Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

Navy blue and crimson are worn TO
gethcr.
Women now serve on juries in Wash
ington Territory.
There arc now 155 women students in
Boston University.
Fifty-sevcn American women writers
were born in Maine.
Bonnets made Of rows upon rows Of
. Irvine are Of English origin.
Jacket sleeves are made comfortably
tight and reach down to the wrist.
In Holland the Van Gelderen sisters
have passed their examination as den
fists.
Gray lace shoulder-capes, trimmed
novelties.
Pretty parasols are made Of satin and
r,lched over with spanish network Of
Decatur county has girl who cap
tured and sold fifteen wolves during the
last season.
Gendarme blue or dark red cloth jack
cts may be worn with gray, brown or
black skirts.
The women of Mississippi are working
actively TO prepare for the coming Cot
ton Exposition.
Few hats are seen. Small bonnets are
worn with costumes at all times of the
day and evening
In Boston there are 10000 working
women whose wages average only four
to five dollars week.
The women in the Isle of Man are
allowed to vote upon proving the own
ership of twenty dollars.
A dry-goods clerk says that it is far
easier to serve homely women than
handsome ones in shopping.
The Chicago Rambler says the Ameri-
can girl ID lazy physically and ought to
take long walks in the open air.
Wrappers for ordinary morning wear
are made in the old fashioned princess
shape, falling loose down the front.
Laced boots are in fashion again for
misses and young girls. They are high
in the ankle and have deep toe caps.
Ruches are worn for full Dress both
round neck and wrists. The small turned
up COLA. is neat for morning costumes.
Although flowers are in great favor as
bonnet trimmings, there are some shapes
that require feathers instead of flowers.
Many of the small mantles are worn
like scarfs over the shoulders. They fol-
low the figure in the back and form small
sleeves in front
Draperies falling straight down the
back are seen in many of the new dresses,
especially when the skirts have panel
trimmings down the sides.
Lemon-yeIlow and hop green are fash
ionable colors in dress fabrics, and for
children and young people all shades of
rcd are considered en- regle.
Cravat bows arc not popular now. The
narrow collar which finishes of all the
high bodices, IS always fastened by
pretty artistic or fancy brooch.
In the beautiful limitations of Brussels
and Chantilly lace the designs of the old
lace are reproduced and even the color
bears the tone imprint of age.
Very dainty is a small lace bonnet with
a wreath of roses in front, surmounted
by a cluster of humming-birds, with lus-
trous breasts and outspread wings.
Velvets will be used all summer as
bands aud binding of hats and bonnets;
also, to combine with the highest and
most sheer materials in forming dresses.
White null hats and bonnets trimmed
with null lace and white clover blossoms
put on in lunches are correct carriage
wear for watering places and the seaside.
There is a greater tendency than ever
to Oriental ideas in fabrics of all sorts
this season. Dress goods, carpets, mat
tings, tapestries, curtains, all show ORR
entail designs and colors.
A new style in parasols is the Japanese
coaching parasol, with sixteen ribs; it
has large fiat ivory ring top and handle.
In the ring is loop and end of ribbon of
\ blue to match with the color of the para.
sol.
Odd boots to wear with cloth cos
hume are made of the olive-colored cloth
Ind buttoned by fifteen small, round
Nead-like buttons; patent leather tips,
Embroidered at the end in tiny holes; the
bells arc fiat and vide.
Null pokes for country wear, white,
be, rose color, gray and red, are trim
NJ with bands and punches of flowers
Nhout leaves, and matching the color
olhe null. or with rose petals sewn on
inhick bands, and sometimes covering
th4ntirc crown.
Ring habits may be made either Of
kerA. broadcloth or English melton, in
BLACK navy blue or hunters green The
latesfstyle demands that the habit be
boundEith braid and buttoned with ivory
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