The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-01-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Beads around the throat is very fash
ionable.
White Grape is somewhat worn mixed
with other materials.
Wraps trimmed with chenille have
beaded balls placed at intervals around
the throat.
It is said there are fully 800 females in
the United States who are masqucrading
in masculine garments.
The Wesleyan Female college of Geor,
gia, created in 1888, was the first col
legc for women in this country.
Modelling in clay or wax is the fash
ionablc pastime among ladies with an
abundance of elegant leisure.
Choice sprays of shaded velvet flowers
appear upon some of the most elegant
little opera bonncts from Paris.
The vote of Washington Territory was
about AZ, 900, Of which number the
women contributed perhaps one-third.
A white cloth capote, with plated
crown, bound with brown velvet woven
with tiny gold loops, has large pompons
of zephyr wool.
A t%erra.cotta poke bonnet is lined
with old gold satin. Waves of creamy
lace and birds of iridescent plumage
form the trimming.
A pretty ball dress is of lemon-colored
tullc over satin, with q few poppics
placed at intervals on it, their stalks
being tied with a large satin bow.
Bands of embroidery in silk and che
Mile are used with rich silks or velvets,
either across the lower edge of the skirt
Or to outline the panels at the sides.
The heavy fancy cloth used for wraps
and for dresses has the same metallic ef-
fects reproduced in the patterns that arc
seen in the richest evening brocades.
Gray or brown cloth suits, with short
wraps to match, trimmed with fur, and
q turbau of the same material edged
with the fur, are both sensible and sty-
lish.
Fancy aprons are now fashionable for
home wear. Many are made of sheer
white swiss, with the single pocketplaced
on one side, trimmed with q large satin
bow.
Since the beginning of the organized
female suffrage agitation in England, in
1870, the official records show that 16,
354 petitions, bearing 2,542, 1852 sigma
lures have been presented to parliament.
A most charming toilet, recently i'm
ported, is made of moonlight tulle,
studded all over with. tiny silver loops
woven into the tissue, and through each
of which is passed the stem of a wood
violet in velvet.
GLOW do you braid your hair so
niccly2" queried q gentleman who was
visiting a lady friend. "Oh," broke in
her enfant terrible sister, ''she takes it
of and ties the knot to the gas chande-
lier and fuses I'VE two hours every
morning"
An evening dress is of silver blue bro
cadcd in forget-me-nots. The train is
full and round, the neck is cut low to the
shoulders, and the sleeves short. Over
this is a drapery of silver gauzc caught
high on the left side by q cluster of for
get.me-nots.
A pretty evening dress for a young
lady is of pear white satin, over which
falls a drapery of tulle caught high on
one side by q cluster of Marguerites. The
iardiniere of the same dainty flowers,
which passes about the skirt, is IN odd
but becoming bit of ga%rniture.
Among the handsomest of the satin
robes are those which are embroidered on
one edge of the material with graduated
patterns about half q yard in depth and
the edge prepared for being cut in
squares, points or scallops in the manner
now in vogue for dress skirts as we'll as
for the skirt and waist draperies.
"Drifting into a jewelry palace with
holiday shoppers" writes q newspaper
gossip, II observed a lady pricing a pair
of fine garters with a gem fastening.
They looked so pretty that when she
had passed on to another showcase l
modcstly asked the price. 1t was only
81, 300." He was also shown q Russian
sable cloak valued ut 81, 000.
The Turkish woman is superstitious in
the extreme. She believes in charms.
She will not live an hour bereft of her
t~hrce-cornered bit of leather which en-
closes the mystic phrase that is potent
to ward off the evil eye. She d~istrusts
Tuesday as the mother of ill-luck, and
will not celebrate the birthday annivcr-
sarics of her children, or even record the
date, lest some magician use it to cast a
spell against the child.
In Northern Siberia, if a young native
desires to marry, he goes to the father
of the girl of his choice, and a price IS
agreed upon, one.half of which is then
paid down. The prospective son:in-law
at once takes up his residence with the
family of his lady love, and resides with
them a year. If at the end of a year be
still desires to marry the girl ne q pay
the other half, and they are married on
the next visit of the priest. If he does
not want to marry he need not, and SIM
ply loses the half he paid at the start.