The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Everybody wears bracelets now.

flollus VI SulIats.
House dresses made of French cash.
mere continue in favor.
Kensington embroidery is simulated
in many of the new fabrics.
The tendency to tight -lacing again is
becoming painfully evident.
Imported wraps. like imported dresses,
show many rich combinations.
Juive sleeves of the dress material have
close fitting sleeves of lace beneath.
Some bodices have several crests of
contrasting colors opening one over the
other.
The majority of hired girls in Canada
earn but So a month, so saysa Canadian
authority.
Gray gloves with broad embroidery OF
black silk on the back are worn with
black toilets.
An Ohio woman went to bed one night,
and woke up next morning to find her
jaw dislocated.
Epaulets and "ropes" of beads, or del
icate passementerie, are used upon
woolen dresses.
Tailor suits are made in striped, also
checked goods, with habit basques and
drapery full at the back.
Minnie Wilson, rosy-cheeked maid
of fifteen, drives the stage between Mil
nor and Hamline, in Dakota.
In 1910 there were only seven occupa-
tions open to women in the United States;
now there are three hundred or more.
There are at present over one hundred
Indian girls under the guardianship of
the Lincoln Institute, near Wayne,
Penn.
Entirely new and very graceful are
flower pins that represent punches or
sprays of flowers with long flexible
stems.
Ottoman and tweed are used for au.
tumn wraps, and are trimmed with rib
bon or velvet about the sleeves. and
collar.
Bodices of velvet have panels cut in
one with them and form an exceedingly
handsome combination with striped wool
skirts and drapery.
DR.. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond,
Ind, and DIR. Hannah Longshore cf Phil
adelphia are sisters and were the pioneer
women physicians of this country.
Miss Mollie Garfield, who is living
with her mother in Cleveland, has grown
to be handsome young woman, and is
taller by several inches than her mother.
One of the most successful breeders Of
fine horses in Colorado is Mrs. Annie D.
Chopper. Her yearly sales are attended
by purchasers from all parts of the West.
A lady dentist in Hartford, Conn.,, EN-.
ploys some five or six assistants. She
examines the patient, does the filling,
and leaves the making of the teeth to the
assistants.
Bertha Wolf, German girl living in
Southwest Colorado, is announced in the
Western papers as the first discoyerer OF
gold in the San Juan mountains. She n
worth 500, 1000.
Rose Terry Cooke says: "Never mind
whether they are your own chiluren,
your ep.children, or your children by
adoption, see that they mind when they
are spoken to-"
Mrs. Jay Gould is dignilied, refined
woman of domestic tastes. She Is well
educated and great reader. Her
, daughter Nellie, bright young Miss Of
sixteen, is her constant companion.
Polonaises are very fashionable, but
being rather difficult to get into, the eff
feet of q polonaise is produced by arrang.
ing the draperies over the basque both in
the back and front, so that one con find
no ending to it whatever.
A girl employed in the coal mines in
Belgium says she works from five o'clock
in the morning till between nine and
eleven at night. She loads from sixty
to seventy cars o day and earns two
francs, or about forty cents.
Donna Cousino is the richest woman in
Chilli. She owns vast plantations, which
she manages herself. The town of Lota
has seven thousand inhabitants and she
, owns every house there. Her own
! palatial residence there cost 81, ,COO,-
900.
Theresa Kelly, now superintendent OF
bookbindery in Cleveland, O., during
the war entered the hospitals as a nurse.
, Her services were so valuable that she
was sent to the front and received a COM
mission as orderly sergeant from the fifth
Ohio infantry. There is no record of any
similar honor accorded to woman dur
ing the war.
Alas for the birds! They are still seen
upon bonnets and hats. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that the charming arrangement
of ribbon or velvet bows and the time
honored ostrich plumes will prevail, so
that there will not be suicide among the
slittle tomtits" for the sake of the mate
wantonly slain to disfgure the hat OF
some thoughtless woman.
The village of Lads, in the Tyrol, has
for generations observed the rule that
its maidens must not take husbands out
side their own village. Nevertheless,
lately Catherine Schranz, regarded as
the most beautiful girl in the district,
accepted the proposal of a suitor from a
distant place. The youths of Lads
resented this as a personal injury. Six
of them seized her, tied her on cart
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