The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-01-07
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Children wear wide lace collars.

Children wear wide lace collars.
Entire birds, with the feet turned up,
are used for trimming hats.
Children of both sexes wear white
dresses and wide ribbon sashes.
The number of young lady physicians
in Germany is rapidly increasing.
The empress of Germany has not been
able to walk for eighteen months.
For young ladies' wear have been pre-
pared black costumes with red waist
coats.
Basques of Caroubier velvet are worn
over skirts of ecru yelling embroidered
in many colors.
Spanish girdles of irridescent beads
are q special feature for black house or
dinner costumes.
Dresses for house wear are fashionably
made in fenciful styles that borrow ideas
from all nations.
Wild flowers and grasses are used for
bridesmaids boqucts, and also for gar
nishing the dresses and hats.
Figaro jackets of velvet gauze are
worn over silk, satin or lace skirts Of any
color for dinners and small parties.
An English furrier has made up collars
and mufTs of skunk skin and has put the
head of the animal IN the mutf.
The Moments Herald Of Industry pubs
fishes q list of twcnty-siy females who
wear trowsers and arc adhcrcnts of Belva
Lockwood.
The lady nurses selected for service
with the Nile expedition all wear the
silver-gray cloaks and bonnets of the
nursing sisterhood.
In many dresses a fold of red or Of
pale yellow velvet is basted inside the
collar, and sometimes extends down the
front beyond the edge of the buttons.
The blouse waist is used even for silk
frocks aud looks very pretty with a vel
vet waistcoat. The belt worn with such
costumes may be of velvet or may be en-
broidered with beads.
White velvet aud China Grape make
one of the most exquisite costumes for a
bride. The former material makes the
train and waist, the latter the p~ufings
which compose the p%etticoat.
Hawaiian women are deplorably de-
ticicnt in maternal skill, and infants often
die in consequence of this Ignorance and
inexperience. At present there are but
two births to three deaths on the island
of Kauai.
The coming giantess is now develop.
ing in a village in Leicestershirc, Eng
land. Though barely fourteen years OF
age she is six feet five inches in height,
weighs 252 pounds and has only just
commenced to grow.
At Michigan university, when a class
election is held, the meeting is generally
humanized by the presence of the young
lady students, and the principle of the
women suffrage is confirmed by the cleo
ton of n or more officers from the fair
Sex.
Colored crepe lisse folds for the neck
are imported by the yard, or else with
the ribbon bindings extended to tie, and
thus the fold becomes q collar to be put
on separately without being bastcd in
the dress. These are shown in poppy
red, pink, yellow and blue.
A new perfume called GA Lily's
Sigh" is now in use among the women
whose purses are long, the price being SIS
per tiny phial. 1t produces al exquis-
lite odor, very much like the heliotrope,
and is said to have been originally intro
duced in this country by Mrs. Langtry.
Lace is lavishly worn again, but in this
century the demand for it is confined to
women, whereas in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries men, too, expended
hire sums on rutfles and wristbands. In
1890 the expendisE:e-cf William III. FOR
lace was IS, OILS; in 1904, nearly $40. 900;
in 1895, 81, 900. Queen Anne also
lavished money on Mechlin and Brussels.
Nine. Sophie Kovalevsky, of Russian
birth, fills the chair of mathematics at
Stockholm university. Most women are
said by the professional wags to object
to the telling of their age, but it is to
the glory of this intellectual ornament
of her sex that she holds one of the
highest positions among the learned at
the age of thirty.