Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 10

EMBER ound | Glowing Colors that Will 1 in Drawing Roc in NEW YORK, Sept The dress sakers, Wke the publishers of magazines always work a month ahead of publication Your really truly well-dresscd woman whose every gown is a gulde post along the fashion friends, getting her her demi-season thing But all the whil artistes of the needle and scheming for ing November, December, as lat as January. The model full of lay figures and draping forms, wearing gowns for horse show week and dinner toilets for the mad gaities that Immediately precede and succeed Christmas holidays They all, when_drawn in battle show a most wonderful, flaunting flasbing assemblage of new colors, varying fram the rich deep damson shades, A looking reds and clear restful dark ocean bius to an aggressive Algerian yellow, that none but the darkest-browed woman in the world could carry off with anything like effect Heap on to these new departures in tints and tones all the jewels your imagination can con jure up and you can form some idea of the out of last wearings October, th cutting, fitting be worn dur- in quiet are to and rooms what s even are darin | cotted path of | Is atill in the country houses of her [ | eapes with on splendid picture drawing rooms will present | a little later in th season NEW FRONTS AND LACE FROCKS. Many women will wear velvet and all them, from the tenderest bud up, will use an abundance of gems, that along with the revival of laces, on a scale never known be- fore. This promises to be a memorable win ter in the annals of fashion. This general glitter and gorgeousness, 'tis whispered, 18 a profoundly able trick of the master wire pullers of fashion to cover the pre- valling paucity of new fdeas as to skirt cut- ting and trimmings and the absence of any- thing to take the place of the bag front bodic But women are going to be very contented with full fronts for a long time to come, since like the large sleeves 'tis a joy to the stout sister, a_boon to the thin one and on the basis of the skirt of '05 enough variely 18 being Introduced to warn off anything lik monotony. For example, a great many of the new ones are being laid in four, six or of WHITE SILK FROCK. ten great wedged-shaped box pleats from the waist down and the pleats treated with delicate points of lace raying out from the belt. There is a relief afforded in the uze of light falling draperies of lace or illusion, ruffling out on the black seams, there are panels let in, flower like bows of ribbon pinned on the hip, with ends to touch the flo or such gorgeous silks are used in the mak- ing up that any applied trimming would seem @ sacrilege. A happy thought, indeed, has been the bringing back to use of lace in whole gowns, the black of Chantilly, the white of Honiton by selection and no color yet permitted to mar their neutral beuty and great gracefulness. To get back to our original muttons, how- ever, it will be as well to tell those thirsting for knowledge that the whole principle of color combinations this winter will be that of the tint and shade of the same hue. Red and pink, black and gray, or two tones of green Is the method of the smart dressmaker Who I8 planning a street or dinner dress, In exemplification picture the little dinner gown of the sketch, made for the blond Miss Blight, so famous all summer for her belleship at Newport. In this instance the skirt is of rich gros grain silk, the ground a . most delicate plumbago blue ombred in broad bands, of a shade the water shows in mid-ocean. Her bodice of the same silk has its sleeves and square neck trimmed with white English point lace, while round her walst is drawn a scarf of plumbago blue flluston, tied iu a great bow under the bust, with waving ends to touch her slipper toes. The slendorer a woman is, by the way, the more her dressmaker will tio about her Bleitan aeaUE GOW and twist into bows in front of her Delt, but tiere must be only a hand's breadth of woman inside the satin corset to stand this, else the result will be grotesque aud, where the figure is rounded out by nature's hand, a narrow belt, fitted down to a polnt back and front, covers the line of demarka- tion between skirt and bodice. JEWELS GALORE. It is at this belt that the use of jewels begius, for often enough the narrow-pointed glrdle s made all of the skeleton et or chmrming colored stones, set in flexible gilt or sllver frame. Above this lino are lterally poured forth the treasures of every casket, be they great or small. A dinner gown made for a debutante has a pomegranite red silk skirt, creped in tiny pink figures and over the bodice falls a #oft kerchief collar of pink liberty gauze, embroldered on the edges with colored stones. Heér fashionably long throat 1s clasped by a dog collar, In alternato strings of pearls and diamonds, while double strings of pearls rug out to catch the bodice and bold it up on the shoulder. Naturally, and by preference, the youth- ful element lean to the wearing of pearls, obseuriug their soft contours of neck and shoulder under ropes of these beads, and even twisting them into thelr hair, or converting them into armlets by entwining long strings from elbow to wrlst and fastening one end a jeweled pin to the elecve, and_puffed for evening nerally be most daintly d oromets, wings and little plun worked In very often with fine black curly osprey tips, that against hair f any color are