The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-03-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Lace dresses will again be worn.

Lace dresses will again be worn.
Bridal cakes ore frequently kept for
so or 100 years.
Lace over satin is the f~avorite BRIDES
dress in New York.
There are 800 female farmers in Da.-
kota, most of them Scandinavians.
The Innings for cloaks are of plain
satin; quilting is no longer fashionable.
Short velvet and brochc mantles in
dolman style will be worn in the early
spring.
Stripes of all widths will again be
worn, but not so fashionably as plaids and
checks.
IT'S pity, but It's true; the hair is worn
higher and higher on the head from week
to week.
Tho cashmere brooches brought out this
spring are among the pretticst goods OF
the season.
For the incoming season China silks
bid fair to take precedence of foulards
and ~taffetas.
White evening costumes are trimmed
with silver or gilt braid, and with white,
gray or brown down.
Front draperies must be either very
long or very short. Those OF medium
length are not in style.
Fine turbans, Langtry turbans with
gay Scotch plaid satin trimmings and
Polish sealskin caps arc worn.
Basques for cloth dresses have diverg-
emit points trimmed with graduated disks
Of braid, the largest at the top.
Velvet collars, turned down or stand
ing, are very fashionable. Jabots and
gi[ets of lace are worn with them.
A scarlet velvet bonnet is lined with
bronze satin, edged with gold braid and
trimmed with dark brown feathers.
Short evening dresses are made very
full, and have two loose breadths pulled
so. that they are no longer than the skirt.
The queen OF Holland walks daily on
the public streets. She dresses in somber
garments, and is accompanied by only
one attendant, a lady.
Black is the leading color for hosiery.
Cardinal and dark blue arc very fash.
ionable. Striped and plaid stockings
are quite out of style.
The women in the Turkish harems
rarely venture out Of doors, and play
with pet animals as the little girls do in.
this country with their dolls.
Mrs. Charles Griffin, of Lowell, made
Is, S18 .buttonholes last year, for which;
work she received over $500, and did
all her homework in addition.
Rug knitting has superseded stocking
knitting with midd!c-class English old
ladies Of industrial habits. The rugs are
Of no particular design, and are called
Oriental.
Miss Rose McIlvane was recently
awarded a $40 prize for bringing the
most gentlemen to the Princess Roller
Skating rink in Detroit, the number who
escorted her to the rink being thirty
eight.
Queen Victoria will not starye this
wear. She owns Windsor Great park,
which contains IA, 900 acres and brought
in $25, 900 last year, and also 500 houses
in London, which bring in annual.
rentals.
Tiny diamond poke bonnets, in which
are faces cut Of moonstone, with pinR
tinsel set beneath the translucent stone
to give the flesh tints, and diamond toads
and tortoises are some quaint fancies for
brooches.
One of the fashionable schools of New
York has introduced o new thing called
slumbrous comeliness, which teaches the
young ladies to assume graceful poses
in bed, to keep the mouth shut, how not
to snore, etc.
One of the richest women in Europe is
the unfortunate Charlotte, ex-empress OF
Mexico, whose personal expenditures are
small, while the interest of her large for
tune every year is of itself a fortune. Shc
has brothers who will inherit her es-a
tates.
A young Spanish artist has lately re-
ceived 81, 900 from a California lady for
q painted fan of black silk. The subject
is q representation of the language OF the
fan in three ways: II hate you, 81 like
you" II see you," and is exceedingly
clever, as well as delicate in treatment.
New lady's cloths in fine, soft finish
come in the new shades of mastic, which
are tinted green, rose or heliotrope, or
simply putty colored; in reseda green.
fawn, golden brown, tan. and pearl
shades, and when not simply tailor
stitched the favorite trimmings are steel,
silver and gilt brsids put on sparinglyin
tasteful but effective geomctric patterns
and vermicelli or zigzag lines, or in rows
or clustered rows.