The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

by young ladies as by matrons.
Flounces, when narrow and not too
full sometimes cover the entire skirt.
Miss Dodson, Philadelphia artist, has
two pictures in the Paris salon this year,
Mrs. May Mapes Dodge, the writer
and editor, gets $4,000 year, it is said.
Dove, STEEL and mouse gray are the
fashionable shades of this popular color.
Whole front breadths are made of long
strips neatly lined and braided in and
out.
| Twenty-one of the twenty y-eight ward
school principals in Indianapolis are
women.
White dotted Swiss, with gay colored
bouquets sprinkled over it, is new this
summer.
Flowers are placed in pompons or
round clusters i'll the same way as feather
tips on bonnets.
The woman market is down now in
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring from
$50 to $120 head.
Laura White, an American girl, has
been admitted to the special school of
architecture in Paris.
Telephones in Switzerland are exclu-
sively in the hands of women, who are
paid $3.50 to $500 year,
japanese paper and silk and satin fans
are not entirely out of vogue, but feather
fans are the favorites.
Very small diamonds are now more
fashionable than those of larger size, but
their setting is work of art.
A material much used for summer
dresses is etamine, thread texture re-
sembling extremely fine canvas.
Fashionable and dressy parasols are
very gay, very large, and very much
trimmed with lace and flowers.
The jacket or casaque opening over
the waistcoat or gathered or plated plas-
tron is feature in early summer suits.
Changeable linens are among the sum-
mer dress goods. They are very be-
coming and, of course, wash perfectly.
The close short jacket with velvet
pockets is in favor for street wear, not
only in Jersey cloth but in English check.
Buttons, whether of passementerie,
smoked pearl, metal or enamel, are very
small and round and placed very close
! together. E.s5. y.gsl. .l,-,or1 ~. oc,1or-
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cheviots, which are also shown in stripes
/ and neat checks.
Some new stockings for evening wear
have vertical stripes on black ground,
and few of the very finest quality are
embroidered on the instep.
A venerable sunshade may be fresh
ened by almost covering it with very
narrow velvet ribbon, and will pass for
one OF the newest French fashions.
Some of the new straws show mixed
effects, as in the cheviot cloths. Others
are all Of one color, and another style
has alternating braids of two colors.
Light weight Ottoman and gros grain
silks are selected for walking suits, and
trimmed with gathered frills or plaitings
of the same, with lace and jet galloon.
In Buffalo there is a Woman's Union,
to advance the interests of the sex in gen.
eral. There are classes for instruction,
in which women may learn penmanship,
typewriting and bookkeeping.
Young girls who are desirous of secur-
ing physical beauty are recommended by
a physician to eat meat once a day, pick
els once week, and sweetmeats once d
year; also to take cold bath and five
mile walk every day.
A 'Lyceum dress lining" printed all
over with portraits in miniature of Irving
and Miss Terry, and with scenes from
Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of
Venice, is the latest Irving craze, which !
comes from an English Manchester print |
works.
Cynthia Ceres, young Illinois school |
teacher, took up wheat farm in Dakota
three years ago. Now she is jolly, |
healthy girl with a fine farm of 320 acres |
and 50, 900 in money. She is independ-
ent for Life. She has only to raise wheat !
crop every year.
The day when an Overskirt could be |
made from small scrap of material has
passed, and unless a woman chooses to |
weigh herself down with several pounds
of curled hair she must allow her dress
maker yards and yards of stuff for plait~
ing and putting.
DR.. Sarah L. Weintraub, graduate of /
Philadelphia medical college, is going |
TO practlSe her profession In the ancient /
city of Damascus. Male physicians are
not allowed to enter the women's apart
ments there DR.. WeinIraub will have
things all her own way.
With white toilets brides still adhere
to very long white gloves, the choice be-
ing between undressed and finished kid,
each style having its adherents. White
slippers and hose are usually chosen, but
another innovation sanctioned by fashion
is the use of black slippers and black silk
hose.
The handles of this years parasols are
made from sticks of wood ending in
knots, but these knots are carved into the
heads Of dogs and owls or orramented
with sca,e work rather than left plain.
Some Of the handles initiate vine stem
tied IN knot, ana some are ebonized and
then cut away with sharp tool, so as to
show the white wood beneath in spots,
making the leopard pattern reversed.
The choicest of all the parasols, those of
fgmed satin bordered with row on row
of chenille fringe, have bamboo sticks
with handles and tips of finely wovep
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