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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1898)
THE COURIER II Fashions of the Day. How evanescent a thing is the- ex hilarating sense ot novelty. Already the opera is gsttiug to be an old story, and an uninteresting one. There have been, even thus early in the season, the UBual operatic4 disappoint ments in the casts, and the usual fluctu ations in the brilliancy of the audiences Just before the season opened, I heard at two or three of the places where I get my gowns that they had never had so many orders for dinner and opera toilettes. One woman told me that her place alonn had two hundred orders to All that week. A great deal of this lavish ordering must still be unexploited. So far as clothes go, I have never seen less effort made among the really smart set. As to jewels, that is another matter. It would seem as though the fashion was to be established of severely plain and simple gowns, whose cachet should depend upon the jewels of their wearers, This fashioi, if it is to become a fashion, as it promises, will have a tre mendous influence upon the jewelers' art in this country. As it is, there never have been morn beautiful and ingenious designs in the setting of jewels than now, and those who know say we are foiging rapidly ahead of all other coun tries in this regard, and it is a mere question of time before we shall lead the world. A not unimportant feature is that wo are learning to handle the practical side with as much sucicees as the aitistic, and are rapidly acquiring the ability to get the best results with the least possi ble expense. For instance, every woman who has diamonds in reserve is having them set, this season, in glittering chains, whose length is controlled by the supply of stones. One of the most prominent jewelers in town sets these chains for less than one dollar a stone. In Paris it would cost as much again. And this is only one of the many similar examples of the cheapness of artistic jewel sttting in this country. Mrs. Henry Sloane had on the most stunning arrangement of diamonds and pearls the other night at the opera. It was a high collar of diamonds and from it hung pendants of pearls and ropes of diamonds that almost com pletely covered her bodice. If Mrs. Sloane continuee adding to her je-vel caEO in her present lavish manner, Mrs. Astor will have to look to her laurels as being the most bs-jeweled woman in eight. Every other woman is wearing a jew eled chain that falls just below the bust line, and from it is swung whatever fantasy in jewels the wearer prefers. Sometimes it is a single pearl set with small diamonds, or a cabuchon emerald, or some other colored stone sot a jour; and often it is a heart entirely composed of small diamonds. This fashion was first introduced about four years ago, but it has only ar rived for the mass this season. Baroque pearls are the very latest thing. When they are strung with dia monds nothing could be smarter. Their very irregularities are their greatest charm. At one time they were quite in expensive, but fashion has quadrupled their value. There has beeen some effort made to introduce sleeves in decolleto bodices that drop off the bhoulder. The bodice is held in place by narrow straps over the shoulder, or by jeweled chains. This is a distinctly ugly fashion and, I am quite sure, will never have any vogue All the smartest decollete bodices, however, have tiny, tiny sleeves, or else no sleeves at all. I cannot say that 1 care much for the average opera coat that one sees I have in mind the ones copied from the model that is eeruidomi fitting in the --""i J . Hi liiiifM mimmi . j rzvzm Qsm mm mpsmsam zm ' m ;jc svm . Sviljjtio-Saline Sanitarium, Cor. Itl and JSL All Kinds of Baths Scientific Masseurs. A Deep Sea Pool, 50x142 feet. Drs. Everett, Managing- Physicians. Shaving- Hairdressing- back and is surrounded by a deep, full flounce that sweeps the ground and climbs voluminously up the fiont. It is too clumsy to be effective, and can boast of not a single graceful line, unless it be in the high collars of fur, which aro al wajs good and very becoming. Everybody is talking about Melba's and Sembrich's gowns in "Traviata." They are, indeed, artistic and perfect in every detail. How prompt in its appeal is art in stage gowns! when one comes across it. The majority of the gcwns worn on the operatic stage this year have been object lessens to the dramatic stage. There isn't a line in the costumes worn by Eamesin"Tannhauser," for instance, that does not show the closest study of harmonious ensemble. They are pictures that delight the eye and dwell in one's memory forever. Surely, when one sees the heorine in the latest modern play of good society, "The Head ot the Family,' sallying forth on a Winter's day for an afternoon at the Fencer's Club, clad in a white cloth gown surmounted by a bobby lit tle cape of the same material, made wintery by a few daubs of mink, and a mink hat, it is not surprising that one is pessimistic on the subject of clothes as exploited on our dramatic stage. The percentage of women who aro wearing hats to the play grows smaller and smaller day by day or, rather, night by night. Perhaps the opera, where it is de rigeur for women to go hatless, is responsible for the marked change in the theatre audiences. It has been a hard tight to get women's hats off at the play, but at last it is accomplished. The next question is: How shall we women cover our heads on the way to the play? For those of us who go on wheeles (I do not mean bicycles, you know,) the problem is not difficult; but, unluckily, it is the "merry cable