The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN,

Awomanin Connecticut has been mace
a notary. '..,.. tr.-,
Pongees, either plain or embroidered,
wash beautifully.
Black lace capotes are worn as much
by young ladies' as by matrons.
Flounces, when narrow and not too
full, sometimes cover the entire skirt.
Miss Dodson, a Phil adelphia artist, has
two pictures in the Paris salon this year.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the writer
and editor, gets So, 900 q 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 tw~enty-eight ward
school principals in indianapolis are
women.
White dotted Swiss, with gay colored
bouquets sprinkleo over it, is new this
summer.
Flowers are placed in pompons or
OuuO CluSlGIS Ill l1C SoIlC way ~ SoeAS
tips on bonnets.
The woman market is down now in
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring from
$40 to $3.50 a 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 a 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 moro
fashionable than those of larger size, but
their setting is a work OF art.
A material much used for summer
dresses is etamine, a 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-
iron is q feature in early summer suits.
Changeable linens are among the sum.
mer dress goods. They are very be-
coming and, of course, wash perfectly.
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 Plaitlngs
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 DESTROYS of secur'
ing physical beauty are recommended oJ
o physician to eat meat once o day, pick
els once q week, and sweetmeats once
wear; also to take a cold bath and q five
mile walk every day. :!
A "Lyceum dress-lining," printed al
over with portraits in miniature OF Irving
and Miss Terry, and with scene from
Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant o.
Venice, is the latest Irving craze, which
comes from an English Manchester print
works.
Cynthia Ceres, a young Illinois school
teacher, took up q wheat farm in Dakots
three years ago. Now she is a Jolly
healthy girl with a fine farm of 800 acre!
and 81, 900 in money. She is independ
emit for life. She has only to raise a whea'
crop every year. ,,,
The day when an overskirt could b.
made from a small scrap Of material ha'
passed, and unless a woman chooses Il
weigh herself down with several pound
of curled hair she must allow her dress
maker yards and yards of stuff for plat
ing and putting.
DR.. Sarah L. Weintraub, a graduate o
q Philadelphia medical college, is going
to practise her profession in the ancien
city of Damascus. Male physicians ar
not allowed 10 enteF tue "oinenS aPo1'
mcnts there. DR.. Weintraub will hav'
things all her own way.
With white toilets, brides still adher'
to very long white gloves, the choice be
ing between undressed and finished kid
each style having its adherents. Whit
slippers and hose are usually chosen, bu
another innovation sanctioned by fashion
is the use of black ''ippers and black sill
hose.
The handles of this years parasols ar
made from sticks Of wood ending il
knots, but these knots are carved into tn
heads of dogs and owls or orramentee
with sca!e work rather than left plain
Some of the handles initiate o vine stem
tied in a knot, and some are ebonized ant
then cut away with a sharp tool, so as tt
show the white wood beneath in spots
making the leopard pattern reversed
The choicest of all the parasols, those o
igued satin bordered with row on row
of chenille fringe, have bamboo stick
with handles and tips of finely. wovel
strands of bamboo.