Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN.


Green shades predominant.
Quilts are still used in millinery.
Queen Natalie's beauty is fading.
The Queen Of England is tenant.
Belva Lockwood never wore a corset.
Cashmere and metallic effects are
noticeable.
Most trimmings upon hats are from
the back forward.
Ripe cherry and ochre are combined IN
autumn millinery.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the whistler, was
born in Elmira, N Y.
Black hats are favored for wear with
costumes of any color.
Lady Colin Campbell is now art critic
for a London newspaper.
Long pelisses made of big-howered
rich brocades are stylish.
The autumn woolens are mostly plain
goods, in new shades and new weaves.
Nearly all the new stuffs show solid
colors, with stripes of different weaves.
Teel or apricot is a very favorite shade
in corded silk evening toilets this sea-
sou.
The Supreme Court of Washington
Territory DEGREES that women cannot
vote.
Miss Julia Wolfe, an English woman,
has composed an opera entitled Ia
rina"
\ regular matrimonial agency has
been esta Ulished between America and
Russia.
Miss Ella Transom has challenged
Mrs Shaw to whistling match for 5000
a side.
The people of Japan are greatly inter
ested in the education and elevation of
women.
The leading gunmakers of England
have all had commissio ns to manufacture
guns for ladies.
Green and violet, especially when
light, form a combination preferable to
green and blue.
The new Duchess of Marlborough's
photographs are now on sale in the Lon
don shop windows.
Ladies' cloths appear again in the light
weights introduced last year, and IN all
the new dull colors.
The Queen Dowager end Empress of
Spain has just celebrated her thirtleth
birthday anniversary.
The Queen of Italy reads and writes
and sings and plays all by herself for
three hours every day.
The most fashionable women of France
are introducing small dinner tables in
stead of one large one.
Tne newest shades are heron, light
shade, and oxide, which is the gray Of
the dullest oxidized silver.
Mrs Cleveland has added to her col
lection of pets some white mice, two
rabbits and eight or nine pigeons.
Many PLAIN wool fabrics show a high
finish, the glossy, silk-like surface being
produced by clOsel y-woven twllls.
The example set by Mrs. Cleveland in
renouncing the hustle is being followed
by the fashionable ladies of Paris.
Among the rich ribbons now shown
are velvet stripes on peau de sole
grounds, with an ottoman border.
Plain Henrietta cloths are now mixed
with silk in such large proportion that
dealers call them sateen Henriettas.
The new gros grain silks have medium
sized reps, and soft ottoman silks have
smaller reps than those of last year.
Belva Lockwood says she can do house
work as we'll as any woman, but prefers
to make $4,000 a year practising law.
The newest hats are mass of bows
made of satin edged moire ribbon, of a
width varying from four to eight inches.
English women have adopted the uni
versal blouse with the frill outside the
skirt although the fashion does not meet
with the approval of the best dressers on
this side of the water.
deliberately carved shell combs are no
longer worn, their place being taken by
shell pins with comb tops, which are
large AMI intricately cut in leaf, flower,
and geometrical designs.