most brilliint and becomin Dintier wraps are what they call the short, | pretty capes made of embossel velvet and turned back with white fur, from fronts of pale green or blue chiffon croped very deeply | and cut like the b the carly autufn | fall hanging in a multitude of ind organ flutes by way of fullness at Al these wraps have two collars, Heads highly dressing will orated with of fet sprays ~ of it the P bac | died his estate ag; MISS BLIGHT'S DINNER nd that soft 2 ruch plaid one outside within made preferably A SMART LUNCHEON GOWN. It any question of what is appropriate a good luncheon gown should arise a salis- foctory solution may- be found in any one of the October crepons, «o called for the very good reason that their colors match all th shades in red, lustreless dark green, plum purple and brown that the maple, ok and beech leaves show this month. They are crepad with black, for a black wool warp comes up through the silky woof and shosw skeleton fern and leaf pa Where the crepon is all wide silk band shows but ridged like a long with these gowns cZ a are worn sweet little made of felt and vet, braided together like str nd trim- med with big bows of wide-flow ribbon. fringed out the ends, wings in metallic shades of blue and green, gold and brown, and little loops and knots of flax gray lace In place of violets that have served their turn faithtully as trimming we are one and all going to wear pansies on our hats for a time. Blg velvet panses, purple, rust calor, gold, sapphire blue and white ones in bunches together, sprinkled all along the edge of wide jutting brims, and the backs of the hais flaring with bows of fringed ribbon, or velvet repeating in its figuring or weaving the varying pansy shades. Not all hats are wide and not all are turned up, but a very great many are trimmed with s of a new form. One of these bows is ily made of velvet ribbon in or twelve hoops that are nearly five inches long, stiffly wired and meant to jut out from the crown upon the brim, like the old spiked diadems kings used to wear. Another bow is little more than a crushed knot of velvet not larger than an ¢kg and not important in itself, but when along ihe extre ver of a wide brimmel bl felt, swathed in brown and yellow plumes, a whole dozen of thes: odd bows are massed together and made of a yellow velvet that shades to cream color, the effect Is indisputably nice and striking. FRANCES ERTON. A GALAXY OF o1 WIDOWS of the material of puffed silk for ttyrns. Olack worsted through it, soft shining puff.’ 1t morning that there is hats eight D Have Been Thelr Own The widow of one of probably the best loved George W. Childs, has quiet, retired life that rule, know very little of her, and the out side world nothing at ail ma Houvier Childs, says the Philadelphia Press, is a slender, little durk-eyed woman, whooe main interest in life s:ems to be the well being and care of her household. She has never been a society woman, and has rarely been seen in society, the theater and opera havipg no attraction for her. She his lived In the great white marbie mansion during the winter for many years. going s spring came to the country reat, Mrs. Childs bas left her Philadeiphia man- slon for good since the death of her devoted husband, and she will- soon bulld a house in Washington and make that city her home. Mra Stonewall Jack=on, widow of the herc of the confederacy, lives in Charlotte, N. C. with her sister, the widow of General D. H Hill. She has been busily engaged for sev eral years in writing the life of her famous husband, and has almost ruined her eye sight in her labor of love. Two little graud children, Stonewall and Julia Jackson Chris- tian, the children of her only child, Julia Jackson, who died five years ago, live with her, and are the joy and comfort of her life WIDELY KNOWN AND HONORED. Mrs. James Blaino has two homes in Washirgton, where s5 many sirows erowded thick upon her, #nd the beautifu summer home at Bar Harbor. Mrs. Blains i3 a cold, reserved woman, and has never been vicy popular socially. Al her I'fe and soul ssemed to be ceatersd in her distin- guished husband, and withou: him she seems to ba lost indexd. She spends much of lhe. time travelnz, and the Washingion houe rarely opencd Mrs. John A Many de Famous Gxertions. the best known and man in America alwi led such Philadelphians, as a by t with her patrician faco and snow-white hair, is prob-bly the most pleturcsqua of the military widowe. Sha Is & very rich woman, and has made th ost of her fortune since the deat of he husband. She is a shrewd business woman and an able fluancier. She has greatly at heart now the success of Bishop Hurst's uni- versity. She has promised to raise $1,000000 for this institution and is very likely ‘o suc- coed. Mrs Lgan, Harriet Beecher Stowe, one most famous widows who made ther nam:s for themselves, is alive and strong at the ripe 0ld age of 83. Unfortunstely, fiom o er. work, she has failed mentally to'a g eat tent during the last five yeirs Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker Harrlet Beecier Siowe, is past 75. but she is y, enersetic woman still. Last winter ». Hooker journeycd to southern California, in time to spend her summer beautiful home in Har'ford, Cona. Mrs. Phil Sheridan has cont'nued t live since the death of her husband in the ho:ss on Rbode Island averue, Washington, which was presented to the general when he went Wash'ngton to succerd General Shermar Mrs. Sheridan leads a very exclusive, digni fled life, ly occasionally taking p'rt in the social life of the capial. Sie is a young woman compared with the other generals' wives, and is very handsome and disin guished looking. She devotes mueh of her time to the education of her four chidren; Philip, who will enter West Point as soon as he is old enough, and her daughters, May, Irene and Louise. INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR. Mrs, John Drew, at 76, is as active as a kitten. Her theafrical company owes al- | most all of its success to her clever dancing and exquisite acting. Mrs. Drew is to the young actress the inspiration which rare old Joe Jefferson is to the actor. