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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1898)
p., , i ., , ., - i ' i ' " I "" v- -, "y "'ff- -"T- "V" , '' ? ?- - : a - J r ; r-7 ,' -,'. ? : :" I - I 4 THE COURIER. . " i.- Vl i. I 5. 1, t , i a- f; w in the worde "Thought and Work." There are 'Travelers ' and "Tourists," "Reapers" and "Reviewers" and Chau tauqua circles galore. Hero worship does not prevail to any reat extent outside oc Shaksperean devotees. Hub kin scores a few points east and west. Indianapolis, Ind., has a KathenneMer- Fashions of the Day. The shirt waist has at last found not its successor, but its rival. You are skeptical, sunbonnetted summer maid, with your haberdasherie so in tensely mannish, or so ravish ingly Gallicized into femininity! If you .11 l.m- r tff.!... T m UnrlalillA riA nu ciuu; wen ., -.. --.-- pathetically to two score in Scudery; Butte, Mont, a Homer; Day- filead of . q ton, U., an &nenoD; rnm. irraugir, . J., a Charlotte Emerson Brown, and Amesbury, Mass., an Elizabeth H. IITLUi 1..U Tn IIia main ilia TCntY. nmwr C.uU. u .uD -.u. .-- . n B smartness of a gulpnTe bollRe Jish language is considered equal to the . ,, " ... . , , ... muuugi. -1 belted with satin and crnvated with you would not welcome hot -weather ami the English rigidity of shirt and cravat -with such jauntiness. Even the the tack of providing the club with a satisfactory came, but "Quid Nunc" flourishes in Little Rock, Ark., Lea Voy- chiffon, despite its softening effect up on 'the skin barely -threatened -with Ti 1 11 as 5 m i rAc c vara ole il! 4 swv 4 m nl assure in Cincinnati, O., Pro Re Natk in ' r.. ' j n-11- t.. lythe gentle rotundity of a luxurious in Oil City, Pa. The only initial letter clubs in the federation are the W. T. K. of Greeley, Col., the Q. J.S. P. of Chica go and the S. S. 8. S. of Reading, Pa. life. We, to whom our figures are a con stant source of anxiety, hail with re joicings the coming of the silken jacquette-visite, and we can do so safe ly without making the fatal admis- fnn nl tha ctrnncrpat. arcrcmftntH used by -the friends who urged the candidacy 6ion Defore il is forced Pn "s- w ,lluilV IIIC IUUBUUIIIC lfaS? lIlilL "I am not so j'oung as I used to be." No, summer maid, the taffeta jacket is distinctly youthtul you should have one yourself to be quite elegant even, with your plethora of starched BkaV sbbbbbH riI4V" isaaaaaaaaaMSflaa !SBBBBBasOiL.V;aBBBBBBBBBBBVaS9BBBaW "MafliBBBBBBBBBBn ' ZjgBMy -aaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaUt: . X aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBVsB'W ' aBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBfeHaBWBBBBBBBBBBBBP "aWlJSiHPWPK i.-- of Mrs. Lowe for president of the gener al federation was that tha south needed the iaapetus it would receive if a south ern woman were at the head of the or ganization. In support of this argu- Mnt wn nunta Mips M. Eleanor Breck. earidgeof San Antonio, Texis. Mies or blousinS Rmartness a youthfulness et of pajt Mue tjn, the finishing seen this summer. Breckenriidge is a leading, if not the too 'ch has a certain dignity de- eminently tailor-like with' shaped The long-tailed cut-away. is a fetch leading club wosian of her state and nJed the shirt waist. bands about the edges, and-small col- imj garment on a slender woman, and after reading oer account or the status . Seconal5'. iiis deliciously cool, since iar and iapeis faced with white satin is nearer the man's coat, from which. of woman's clubs in Texas you will be 5 not onlJ no lining, but no dress foulard sprinkled with blue Chenille ft takes its name, than the short yer ready to agree that to be a leader of froufroutante and diaphanous .and polka dots. Black velvet Watteau bows sion. Its tailor has, however, so "far club work in the Lone Star state means foaminS over in soft whiteness upon accented the crimped wrhite chiffon ignored the limitations of his trade much more of energy and determination the neighboring lapels, being one of vest, and about the choker, passing as to build it not only of the most deli and coatinuity of purpose than it does tho.se characteristic