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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1898)
i:-'t THE GOUR1IR. 0 Fashions of the Day. r- b & i The Horse Show of another year has passed into butory, for. which Allah be praised. A moie bewildering, exhausting, de moralizing institution I don't know. It turns the whole town topey tarry. In the placid stream of ones every day life it suddenly creates an eddy that "sets" for Madison Square Garden with an irresietable force. It is merely weari some to struggle; there seems nothing to do but drift with it, which means that invariably it lands you on the shore of the show. It may cast you into a box, it may cast you into sealB,or it may force you 1 1 walk around and around the Clothes Walk; but it gets you there and there it keeps you unto the bitter end, even to the supreme momen when the band plays "Home, Sweet, Home," with true feeling! Then, and only then does the Horse Show eddy stop whirling yon about at its own sweet will; then and only then are you free it there is any thinglef t of you; Out of its maelstrom, for the Bret time in six days, you may return, if you can, to smooth quiet waters, and, if you are lucky, life flows along at a farely rational pace until the next Horse Show wave looms into eight And yet, though Horse Show week is responsible for making many of us leave undone those thing which we ought to have done, and doing with promptitude and dispatch those things which we ought not to have done, it certainly is not without its mission. Particularly is this true of this year's Show. I don't refer to the keeping up of the standard of hores and harnesses and the things on wheels that goes with them. Ca va sans dire, and is out ot my line. I mean the tremendous strides that were taken during the show toward the sup pression of oyerdressing on the part of the women. I hoped it might be so, and ventured to say it would be so, but in my heart of hearts I felt myself to be a false prophet, Yet after all, it was so! It was positively bad form by the end ot the week to wear new clothes. Mrs. Stuy ve Fish, Mrs. Herman Oelricbs, and a number ot other women of equal social weight, took particular delight in wear ing -think of it last year's gowns. Mrs, Ollie Belmont was so indifferent to the Clothes Walk part of the Show that she wore the same gown of putty colored cloth with black rosettes at least four times during the we;k. Among the really smart women there was little or no attempt at a clothee parade. The crowds ot dressmakers and mil liners big and little, th. flocked to steal their annual Bupplyof ideas certainly must have been sadly disappointed. But the result was generally salutary and the horses reaped the benefit. Really thore was so little worth looking at on exhibition outside the ring that the inBide of the ring gained from the multitude the attention that woman and her raiment, have aDSorbed for many years. That, of course, is as it should be. Personally, I observed a few things besides the horses. I should say the thing that made the most vivid impres sion on me was the prevalence of the sable cape. I should have been quite overwhelmed by the richness of tbe atmosphere that surrounded me, and tremendously impressed by the luxury ot my friends and enemies, only the other day my furrier showed me a per fect beauty of a cape sable, as I sup posedfor so very little money. In response to my exclamation of .surprise, he explained that it was not Russian sable at all (nor are half the capes one seed), but sable fox. That is, fox dyrd so cleverly that it looked so much like sable it would deceive any personally aaHaalaaaaaaaVaaHaaaW AT!-S VlX. . EwJW hi.- . . - - - Sulptio-Saline Sanitarlttm, Cor. Itl ndM All Kinds of Baths Scientific Masseurs. A Deep Sea Pool, 50x142 feet. Shaving Hairdressing-. Drs. Everett, Managing- Physicians. intimate friend of the whole sable family. Mrs Henry Sloane wore tbe handsom est furs that I saw, and I don't suppose that there ie any reason to doubt their claims upon the sable family. Mrs. Sloane appeared one night at the Show without her proverbial velret gown and velvet toque. She wore, instead, m maize silk gown, veiled in blick net embroidered in black epangles and beads. Her hat that night was a tulle toque, with white feathers. She certainly is wise to affect velvet so much, for sbe loses quite half her personality when she leaves it off. Why Mrs. Durke-Roche went to the trouble of having that long coat that which she is wearing, with a flowing cape, made in box cloth I can't imagine. Nothing could be worse form, or more nnbecoming. The on'y person I