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is one of the most delightful of all the famous widows, She 1s 84 years of age, but 8o pleasing In face and manner, so young in heart and thought that It is hard to realize that she has passed 50 many milestones of a way sometimes weary and rough to tread. She lives In a pretty apartment surrounded by plotures, books and all sorts of remembrances of her of the ex a_ sister of distinguished husband. All of her faculties are unimpaired, and she ls thoroughly lu- and prepared and delighted to disc and around children, pee entertains | love | ku ERRrREEEE | formed on all the questions of the day, ! ! \ General Grant's Mrs. Ju Grant, divides her time between ) Washington. She has not as yot cided i which place she will buy her futare ho Mre. Grant realized almost $230,000 from the memoirs of her husband, and the government allows her a pension of $5,000 a year. So she s quite well to do. She has four children and twelve grandchildren, who make her life a very full and pleasant one, Mrs. Nellie Grant’ Sartoris, the only girl t family, was a bri of the white vears ago. marricd a lishman and went abroad to live. nee the death of her husband the rich young widow Las speat all of hor time in Washington. She has a pretty home on R street, and her two young daughters liv with her. The only son Is at school in Fng- laud Mrs. widow, louse young Willlam H. Vanderbilt is interesting. aside from her charming personality, by rea son of being the widow in America. No capiialist has yet come up to the $200,000,000 which Mr. Vanderbilt left at his death. She lives nearly all the year ind in her palace on Rifth avenue. = All her on the beautiful avenue are her her grandehildren and the little at grandson, who fs 1 years old. Sh very and then throws open her sat func tion of the richest man little, but s for now WOME Ward M Al arbit of OF FORTUNE. ster, widow positively u w York appear d upon the lists ribers the ascembly balls and social functic he nev appear. d So retired has beca her life that she did ven preside over the dinner parties her | and was so fond of giv All of her 1l duties have been relegated to her r, Miss Louise McAllister, who has ted her father's fondness for sociely James A. Garfild is sald to be worth §500,000, wimost all the gift of the merfcan people. When General Garfield ed only $30,000. Mrs ant but quict style ir e Vinton Dah e lives in Washin hor time In_literary publication when bringing with them f tunes of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 each, and the Dablgrens were well provided for them selves. So the work is mer:ly a labor of thou the publishers are always glad a substant check in urn for it Mr John Drexel, the beautiful widow of the great banker, lives in a magnificent house on Madison square. She is one of th best amateur musicians in America, playing with equal skill on the harp and the piano. Her three daughters all accomplished Mrs, the name always of the known t Although her other G Mrs. Gorfield 1lin lives Mr of the in ele Madel admiral nds much and writes for h: inclinatic rvied Drexel gir fe | but quite unltke the and fe owned amd has been operated by Joseph Mans, an, industrious native of Ger many, during tha past twelvs yea's. Ho can not speak too highly of tho va nable services his four daughters have rendeced in the working of .ghe mine, and sy that he would have be'n compeil.d to go out of the business several years ago had it not been ‘that they stood by him Consequently He #nd his wife have got over ie disappointhiert that they felt when their first four chilfren proved girls instead of boys. Of the siven children born since these girls four are' hoys, so that Mr. Mans will soon have fout 'young miners to help him cut dusky dlamibnds in the bowels of the earth. While he and his athletic daughters are working 'the'mine his wife runs their farm, which, “actording to his story, s the best paying iInvestment of the two. The product of their mine finds ready sale among the farmers of the Mahanoy and Mahan- tongo vaMeys The only other {nstance known of women working in or about a coal mine in the lower anthracits reglon ocourred elght years ago, when Mrs. Danfel Grassens attired herself in men's clothing and found employmen: s an inzide loader of the Gimlet colliery. She vorked on the same shift as her hushand and her sex was not discovered for a_ period two months. “Then the hos admittod that she did a man's work well, but he dis- charged her hecause she was a woman and her husband are now prozperous of the £oil In the Mahanoy valley Qt tillers IN VICTORIA A A, s the Guest Womnn, rit England's Sovers an Amer One of Queen Victoria's fay Atbani, and o year her the