Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1887, Page 15

DINNER DANCE DIVERSIONS. Latost Craze in Gotham Sotiety Or by the Diamond Dozen, nated WINES, WOMEN, WIRED.OYSTERS No Thanks for Cigar-lighte—"“Slum- | | to burning and returnc ) t witha ming” Now a Fashionable Chest- nut—The Chea 1 Bonnet." New Yonrk, Jan. 27.- -[Correspondence of Ul B The dinner-dan is the guddenly medish diversion among the who make pleasure the chief object in life. A dozen matrons in tip top society agree to simultancously give dinners in their separate residences, and after the banquet the different companies meet in one house for waltzes and quadrilles. For a wonder, this is not an imported deviee, but was invented solely and orig. inally by the wife of young Perry Bel- mont. The first combination of dinners and balls had all the social weight and brightness to®be natur ally ganed from its givers, wlg woere Mrs, August Belmont, Mrs. W. W Astor, Mrs, Levi P. Morton, Mrs. Edger- ton Winthgop, Mrs. Frederick Bronson, and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Priorit of inyention has been claimed for M Winthrop, beeau she gave a ball winter whereat some of her guests had been invited to dinner er o the evening, while some others chanced to have dined colleetively elsewhero; but r a careful, istive and judicial mination of the cvidence, I am con- strained to decide that in Mes.Winthrop's cnse there was no definite intention, while the entertainment planned by Mrs, Belmont was a fully worked out and complete affair. I trust that I have set- tled the question fairly and permanently THE ANTE-DANCE DINNERS are careful irg, it need secarcely be said, for they are inevitably compared, contrasted and discussed by the guests when they assemble immediately after- wards. Mrs. William Waldorff " Astor's dirner, on the last of these occasions, was for only twelve couples. The long able had no eloth, the beautifully pol- ashed muhogany being bare, except for a strip of finely embroidered = velvet through the centre, on which stood yare tlowers in art vases and wax candles in ¢ e candelabra. At eac guest's pla 1 inted bill of fare, with his or _her name not on it, but in- stead a eavieature portrait, by means of which locations were made. These wictures did not distort the faces, nor at all oflensively ggerate any b mal peculinri but were mercly big heads on small bodies, and altogether ra fattering than otherwise. They exquisitely drawn by some cleve and 6ne who did not care to be known as having done such utilitarian work, for no mark of his identity could be discovered on the cards. To every lady was also provided . CORSAGE BOUQUET, Yied with satin ribbon to harmonize with fer toilet, A great variety of colors must have been provided before haud, and cctions hastily but aceurately inde by some expert, after the arrivals, anse no instance of a bad match could be seen the table round. The gen- ticmen got buttonhole banches of flowers. Mr.and Mrs. Astor led the v dining room, but separated, and took Places opposite cach other at the centre of the board. The rest found their as- signed chairs, in pairs. The feminine toilets were beautiful and costly, but in @m0 instant gorgeous. Simple Glog: scemed to be aimed . The bodices were all Jow and the arms bare to the ghoulders. Lo this there was no excep- tion. And no long gloves gave cov ¢0 hands and forearms. A look across the table revealed so very little of fabrie, and so very much of flesh, that the inter- and bluck 'y to convince the observer Iy w full dress afiair. OYSTERS ON WL The repast began with ones, opened on_ the dee gides of which had been burnished until thoy were lit for jewelry. ‘They were not served on plates, but in frames of tw and silvered wire. each of these novel contrivances holding ten, The next course was cloar soup in hand-paiated dishes. Boiled salmon, with whifé saue and Parisian potatoes, came third. The dish was not brought on dishes orna- sented with pictures of fish. Such crocke has gone out of fashion with the extremely swell, and now it is not thought refined to have representations of anything eatable painted on dishe: iven flowers are not approved of for such purposel The idea is thatif, in lifting a morsel of