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
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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.