prima donna by taking a cup of tea with her This is when the queen castle, usually during Se and Madame Albani Is at her country place ld Mar lodge, an_cstate which she rents from the Duke of Fife, and which is in Mar forest ncar Balmoral castls This tea drinking is wholly dev and circumstance, The quecn beverage, which the way breakfast, quite an ordina nary Eng second cup. g tea to hor to other has always she W of on e a honor is at Balmor; nber or October is id of pomp drinks is English her by like not take a vi lom accorde the quesn aftection, and in varions ways, Upon these oceasions of the afternoon function the queen sends word a day or two proviously of her intention to visit her neigh- bor. She is accompanied by one of ‘he princisses and a lady or two in waiting. and she driyes the distance, of about ten miles, in an open carriage After the brief ceremony of tsa drinking is over the quecn takes a stroll through he hostess' beautiful garden. Although not par- ticularly fend of flowers, she appreciates Madame Albani’s fondness for them, and frequently sends her superb bouquets from Balmoral. The queen’s dress is usually very simple a black cashmere or a soft silk, devoid of does The 1 one s Albani sh or par 1ono DINNER TOILETS. musicians, having chosen different instru- Frequently at the musicales Mrs. cl delights in giving all the music; it is nished by the family quartet. Mrs. Leland Stanford, one of the richest widows in America, has deserted Washing ton, where she used to spend so much of her time, and lives for the most part of the year in California. She is greatly interested in the great university on the Pacific slope, | built ax a memorial to her only son, Leland | Stanford, jr. | Mrs. George Hearst, widow of the Cali- fornia senator, still keeps her old home in Washington, but spends most of her time in traveling on the continent or in California, Mrs. L Carncgie, sister-in-law of | Andrew Carnegle, probably has the most en- | joyable time of any widow in the world. | Sho Is the only woman member of the New York Yacht club. In her yacht Dungeness she sails all over the world at will. Her winter home in Florida, Dungeness, has game preserves, stables, beautiful driveways and bridlepaths, besides all of the femin'ne belongings with which women love to sur- round themselves, | INDUSTRIOUS i { nergetie Anxistance in the Working of a Conl Mine. unusual spectacle of American girls the mining and preparation of be seen in the Maha- noy valley, several miles southwest of Shamokin, where four young women find Qaily employment and perform the work as- them In snch a manuer as would many of their expert mine brethren to look upon their strength and expertness with envy. Joseph™ Mans, the owner and operator of the mine, says the Philadelphia Press, does not hesitate to pronounce them the best and most satisfactory employes he has ever had, and even the much maligned mine mule understands that these girls are not to be trified with, even though they have not adopted bloomers or any of the other fads of the new woman. These girl mine workers are Kate, Mary, Lizzie and Anna Mans, aged, respectively, 20, 19, 18 and 16 years. They are daughters of'the mine owner, and are magnificent speci- | r.ens of womanhood, as they are stralght as arrows, six feet in height, and each tips the | scale in the nelghborhood of 200 pounds. Tight lacing 15 unkuown to them, but thelr | figures are attractive, and they have never wn a day's sickness. They work hard | six days a week, but seem contented with | their lot, as do also thelr seven younger | brothers and sisters, who range in age from to 15 years. Katie, the oldest of the sisters. is known as the chief engineer or outside foreman of | the mine, and is fully able to perform the dutles that thus falls to her lot. She directs and assists in the breaking and prepara‘ion of the ccal, while Mary drives the mu'e that | ho'sts the coal from the slope by means of | an old-fashioned gin. Annie is also an expert mechanic in her way and runs the pump | that keeps the mine free of water as well | the eugine which operates the breaker | machinery, ' Lizzie acts as brcaker boss and assists her little brothers and sisters to pick | up the slate and rock from the coal as it | passes down the chutes to tho s'0"age pokets. When working at the mine the girls are at- tired In petticoats and skirts that do not reach their ankles by several inches, and their feet are encased In stout brogan: This primitive colllery that is op:rated largely by female labor Is located on the southern side of the mountain (hat marks the extremity of the Shamokin coal buain, The assisting in antkracite coal can signed cause ornament or trimming; a respectable lady of the middle class, and is even more bare of ornament than the plainest and most simple people of that class would average. Dress is a matter in which even in her young days, the queen appeared to be devoid of interest Albani has a Brapls of Victor! autograph. Sh of the jubilee decorated by order. it is the toilet of collection of photo each adorned with her was also the recipient of one cdals, and was the only artist the queen hersell with the Fashion Notes. Unlimited favor will be given next season. Many of tie rough cloth jackets are made in reefer shape. Some very elegant black costumes are pre pared for dressy autumn wear. ome of the new fur capes are with vest fronts of contrasting fur. Bohemian glass