bits of feminine umer the white tulle bow under the cate colorings but of the richest of in as eastern or western state. Mies artifice "which pin about the throat, chin, there is to be a dog collar of jew- satin, peau de sole, or faille Francais, Brecksnridge is an impulsive, sympa- tie ahmt the waist 'hook io tne ses els-whether from Bond street or the cravating it with lace and topping it thetic woman who drawa to herself o the visite and are altogether a Palais Boval I shall not tell. I con- with a tulle turban, retaining onlv its hosts c friends. As one of the assist snare for ihe unsophisticated hostess fgss to being not above a judicious stitchings and general tailor cut, the aata at Mrs. Campbell's reception to the Tho eninai ne to take off one's delegates her graceful and charming JacKei manner as a hostess was very marked. Her brother ts one of the wealthiest men in Texas. "He maintains his own pri vate car and is devoted to his sister" aad she in return lavishes upon him an unbounded affection. Miss Brecken- Thirdly and lastly, its comfort is undoubted. Comfort! The word is a mixture. typical costume tailleur in contradis- T belt my jackets inside, but the tinction to the plain Anglo-Saxon willowytighten one of their innumer- lailor-built. able belts outside their silk visites y hostess this sprinc in Paris, one confession. You, you saucy summer and are correspondingly happy. At a of the most dashing of the fashionable maid, find it easy to bear lightly the luncheon this week, a graceful young automobilistes (who have given over petty tortures of fashion's most bur- -woman wore an, Eton- jacket of black bicycling in town entirely to the bour- densome whim, either from the elas- taffeta which had two lone slender geoisie), had such a satin tailor nwvn ridge says: "We have comparatively wc"3 OI J0" or irom a most conve- coat tails 'behind reaching a third of designed for her mornings rides. It few women's clubs in Texas, though in ,n"ent vanity. But we, who are pre- the way down the collente skirtof em- was exactly the shade of the cloth lin the northern part of the state there is a lMring to drift into that decade in broidered ecru muslin over white In- inf of her carriage, a delicate green fair quota. Th6 south has been back- wlli Iurks middle age, with its in- dia s;ik. Some very sheer embroider- ish Smy that is best, described as ward in taking up and advancing the creasng fulness or scrawniness of ed white batiste -was appliqued ell Ptty. The trailing sheath skirt was organisations of women. The women contour and increasing laxity of car- about the edges of the jacket -with a not flounced, but spread out about her are bv bo means reluctant to work and riae we fin we must suddenly choose narrow gimp of russet-colored guip- feet into softly undulating flutes, a' ally themselves with clubs. Thescarci- between comfort and vanity, which de- ure, the blouse was of plaited white fine ,ine of silk gimp above its hem, ty of clubs is due rather to the fact that fision we are conscious will retain us muslin with a cravat bow of the same the cutaway jacket rounded down there has not been the same managerial n the fashionable ranks of "youthful and a twist of turquoise satin- was from each side of the bust into rather impetus exerted as in the northern matrons," or relagate us inevitably to pretty about the slender waist, this Iom? coat tails, and was edged with states. I, myself, was not even a delegate the dowager lines. passing under the tails but showing a snaPed band headed with the silk to the convention. Texas is in no sense a Fashion is often kind, never kinder below the short jacket sides. S'P- Te small pointed -lapels and member of the federation. The club then when she proclaimed the reign The old-fashioned basquin is re- the short Pn vet pieces were of work is so new there that we have not the littIe taffeta garment in which called by another form of black taffeta P31 pink watered silk, the vest with had an opportunity to take united action I And myself so contentedly garbed, jacket, which made its appearance at olive-shaped pink satin buttons on for thateBd until last April. On