass! ho last, 'Ibis she succeeded in doing. Every action must have a corresponding reaction. Her pleasure, caused by being the best dressed woman in Louisville, has eiven olace to her sorrow, caused by having the largest millinery bills of anv woman in Louisville. The bills were sent toher, amountingto?l,200. She immediately retired to her bed. Doctors were sent for, but for a week she continued to grow worse. Her husband became alarmed and told her that if she w ould just get well he would do anything for her. She said she could not. At iast in despair, she told him if he would iust pay her oill and foririve her she would try and ge well. He promised. He paid the bill From that moment she began to re cunerate. and in a few days was al most entirely well. She then confessed to her husband, who forga ve her. She has promised to live within her allow ance, which he has increased. So they are both happy again. Louis ville Commercial. Refusing a Fortune. Among many good instances of suc cess won by perseverance told by Mr. J. H. Osborne in The Young Man is one about the patentee of the West inghouse air brake. He writes: Yo have heard of the YYestinghouse air brake, now in universal use on the railways. It is reported that 100,000 per annum is paid in royalties to the patentee. How we are temptciio4 envy the lucky man! Some years ago we should probably have pitied him. At that time George Westinghouse was trying in vain to get an advance of money on the security of one-half the prospective profits from his patent. One of his friends, M'Kee Kankin, a well-known actor in America, says that Westinghouse argued with him three times a week for nearly eight months. Each time the inventor went over the same arguments, drove home the same apparently conclusive reasons why there was a fortune in his brake, each time to be put off as a confirmed "crank." The actor moved to New York, and played there for some years. One day a friend promis ed to introduce him to a millionaire, who had once known him in Pittsburg. Not a thought of the "crank" occur red to Rankin, but it was the "crank" who was now the millionaire, and the actor discovered that he had refused, over a hundred times, ; an" offeF"TTfat would have made him a very rich man. Tho "Picket." The picket wasgenerally inflicted on cavalry and artillery men, and was a singularly brutal bit of torture. A long post, near which stood a stool, was driven into the ground. The de linquent was ordered to mount the stool; his right hand was fastened to a hook in the post, by a noose, drawn up as high as it could be stretched, round his wrist. A stump, the height of the stool, with its end cut to a round and blunt point, was al so driven into the earth close to the post. Then the stool was taken away and thesutferer hod not hing to rest his bare feet on but the stump, "which though it did not usually break the skin," says Cant. IJ rose, "put him in great torture, his only means of rela-f Wing by resting his weight on his wrist, the pain ot which soon liecanie intolerable." Onecan very well Itelieve him, especially when he makes the ad ditibn that a man was not infrequent I? left to stand in this position (or half an hour although the orthodox period of endurance was tiflren misV utes. Ixnidon tirsphic. Th Barber Was Ready. An old veteran told this as happen ing in favannsh during the war: A young ouVer, who was pretty mis h of a bully, stopped In at a I on soria) saloon, Ih smotf hm sword he ordered the bather toehavt hiin, st tht samt tuns warning him that if he rut his fce or drew drop ol b!oo4 Ve would aill luin wlum Vt sot tin, Tlit operation was prrmrmod with nut aMdcvit. Iwtors ht went oil. however, the buily kr. the artial if he wa mi very mmh ft ig'ittued while bt was doii the wotk. 'His bsrber tunUI. 