In a new shade of pink Is excecd dainty and very popula owering mos<es are a favorite d painted culfs, collars, fron and the like. The newest enamel. to velvet finished ign for sashes setting for diamonds Is white This enhances the brilliancy of the stone and the sctting hardly shows. The iridescent button of great size, the mottled or pattern button and the many beau- tiful Dresden buttons are chiefly in favor. Among the novelties for cool weather wear aro fur sailor collars finished around the e tire edge and long pointed fronts with deep fringo of sable tails. The great rage for crepon fabrics has re- suited, as usual, in the production of cheap grades of it whicih will turn dowdy looking and rusty in two months’ time. Many green' and black-and-red and black color mixtures appear among autumn dress goods and narrow striped tailor mixtures in healthy colors are used for fall traveling and shopping costume: The woolen) fabrics of the fall still run upon Caledonian lihes. The Scottish cheviots and tweeds arn in favor where the plaid loses Its hold, among the tinier women, just as high as one's heart, The long feathet boa and is being wbrn this season in very striking colors—palo _biue, sred, amber-brown, green, and deep yellow. These are startling and un. a Is appearing agaln, | common, but in very questionablo taste, A season's novelty will be the stamped or printed velvets; 'Pheir patterns are printed in green or ®lue ‘or orange, and they are then used invieombination with cloths of diverse colors'ér with the plaids which tall women fancy. The new Defender collar is made of velvet, satin, or chameleon silk, embroidered, span gled or lace-edged. It is very natly and graceful in shape, and can be worn over either a house gown or street costume, ac- cording to the fabric of which it is made and its style of decoration. Highly lustrous satins, after the Liberty satin finish, in black and colors, will be in de- mand for flat-pointed and full round vests, as well as for entire blouses. In black bro- cades of small patterns for separate skirts satin effects on lustrous corded surfaces will prove very popular. Nothing takes the place of rich patterns in cut jet where a black color-note is demanded on wraps or gowns, and with the advent of fall and winter costumes trimmed with vel- vet or silk comes the call for a finish to these accessories, which is only to be found in jet passementeries and edgings. The twilled tartan goods make stylish cos- tumes with & vest of plain goods elabora braided. A handsome costume of s is Madame | ose plald has an ample Louis XIV ! at of plain old rose serge bralded in | black arabesques, with stock collar and walst trimmings of plain black velvet | One of the newest jdeas for adorning the dining room table Is a com ation of silk cmbroidery on linen with fish net This | work involves very little labor and produces very pleasing results. Many of the fish nets closely resemble patterns used for drawn | work, and these particular patterns are best sulted for the purpore The picture hat fs becoming more and more fashionable, but it has its responsibilities. The woman who wears it with a blazer, a shirt waist, and a manly necktie s guilty of a heinous offense. The large grac he picture hat and its soft sweeping plumes cannot properly be worn with anytl masculine or even severe in style. mong the new autumn fabrics just re- ceived are silk figured French crepons, Jac. quard, Sicilien, lustre Matelasse, shadow ured mohair, novel golf suitings, silk-warp black moreens for outside as well as under skirts, and rope d 1—a silk and wool material in which silky mohair is brought to the surfacs in rope-like ridges that impart a novel effect to the goods Un oxtrovagantly. Fine soft foulard s very much used, adoreed with leagues of lace and ertion. Dainty lingerie is certainly to bs desired, but the luxury and elaborateness lisolayed upon it now is certainly overdone, end borders on vulgarity, as all excess in dress doas This is ally noticeable among the fall importation of French skirts, which are filigreed and lace-laden to a ridi ulous degree. At a recent hostess Bow er's rec requested or cosit idea of Nearly all of peared in “‘picture tion in a Paris salon the each guest o « which should be wear should be fashionable. grande dames present ap costumes, such as Marl Antoinette, L Pompaiour, duchess of Devon siire or Gainshorcugh, and now it Is quitc likely that in 1865 “plcture’ costumes in America will be the fashion at country-hou fetes, watering plac:s, festivals, and the 1k even if some of the “picture’ ‘effects do not Appear upon promenade. wha the Feminine Notes, Mrs. Jennie June Crely, who has been in London for a_ part of the summer, says that I B. Willard and Lady Somerset are now inseparable and almest interchangeable The Countess Cacilia Plater-Zybeck, one of the wealthiest women in Russia, has been enrolled in the guild of master tailors of Warsaw. She 1§ at the head of a cutt school in that c'ty, and does much to help the poor. Mume. w Magnusson of Iceland, who was familiar figure In New York drawing rooms last winter, has been in wport for the last few weeks carrying on her effort to ralse funds for the school she hopes to endow on her native island Ro=a Donheur Is at work on a picture on a large scale representing a fight between two enraged horses. The finishing touches will soon be given; then, as an English journal remarks, will