delicate food a rose should be uncoverca, the highly educ and neute palate eater might be afte Chicken croquettes and asparagus were fourth; next small broiled birds; then fillets of beef with mushrooms; then ices with cake; and finally cofli It will be seen that ‘no great rarity was afforded, but the cookery was perfect. The dinner Yegan at 8 o'clock and lasted until 11, Talk oceupied much of the time, but there was hearty eating generally, for it is considered stylish now for women to have robust appetites. WINE FOR THE WOMEN, Was th alcohol in this dinner? Plenty Al abstinence is not prae- ficed "in any swell New York family that I know of. A dillerent wine was brought with every cou And each wine had its separate and fanciedly appropriated glasses, Chablis came 1 o smull glass, with a slender stem concave sides—holding no more than a good swallow which was taken down at one gulp by most of the guests, That was regarded a8 an appetizer, and accompanied the oysters, ‘The soup was simnltancous with red wine, tasting 1 Macon, and served in steamed glass whose sides were convex, thus hoiding enough to sip slowly during the course. The fish was contomporane ous with o Rhenish wine inagreen, thin tumbler, and in this case decanters were left within reach of all the diners, so tiar vefiling was handy. With the chicken came red and white Bordeaux in the onginal bottles, Just atter the beef o rum punch was served in tiny cups of some rare ching ware, The champagne arvived with the desert, and wus a choico of three makes, NO THANKS FOR LIGIITS, ‘Pwo men stood near the door of the #noking room looking earclessly at the seene at a fushiony iblic ball. ~ “Harry," said one of them, *I am ing to make you pay for a bottle wine."! “How" “By betting you that I can within fif teen minutes do a fayor for at least ten mwen in this room without getting a word of thanks for it in any case,”” It was & queer proposition, but after a brief consideration Harry took it. His venturesome companion went gravely to the cigur counter and bought 4 weed, which he proceeded to light and get into good burning order. Just as he was about to throw his watch away a man approached who swid half terrogatively, alf imperatively Gi'me 8 light.! “Certainly, that this w was the response, and as passed to the stranger, who took it, applied 1t to lus cigar, pulled vigorously a moment, and went Bway *Take out your wateh, Harry," said the wager “That's one Ihen, followed by Hurey, he mean- dered gbout the hall smoking ostenta Biously, and siming o get uear those | [ T | i whose cigars had g not smoking HE FISHED WELL, » out, or who were people and appearing to enjoy his smoke | hugeiy, he incited some to indulge who might not have thought of it, and before fiftecen minu ad clap near many men ha ed mm for a light How the wager stood may be gathered from the experience with the fourteenth He took the proffered ciga t his own gracious "I thank you, sir “Believe me,’ exclaimed the wagerer, starting forward and gr & the strans ger eflusively by the nd, “‘the obliga tion is entirely on my side. I thank you most heartily." I'he stranger stared, “I don’t under- stand vou,” he said “Why," returned the wagerer, '‘if you had met me five minutes ago I should have lost a bottle of winc Then a further explanation followed, and the stranger, muchamused, sat down to jomn the wagerer and Harry in the bot- tle which the latter pad for, SECRET OF SLUMMING. Slumming hos had its day in N York, and is now a toothless, gr: headed and tottering eraze, employed very rare intervals for an evening by somebody who liked the fun and wants to repeat it, or somevody who hasn’t had the courage to try it before. Th one young woman in this city, beiongi to the better class, who for the lastfew days, has been wishing she had nevef heard of slunmming. She tried it recently, and it took away all enjoyment of life, She is a young woman who never does a thing until it has been tried by everyone in her sct and s is perfeetly sure that it js quite the proper thing. Chat is why she put off her slumming ex- pedition until this winte 1f she had undertaken it when the craze was in its prime, and_everyono went slumming as the regulation thing to do, she would be happy