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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1902)
TH E CO nil ER V2 FASHION NEW VOllK, Kelt. 15 The best dressed woman is not always the one who has the most elaborate e-Iotlies. hut she who knows, how and when to weai what .slit- lias. Dining the snowy. rainv wv.it her of last week. I saw several laughable, ex en itiahle. examples of women weailng the unsuitable. At one of the laige inusie stores on I'loadwuy, where the customers are usually well-dies.sed as well as talent ed. I encountered thiee joung women who came in out of the driving rain gaihcd as for an afternoon reception. The hour was eleen in the forenoon. One of them, joung and pretty, wore a very handsome, and elaborately white-lace-trnnmed black silk elet skirt, with n sweeping train, and show ing a white silk petticoat beneath. White, did I say? Well, it hail been white befoie its contact with Htoad way's muddy puddles. She can led her skirt very high, ex posing not only about a foot and a half of this accordion-plaited and iiiuili be-ruched petticoat, but a pair of dainty French slippers with very high heels and buckles, and black silk stockings with lace insertions through which the tlesh tints of her well turned, slender ankles were visible. It would have been funny, had it not aroused in me a feeling of pity for her ignorance. Her clothes were of the richest qual ity. The long chinchilla boa worn over her Persian lamb coat was one of lhe finest I have ever seen, and her hat. save that the plume was damp and stringy, was a work of art. It was a large, black velvet affair, with a big pale blue ostihh plume wound about it. Her two companions weie quite as Inappropriately attired, though they had the saving grace of more season able footgear. One was in brown corduroy, with furs and hat to match: hut the plumes on the hat were done for. I am not an advocate of the short skh t indeed. I do not like it for town, it Is so associated with the country and the links; but if a woman must of necessity go walking in the rain. then. I say. wear a short skirt and a dark one. It must be perfectly patent, even to those who know little about these mat ters, that the women to whom I refer were ridiculous. It is really remarkable how few wo men know when to wear the costumes their wardrobes afford. I have seen the only daughter of a multi-millionaire at an after-theatre supper in a severe tailor-made suit and an Alpine hat. apparently oblivious to the fact that all the other women of the party were beautifully and properly gowned and jeweled. .Many Southern and Western women, visiting Xew York and stopping at the lKst hotels, almost invariably wear their afternoon gowns as early as nine in the morning Indeed. I saw the wife of a well known Western millionaire breakfasting at an e.uly hour one morning recently in a gown of pale green satin, and I am not suie tint she did not wear diamonds. I hae he.ud of the Chicago man who appeared at breakfast in a dinner jacket, ami of the Texas lawyer who pleaded hi- c.iu-e befoie the Supreme Couit of the rnited States in fun evening die. Such masculine errors are comparatively rare, but women are constantly making mistakes that are equally ridiculous. To lie sure. 1 hae nevei vet seen a woman decollete in the morning I have in the afternoon but I shall not be surprised even at that, foi anything can happen where men make fortunes in a minute and advance their wives from poveity to affluence over night The new stieet costumes and after noon gowns are most artistic. A dull gray, heavy hopsacking. with a long-tailed coat and handsome black ln fins, was i oiisjih nous a I an ait exhibition last Knda.v. Its weaier was tall, and can led the style beautifully. Her ll.it was of ci uslied gra felt, with black loses. Shoit women, even if slight, do not c.ury the Kmplie coats well, and I do not believe it is wise of them to make the attempt. At the I'reston t'liautnnt. at the Waldoif-Astoiia I. ist week, blown was the piedomiuating color. An Englishwoman, tall and fail, wore an Ameiican-made costume, having a cloth skill and long velvet coat of the same shade of blown. It was quite simple, but exquisite in its lines Her hat and veil weie blown, too, the former tlimnied with ci llshed pink roses. Another tastefully gowned woman had her gra zibeline tlimnied with wide cliffs, wide collai and bands of Uussian -quirrel. A light-brown piinces- gown was laced up the back with wide libbons which passed in and out of elaborately embi oidet ed e elets. The fins wot n with these v.ilious walking and cam.ige costumes .tie simply wondeiful in their quality and variety. And now a word about the shoulder protecting wraps for evening wear over the low gowns, said to be advocated by the wife of the 1'iesident. They are showing a few in the best shops. One is especi.ill pietty, although I still favor the wide and delicate ostrich feathei bo.i as a piotection ftom draughts. The wrap to which I lefer is a small cape, made of white ciepe de chine and delicate Irish ciochet It leaches halt-wa to the waist, and is quite lluffj at the bottom. The top fits closely, and is entiielv of the lace. Wheiever the ciepe de thine shows, it is tucked. Another is a shoit Kton with elbow sleeves, made of pink chiffon to match the chiffon robe, of which it is a part. This wrap is tucked in diamond-shaped fashion, and has lace squares appliqued upon it. Wide ribbon sash-ends fall fiom the middle of the back to the bottom of the skiit. I doubt very much, however, that the fashion will ever become popular. Lady Modish in Town Toph-s -'i -'i -" Atheism Combatted The observations in The Com ier of Januaiy -J, under the caption "To Com bat Atheism," suggesting plans fot the establishment of liihle studv in con nection with the state university of Nebraska, are not new, as some may gather fiom the leading of the ai title referred to. Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Coopei. November 2d. 1S2 described his plan of inviting the different relig ious se ts to establish "each foi it self a ptofessoiship foi their own ten ants" in connection with the state iini versit of Viigtnia. Later Di. Lms for e.rs chancellor of the univeisil of Missouii. cherished the hope that the Chtistian denominations of the .state would unite in a Bible s( hool "which should sponge out or the univeisit all that was available foi theological students." The first Wide wotk stalled in the I'nited States in connection with state univeisitres. was inaugurated Octubei. IMC. when the Christian wom:ni s boaio of missions of the Chute li of cinist (Disciples of Christ) upon invitition of tlie univeiMty. established the Eng lish Itible chair at Ann Arbor. Michi gan, witli 1'rofessor H. I.. Willet and Clinton Lock ha 1 1 as- iustiiictois Moie than 1 .200 students of the universuj of Michigan and manj citizen:- have already availed themselves of tins in stitution. 1'iesideiit Angell testities to the great good .ilte.nl at coniplished in the following "We feel under ob ligations to the Bible chairs for the help they have rendeied in telig mus woik among the students." ilr. Jefferson's chief motive was to disarm prejudice of the religious sects against an institution of "no leligion" as it was dominated. Dr. Laws' plan fssww-r? s ' i ; ,vw ywrerawsw-? Whitebreast 1 C0AL AND ICE i Coal and Lime Co. CoojHir's Manufactured Ice and Cold btorage Co. OFriCE, 109 SO. 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The lSihle chan a- established lv the I'liiiMiuli Wom an's bounl of missions. .11 for the Iiuiposeoi piointitiiiK -systemutii I'.ilde .stmlv unions the .students and otheis. and "was. untie! taken with the tit 111 conviction that universitj students oilKlit to he :iffoieled all oiiptu tunitv to leteive Itilde insti lie tion of univelsitv Kiade." It seems needless to iv th.it in nccomidishins this woik. the 's-ume seientitic methods must be emploed that ale found ill the univelsitj " The student is not ieilired to ie.nl theolo gical vvoiks iiliout the IJible. 1101 is he imlot trinnted with the pieeom eived ideas, needs and dogmas of men, but is vet to woik to investigate the IJible itself as bioeciaphy. histoi.v. litemtiiie, a system of ethics :ind above all. a the divine levelation to man. 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