come the rivalry of the naticns as to which shall possess it. Jona Lis, the Norwegian novelist, whose works are now attracting general attention, proclaims proudly that to hiz wife is due much of his best work. Mme. Thomasine Lic is an cxtromely intellectual woman, and s her husband's severest and most valued rrespondent of the British ““Thero is a rumor he Berlin ¢ dical Journal writes at the professions of dentist and of chemist i are to be opened to women ant all the lady dentists prac have had an American pre ing in Germany raining In the possession of the Baroness Burdet! Coutts is a guinea wiich she treasures ab: all her belongings. Her grandfather, whc was a gentle Iy outward appear- ances, was give a benevolent party, who chanced to mistake him for a pauper. Belle Boyd, wn as the ‘“iebel spy”’ is naking a of the south. She is de scribsd as being dramatie In her style, with eyes expressing a daring disposition and with an abundancs of light auburn hair, which langs over her brow. She is as plcuant anl vivacious at 51 as she was at sweet 16, when she entered the “service. As an filustration of Sarah Bernh:rdt's cb sorption in her parts, it Is told of her that she is never able to get through a performance of “Phedre” without fainting at least once— of course while behind the scenes—and that she sits in her dressingrcom for an hour be fore the performance in silent meditation upon the character she is about to play. American members of the famous Ploneer club of London, one of the few London woman's clubs, are Dr. Helen D:nsmore and Miss Willard. In this club, to. obliterate all social distinction, the members =re known by numbers, not thelr nimes, Mme. G and, for example, answering to the designation of No. 40. The Writers' club, also of London, has a royal hghness for its presiding officer, tan. The salutation *“Ma- dent,” is out of order in that club. One of the be:t kiown indistrial a:t workers now in New York is Miss Myra Burr Edson of bill poster fame. She is a western girl, with the proverbial western pluck and ambi- Her studies have been maily carried on at the Artist-Artisan school, under the guidance of Walter Shirlaw and John Stimp- son. Sho started, as do most freshmen industrial art, designing book covers. Excel- lent examples of her skill in this line of work appeared last winter in the exhibit of the Architectural league. The duke of Marlborough is vastly inter ested, it is said, in the progress of the por- trait of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. This is being hurried by Harpsr Pennington, the Bal- more painter, for the November portrait show to be held in New York. In this Miss Consnelo Vanderbilt's very dark hair is dressed high, and has thrust through it o superb diamond ornament. Her features are small, and so is her face, and her turoat is rather unusually long. Several strands of pearls are wound round it in the painting, and she is garbed in white silk. This Is cut some- what low in the neck, and has a fall of lice around it. Miss Schultz is a young woman in Gotham who has made a fine success for herself as a watchmaker. Her father followed that trade and she learned it just by belng with him | and observing his work. His health failed and he had to give up his business, and it was then suggested to her by her friends to take up the business herself. She did so, making A great success. She s now not only consids ered a good watchmaker for a woman, but stands as among the very best in New York. She is an extremely pretty girl, a perfect blonde, with rosy cheeks and biue eyes which belong to good German blood. It was not difficult for her to galn a large male patron age, for men like to go there and watch her at her work. CONNUBIAL A young woman has to love & young man very much to be wholly satisfied with the amateur photographs that he makes of her. Judge Samuel Murdock and wife of Elkader, Clayton county, Ia., celebrated their golden wedding on the 10th. The judge has been a resident of Iowa since 1841, Seventy-one years ago last Monday George ouser and Miss Hannah Coyner of Ma- homet, I1l., were married. The anniversary was celebrated by the relatives and friends of the old couple. Colonel and Mrs. W. J. Manker of Sedalia Mo., celebrated on the 11th the fiftieth anni- versary of thelr marriage, which was solemn- ized at Mooresville, Ind eptember 11, 18 The colonel is 74 and his wife 71, The wife of J. H. Moore, living on Salt Lick, Lewis county, presented her husband with triplets Saturday, two girls and one oy, aggregating in weight twenty pounds They are all well dsveloped and healthy, and look to be a month old. The happy culmination of a little romance that began at an eastern summer resort scarcely (hree months agu is made public in Chicago through the formal announcement of the engagement of George M. Pullman, jr., and Miss Felicite Oglesby, daughter of Uncle Dick Oglesby, ex-goversor of Illinols Two of the richest young people in Amer- ica will soon be married. They are Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt and Mos:s Taylor. The engagement has not been formally announced. The attachment Is a natural one, the fam- ilies of the couple having been on terms of intimate friendship many years. Miss Vanderbilt’s great fortune is almost matched by- that of Mr. Taylor, who Inberited his money from his grandfather, Moses Taylor, an old merchant of New York. Miss Ger. trude Vanderbilt