yet. Asitis she is sunk into a melancholy so deep that it is proof against daily visits to a candy store, or the promise of a new pearl necklace, She 18 the possessor of a bonnet for which she paid $60. it was wonderful, stun- ning, Frenely, the very climax of the milliner's o When ~ she bought it madame told her with ecstatic little shrugs that IT WAS STRAIGHT FROM PARIS, that the e of customers had never rested on ity that she certainly would never see its counterpart here, and that she would not be annoyed by a repetition of it even if she wereto go to Paris itself, beeause it was a work of art, the inspira- tion of a moment, which the artist-c tor could never duplicate. So she bought the bonnet, and her heart has been sing- ing a song of joy ever since, Well,she went slumming, that is properly accompanied chaperoned, und guided, she started to go. But she thought she would lik to begin by going down through Division street to sce the millinery shops there, [hat street is an institution m itself, as unigue asanyvthing to be seen in the whole city of New York. 1t has the flavor of the Bowery, the *‘peesness” shrewdness of Baxter street, and an airiness and picturesqueness all its own. Itas full of milliner shops. One after another, for block after block, there is nothing but big show windows filled with the most gorgeous concoctions of ribbons and Cases stand before the doors, hats covered with fly-away ud bonnets built up to astound- And before cach door stands a woman TO INVEIC 1f a woman in eye half w towur door-guar is ut her side in an instant, ringing all the possible changes upon an in vitation to step inside, and buzzing in her ear until the girl at the next shop door takes hev up. My young friend had heard of this unigue place hought she would like to sce sauntered theough it, and her heart was filled with tender pity for the poor creatures who would wear all those dreadful things and think them nice, while her thoughts now and then turned to that love of & bonnet lying at home in its satin-linead box, and shewus happy. Suddenly right there be- fore her eyes, in the showiest and vulgar- estone of the windows, was the exact 1y production of ber pride and joy. And on one of the strings was a placard ANNOUNCING IN BIG LETTERS: Thi s magnificent bonnet only $5." Of cou it was made of cheap materials, and was to her bonnet as the chromiest k ind of a chromoisto a master i But it was a lower-class countel own beloved bonnet and at a little dis tance only a practiced eye could tell the difference. While she stood and at it, the girl came up: “That’s a bonnet, mum. Won’t you come in and look at ity It's awfully cheap. You could't buy it anywhere else for less'n three times thut money. Better come in an’ try it on, mum. It 'd just suit your style of beauty."” he young swell didn't go very much further on her slumming expedition, She went home and cried. And would not be comforted. She has hud no pleas: ure in life since that night. The bonnet reposes in its satin ease unworn, and its owner has lost his faith in milliners, “How ean [ ever wear it,” she wails, “when 1 fully expeet every day to see one of the servants going out with that dreadful earicature of the dear thing. How can L ever trust .o milliner again? Ob, dear, I shall never have another minutes’ peace about my bonnet as long as I live.' CrLARA BELLE, CUSTOMERS, e HONLY IFOR TH Boucle stuffs are wuch worn by chil- dren, Girls under thirteen wear out overskirts. Yellow shaded, light, flafly, bad boas and mufls are alfected by young ladies, French taste is at its best this year in the duction of textile fabries 10r women'’s vOar. All of the light wools this season are in greac favor, and they are used both for day and evening wear, Plush is more in vogzue than ever,while vel- veteen, corduroy, and corderine are in higher tavor and more extended use, It is n sad and a curious fact that a great many nen bave & mueh better notion of o ideal wife than of an idea! husband. Green and black, brown and wine, and pale sea-green and lieliorope are fashionably cobined in winter toilets made in Paris, Underskirts of striped, barred, plalded, bayadere, and _figured stufls are worn with all the other parts of the dress of plain