The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Nows and Notes for Women.

Canoeing is the latest pastime for
English ladies.
Out of 536 missionaries in China, 80
of them are women.
Thi~ty-eight ladies have obtained de.
grees in France rs Doctors and Bachelors
of Arts.
There were e35 notable works of art
exhibited by the lady artists in London
at Il recent exhibition.
A lady was recently appointed profess
sor of domestic science in the Illinois
State Industrial School.
Laura Baker, of Clarksburg, Ind, was
forbidden by her parents to keep an ap-
pointment with her lover, so she went
out and hanged herself.
With the first money that Christine
Nilsson earned she built up the cottage
of her old father in Sweden. and he is
now a peasant well off in the worlds
goods.
IF YOU are about to be married you
need six bridesmaids, who will walk in
couples. each two dressed exactly alike
and differently from the others. That is
the highest mode.
A factory girl at Waterville, Me-, has
u wonderful head of hair, its length
being six feet three inches. When she
allows it to fall linrestrained upon the
floor it exceeds her height by eleven
inches.
Every girl who passes 'ough the
Boston schools now receives three years
instruction in various kinds of needle
work, and is capable of being an expert
seamstress. 1t is said that the benefits
resulting from this instruction are seen
in the improved appearance OF the chill
dren's clothing in the schools and are
felt in thousands of homes.
The Sultan has conferred his second
decoration upon the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. 1t is a broad white ribbon. with
edging. of crimson and green. With it
is a necklace of curious workmanship,
with a star set in diamonds and en-
eralds. This is called the "Chafakat," !"
or Turkish Order of Mercy. Lady Lay
ard is the only other English woman
who has received this handsome tribute
of Turkish gratitude.
NJ. Edmund Adam, the eminent French
Republican senator who died last year,
left the whole of a large fortune to his
wife, an accomplished lady, known as
an authoress by the name of Juliette
Lamber, and who has the most cele-
brated political salon of modern times,
where ministers, senators, deputies, gen.
erals, admirals and the elite Of the lit
erary world meet every week through
out the season.
A French woman he's written an enter
taining book of travels, in which. she
tells how she obtained sight of a Chinese
woman's foot. Few ever see--not even
the husband-the bare foot of a lady;
but the authoress, after great effort, sue
ceeded, amid the lamentations of the
family. The husband gave his permis-
sion and retired. 1t had to be unrolled
like Il mummy. Under the GOLDEN
broidered stocking were three folds of
calico, and the foot itself was deformed
mass. the toes growing into the soles OF
the foot, producing suppuration.
Summer Round Hats.
. A novelty for round hats is the intro
duction of the white India muslin scarf
to be wound aroundathe neck, or else to
be drawn over the flce when a veil is
needed. This is the shecrest cream-white
muslin, and is very effective on the
Scotch turbans that are lately imported.
4 black English straw turban has the
brim covered with gay
Scotch plaid velvet, while two full ro-
settes of myrtle-green satin are on the
left of the crown. The India muslin
scarf is then twined around the crown,
and hangs down behind considerably
over yard in length.
The Fayal straw round hats fol- out-of-
town use are very daintily trimmed
with shirred foulard inside the brim and
u grenudine scarf around the crown;
tield-ilower clusters are under the brim
on the left side and behind. But this
straw is very frail, and in it's place the
Rough and Ready or the Mackinaw
straws are preferred, with stiff brims,
and in creamy yellow. brown or black.
Very stylish black rough straw hats
have the straight, stiff brim lined with
black satin, on which three rows of gold
braid are laid near the edge. Around
the crown is a wide satin scarf; n red
and black wing is stuck in the left side.
Others, of rough yellow straw, shade the
forehead, and are short behind without
being turned up. These are trimmed
with rosettes of raveled satin in two
alternate colors, such as cream and red,
or yellow with bottle-green the rosettes
are around the crown, and there is n
large Alsacian bow on top made of black
velvet or of satin-striped dark green rib
bon. Sometimes white muslin scarf
trims such hats, and still others have
wide silk scarfs in stripes of blue with
old gold or red with green. Regular
flats through straw have alternate plait-
ings of black and of white Breton lace
around he crown and partly covering
the briih. Poppy buds, green wheat,
oats, or bluettes with long stems, tied in
q bunch, are then set on the back to lean
forward on the crown. This is very
pretty on black straws with the brim
lined will. buff foulard laid in plaits
from the edge toward the middle.
Shirred hats Of ecru batiste are made to
match suits, and are trimmed with q
scarf Of A lgerienne silk in bright Orien-
tai hues. The most dressy round hat
for the gay toilettes to be worn at Sara
toga and Newport remains the Leghorn
flat, with the brim pinched in to make
two or three curves and the spaces filled
in with bows of satin ribbon and flow
ers. The favorite trimmings are creamy
white ostrich plumes, Breton lace and
cream or old gold satin ribbon.-Harpcr's
BGzar.
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