is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and one of the world's richest heiresses. tul lines of | | K either | lothing is fashioned very richly and | sessed of consldorable wealth, but who really was bordering upon bankruptey, had a very beautiful daughter, who had attracted two ry woslthy and desirable young gentlemen The father, with the daughter's consent, brought the young men together and in formed them that, in order to test the extent of thelr affection for his child, he was pre pared to give his consent for her marriage to the one who would pay the largest sum for | the privilege. Wine and cigars were brought into the room, and for nearly two hours the father conducted a mock auction, and the young fellows bid against cach other. Event ually, the young lady was sold to one of her admirers by a check for £15,600, With this sum the father speculated, and in a short time so Improved his condition that he was able to restore the money to h daughter's husband, and, moreover, to leave them a con sldereble fortune on his death. The affair was disclosed by the unsuccessful suitor, and for a time created a great scandal in a cer tain clirele. ol i it You will never Cook's Extra Dry falls to please - Jewelry o The acanthus leaf is used in the gilt tops | of black combs, The latest baby p'ns d's of seed pearls or turquoi Pineapple ornaments deal of ornament, in a shaded enun Heart-shaped club or yacit ni ar Buy it. your brand Champagne ne ehang Ln.perial 14y a tiny wreath ars teen In a gool and fiequently reproduced of silver thrown a 10 be g with ¢ leg rpea sstine Hunting scenes e'ch clgarette ca done spirit ular, 4 ony match bo with a great the picturesque A new sleeve button co'led around a sword r and gilt around A new design for a enamel foot on a hear bonbon spoons have bee gold and sense ¢ design is a This appars sunds of solid ¢ brooch dain Some very large brouzht out in dull serpent n sil to large variety of it out this s The workman 10st works of art. ew sheil back surrounded by tny g gold kcarf pins rav amusing these make 100 in ip In combs have the ornament 1 bead ng. When th s 15 used no other designs in gold appear, ths ornament being cut in the snell Onz jeweler's window Is entirely filled with siiverware shapsd from polished prnes with s raised bordars. The cffect of all these panes throwing off the 1'ght of a sum- mer's day 1s dazzing It is with difficult grotesque in fretty such is the rage for the jewelry, to refrain from 1t in mourning wear. Lit 13 b'a k dogs with Jeweled eyes are found among stick pins. Monkeys and tadyo es forbidd:n The development of work in teresting to fol'ow. Some are cups and siucers covere enamel which makes the the charming reproduction groups of angelic boys. i An important factor are yet namel is in- nt instances 1 with white background for of cupds and to the homeseeker is that of climate. No matter what effort is made by the settler, if the c natic condi- tions are mot favorable no work of his can change them. Human power or ingenulty cannot_change the climate provided by the Almighty. Those who have not had the op portunity to investigate the matter often are under tne impression that the months | ot June, July, August, September, in the Orchard Homes section, are much hotter than the same months in the northern or western | tates. In point of fact the reverse of the is true. The Orchard Homes summer son is long, but equable, and very rarely loes the temperature reach 95 degrees in the hottest weather. The western summe hort, but very much hotter, while it than the same season at Orchard ion in the west and north required amount of heat and sunshine in a smaller number of days than th case in the Orchard Homes region Scientific reports show that there is really more heat in the western states of this latitude in the mid-summer months than during the same period in the Orchard Homes country. In fact extremes of heat, like ex tremes cold, never occur there. The nights, too, are cool and ple nt all the vear ‘round. Slecp is not broken by the steady prostrating heat so often experienccd in this latitude. {Where grasses remain green all winter it is not surprising that the cattle can ron out all the time and remain fat. No periods of flerce cold weather are to be provided against in this balmy climate. The cost of living is at least one-third less than it Is here. Your garden gives you the finest of vegetzbles, and what Is more, gives them to you the year through. You can rais chickens for your own use and for market. They do exceptionally well because of the steady, equable temperature and all that you can ship will fetch you the very highest prices. Turkeys do well and are profitable to raise. Your fuel is an item hardly to be taken into account at Orchard Ho cause you need fuel more for cookir for heating, and the very best of h is at your disposal at a minimum of cost There iIs no fruit outside of the strictly tropical varieties that you cannot raise suc- cessfully at Orchard Homes. It ha been locally celebrated as a fine fruit beit of land for the past fifty vears. Of course all vege tables thrive anl you can make two or three crops cach year off the same land and find ready shipment and sale for all your product Now is the time to o and see the celebrated Orchard Homes lands. Now is the time to slect your location on these fertile lands, w is the time to see for yourself what advantages other sections of this land can