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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1900)
THE COURIER. 11 ? Y- n ! Y P V FASHIN LETTER. This is to be a eeason of boleros. They are to be worn to the exclusion of all other forms of jackets by the well dressed woman when she dons that im portant item of her wardrobe the every day gown. They are to be simulated on the bodices of gowns for smarter occa sions, and they are to be quite the proper thing when one is en grande toilette. Bolero has grown to be a word of wide and comprehensive meaning and con veys every phase and form of what was once known in bolder phraseology as the Eton jacket. The newest bolero for everyday wear is cut with a belt that fastens it snugly to the figure is the back, while the fronts of the smart little garment are left free. Faquin has designed one of his boleros in black taffeta. The belt is in gold lace and there are revere and cuffs in gold-embroidered violet taffeta. The sleeves are bell-shaped and the undersleeve is in gold lace like the belt. This bolero is bo good that everybody has it eo it will not be adopted by the ultra-modish, but it is worth quoting as an example. The boleros worn on din ner gowns are, of course, short affairs that do not fall to the waiet line by sev eral inches. On other gowns for vari ous occasions they appear in various depths and shapes. The gowns worn by Margaret Anglin and Jessie Millward in the new plays produced at the Empire theater this week exploit the bolero in two of its happiest phases. Mibb Anglin, in her little play, comes in from paying a round of visits in a petunia-colored velvet. The skirt is untrimmed and is laid in a few shallow box-pleats on the hips, and the back is gathered with consider able fullness into the skirt band. The bodice has the quaintest bolero that turns up about the edges and stands away from the figure a bit, show ing in the back for a depth of four inches the under bodice of cream Cluny lace. This under bodice also shows a gcod bit in the front. The bolero turns away from it in front in tiny revere, and a wee turnover collar finishes off the back. The whole bolero revers, collar and edge all around is outlined with a narrow gold and silver galloon. The sleeves are larger than we are now wear ing and flare out just as they end, which they do some inches below the elbow. The under sleeve is of the Cluny lace, made transparent and reaching well down over the hand. The cuff of the velvet sleeve, as well as the lace sleeve, is edged with the gold and silver galloon. The belt Miss Anglin wears with this quaint frock is of velvet, V-shaped in the back and outlined with the galloon. Miss Millward wears her bolero as a dinner gown, which is a veritable dream. The gown is gray pale, cold gray chiffon, and the bolero is in silver lace of the most exquisite design and qual ity. The bolero is short in the back only about four inches in depth and in the front it descends almost to the waist line, falling free from the bodice, so giving extra good lines to the waist and hips. While the bodice is decollete, it has long sleeves, down to the finger tips, formed of the silver lace. These sleeves begin below the shoulder line, at.d across them and the top of the bodice are draped soft folds of gray chiffon, which form a bow in front. The ends of this bow are in rings of diamonds, and similar ornaments holds its soft folds in place over the knot. The skirt is done in 6ne tucks, which disappear behind a line of large medal lions done in the silver lace. Below the medallions the chiffon springs out again with increased fullness and is edged with silver lace about four inches wide. With this gown Miss Millward wears a long coat of cloth-of-silver, appliqued with a Louis XIV. design in black Ghantilly lace and lines with plain blue chiffon. Another of Miss Millward's gowns is white taffeta, appliqued in a design of open work palm leaves on white net. This gown is apparently made in one piece. It has a -slight fullness on the hips similar to Miss Anglin's, and the fullness in the back is held in place by a long paste ornament. A dozen or more exquisite paste but tons fasten it from the collar to the knee, where it opens over an under pet ticoat of white chiffon. It has a collar of shirred chiffon that looks as though it had been stolen from some old por trait; this collar turns away a bit from the neck and leaves the throat free. There are half sleeves of the embroid ered taffeta and under sleeves of chif fou with the same shirring as is used on the collar. The play exacts that in one act, Miss Millward, who is in the wilds of Aus tralia, shall appear in a riding habit, and I congratulate her on getting away from tbo conventional stage garment, which destroys the beauty of the most beautiful of women, and is generally worn with bad judgment. Miss Mill ward wears in place of this old thiDg a white muslin shirt waist and rongh etraw hat with her habit skirt. The shirt waist that Miss Millward wears shows that the outline of this year's shirt wai6t remains the same a last, but it also shows that there are many new and dainty touches to be considered. Lady Modish, in Town Topics. TO THE DEAF. A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums, gave $10,000 to this institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 6,6389 A, the Nicholson Institute, 780 Eighth Avenue, New York. TIME IS MONEY. When you are traveling, due con sideration snould be given to the amount of time spent in making your journey. The Union Pacific is the best 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, 1044 O st. E. B. Slosso.v Gen. Agent THROUGH FIRST CLASS