Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-06-30

ence.
Miss Kate Kavanagh Is a successful
ranchero in the C.eur d'Alene country Of
Dakota.
Queen Olga, of Greece, has made and
embroidered national costume for her
husband.
White and copper promises to rival
white and gold as favorite color COM
bination.
White braids will be in vogue on dark
sateens, and on velvet and silk they are
also fancied.
The Empress of Germany tastes por-
tons of every article of food intended
for the Emperor.
Gray and green are very stylishly
blended together in some of the new
hats and bonnets.
Silk-fowered wooden lace looks rich
and elegant as trimming for summer
challies and lusties.
Full bows of ribbon, with stiff quill
or two, are the only permissible trim
ming worn for travelling hats.
The Princess of Wales is setting the
example OF displaying as much jewelry
as possible on court occasions.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, the temper
ance organizer, says the doll teaches
little girls to be vain of dress.
If Queen Victoria lives a few years
longer she will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage Of history.
A garment that is basque at one side
and upon the other well-defned polo
naise, is among the latest caprices.
Gray with yellow-the bright, brassy,
buttercup hue--is one of London's afro
cious combinations for evening gowns.
About the prettiest of new rustic hats
are made of fine corn husks. delicately
braided and neither bleached nor colored.
J Real silver hooks and eyes are seen
| upon the corsages of some of the summer
gowns, and are ornamental as well as
useful.
Brilliantine, the new summer stuff so
popular for house gowns, is merely the
old time alpaca in new tints and printed
patterns.
Isaiah Walton, farmer living near
Byron, Ca, says he has five married
daughters whose aggregate weight is
over 1000 pounds.
1 The University of Zurich, Switzerland,
his conferred the degree Of Doctor of
Philosophy upon Miss Frances H. Mitch
ell, of Philadelphia.
1t is stated that so great is the demand
for green hats the present season, that
dealers find it at times almost impossible
to keep them in stock.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with
picture of Marshall Wilder, the humor.
list, on one side of her and mirror tied
with ribbons on the other.
Striped fabrics, when used for corsages,
are made more effective by being made
to taper sharply at the back forms, and
to slope diagonally to point in front.
Thousands of hands are now busy on
the trousseau Of the future Empress of
China, and it will be the greatest ever
made. The wedding will not occur until
| 1882.
Among the most attractive Of the sea-
sons bonnets are those of straw lace,
which are nearly as delicate as some of
the silk and thread hand wrought
guipures.
Sleeves are made of two materials to
be very stylish and are very becoming.
Two full wide puffs with wide bands be-
tween are very pretty, and bows to finish
At elbow and wrists.
There are in Asia 200, 900, 900 of Bud
dhist women not one of whom, according
to her religious belief, has any hope Of
immortality, except, perchance after
! transmigration through many animals,
their spiI Is may enter some boy infant.
1t is said that the new gold braided
and bordered white camel's hair capes
are called Bulgarian simply because they
had TO be called something, aud the
name Marie Antoinette had been
stretched about as much as it would bear.
DIR. Sarah Hackett Stevenson said at
the Woman's international Conference in
Washington. that the women who went
to all quarters Of the globe as physicians
did more missionary work than the
shnrch missionaries, because the doctor
appealed to nature.
Cheese straws are a new wrinkle at
dinner parties. The cheese comes in
.ong sticks like macaroni, and one end is
tied with narrow strip OF ribbon.
These cheese straws were first introduced
At the five O'Clock teas two seasons ago,
and now find their way to the fashion
able dinner table.
/ Albert cloth, among the best Of new
English woolens, is TO be had in golden
bronze, blood orange, terra Gotta, moss
and olive green. all which are made up
with much heavy braiding Of gold, sill
yer. steel or copper, the design outlined
with silk or mohair brat cf color con
irasting with the foundation.
Paris ans are wearing new sort Of
earring, to which they have taken
kindly-an arrow or feather fixed almost
horizontally across the lobe. The arrow
IS generally enriched with single Iearl.
The feather has small cluster Of colore
itones. Long droop earrings have a so
come in again. to the delight Of women
who possessed such trinkets and hast
sned to exhume them from the cases in
which they have lain so long.
The first coast light in America was