stul, Some white boucle jerseys have heen put upon the market at low prices. They are admirable tor dressiug room and breakfast wear The Normandy togue, made of various kinds of fur, 15 hizh-peaked on top, and mukes its wearer look like an imported Es quiman, A style that seems to obtain this winter consists in having the train of & long dress to harmonize with the d:ess, but ot a different terinl, There is a decided return to velvet skirts of every degree of worth, including velveteen in shades of gray, golden brown, olive and durk garnot, Plaids are very fashic ¢, but they mnst be in artistie colors on e erude, bril- liant plaids of even two years ago are cast asid ‘vulgar.” A muit and boa are the correct furs to wear with a tallor suit, no matter how cold the weather, the chamols underwear in - that case supplying the warmt Sixty Chicago girls organized a era- tive establishient for making men's cloth- o wholesale dealers, ‘T'hey have a good plant for their establisuinent and the prowise of plenty of work. Fan-pleated plastrons and tabliers are still seen upon elezant evening gowns of silk and satin, with corsage and panels each side of the riclest Watteau brocades. Plaids ave very fashionable for underskirts, and the half concealed, half revealed parts of costumes, th asques or bod- ices and slevyes being invatiably of the sawe ADIES. ir frocks with- Swift Pla whom the title to tho &aid promiges 8 now vested, do stato and admit that said plat is in ac cordance with my dosire and wishes; and 1 do horeby dediente tothe publie the strects s stuff, matching the prominent color of Feather fans are shown mostly in round or The tips used on them it to twelve inches in length, so pla humming-hird wtte of some sort is placed in the from Las Iy hing hoods this winter is in style than_ever beiore, The Russian hoop of sable fur |l- ”i"‘ ‘xl.vm«: and _most expensive, and the Enzlish hoo 3 of plush, fur-lined and fur-bordered, is the Al Hayman has brought snit for 35,000 The list of slel much more var 15 of gold and black wl fawn color, moss-sreen | wauve and bishop's purple, d nun’s grey a and cardinal, biue and pale almond and wine color with plush or velve gav, rich skating or toboggan costumes, favorite tint with young ladies this season, and a charmin consists of a aress of pink and wh nue, with a bodice and dr bertha of lace half-open bodice, or bretelles of velvet, with rniture of velvet pinks set at one 3 girls of slende are wearing gowns this winter mad. tique fashion, bodices, short ound whieh i3 snuzly ¢ long ends whicl tie in wbined nstruction ol nk is a very build an- short- and w1 an full-zatherad India silk sash, with wide bows at the ba Among the new wsed | Frank Stocktow’s novel, s woolens to be the winter and for s i the spring, fabries in novel pale copper, amaranth, and blue of the | Royal Worcester handsome promenade dre fine soft ladics’ pale hues of heliotrone, ehame waple leaf green, raspbersy rose color and cieam yellow tints seen on bisque” und very effec tive, made of the finest camel’s hair orladies cloth, over plain turns back from belt to hem. vers of velvet are set upon these, The front of | the corsage also turns back in revers from the waist up to the shoulders, and discloses a vest of embroidered silk pleats belted at the w satin laid in fine and terminati wide velvet p and the back of is very loni, and but little drav d - 5 MUSICAL AND DERAMATIO 1 spend the rest of the A woyement erect 8 monu Bernhardt's ~SIXTEEN PAGES, MARTINDALE OMARA, Nob,, Jan. 21,1887, Thereby certify that 1 have acourately sure voyed and staked out the lots and stroctsof Swift Placo, as shown o alove plat and that the said Swift Place is a su 1owing described land: Co on conter line of section 15, townehip 14, north of ran livision of the fol- mencing at a potnt 13, enst of (th prineipal meridian, that ing west of center of said section 1h, 14, 14, thence west 6t chaing; thence north 20 10-33 chalne; t 20 1033 chains to beginning nee east 64 chiins and thonco south (Signod W. B. Hawigy, Surveyor. 