PULL MAN SLEEPERS BETWEEN CHI CAGO and SAN FRANCISCO Via Denver and Salt Lake City will be inaugurated February 2.1th, by the Great Rock Island Route, leaving Chi cago at 10:30 p. m. daily, Omaha 1:30 p. m. The Colorado Rockies and Sierra Nevada are crossed by daylight in both directions, making this the greatest scenic trip in the world. The cars are Pullman's Finest Broad Vestibuled Sleepers and are carried on limited trains with Dining Car Service through the Buffet Library Cars. Direct con nections to and from Southern Cali fornia. See your agent for berth re servations and folders, or address, E. W. Thompson, A. G. P. A. Topeka, Kane, The Rock Island plajing cards are the slickest you ever handled. One pack will be sent by mail on receipt of 15 cents in stamps. A money order or draft for 50 cents or same in stamps will secure 4 packs. They will be sent by express, charges prepaid. Address, John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y, Chicago. T "-' 'JT- r-JT"-'"-Jlr '"-r'j People Haxte No Trouble w In getting- what the' want at the y.f Good Luck Grocery. O-fjr dTTT HOT O Htreet. JSCM.. 9XVXx Telephone OUO First Pub March 31-3 Notice of Probate of Foreign Will. In the county court of Lancaster county, Ne braska: The state of Nebraska to the devisees, heirs at law, next of kin of Nathaniel Leech, de ceased, and to any other persons interested In said matter: Take notice. That an .instrument pur porting to be an authenticated copy of the Last Will and Testament of Nathaniel Leech, deceased, is on tile in said court, and al-o a peti tion signed by Edward Leech and others praying for the probate of said Instrument. That on "the 30th day of April. 19UJ, at ten o clock A. M.. said petition and the proof will be heard at the county court room in Lincoln. In said county, and that if you do not then appear and contest, said court may probate and record the same. This notice has been ordered published for three weeks successively prior to said hearing In The Courier of Lincoln. Nebraska, a wee Itlv legal newspaper of general circulation printed in Lancaster county, Nebraska. Witness my hand and seal of said court this 29th day of March. 1'JUU. , Lseai-J Frank K. Waters, County J udse. Ily Walter A. Leese, Clerk County Court. First Pub. March 31. mo-3. Notice of Petition for Letters. In re estate of James Wampler. deceased. In the county court of Lancaster county Ne braska E 1 1 VI. The state of Nebraska to Pet Causer. John C. Wampler. Anna Ilelle Coleman. liertha Lewis, William Wampler and to any other persons interested in said matter. Take notice that a petition signed by John C Wampler praying said court to grant him letters of administration of said estate has been tiled in said court, that the same is set for hearing on the I6th day of April, law. at ten o'clock A. M and that if you do not then appear and contest, said court may grant administra tion of the said estate to said John C. Wampler. Notice of this proceeding has been ordered published for three weeks successively in The Courier of Lincoln. Nebraska, prior to said my hand and the seal of said court this 21st day of March. A D. 19u. seal-1 Frank R. W aters. County Judge. Ily Walter A. Leese. Clerk County Court. Pay Your Subscription to ..The Courier.. Before the first of July. ..Only $i.oo.. First Pub. March 31-X Notice of Final Report E 649. In the County Court of Lancaster County. Ne braska: In Be Estate of Nancy J. May. deceased. The state of Nebraska to Mary C. Phelps. Harriet L. Wilson. Andrew J. Thayer. Harriet Hullard. Martha A. Lewis. James Dartlett. Mary Sweeney and to any other heirs or next of kin of the said Nancy J. May. deceased. Take notice that V timer U. Comstock has tiled a llnal report of his acts and doings as adminis trator of said estate of Nancy J. iuy. deceased, and said matter has been set for hearing on the IHh day of April, A. D. 19w), before said county court, in the court house at Lincoln. Lancaster county. Nebraska. at ten o'clock A. M at which time and place any person interested may appear and contest the same. Notice of this proceeding has been ordered published for three weeks consecutively in The Courier, of Lincoln. Nebraska, a eekly newspaper of gen eral circulation in Lancaster county, Ne braska. Witness my hand, and the seal of said county court, at Lincoln, this 2t)th day of March. 1WJO. seal Frank R. Waters. County Judge. First Pub. April II. lSu) t Notice to Creditors. E 1425. In the county court of Lancaster county. Ne braska. In the Matter of the Estate of Nathan S. Har wood, deceased. To The Creditors Of Said Estate' You are hereby notified that I will sit at the county court room in Lincoln, in said county, on the 1st day of September. It. and again on the 1st day of December. I!)m. to receive and examine all claims against said estate, with a. view to their adjustment and allowance. The time limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is six months from the 1st day of .June. 19t. and the time limited for the payment of debts is one year from the 1st day of June. I9MJ Notice of this proceeding is ordered published four weeks successively In The Courier, a week ly newspaper published in this state. itness my hand and the seal of said county court this 6th day of April. 1HW, (seal.) Frank It Waters. County Judge. Uy Walter A. Leese, Clerk County Court. IsEGAfo NOTICES A complete tile of "The Courier" is kept in an absolutely fireproof build ing. Another file is kept in this office and still another has been deposited elsewhere. Lawyers may publish legal notices in "The Courier" with security as the files are intact and are pre served from year to year with great care.