give you if you will but try and seck them out. "If you are perfectly contented with what you are doing here you will not want to investigate the Orchard Homes region, but if you want better your condition and sam* time add o the prosperity of nily then in that case don’t waste any but get all the information you can about Orchard Homes and why peopls ara o anxlous to get there to live. For ail information see or address Geo. W. Amcs, jeneral Agent, 1617 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska Homes, nust of maore occasions, You cannot go fo the opera JFvithour gaining 2 whif of ho Wi ) THE FASHIONABLE PERFUME, Flowery, refreshing, delicale ond iasting. - For sale by druggists only. IMPERIAL CROWN PERFUMERY €0, SAINT LOUIS. MEYER BROTHERS DRUG CO.,AGENTS. MI0TRY {WEDDING BELL }Tm) new "Chomwn~ | PEACHBLOW. | odors, ATIONAL, CITY, 11 W. 8thst, (ad). Ceniral | Park. | Boardin The Jacetot School " Mlle FROMENT, Mrs. C. L. MORGA ‘all term Ler 1. sent on application. NEW YOI and day il DR. LOBB'S BOOK FREE To ull safferers of Errorsof Youth and Dise o Menand Women, 108 pages, cloth bound. 1 rent. ment by mall strictly confidential. Cure guaran. teed. Call or write. Dr. LO H.329 N, 16th 8¢.. Phila, “T ANsye POUND PILL mo r ing | In the weat ho «d by sudden changes twinge or the curate than the Ironchia 1 disturbed by food cqually susceptie heumatic ton, The Weak Stomach s more ek ch The . nge than by indige Kidneys and Bladder are 1 and heat Humphreys' but & Specifics are the sa for everything, for each diseas 77 FOR COLDS. Hun: it is Dr wheth popi Influenza of Autumn Cat S Sy Summer ute and positive us Mombrane | ust or by the pollen A all the rounds 10" FOR DYSPEPSIA, Indig The reliet arth: 4 b ver the by cold It s in dem. Muc by stion and W ‘14" FOR SKIN DISEASES, It Rhe s never moand wil Eruptions, for Skin Discases, ‘15" FOR RHEUMATISM, Acld from the ‘30" for UR.NARY DISEASES Cures the chiid—relieves the aged, | MEDICAL BOOK. for y Manual, | I8 sont f | ¢ by n request plea pellet drugglsts, or e for $1,00, ant fits your vest 3 Modie ok, sent on receipt Hu Willlam St., w Y | | F9L00D POISON B8 A SPECIALT Y e ondary of sy | 5y Sgphi e pers y curod In 16 to | bdayr. You can bo treatod at homo for L10same price undersame guaranty, I you prefer to ¢ 0 herd we wil cortrac B 20 vy rullroad fare and hotel bills. and no Chargs.11 wa tall to cu 1€ you have taken mers cury, iodids ash. and still have nchies and salns, Muco "atehes inmonth, Sore Throat, Pimples, Copper Colorad Spota, Uleern or Any part of the b Luir or Eyebrows &lling sut, It lsthis 8, LOOD POISON thak e gruaranto are. Wa soliolt tho most batis ate cnses and chalisnge the worl or & caKe we oAnnot cire. o hia di-euso has oiwars baflled the siill 0f Lo most eminent physie clans, &500,000 cupital ind our uncondis In ufl:nr. m’{‘dd‘ .V\!al(l“‘l' .‘lrlir‘)!'w;' nlul;nlui!'lon plicsrion s o ] o 807 Matsoain Fommuto, CLICAGO HLLs ™ | PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES By purchasing goods Nebraska factories, you want made at the following It you can mot Mnd what commuiicate with the manuface turers as to what dealers handle their goods. T BEMIS OMAHA BAG 0, Manufacturers of all kinds of colton and bur. Iap bags, cotton flour sacks and twine a spece 11h-St. OMAHA BREWING ASSOCIATION, rator cars. Blue Ribbon, Elite Export, V na Export, and Family Export, delivered to all varts of city. ARRIAGES AND WAGONS, A . SINPSON, 140011 Dodge-st. The beet and cheapest place to buy a good Buggy. Carrluge or Wagon. Agt, for the best rubber (ire In use. DRUHMORD CARRIAGE (O, put rubber tires and ball bearing uxles on thelr own make vehicles, and sell & top buggy for $50.00 benides. Write them. 15th and Harnes COFFEE, SPICES, BAKING POWDER, CONSOLIDATED COFERE 0., Coffee Roanters, Grindor ers Germun Baking Powder and 1op Y Splce nufactur- rman Dry FLOUR. S. F. GILVAY, Manufacturer of Gold Medal Flour. E. Black, Manager. Oma FURNITURE FACTORIL " OMAHA UPHOLSTERING (0. Manufacturers of Parlor Dining Tables and Poyd to Blaler Sts, Furniture, Folding Beds, Loung: Bth ave, ICE AND COAL, SOULH ONAHA ICE AXD CDALOD, 1766, J-. A lm? Genernl Manager. best. ARON WORAS, 2 INDUSTRIAL 1R0§ WORKS. Manufacturing of all kinds ot machinery, elovators, printing pie and couplings 148 and engines, hangers, 3 1408 1o ward Repalring puraps, shafting Omaha. PAXTON & VIERLING IRON WORKS. Manufacturers Generul Found MALCRES SIS, COT L. G DoUP. Ieathers and ¥i £tv., Omaha. COTS, CRINS, resses, Spring Beds 14th and Lhor wa. N, cholus MANUFACTURING € THE MERCER CAEMICAL COPAY compressed s and scientific i3 Manufacture Syrips and Wine dermic tablets, p, eities. Omana. fturtes miedical MINER ALWATER, KEDESSA MINERAL WATER CO., 209 1th st, Tel 254 Medessa Minoral Water Carbonaied, unequailed. ¥lain for table use unsurpassed. NiGur ‘ll 1TCH, FIRE SERVICE, AMERICAN DISTRICT TELEGRAP E il. The only perfect protection (o property. Exam ine It Best thing on earth.| Reduces © rates. 1304 Louglas-st. OViR. KATZ-NEVINS €0, rers of M and Shirts and Overalls, LL FACTORIE Manu Pant Boys' 202-213 Clothing, wh st PAPEK BUXES THE OMAHA PAPER Mznufacturers of Shelt Boxes, SBample Wedding cake and fancy wud elry boxes BOX €0, of Paper Ho: SHIKRT FACTORIES, Safeand S " la bl An English gentleman, reputed to be pos- for Woman's Safeguard. WILCOX NPECIFI ol R S T S PHILA DA, PA | J. H. EVANS---NEBRASKA Eaclusive custow abist tallors. SHIRTCO.