West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

a woman mas arrived at Long Branch
with 1873 dresses.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt pays her
physician $40, 600 year.
Poston University has women in its
highest governing board.
The Empire corsage Is worn by brides
maids and sometimes with good effect.
Mrs. Ernest Hart has taught tho
peasantry Of Donegal to weave wooden
goods.
White gowns must have some trim
ming of metal galloon in order 10 be
stylish.
In Japan 12s new schools and societies
foi girls and women were established
during last year.
The open-mesh point d'esprit net is
more fashionable just now for brides
veil than illusion.
Miss Harriet p. Haine, seventy years
Of age, is clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington.
Gilt, silver, steel, white or red braids
are u.ed to trim boating dresses, usually
in graduated widths.
A novel color combination is reseda
are combined with black.
Miss L. T.. Wragg, of Charleston, s.
e., is gaining reputation as the leading
woman cngraver of Ameria a.
No heavy trimmings of any sort are
used. Velvets and pushes have no
place on this seasons bonnets.
Bias folds of Grape or foulard are
chosen in Paris for neckwear in prefer.
ence to either linen or ribbon.
For once fashion is patriotic. and
chooses the red, white and blue, either
all together or combination OF any two.
Susan b. Anthony says she is willing
to retire from active work as woman
sulfragist in favor Of some one younger.
Many of the newest shot stuffs of wool
or silk are of red and orange, and the
result is brown altogether indescriba-
BILE.
Nine. Nilsson, the operate artist, has
Just recovered from long and annoying
deafness caused by assesses in both
ears.
ace nets in all sorts of colors, dotted
with gold or silver, are very stylish for
bonnets, and have a very light, cool
elect.
The Directoire styles have extended
even to morning dresses, which even for
summer are composed of rich, heavy
materials.
Mrs. Julia Noyes Stickney goes with
the National Educational Association on
its California trip as newspaper cor
respondent.
Vassar College has conferred the de
gree of LID. on Mrs. Catherine l..
Franklin, Fellow of Johns Hopkins
University.
Black and gold is seen in some elegant
combinations on bonnets and hats this
season. Bright blossoms always trimming
such head gear.
Suede color is a tan which combines
very successfully with gold, and is a
favorite color this season in both wooden
and silken fabrics.
Dressy costumes of silk are often made
with pinked-o out edges, aud a plastron
composed of silk scAllops in layers com
pletes the corsage.
New Orleans has bachelors benevo-
lent association with a good bank ac-
count. It's investment is now a question
with the members.
Pretty frocks for little girls are made
of surah or other soft silks, and deco.
rated with shocking and Torchon lace
Of the finest quality.
Ribbons from four to eight inches wide
are now used upon hats aud bonnets, and
some OF the arrangements are astonish-
ing, to say the least.
Some Of the daintiest summer bonnets
are made Of rows Of straw insertion di-
vded by pufiings of black, white, cream
or pearl colored gauze.
Many entire bonnets are composed of n
single large bow of ribbon, with full
front of gathered velvet, lace or lisse,
and garniture of flowers.
ONE forty-three descendants of Re-
becca Nourse, "the pious witch Of 1892, -
Picnicked in her honor at Danyers
Ceatre, Mass, the other day.
Wraps Of shot faillc beaded ia cash
mere colors are newer than beautiful.
and should be chosen only by those who
have quieter garments in plenty.
Mrs. Moses Fraley, the wife of a mill.
iOnaire Spectator of St Louis, wears
four gowns a day at Long Branch, and
never repeats a gown for three weeks.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant says her expert
ence as matrOn in a lunatic asylum has
been Of great assistance 10 her in pre
siding over woman suffrage meetings.
Large flowers are a conspicuous feat.
ure Of many summer bonnets. Often.
times the crowns are nearly concealed by
loose petals Of peoples, asters, roses, etc.
Ielts Of Russia leather or tan un.
dressed kid, or fine kid in pa'e gray or
b ue shades, are now imported. These
have buckles Of cut steel, dull silver or
gilt.
e7timeutal London ladies, TO HELM the
starving Hindus. are sending out stuff
for their next seasons frocks, TO be On.
riched with the marvellous Oriental en-
broidery.
Pearls have never been so popular AZ
now, fashions demands including those
Of an colors, pink, brown, gray. black
and other shades, except the inferior
yellow ones.
Many new stuffs show stripes Of rose
wood and lead color, cream, and peach.
plum and rose color. brick red and old
go d, and the effect is delightfully."- soft
and harmonious.
Horse hair braids make the daintiesf
and hghtest Of bonnets imaginable. be.
ing fine and delicate in weave, they have
a very cool, transparent effect, which IS