The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
All hats have very high crowns.

AL ualS uufC NSly H6A
High coifFures and high collars are the
rage.
Gold braid bonnets are extensively
worn.
Cloth-top boots arc coming into fashion
again.
Feather fans take precedence of oil
others.
Capes and pclerines are excessively
fashionable.
In Minnesota several girls are railroad
station agents.
woman is manager of q State savings
bank in Sweden.
Small narrow cuffs arc much worn with
taiior-madc dresses.
Velvet waistcoats are the correct wear
with ribbed jerseys.
Ribbed silk jerseys arc the latest form
of this popular jacket.
Grey, in Il variety of shades, is more
used than any other color.
The latest novelty in Paris fashion is a
llll tIIlllulCt Will
The poke of Oriental lace is the bon
net to wear with muslin dresses.
Large flower designs appear on the
latest importations of linen lawns.
Creme wells are coming into fashion,
and are becoming to the complexion.
Statistics show that quite as many men
I,,,l, 1,y-p from, 0Vpr-Ctl1T.
Mrs. General Shcridan's toilets arc the
most admired for richness and taste IN
Washington.
Four little girls under thirteen years OF
age turn out about 10, 900 paper torpedoes
in a day in Boston.
The conductors of the horse cars OF
VALPARAISO arc women. They are rcputed
to be honest and polite.
Heavy plain white Irish linen paper,
and French paper in cream and PINK are
in fashion, without lines.
Dotted net wells are not worn at all.
They have bccn superseded by the PLAIN
ones made of colored tullc.
Mrs. Langtry loves our gold dollars Sc
well that she has had a set of two dozen
dress buttons made OF them.
Statistics show that the Protestant
churches of this country average two
women to one nan among their members
Jersey gloves arc very fashionable in
both silk and Isle thread. The silk
gloves arc very long and fine and hand
some. $500.
The female chorus in the Philadelphia
musical festival takes the lead in strength
and culture OF any female chorus In the
country.
There seems to be a coming woman
SURGEON. She is Dr.. Grace Wolcott, q
graduate of the Woman's Medical Col
legc of Philadelphia.
Turkcy-red %petticoats trimmed with
velvet ribbon arc seen among the nc"
underwear. They have scvcral stcels
crossed at the top to make a puff.
Mrs. Plunkett, of Massachusetts, has
written a book called woman Doctors
and Plumbers" Mrs. Plunkctt has been
q close student of sanitary science.
Velvet round the throat and wrists, fas'
tened with any good-sized rocco buttons,
especially miniature, with diamond, crys'
tai or pearl setting, is coming in again.
A printed cashmere, which has very
large figures printed on a cream ground
is much used for the trains and back
brcadths of short dresses of cream-colorec
silk.
DR.. Marie Haslep and DR.. Sarah Stock
ton have been elected by the Marion
County Qnd.) Medical society dele
gates to the Indiana State Medical SO
cicty.
The short dolmans trimmed with che
mile fringe are very pretty and becoming
to most figures; but they have become
COMMON through ~everybody's wearing
them.
Only two women in the Washington
departments have reached an S1,S0l
clerkship. Under the new civil-scr
vice law women will have q better
chance.
All the different sorts of lace, Ealcn
c%icnnes, Malincs and Alencon, are I'M.
tated in q new web. from which brida
costumes will be made this summer. II
is worn over white silk or white India
muslin.
s'Pink dinners have nov taken the
place Of 'blue tcas' in New 1ork's fash
ionablc circles. Everything in the room
is pink, and the favorS include Il horn o.
plenty, to which tasty pink streamcrs arc
attached. -.
In Leigh Richmond's advice to his
|. daughter, he wrote: "Girls, be cheerful,
but not gigglers; be serious, but not dull
be communicative, but not forward; be
kind, but not ~servilc. Beware Of silly,
thoughtless speeches."
Mrs. Waddington, the wife of the
French minister to England, is an Amcri'
can lady. That will explain why she is
both treasurer and secretary to her hus-
band. An American lady wouldn't give
Il cent to be merely her husbands sccrc-
tary.
DR.. C. II. Won Klicn has made the OBJ
servation that the cutaneous irritation SC
frequently found upon the forcheads OF
fashionable ladies is the result of the
ouince-seed mucilagc used for the pur-
pose of arranging bangs and similar
capillary "vanitics."
Overskirts Of Chantilly lace %flounces
arc now worn even in the daytime in
Paris. They are sewed on a net founda'
ton. arc as long as the undcrskirt, and
loopcd up in many different ways give
the owner the privilege of varying her
dress at will with very little trouble.