The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-02-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.

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Some of the new fans have amber
handles.
Embroidered haudkerchicfs are no lon
ger fashionable.
In Siam it is the custom for husbands
to gamble away their wives.
Lace and hcmstitching are the trim
mings for drcssy handkerchiefs.
Underskirts are made very full in the
back, to supply the hustle effect.
Fans composed of ostrich feathers in
two colors are very pretty in effect.
Gold jewelry is gradually but surely
finding its way to popular favor again.
There are forty-eight women in Dako-
ia holding the position of bank cashiers.
An Indian girl, fourteen years Of age,
is the ''boss" breadmaker at Lewiston,
Idaho.
The latest French fashion is to notify
the guests at country houses whom they
arc to meet.
Mrs. Mary l.. Leonard has been adj
mittcd to the bar as the first female law.
yer in Washington Territory.
There arc at present seventy women in
France who have received the distinc-
ton of the cross of the Legion of Honor.
A Jersey City girl is at work on a
crazy quilt composed Of small pieces
clipped from the silk Innings Of her many
admirers ovcrcoats.
Balls of hammered silver are used to
head the long pins thrust through the
crown Of the bonnet, converting them
into articles OF luxury.
Tying the bonnet strings in the back
of the neck is the device adopted for the
sake Of warmth by girls without fur COL
lars or fur-trimmed garments.
There may be- women who do not wish
to be married; but has there been a
woman who could take comfort in the
thought that she had never been asked
to marryl
Five hundred dollars for a pair of
shoes seems q high price, but it has been
paid by one of the society bellies Of New
York. They were of white satin, and
were embroidered with pearls.
English brides refuse to wear long
trained wedding robes, saying they do
not care to look like dowagcrs at their
W weddings, where they propose to
dance in a demi. trained dancing dress.
1t is not fashionable to wear light
colors at q French wedding, unless one
is a kinswoman Of the bride. A rich
visiting dress, with o very costly little
mantle, is what the most elegant women
wear.
Chenille, dotted and embroidered tullc
and tulle with designs in tinsel and floss,
are much used with evening dresses of
the delicate pongec and India silks and
for the draperics of satins and gros grain
silks.
The full, pulled sleeve, not nearly SO
pretty in itself as the French coat sleeve,
looks beautiful by comparison with the
Jersey, with whichit is most often thrown
into contrast, and it conccals the arms to
perfection.
1t is prophesied that mignonette green
will be the color most in favor for light
gowns next summer. 1t is so cxquisitely
delicate in appearance that it always
seems especially appropriate for the
warm season, and if properly blended
with scarlet even bruncttcs can wear it.
As for blondes, there is nothing more be-
coming to the soft pinkness of their
cheeks and to the gold of their hair.
In Northern Siberia when q young
man thinks he wants to marry q young
woman he arranges to pay q certain sum
to her father. Half of this sum he pays
down and lives with the family of his
lady love for a year. If, at the end Of
that time, he still wants her, he pays the
other half of the sum agreed upon and
gets her. If he doesn't want her he says
so and loses the inJtallment which he
first paid.
At q golden wedding in New York the
florist who decorated the rooms chose to
use yellow blossoms, and produced a
brilliant effect. The bay window was
filled with ferns. butter-cup carnations
and sunset roses, and yellow chrysanthe-
nuns and golden ferns were banked
everywhere. Two hearts in pearl roses
were hung over one of the arched doors,
ard the newell post was twincd with yell
low flowers.
The long, thick crepe veil is very in
furious to the complexion. The rough
creme rnbs the skin off ond the %nOiSOnOuS
matter is taken into the circulation in
that way, as we'll as carried into the
lungs in breathing. Such a veil worn for
two consecutive years seldom fails to
produce bad results. Similar goods about
the neck, and black silk and black cot
ton goods also produce bad effects. Paris
has a feather dyers' disease, produced
from the dye in which the black feathers
are dipped.