1,Geo. € Hobble, owner and proprictor of as shown in the above plat and in £hown on the above plat, Witness my hand this 21st day of January, 1857, Signen) G. C, Hounte, In presence of Harry D. Reod, B1ATE OF NENRASKA, | Douglas Co. | On this 21st day of January, A. D, 1857, before mo, u notary public in and {or safd county, por- sonally appeared Geo. C. Hobbie, who i8 per- ronally known to me (o be the identical person whose namo is affixed to the above dedieation And ho ncknowledged the same to be his volun tary act and deed. Witaess my hand and Notarial seal the deto [SEAL] aforesaid. HENRY D. Ruen, Notary Public. DBEGINNING TO-MOEROW, them go quick. in Chicago as Oudarde in *‘Lor- nest season, which lie will produce anony- John W, Keller, the author of *Tangled Lives,” 15 wilting another play for an actress, Ben Maginley will Lrish play, under the 1 I, Hicks. Pason in an nagement of Charles danages agalnst Lillan Oleott for cancelling Lier *Frisco date, Mrs. John E, Owens is mana band’s estate, the Charleston (S, ( o Music includey. Surah Bernhandt, say the passenzers from Havana, iscrowding acon theat and recéipts ato enor costume Hooley’s theater, at Chicazo, has followed to striped pery of pink around the the lead of the Columbin theater and reduced thie price of the best seats to S1, Wilson Bartett's busin light during three we Lie produced “Clito” Llust instead of at firs Lawrence Barrett has hased outt trom the author, W. W. Y oung, his tray of “Pendragon,”wlich is bein writien, Sydney Rosenfold declares his intention | of making a ecomic opera Aibretto out of “Te Lady and the Tiger.” Miss Adelaida Thornic hit as ranc a in L the wife of Lawl N journalist. During the first American to Min Ristord, in Theodore Thomas filled t position of leader ot the orchestra at a salary of 300 a we Edwin oL who has made a Gulloy Slave,” i wlson, & New Yo rst appearance as a star front | was wade when he was but eighteen, as and big wide re- | Richard 111 « bber's version ot Shake- spearc’s tr Itis now as: t Bartley Campbell shows marked indicatons of inereased mental vigor, and that there is a fair chanee IR | for bis enture recovery. Georgie Cayvan hias been engaged by Mr. B ault 16 play a leading part in his new Awerican play, whi intends t produce in Boston on February 7. Augusta Van Doren, a graduate of Boston Museum company, who las seen 1 the support of Modjeska and Khea Louisville to is preparing to star in @ new eoined, { lent 10 Barney MeAuley e o by e e o Ecamahs enzagement Cliestnut Street theatre ou Monday, March Euwily Soldenc is reported o have wade a tashionable society. th Robert Staepel is writing the music of an original Awcrican comie, opera that will be produced at au early da He bas beeu at i . 1. Polk has accepted & new comedy for | SWIFT PLACE. "ALBRICHT'S CHOICE I WILL OFFER FOR SALE Monday, January 31, These Seventy-Two ‘72" lots, located just south of and adjoining Albright's Choice are daisies and the price will make They $175. to $250, 10 per cent. down, balance in monthly payments WORKINGMEN Insea ch of a home-~-now is your chance. S CIERE LN RS R S Mow is your chance to get in on the ground floor Don’t go into the bottoms, or so far out as to be tied to a street car line for invest- ments. Call for plats and any information de- sired at my office, 1413 FarnamSt., Paxton Hotel Bld g G. C. HOBBIE, Proprictor. SEREETL RAYNMOND GENESEE work on it for some months past, and com- petent eritics are highly pleased at the style of the musie so far, These are the long runs at_the New York Casino under the A anngement: “Nanon, 10 SAmorita,” 1 “Prince Methusalem, Ve Baron,” 8, and “Erninie” has reached 210th performnnce Cora Tanner, who Is meeting with suceess as the star of *'Alone in London,” wis born on Friday, the h day of t month: made her debut on th tage on Friday. She bo e that the hoof eaeh month is her lucky day, S 18 _bheen made an honorary her of the New York ‘1 teen clu and only lndy connected wih that 1a s - n's Fortunace Bscape ws of the Century “Life of Tancoln” refer to Lincoly ape from becor resident oflice-holdc ¢ the W ashington government, after his congressionai term had expired in this way that Abraham Lincoln and escaped one of the greatest dan s of hus 1i In after days he recog mzed the ¢ r he had committed nd congratulated himself upon the happy de liverance he had obtained throug merit of s own. The loss of at years of