the in toe morning with a pique skirt, ia Newport this week on a distinguished each slde- T,le turn-over, rolling col 27th of that month the Bret annual the afternoon with a lace or muslin woman who dresses always in the best lar was faced with P"i.c, and the federation of the state was held at Tyler one- 'My black jacket is tucked all of taste and very modestly. The jack- ,lain,J tucked and embroidered -white listing three days. It was a fairly good orcr vertically in tiny cords, and the et reached a third of the way down batiste blouse was belted with -lack flrst state federation there being fifty- k"011 is a lacey mass of ivory white her skirt, was cut all in one piece, an vclvet and cravated wibi kilted white four clubs in evidence, several organiza- and creamy yellow, than which noth- was tightly fitted even in front, where miIsl'n. BTer hat was a strange mix tions failing to send delegations. Our 'mZ can be more becoming to any it fastened invisibly down the left ture of P'cturesqueness and smartness, work so far has been principally on the woman. The flaring collar, lined with side, the edges trimmed with a '" whrte chip in the softly liae of libraries. We hops to become the m becoming froth, droops low shaped band of taffeta stitched on. drooPinff equestrienne shape of the momhere of the national next year." behind as though weighted down with A "belt of black velvet accentuated the season' the flat but scooped up side Prom this statement we can see that its Ailing, and is infinitely more be- roundness of her figure and the tight- "l"151 fi,,ed beneath with small Re Texas is jast in her infancy in the fed- coming, to any but the most swan- ness of the jacket, and the deep, oval- na5ssance pink rosebuds, a scarf of eratkra movement She has also a necked, than an upstanding Medici shaped opening under the chin, oddly wh!t.e tulle encrusted with black lace clause io the state federation -charter 'effect. It looks very well with a nun's resembling the cut of a man's dress motifs- draped about the low crown which prevents them coming into the veiling skirt of the blue violet of dis- waistcoat, had a shaped band, about an1 lie1 behind with floating ends general federation unless by unanimous tant shadows, the small hat of shirred it in place of collar and lapels. One ?rer a cache Pc'&ne of roses. I give vote. Still, with a "first state federa- black silk muslin, with a front brim beautiful button of cut jet and steel its detaiI because, although the jacket ties" of fifty-four clubs and more to turned back with a bunch of unripen- fastened the jacket on one side of the haS been aIready worn here, I have not hear from, bo fear but her steady tramp, ed grapes and their dusty leaves, opening, the buckle on the belt match- seen one yet 1uite delicieuse as this tramp, tramp to the front rank of gen- (Some of the latest hats look as ing, while the close, un jockeyed worn bv mv clever and aristocratic eral federation work will soon resound though their dainty -wearers had been sleeves and the clinging, trailing skirt e,et?tr,cal engineer of the Faubourg. throughout clubdom. a berrying.) were of a charming shade of blue TWn ToPics- mm a mellow lace skirt over ivory foulard, crossed obliquely with hair Nip-i suspect Muttonhead's infernal into May-1 don't aeewhyyou envy Miss crepe de chine, and a turban buirt of lines of white in couples. The plas- stupidity hash , -ead e 1Dfer Dyer. white tulle wound about and about tron was of plaited white muslin, and imnM. ..;- 6en fettl him . 1- TWTi I A - I l . l A ..! J I 1 1 1 i- -! a .Mm U ... - .rasma vnr, uer mw a. mo uui " "uai w um. ww uckwcea me a nine laneia riobon was passed twice Tuck Whv? lMKMHn S A KKkKl I.a .m- 1L. JS T 1 1 mAm . W v xB mui pcri uiuora, me wck aoounne cnoKer and bowed under ths Nin TTn.rH i,: 4 -- ui tcuing a man here. man down If OL. Z A. l. .::a9 Ctt'lt Im. UanlAfl w41i ...4J. it.. AM... ! -.!: -w. r ij-ouoBiuwpm. o,ii . M?. nu .Uw.ul, ...c oiuiuncr turn, squareiy. 11. was one of th at the club the nthf lT7i "-""" aavisea a jaunty snort cut-away jack- smartest and prettiest frocks I have web against him him. - a ;'&' C i Lt-