'Not lo tht ehgl.ttst.M U repit4 "for if I btd trvideutaHy Attin m rn ot Mtm 1 would have rut yout tsret from ear to tar btlort fluid lave faottd. Osborne Junior Harvester Io. 4 lower The stronprest proofs of the Excellency of our machines are given by our competitors. WE MADE THE J T CASE .mltf, will ull you how much a'J ;& Malleable &n sruis?mir competitor, tine oast Iron. 4ib. All tart of Wader ollrt from top of ek, So'SAeiTevTlb W link. b,th.Su.hel sad laerea..draftb,h.vln, fort, polautotfr- Uon Ituteadof four. h. Whatever the Jtft uttVisTSwft And simplest In construction. Kismlne Hand be convinced. Cats from tbrttsM tss I J ' " n Center Crank Stationary and Traction Enfjinoo. a.t.afnrnatalorne. rtrrn nTATP.fl nan.ra.1 Agent. Branch Hottsa Llacola, CCA McCormick Harvesting Machines. f 105.468 Were 7 125,000 Are being Made for 1891 Ask our agent at the town where you -rade for pamphlet fully explain ing all of our machines, also describing and illustrating the process of man facturing our superior quality of BINDING TWINE, and explaining why the best is always the cheapest, and if he cannot furnish one you can get one by writing to R. 42-401 .A. Wi With this binder; its perfect capacity for handling all lengths and conditions o f grain. Each bundle is bound in the center. . r . THE MCCORMICK the only MlCsiBI that never hat to stand still during the rush of harvest lor the agent to get ftpilrS. The attention of farmscrs. and all others interested are invited to inspect a full line of the UcCirttlCl Rood, including Binders, Mowers and Reaper, Also all grades of binding twine Oom the cheapest to the het pure man ilia. For sale at the companies headimartcrt, fl. BINFORD, ten. AgU Corner 10th and Q, streets Lincoln, Nebraska. CHAS. E. SniFKRT. HAND-MADE HARNESS AL.HH MAlillXE s. Ncls. Blankets. Whins Etc. 133 60. 0th They all imitate FIRST STEEL FRAME HARVESTER IN THRESHING MACHINE CO. Sold in 1890. BINFORD, General Agent, Lincoln, Nebraska. WiDE REPUTATION Has followed its square butted bundles. UklW. MWXSIM. i a Bt., Lincoln. 1 -Ji a T3 ZZm?X!r'' s Osborne N?4. us. SHOULD -. KNOW THAT AT 205 Bohanan Block, Lincoln, Neb. Can be found one of the most complete lines of Implements In the city, includes; The tried and true T & U Smith Company's t arm and opring wagons. 4i-tHa THE PEKIN PLOW CO'S UNEXCELLED COOD3. Ite Wonderful Daris FLTFOSU H&mstsr ui Itiz. The Perfect Ad vance corn planter and check rower. The old reliable Sandwich Msnufac- fj OVJ turing Company's ShnllMra and Feed '.t - grinders. . The Oldest and best Aultman and Tavlor Threshers. Repairs for above corn shellcrs and Call and See threshers In stock. i John. T.Jones, Agent, Lincoln, Neb. HHRe Ind plants! AtaDasssrtsssrtsf Forest and Fruit Trees, Ptsate, Ttase, Bts.,ef Hsret torts fsr HstMske. tfMMrtsI mm tM A Ull fo Brio. NrU I.b4 Mursanr, W.rtS nr. HarU Un. mou IststMisaee Ism t. w. tnrasMii, 4 lit W sepftssse NEBRASKA MADE HE11P BINDER TOIHE Msau'srturwl br lb. FBEKQST KEMP ARO CO.. Al FRKMONT NEB Out of beinp rrown on the Nebraska, farms of Every Farmer In Nebruka Should Use thl. Twine. It Um strong and will work as well as the lt mad anywhere. ut of auy- kind of fcr. We srnarwntte it to worn wrll on all niaV til binders, and to be CrUttt froe Try our iwlsa and be cositutwd ttksltnareU pa Uogr any aetMHwity fur wvstarw famivrs lu t d psndout uwta K'figo jmww Ubrrt. fcr t.) ailing tastr trsin. We Ul m pl4 to fursuih prtct-e a.l ssjiil wi tU wkiu I smor llur l ItsUlOBt, M- t, IMS 1 1 aat IM4, l sMsm f-4SWS $500 REWARD St ha SM4 talk MU sf Pat te m aaawas as"". Jsa at-aic. I artlaa, atwnMS mg t. km ( BiaxliBioB, Bl.isislei.U r J THE VJOM A full and coss- plete line of Surriee r - jrt T"! Carts,.Etc. . . WJ LZT-f, WekeeprigMnr with the proceaemax 1 and make prices aav f low as anybody, -: quality of goeds A considered. -A 1 We cordlallT in vite parties to eaJT and see us. Sample Sot cp. Forest Tree Seedling Hod Cedsn, Fruit tret sod ilsats. Largest Stock, Lowest Prices. Mammoth dewherry luscious to the eoi. knst lxrry for th nrslrirs. Black Loeuat, Kww Mullwrry, Tulip trees. Ho Elder. Ask. lm. Walnut, Cotloci wood. ate. Hetall at wfeola salt prtoa. Have tW per cent and rita far mr price list. Addraia Oso. C Hastomd. Hl-m Makaada. JaokaoBOOHlli. MebUOUTHS ALUAKCSWkCD Tuu wrttsv eec3 nr:j k:o cah:. WH0LE3ALEPHIG1 Csa sias kf AlttasMMSjky sISiss"' pBLANO fcaO-sV tSSaassss. U V CataMcwettae a4 SrttU asMMsje M al this a seat Is isausas. sW4 IDUEIISE'-.SURPLUS, Box Elder and Aeh. Mursarr Urowa, aa.yraM. 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