know that fancied it is Mrs. Roche, and she would not, if she could for one moment, see herself as others Bee her. Another long coat that Mrs. Roche is wearing is of black velvet. It, too, is loose and sweeps the ground. It is em broidered in huge jet bow knots, and is quite a regal garment, and Mrs. Roche wears it well but I do wish she would give that other dreadful thing away. It there were a prize offered by the Show for the worse dressed women in the smart set, I am sure some one among the Hempstead contingent would win it. It did seem as though Mrs. Smith Hadden, Mrs. "Jimmie" Kernochan, Miss Bird, Miss Cottennet, Mrs. Tom my" Hitchcock and others were trying to rival one another in dowdiness and bad styls. Possibly Mrs. Hitchcock would have won the prize. Any thing more impoe than the green plaid blouse she wore would be hard to imagine. As for her hats and the original way she has of "doing up her bacK hair," they certainly would get her a ribbon in a c'aee for bad dressing. I noticed that one ot the fashion writers the other day gravely announced that Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes was wearing her hats tipped decidedly over her nose, .and that that was the only chic angle at which hats should be worn. Oh! The foolish things the average alleged fashion writers let themselves say. As a matter ot fact the angle that Mrs. Stokes wears her hats is all her own. It suits her, but it would not suit many women. Hats just now are worn at almost any HEART XMSKASK And nervous ailments are as curable as other diseases. Itreatnothtageke. J. 8. Ieonliarcit, IVf.D. Office 1427 O Sr., Lracour, Nebr. We nave just put in a complete stock of Mrs. Gervaise Graham's excellent preparations, ir eluding her celebrated Hair Keatorer, Cactlc's Hair Grower, Cu cumber and Elder Flrur Cream, and various facial remedies. Vieit the DEM ONSTRATION there this week. Free treatments and freo applications gives, also fr-e samples and booklet "How to Be Beautiful-" Special exhibit ot Mrs. Graham's Hydro Vacu, th? latest and most ecientIHe Invention for treating the PALACE BEAUTIFUL Near Oliver Theatre. 121 so 13th angle one pleases; off the face, over the face, up on one side, and even down in the back. The main thing to be con sidered is "does it suit me?" The average American woman thinks too much of her hat and too little ot her head. To bs bien coiffee is one of the first ambitions ot tbe Parisienne, and one of the last ot the New Yorker. If the hair is well done a womas can wear most any kind of a bat with suc cess, yet the average New Yorker will pay twenty-five dollars for a hat and get half a dozen or more a season, and tell you she cannot have her hair properly dressed because she "cannot afford it.'' In Paris just now every other well groomed women's head is adorned by a mass of artistic waves and ondulations. Here every other woman's head looks as though it should go through a siege of brushing and clippings, and is guiltless ot any attempt at artistic wavings. So no wonder hats remain a difficult prob lem. Of all the women I can call to mind whose heads are really as they should be outwardly, of course there are only two, Mrs. Jordan Mott, Jr., and Mrs. Edmund Baylies. Their perfectly dressed heads have been my admiration for many a da, and leave me woodering why others, hun dreds of other women, do not emulate them. I do not think that one could close a retrospective commentary on the horse show without a word about the provincialism of the women and men that sat about the corridors of tbe Waldorf-Astoria and gaped and gazed upon the people who went to dinner and supper as though they were so many freaks. If one saw such on exhibition of bad manners in the wild and wooly west, one would understand and forgive it. That such a thing should be encouraged or even permitted in a town like New York, that prides itself upon knowing as much as anybody about how things ought to be done, is beyond my compre hecsion.and the comprehension of every one else with decent ideas, for that matter. Baby Goo goo gur-r-r-, oo, oo! Mamma (anxiously Edmund, it seems to me the baby doesn't sound the final g" in "ing" very plainly. THE WAY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA is in a tourist sleeping car, personally conducted, via of the Burlington route. You don't change cars. You make fast time. You see the finest scenery on the globe. Your car is not so expensively finished nor so fine to look at as a palace sleeper, but it is just as clean, just as comfortable, just as good to ride in, and nearly 120 cheaper. 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