West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-09-06

There is n mining company in st.
Louis composed entirely Of women.
Palest baby blue and black is fash
ionable color combination at the mo.
ment.
The Hindu woman is taught that she
can only get TO heaven through her hus-
band.
Mourning costumes have a trimming
Of lace worked on tullo, with fine jet
beads.
1t is not considered good taste in Paris
for ladies to wear bright col2rs in the
street.
Kate p. Beard, of Texas, invented
hand device for propelling sewing ma.
chimes.
Miss Mary Crcel, of Kentucky, is said
to be the most beautiful girl in the
country.
Polonaises may be draped alike on
both sides, or long on one side and short
on the other.
The bodice without any basque is al.
most universally favored by fashionable
drcssmakers.
The smile, bow and ready words OF
Queen Margherita, OF Italy, are the per-
lection Of royal art.
Margaret, Lady Saudhurst, maintains
a home for sick, crippled and Incurable
children in London.
Black and yellow, black and pink, and
beige and red are favorite color combi
nations in millinery.
Bows of light green ribbon are some
times combined with white artificial
flowers in lieu Of foliage.
A daughter of w. f. (''Bufralo Bill")
Cody is presently to be married to
young doctor in Colorado.
In London drcssmakers and others are
fined heavily for allowing their girls to
work over-hours in the shops
Hot water is the best cosmetic in the
world, and 1T is one that everybody can
have In an unlimited quantity.
Miss +. Il. Wragg, of Charleston, S.
c., is gaining reputation as the leading
woman engraver OF America.
During her visit to America Mrs.
Laura Omission Chaunt spoke at 12l
meetings and Travelled 10, 600 miles.
Mrs. James Brown Potter asserts that
society girl must not be intense.
Frivolity is the fashion at present.
White feathers, either alone or com.
bined with ribbon, are by far the most
elegant trimmings for Leghorn hats.
Shotsilk petticoats very much flounced,
the flounces either pinked, fringed or
edged with wooden lace, arc all the rage
in London.
Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender was the au
thor of the Nebraska law which makes
mothers joint guardians of their children
with the father.
Dressy costumes of silk are often made
with pinked- edges, and plastron
composed of silk scallops in layers com.
pletes the oorsage.
Miss A. L. Wilson of Cynthiana, XIV.
is reputed to be the best informed woman
in America on pedigrees and the history
of trotting horses.
Miss Mary A. Rice, a graduate of the
Kansas State University, is said to be the
first woman in that State to receive a Ii.
cense as a pharmacist.
Several charitable ladies have organ.
lied an ''ice mission" in Nashville, Tenn.
They hunt up poor people who are sick
and give them ice and tea.
A hat that has every appearance oil
felt, without the Objectionable weight Of
that material, is made of crepe, lightly
stretched over a foundation.
Lace, tulle or net mixed with velvet
or MORE upon straw and forming n ma
trix for numberless long-stemmed flow
ers is the feature of millinery lust now.
If the calico-patterned India silks are
combined with PLAIN stuffs, the under
skirt must be figured goods with dram.
cry of the plain, and waist in which both
appear.
During twenty-five weeks Of this year
Si26 patents were issued by the United
States Patent Office, hut Of this mum
Der only ffty-three were issued 10
women.
Pelonaises approach the directoire
shape when of thick material. but of
thin are gathered fully in the shoulders.
Tapped to the left, and very much draped
in the skirt.
Green hats or white trimmed with
green have more aud more the call. while
greeny white fowers-hops, snowballs.
briar rOse-are positive rage upon
black straw.
Young men in Philadelphia who have
girls 70 supply have started the story
that Mrs Cleveland does not eat ice
cream, believing that it encourages the
growth Of pimples.
Again the glass fabric comes to the
surface and we arc told that IL IS finer
and softer than silk, with the lustre Of
gems, and capacity for taking more than
al their rich huos.
Miss Ella Q. sabin, Professor OF
Rhetoric and Elocution in the Uni.
vcrsity Of Oregon, has been elected
Superintendent Of Education In the CITY
Of Portland, Oregon.
Black hats are allowable with any
cOlorcd costume and arc more and
more trimmed with green ribbon I'm
variety, while I'm Paris they odd short.
green plumcs as well.
A curious sight was witnessed the
other night at Dcbois's Opera House. I'M
Elgin, III. Forty young ladies, al
dressed in red, white and blue. recited
'Sheridan's Ride" by pantomime.
BOnneis arc now worn by tho souaws
Of the Chienuo tribe iu Nebraska This
adoption 81 The white woman's stvIe of
headgear is due to the thicvinu of several
OF the Indians They robbed millinery
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