the ive pursuit of his on woukd + been irveparable out of cw the strong that t ngular eharm of n life to men who have a pas sion for pohitic, ght have kept hin there forey boen s, that ¢ sidene Wil ton L 1s it fon him i m _which m be ap Y s in a certain sense, but it is true m a peculiar degeed of our capital. ‘T'o the men who come there from small rural conumunities in | the south and the west, the bustle and stir, the mtelfectual movement, such as it i%, the ordinary subjects of conversa tion, of such yastly greater importance than anything y have ously known, toe duily and hourly t the tloor of both houses, th the struggle of oflice nunt W ter vast numbers besides the ckors, the superior piquancy and i est of the scandal which istal 1 el cot ssional hoard use 0 which scasons the d | have tho all this gives on,the mer im of the which the returns zlovy is over. It to the A STREET o~ SEREEE HOBBIE ™ | = SR savor to life in nory of which doubles beaten 15 this which ate department, atter every gen when his br sequestered = wlo legisla hour bring eral election, that crowid of specters, with their bales of recommenditions pitying colleagues elected, wh fimi from St. James to St of whom at the lust Mr. Evarts once saic heayy day, chosen.’ Of thosc who have tor an ‘Many called, who do the ruinous suceess of ng consulates that will ignorance away fr great portion yiekd t that Neet of wreeks on the payenient of St is needless to received no damage oftice in Washington, but nothing which sho perilons facination fuet ihat o man of his oxir moral and mental sht for U 1 80 in 10us s that w ) e W I have ftilled 1 eredit Wedo n his 4 figur tin th Jife: should haye mad in Washington s 1 il tool tremulons w cralded a con 1 of moral s which not pay or missions where they only shame by hiding the ir’ penury 0 their fatc been re nishing prayers run wn the whole gamut of supplication Paul,of Loando. it must be id, as unusuilly few but not abroad avoid floats achieve to ir hoard, nd th om _observation, and Join Washington v that Mr from his Vi 50 daily iorever Lincoln of the place a ordinary qualitics moment of Vilieant bu ot %0 much 1oan mo } have ) it the pla reasonahly st o tilling in the v subordin f1 to 1 dis man. ‘The th faint b uld 1 the | 1 eeepti of we know of trongly er | we than batt bat he ¢ yor flict of giant winke wher stin lutt rli o of ite oftice es of | when ‘the hour of | tinois, who would have filled the place | for the past two y | borrowed not been & more supple, mor oit and less serupulous suitor for oflice than himself, Abraham Lincoln would have st for four inestimable years at a bureau desk in the interior department, and ion sounded in 11+ which he took as if he had been born for ity Who could have done the duty which he bore as lightly as if he had beem fashioned for it from tho beginning of time . Knox County Affairs, CrexGrron, Neb, Jun., 28.—[Cor [ spondence of the Bri.] ~Representative W. L. Turner and Senator H. 1, Bone- el veturned from Lincoln Saturday i, 22, and were met at the depot by & [ delegation of Van Wyck republicans and e demoerats, accompanicd by the Creighton cornet band, and were given an ovation ior their honorable course n trying to geenre the re-election of Hon. C. H, Van Wyck. Although both were democrats, they promised 1o s wrt the senator as sceond choice, and they pt their faith, which is more than many so-called repube licans have done. If we had more such men the people’s ehoiee would have savon and traitors; but traitors ire short lived snd will be remembered by thewr (nasters) constituents—despised wid hated by the men who have given them their positions of trust and honor, We have boem carevival commenced o leadership of Mrs. Palmer, the ipel temperance revivalist of the National Woman's Christian Temper- ance union, of lown. Much good has wecomplished tions are being circulated here agks permit 1o proh on smendment in the y \ defaulting ex-county treasurer, Kadish, has not returned the §10,000 he rom Knox county over two vears ugo, The last grand jiury failed 1o indiet him by a vote of eleven for indiet- went and five of s friends ainst in- dictment, The people are erying for ng to b t the Koox county i suilty, gt Choodle lature 1o graut