The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-11-30
Esvs AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

vi Suilats.
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.
h many rich combinations.
Juive sleeves of the dress material hive
close-ftting sleeves of lace beneath.
Some bodiccs have several crests of
contrasting colors opening one over the
other.
The. majority Of hired girls in Canada
earn but So a month, so says a Canadian
authority.
Gray gloves with broad embroidery of
black silk on the back are worn with
black toilets.
An Chic woman went to bed one night.
anu woke up next morning to find her
jaw disioca,ed.
Epaulets and 'ropcs" of beads, or del.
1ca'e passcmentcric, IRE used upon
wooden dresses.
Tailor suits arc made in striped, also
checked goods, with habit basqucs and
drapery iull Mt the back.
Minnie Wilson, n rosy checked maid
OF fifteen, drives the stage between Mil
nor and Hnmline, in Dakota.
In 1910 there were only seven o cupa.
ions open to in the United States:
now there are three hundred or more.
There are at present over one hundred
Indian gir.s under the guardianship OF
the Lincoln Institute, near Wayne,
Penn.
Entirely new and very graceful are
flower pins that represent lunches OF
sprays of flowers with long hcxibl.
stems.
Ottoman and tweed are used for all.
tumn wraps, and are trimmed with rib.
bon or velvet about the sleeves and
collar.
Bodiccs 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 br. Hannah I.ongshorc CT Phil
adcIphia arc sisters and were the pioneer
women physicians of this country.
Miss Mollie Garfield, who is living
with ler mother in Cleveland, has grown
to be q 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 oil parts of the West.
A lady dentist in Hartford, Conn.,, en-.
p!oys some five or six assistants. She
examines the patient, does the filing.
n leaves the making of the teeth to the
assistants.
Bertha Wolf, a German girl living in
Southwest Colorado. is announced in the
Western papers as the first discoverer OF
gold in the San Juan mountains. She is
worth 800, 600.
Rose Terry Cooke says: "Never mind
whether they arc your own children,
stcp-children, or your children by
adoption, see that they mind when they
are spoken o."
Mrs. Jay Gould is a dignitied, refined
woman of domestic tastes. She is well
educated and a great reader. Her
daughter Nellie, a bright young Miss OF
sixteen, Is her constant companion.
Polonaises are very fashionable, but
being rather difficult to get into, the eff |
feet of a %polonaise is produced by arrang-
ing the draperies over the basque both in
back and front, so that one can find
no ending to it whatever.
A girl employed in the coal mines in
says she works from five O'Clock
in. the morning till between nine and
ut night. She loads from sixty
seventy cars a day and earns two
francs, or about forty cents.
Donna Cousino is the richest woman in
chilli. Shc owns vast plantations, which
he manage, herself. The town of Lota
las seven thousand inhabitants and she
'wns every house there. Her own
residence there cost 81, co.,
100.
Theresa Kelly, now superintendent OF
bookbindcry in Cleveland, O., during
no war entered the hospitals as a nurse. !
Ter services were so valuable that she
sent to the front and RI ceived q COM
Mission as orderly sergeant from the filth
ohio infantry. There is no record of any
imilar honor accorded to q woman dur
ng the war.
Alas for the birds! They are still seen
pom bonnets and hats. 1t is to be hoped,
lowever, that the charming arrangement
f ribbon or velvet bows and the time.
ostrich plumes will prevail, so
hat there will not be suicide among the
little tomtits" for tho sake !. The mate
Vantonly slain to disfgure the hat Of
ONE thoughtless woman.
The village of Lads, in the Tyrol, has
or generations observed the rule that
ts maidens must not takc husbands out
ide their own village. Nevertheless.
ltely Catherine Schran,, regarded as
most beautiful girl in the district,
ccepted the proposal of Il sutton from a
istant place. The youths of Lads 4,
tbs as q personal injury. Six
t them seized her, tied her on a cart
ID lod ha.-4h.a..L H. .:u