Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1898)
THE COU1 -t. Fashions of the Day. Moet women one knows will havo Rood clothes, and can pay good prices for thetn. Why they are content to pay for being gowned and batted like twenty or thirty other women in their own set, with whom they come in daily contact, has been and ever will be deep unpenetrable mystery to me. Only this week I have seen Mrs. Oliver Belmont, Mrs. Hermann Oelriches, Mies Fair, Mrs. "Willie" Travers, Mibs de Wolfe, and nearly a dozen other women whose names I can't recall, wearing identically the same hat. Of course I don't mean there was only one hat among the lot of them but all their hata were fashionod on the same model, a squatty turban, with the brim formed of breasts of bird?, and a bird sitting up in front. Not unlike the nougat and spun candy arrangements one Eees at Easter dinners. This is only one of many similar inci dents. Take tin black and white polka-dotted gown that Mrs. "Clary" Mac kay is wearing with the criss-cross effect on the bodice and skirt. If I have seen onb gown built on this model, I have seen fifty. Every dressmaker in town is showing it in every conceivable combi nation of coloring. It is what the dress maker calls a good seller. " When the women get through buying it and as semble at Eome general meeting-place, the result promises to savor strongly o the ludicrous. Of course I know this is a big world, with very many women in it. But judg ing from the number of badly dressed ones we meet, it would seem as though good taste wore a very scarce commodity in the land. Why not form classes, take lessons, do something to cultivate, if not good, at least better taste? 1 have noticed that the sharpening of the artistic preceptions does a lot for the progressive development of one's charac ter generally. Teach one's mind the importance of beautiful things, and it will soar above much that has satisfied it before and that is unworthy. There are clever people with original ideas on all artistic subjects in this and every country, lacking only the money and opportunity that such women as I have here named, and huudreds like them, possess. Why will not some of them lead the way out of the monotonous rut into which women of wealth and fashion have fallen? Let them clamor for individuality and originality in all their belongings; when the demand is felt the supply will be forthcoming, and speedily too. Then, and only then, can the dressing of wom en become an art. Enough of the future, let us discuss the present. Polka-dot rampant is the summary of the week. Not only does it reign supreme in Mrs. Mackay's dazzling toilette, but it is to be found on materials of "all kinds, from gauze to velvet, and in ail sizes, from the, dimensions of a small pea to those of a large dime. A very smart dinner gown that I saw the other day (it had just "come over,") was in black grenadine, very sheer, with black silk dots embroidered closely all over it. It bad a long skirt with a quanity of little frills of dotted grenacine, and a polonaise over drapery edged wi'h three of the eame tiny frills as on the skirt. The waist was quite simple and made surplice faehion, fastened on one side, in the style worn last 3 ear. But the Puri sienne never tirefi of this effect. She is as constant to it as to the everlasting guimpes she love3 so well. There were a high neck, long sleeve, and transparent guimpo also with this s ' ' ... J Sulpho-Saline Sanitarium, O or. Itti. ndftl All Kinds of Baths Scientific Masseurs. A Deep Sea Pool, 50x142 feet. Shaving- Hairdressing-. Drs. EVERETT, Managing Physicians. gown, so that it could b9 worn as a theatre dress if desired. Separate detachable guimpes are in variably botches, in my opinion, and no smartly gowned woman should ever be guilty of them, unless she is willing to be classed in the same category with the u.an who wears detachable cuffs with his shirts! The transparent sleeves and guimpes, when they are permanent fixture?, are exceedingly chic, and so comfortable and cool in a hot theatre that one wonders how one endured the two or three hours in the dreadful atmosphere of the average playhouse without them. Speaking of playhouses, I went to see Julia Arthur again the other night in "The Lady of Quality." Such gowns! Surely My Lady Dun stanwolde, the toast of all London, the beauty of the season, with unlimited wealth at her command, might have found some one to do more justice to her charms. Methinks the tailor that built her red coat and black satin breeches under stood better how to make the most of her. I would go back to him if I were My Lady Dunstanwolde! I have received a line apropos of the paragraph that Saunterer published last week commenting on mournitg going out of fashion among the smart set. My correspondent calls my attention to the fact that Mrs. 'Carley' Havemeyer is wearing a string of pearls with a pearl pendant with her widow's weeds, and begs me to say whether I think it is good taste for her to do so. I don't think I care to say, never having been a widow and not hav ng any pearls that would offer any serious temptation to anyone to wear them. I don't believe I am really competent to pass judge mentupon Mrs. Havemeyer. I will say, though, that she is nuite enough of a beauty to be able to go unadorned for a longer time than is considered necessary to mourn one's husband when one be longs to her set. After all, every thiig depends upon one's point of view. J heard of a woman the other day who said and said it with the utmost sin cerity and enthusiasm that she thought the violet and red gown that Miss Bing ham wears in "On and Off" was "the most elegant she had ever seen." What is the use of struggling for art iu gowns after that? IR. LEOXHARDT'8 MtYV-PVii Cures Constipation, Billiousncss, nervousness and the pih habit. Action not followed by costive ness, Doubt it? Try it. Sample free. Druggists. 25c. or address ANTI-PILL CO., Lincoln, Nebr. "GIVE US BACK THE TAILS." If we, as Mr. Darwin says, From monkeys are descended, Old Time, in changing things hath not As yet the matter mended. Descendants of our ancestors Havr no such times as they, Who have no rent or tax Of government to pay. No tailor bills came in Dame Nature Clothing gave And freaks of fashion do not make Of monkey-girls a slave. So the olden way's the happiest way; The new condition fails; And Darwin; if you can, my boy, Just give us back the tails. No hurrying out of bed had they; No bolting breakfast down; No hasty walk to shop in fear Of some old bosses frown. The lady-monkey sat not up Till day the night did rout, In waiting for the lodge to close To let her husband out. They had no votes, 'tis true, but they'd No officers to keep; And o'er defaulter's cash account They never had to weep. So the olden way's the happiest way; The new condition fails; And Darwin, if you can, my boy, Just give us back the tails. They had no fashion's promenade, Where beauty's feet could stray; But then the boss-monkey had Not a milliner to pay. They had no wine, the monkey's young Through night to keep a-storming; They thereby saved(you know yourself) A headache in the morning. A peaceful race were they, who ne'er To war's appeal did fly; They saved thereby occasion for A Joint Commission high. A smarter race were they than that Which from them hath descended And Time, by changing things, hath not As yet the matter mended. For the old way's the happiest way; The new condition fails; So Darwin, if you can. my boy, . Please give us back the tails. From The Philadelphia Bulletin. REDUCED RATES TO GRAND EN CAMPMENT MINING DISTRICT WYO. The Union Pacific will sell tickets at one fare for the round trip, plus 95.00, from all points in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Utah to Rawlins, Wyo. Dates on which tickets will be Bold are 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in June, July, Aug., Sept, Oct. and Nov. Stage line daily except Sunday each way between Rawlins and Grand Encampment. For full information call on or address E. B. Slossox, General Agent w ' s MLr .HHk 9Kir BE WARY Do not let anv other deal- er sell you a s joe represented fis being- ithe "Jenness Mil ler" shoe. We are the sole agent for them in this city. They are the only shoes made for women that "fit the feet as nature intended." Every pair is stamped with her signature on the 'sole and inside facing-. Try a pair and enjo ab solute fo .t comfort. Price $3-50 Extra qualityj$5. MAYER BKOS. 112-122 Tenth Street
