West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-12-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

otyllsh umbrellas are made with
handles of petriied wood.
Flounces, both gathered and pointed,
are seen on stylish costumes.
The only woman lawyer in Philadel-
phia is Mrs. Carrie b. Kilgore.
The latest winter fancy prescribes
monkey and ostrich feather boas.
Rev. Sophia Gibbs is pastor OF the
Universalist Church at Decatur, Ill.
The bridemaid Of 1889 will be attired
In a garb highly ornate and Frenchihed.
Big buttons are again in style and will
be worn profusely throughout the sea-
son.
Miss Strong, the young American RI
val Of Rosa Bonheur, is a native of San
Francisco.
Bead-dotted tulles and plain tulles
still hold their own as material for dane
ing-gowns.
Fashionable costumes Of cloth arc
severe in outline and entirely without
o~rnamentation.
The waistcoats are of brocade, the
hgure representing very small but very
bright knots Of flowers.
The directoire coat and the direction,
gown have made both big and little
buttons very fashionable.
Mrs. II. Riddle OF Savannah was made
Grand Worthy ice Templar of the
Good Templars of Georgia.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the
English physician, exacts as large fees as
the highest priced practitioner.
The Rev. Elizabeth w. Greenwood
says there are in this country II, 400
commercial travellers who arc women.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is responsible for
the declaration that the reign of Paris
as the mistress of fashions is at an end.
The esthetic style has quite d.sap-
peared and is replaced by the tight coat
of satin, with pearl aud silver buttons.
The Empress of Austria contemplates
n voyage in the West Indies, to be fol
lowed by a tour through the United
States.
Two pretty Santa Cruz CCaI.) girls
mako a pretty fund of pin money catch
ing frogs around q spring on E~scalona
heights.
Mrs. Robert Williams, of Preston
County, w. Va, although but fifty-two
years old, is the mother of twenty. two
children.
The Princess of Wales is more than
ever discardiug laces, satins and fur
bellows in public places. She dresse,
with studied simplicity.
The Chicago Society for the Promo.
ton OF Physical Culture and Correct
Dress was organized last May and nos
has a membership of 100.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes presided
over the Convention of the Women's
Home Missionary Society of the Method
1st Episcopal Church in Boston.
Bayard Taylol's mother is still living
at Cedarhurst, near kenneth Square,
Penn. Mrs. Taylor is a handsome old
lady, and a remarkable linguist.
Mrs. Frances E. Willard, President Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, is spoken of as r model presiding
officer, dignihed, quick minded and
vigorous"
Miss Amanda Delmas, a Creole who
was brought up to q life of Incidence,
n was then thrown upon her own re
sources, IS one of the most successful
sugar planters in Louisiana.
Long, fat bows, butterfly and cockade
bows, are all worn on the shoulders NJ
the top of the full sleeves of many in.
door gowns. Such bows give a very
dressy effect to an otherwise plain
toilet.
There are as many as four different
types Of blondes in PhiladelphiN-tbe
ash, the ehataigne or chestnut. the
blondes dOrees or golden blondes. and
the strawberry ~ the latter, by the way,
quite numerous.
The Italians are making some very
nFcffU hIffnna apI ~
country. They are made ly hand in
Venice, and are of shell. of a shrimp mink
color, the lining Of a large cOnch she'll
called the "King."
Philadelphia is generally rackoned as
. somewhat slow town, but IL is away
ahead IN the matter Of lady editors.
Besides numerous ladies employed by
the daily papers, the city has FIVE sue
cessfui magazines, all edited by women.
A generous patron was a lady who
contributed TO a fair held the other day.
She brought a large number of useful
and fancy articles TO assist in the adorn
ment Of the tables. and after they had
been accepted purchased them a her.
self.
Miss Amelie Rives ChanIer vsa,s
shoes that are made like gloves, with a
RDNFh - NaNI ADts AMG ina OrltV OF
women, however, cannot wear such
shoes, for their big toes lie on ton of the
other toes and cannot be trained over
again.
Long, rich fringes Of sewing silk cloth
with spiked ends or beads with head
ings Of rich raised passcmcnteTie and
velvet bands worked IN applique and
satin stitch are quite the newest as they
ere the handsomest trimm ngs Of the
season.
Miss I'm King Eng, a daughter Of o
native Chinese Christian preacher in this
country, Is preparing herself for mission.
AIRY work, and has Just finished her
course in the OHIO Wesleyan University
and entered the Medical College in
PHILADELPHIA.
JIG has been discovered that wash
feather is almost as good % ground rs
velvet for painting. Made into banker
chief OF glove boxes 10 may be decorated
very PRETTY. and any one who under.
stands painting IN velvet can paint on
che leather without trouble
a lady Of Glenn Fails. n. s.. ft is said.
has a Joplin gown, still handsome and
Eerviceabic, that has been in wearinp
thirty-ciRht years, and various and sun
dry silks whOse age is about twenty
each. Needless 70 add. he g more man
comfortably rich, as only in that event