car" that must serve as a means of transpor tation for the larger part of the people that form the audiences in our play houses. Wearing one's hat, and taking if off after one has arrived at the play, is absoutely impossible for many reasons that every woman will understand Women who do not stand in fear of sciatica and other aches and pains through cold, can tie veils across their hair, and solve the difficulty that way. To the women who require some protec tion on their heads it is really a serious question. There comes a suggestion from abroad, which is offered in all serious ness and is described as a "wonderful contrivance." I quote the description: "It is a very handsome fantaisie, lightly but securely fixed on the left front, jn the most approved and chic method. Whtn the wearer reaches her seat -is Wo nave just put in a complote stock of Mrs. Gervaiso Gralmm'H excellent preparations, including her celebrated Hair Restorer, Caetic's Hair Grower, Cu cumber and Elder Flour Cream.and various facial remedies. Visit the- DEM ONSTRATION there this week. Free treatments and freo applica' ions given, also fre samples and booklet "How to Ho Beautiful'" Special exhibit of Mrs. Graham's Hydro Vacu, the latest and most scientific Invention for treating the face. PALACE BEAUTIFUL Near Oliver Theatre. 121 so 13th the theatre, she has merely to raise her hand, remove tho aigrette, which, by a clever and simple tube contrivance, she can use as a fan during tho performance and, at the close, slip the feathers into the hat as before. Sho has simply to carry the fan to and from the theatre in her hat. Simplicity is combined with utility, both in the highest perfection." This is the foreign idea of it. Is it not a marvelous conception of the part? The suggestion for solving the diffi culty in this country has taken the shape of hoods made of satin on stiff lines. They aro exhibited in many of the shop windows, labeled "theatre hoods." But they are 60 dreadfully un becoming that personally I should pre fer to take my chances with sciatica. Still, there is a way out of everything in this life if one will but look for it. This is m way out of the difficulty: I am having made, as a Xmas gift for a girl I know, a theatre hood of soft chiffon, rose color. I am having it in terlined with liberty satin, also rose in hue. Ithasa 6oft, full ruff ot plaited chiffon around its ample edge, which Hops about the face in a most coquet tish manner. It has a cape belonging to the sun bonnet family over the neck, edged also with a fluff of chiffon. In this confection the most stiatically in clined woman may feel safe from aches, and, if she is not too utterly hopeless, look fascinating. LEGAL NOTICE. First Publication Dec. 10. 1. 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. Yoa 6eo the finest Ecenery on the globe. Your car is not so expensively finished nor so fine to look at as a palace 6leeper, but it is just as rlean, just as comfortable, just as good to ride in, and nearly 820 cheaper. The Burlington excursions leave Lin coln at 6:10 p. m. every Thursday, reaching San Francisco Sunday and Los Angeles Monday. Porter with each car. Excursion manager with each party. For folder giving full information call at B A M depot or City ticket office, corner lQfk-and O streets. " G. W. BOSNELL, C. P. & T. A In The Circuit Court Of Tho United States For The District Of Nebraska. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, Plaintiff vs. William W. Lottridge, Harry P. Hermance, and John N. C. Lottridge, trading under the firm name and style of Lincoln Coal Company, Defendants. No. 182, Doc. T. UNITED STATKH MARSHAL'S SALE. Public notice u hereby given that in pursuance and by virtue of an order for sale of attached property issued out of tho aboye named court in tho abovo entitled cause, and bearing date of November 16th. A. D.. 1893, I, George H. Thummel. United State Marshall for the District of Nebraska, will on Wednesday, the 11th day of January, A. D. 199, at the hour of 12 o'elocc, noon, of said day, at tho east front door of tho County Court Home at Lincoln, in Lan caster county, Nebraska, offer for sale at public auction, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the following described teal estate to-wit: The interest of William W, Lottridge in and to tho north-east quarter (N. E. ) of section thrity two (32), township eleven (11), range six (G) east; subject to all dower and homestead rights of Julia Kern; also the interest of said William W. Lottridge in and to lot nine (9), block thirteen (13), City of Lincoln, county of Lancaster, state of Nebraska, subject to the dower and homestead rights of said Julia Kern. All of the above described property being situated in Lancaster county, state of Nebraska. Said 6ale is to satisfy a judgment ob tained in the Circuit Court of the Uni ted States for the district of Nebraska, for the snm of four thousand one hun dred two and 23-100 ($11022.")) dollars and costs of thin action, in favor of said The Philadelphia & Reading Coal it Iron Company, and against said Wiiliam W. Lottridge et al. George II. Thummel, United States Marshal, District of Nebraska. Dated December 10th A. D. 1893. S. L. Geisthardt, Attorney for Plaintiff. TIME IS MONFY. Whenjou are traveling, due con sideration snould be given to tho amount of time spent in making your journey. The Union Pacific is the be6t line and makes the fastest time by many hours to Salt Lake City, Portland and Cali fornia points. For time tables, folders, illustrated books, pamphlets descriptive of the ter ritory traversed, call at City Office. 1014 O st. E. B. Slosso.v, Gen. Agent.
