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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1900)
THE COURIER 11 s V r Y h t &r A, FASHION LETTER. Lady Modish on Spring Fads. IIow provincial many of our most pro gressive daily papers occasionally, are ! The way some of them at this season of the year devote columns of their more or lest valuable ppace to "Easter Bon nets,""Ea8ter Frocks," "Easter Finer." or however they may see tit to caption this obsolete subject, would reflect small credit upon the editor of the leading paper of'any country town. How the editors of our great journals can countenance the annual spinning of yards of copy out of nothing, on defunct custom, has been a matter of wonder ment to me for years. It is surprising they do not print long essays railing against women who go to church for the purpose only of studying their neighbor's bonnets. If I am not mistaken, botb traditions were facts in the dim long ago when New York was a village, but although thn Easter tradi tions survived the strides of progression the longer, it is now just aB dead as all the other provincialisms that existed with it. Believe me, you poor, dear, misguided editors, "Easter bonnets," "Easter Frocks," "Easter Finery" are distinctly bad form these days. Not only are the women of the haut monde cognizant of this fact, but it is known almost as well to the women of the monde that does not boast of being haut. However, there are some people who do pin their faith implicitly to what they read; it they "see it in the paper," that is to them a conclusive argument, fixed and unalterable. It iB these trusting few who are being misled. If you sne on East9r Sunday any wo man gorgeously and unseasonably togged out in an "Easter bonnet," an "Easter frock" and general "Easter finery" the unconscious amusement of many observers be sure she has "read it in the papers," and knows she is right. But it does not seem worth while on the part of the papers to spend so much time and space in their Easter numbers to accomplish so little. Now, does it ? I hope some of them will rind some body to tell them all about the passing of fashions for Easter before another year rolls around. As the beason advances, every day sees some new fad or fancy exploited. At the moment, ruffs to be worn in place of the fur arrangements of the winter are of absorbing interest to femi ninity in general. Every spring sees the development and establishment of some new fancy of this kind. Years ago it was the boa of ostrich feathers that ranked the big beEt in the favor of the ultra-modish. Then fol lowed a succession of the frou-frou things of crimped Liberty gauze, tulle net or chiffon. Last year everything was boullionies, and this year it is os trich feathers again, more elaborate and more costly than ever. I think I spoke of the vogue that ruffs of chenille-edged chiffon, with long chenille ends, were having some weeks ago. At that time the boa of ostrich featbers had not as serted itself. Now it is an even thing which is the smarter or the more desir able. The chenille ruffs are the smart est in blacK, while the ostrich boas must be very pale gray to be "the latest." Mrs. "Clarey" Mackay is wearing a gray ostrich boa, for which they say she paid the considerable sum of 8120. Miss Gerry affects a gray boa, and so do dozens of others of the smart set. The only ostrich boa in black that I can re member seeing belongs to Mrs. Jules Vatable, and becomes her immensely. The newest color this spring to be generally worn is a queer blue, quite light in hue, and not a suspicion of green in it. I don't know what it in called by the modistes, as each one seems to have a different name for it. Anyway Mrs. Jordan Mott, Jr., has a very smart frock of it, and so has Miss Rita Hernochan. Mrs. Mott's gown has a bolero ar rangement that is' tucked in a very new way. The tucks are very narrow and start at the shoulder, running down to ward the waist line, growing always beautifully less, until they disappear entirely, an inch or so above the waist line, leaving, by some mysterious meth od, a perfectly fiat, plain line about the waist. This "vanishing tuck" idea is re peated on the ckirt;po, while the skirt is quite plain just around the hips, from there the shallow tucks appear and deepen as they reach the bottom of the skirt, until it falls in ample fullnese about the feet. Mifcs Kernochan's gown is more elab orate and has a design of big roses cut out of the cloth and appliqued again to the cloth. This design runs up either side of the skirt, giving the effect of an under petticoat of cloth. The top of the bodice and the sleeves are also formed of this embroidery. Shallow hoods are to be much worn by us this season. This very quaint and pretty fashion was explointed last year on the new frocks in Paris, but did not reach us un til too late to be much worn. Mrs. Og den Mills is one of the few women who adapted the shallow hood to a cloth gown The gown which Mrs. Mills is now wearing is in violet cloth, and the skirt is plain, with the exception of a few well disposed pleats. The bolero fits loosely to the back, and comes just to the waist line. In the front it is con siderably longer. With the bolero ap pears the shallow hood, or capucho in dressmaker's parlance. The capucho is not an easy thing to wear successfully on any frock, though MrB. Mills looks very smart in her little gown. It is very becoming when worn as an adjunct to the semi-decollete gown for little dinners and the play in the spring or summer. For this it was designed and worn last year in Paris with so much success. Town Topics. TO THE DEAF. A rich lady, cured of her Deafopss 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. THROUGH FIRST CLASS PULL MAN SLEEPERS BETWEEN CHI CAGO and SAN FRANCISCO Via Denver and Salt Lake City will be inaugurated February 2oth, 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 tho greatest scenic trip in the world. 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JI- at which time any person Inter ested may appear and content the same; and no tice of this proceeding is ordered published for three weeks consecutively in The Courier of Lincoln, a weekly newspaper of general circula tion in Lancaster county, Xebraska. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court, at Lincoln, this 5th day of April ISm). (seal.) Frank R. Waters, County Judge. By Walter A, Leese. Clerk County Court. First Pub. April II, 1WW-4 Notice to Creditors. E 1425. In the county court of Lancaster county. Xe braska. In the Matter of the Estate of Xathan S. Har wood. deceased. To The Creditors Of Said Estate: You are hereby notitled that I will sit at the county co"urt room in Lincoln, In said county, on the 1st day of September. I'M), and again on the I.st day of December. 11k. 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, lSu). and the time limited for the payment of debts is one year from the 1st dav of June. 19uu Xotice of this proceeding Is ordered published four weeks successively in The Courier, a week ly newspaper published in this state. Witness my hand and the seal of said county court this 6th day of April. UW, (seal) Fkank R. Watehs. County Judge. By Walter A. Leese. Clerk County ( ourt. First Pub. April li, 1900 I SHERIFF SALE Xotice Is hereby given. That by virtue of an order of sale Issued by the clerk of the district court of the Third judicial district of Xebras ka. within and for Lancaster county, in an ac tion wherein Mary E. Brown Is plaintiff, and William II. Cleveland and Margaret Cleve land, his wife, defendants. I will, at - o'clock P. JL, on the 15th day of Jlay A. D. 1), at the east door of the court house. In the city of Lincoln. Lancaster county. 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