The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-10-07
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Hats are still large and bcnnets small

Ladies az well as gentlemen now wear
travelling caps.
There are IS, col female students in
the American colleges.
Medieval designs in gold are seen in
gauze scarfs for trimming hats.
Pendent trimmings of all descriptions
are more and more fashionable.
Ladies in Paris have just now a craze
for adopting white rabbits as pets.
New bonncts for autumn are provided
with ribbon strings to tie under the chln'
Wall lamps of all kinds and varieties
are very much in vogue for any sort OF q
room.
Young ladies are writing with quilts
since sealing wax and stamps came IN
fashion.
The most marked feature Of the fall
dresses is the absence of the "bunchy'
side draperics.
Pretty dresses arc made entirely OF the
piece wool laccs, and are lined with SUI
rahs the color ofthe lace.
Decorated fans Of gauzc, mounted on
ebony or pearl sticks, are more fashion
| able than the finest lace and feather fans.
1t is fashionable in London to burn
japanese pastilles after the fish course,
to disguise the faint odor it leaves be-
hind.
Miss Adelaide Randolph, a niece OF
Mrs. Garfield, has ! cen made professor
! of Latin in the State university of
Kansas.
Gauze draperies arc carried from RICH
to left and lose themselves in the drapery
of the skirt, or terminate in full plastrons
or fichus.
There arc a great many parasols just
now with the pattern of the black lace
run in gold, the lace falling is ~festoons
beyond the parasol.
The Princess Beatrice has over two
hundred pairs of walking shoes. The
princess should have married a man rich
enough to keep q horse.
The New York Ledger declares that
American girls of the present have more
beauty han the American girls of a
quarter of a century ago.
In the streets black toilets arc more
frequently worn than ever; some have
narrow plastrons of very finely plated
white cambria or percale.
Jenny June accuses English girls OF
tight lacing, and says they carry it to a
much greater degree of absurdity than
| fashionable American girls do.
Sewing-silk grenadines in small armurc
designs, or with jet figures and profusely
trimmed with lace, is the most gentcel
gown a lady who prefers black can wear.
1.-The widow of the Emperor Maximil-
ian, Of Mexico, is now forty-five years of
age. The doctors note an extraordinary
improvement in her condition and an
ticipatc a complete recovery.
Moirc is particularly in favor for bridal
dresses. 1t is used with crepe dc chine
and lace. The soft folds of the crepe
fall naturally, and give a graceful and
elegant appearance to the whole toilet.
Cotton poplin is q fine material ribbed
in the length, and so like wool that is is
impossible to detect the difference till
held in the hand; it is a serious rival OF
crepon for seaside and dainty country
toilets, being so supple, and therefore
draping to perfection.
The first coffee ever raised in the Uni
ted States is credited to Mrs. AtZcroth,
who successfully produced it at her
plantation heal Manatte, Fla, in 1880.
She has now twenty-five coffee trees and
says that with proper cultivation coffee
can flourish in that latitude.
a house made of beaten gold was a
bridal gift in London recently. When
ever one touches q secret spring a door
of cmeralds and diamonds would open
and there could be seen within q fine
portrait. Mile. De Brevura, who was
married to Mr.. Stanhopc, was the recip-
lent of the gift.
Tullc wells are made very long and
quite cnvelop the figure. They are fas-
tened on the head with fancy pins.
Flowers are not Us much worn in the hair
by brides at present; orange blossoms
are usually pinned about the corsage and
skirt. If the sleeves are quite short
gloves should reach them, and. should be
pure white Or cream, according to the
tint of the dress.
4 new and elegant evening dress has
a simple foundation of black surah silk,
cut princess, and made low in the neck
and without sleeves. Over this clouds
of black tulle arc Topped, and very full
ruching of tulle borders the foot of the
gown. with tiny punches of honcysuckle,
bright rcd in color, caught in the center
of each group of plaits. Large punches
of honeysucklc are caught among the
draperics, and the shoulder straps seems
to be made entirely Of the pretty flowers
continued in outline round the low.cut
neck,