Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-02-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

| VI SOVu SCI WIFI u TOuRu
Diamond hairpins. jewcled both at
| point and head, are now fashionable.
Pale and deep tan plush skirts are worn
, with dresses of various colors and fabrics.
Cloth gowns of pale suede have white
MORE vests and a trimming Of golden
beaver.
| Young ladies' trim their black silk
gowns very effectively with silver and cut
Jet gimps.
| The Princess of Wales is forty three.
but she makes up so well as to pass for
/ sweet sixteen.
| Dainty home toilets are almost inva-
riably made with a belted corsage Of
some description.
/ Bonnets of dark green velvet are
spangled with Jet and trimmed with
black moire ribbon.
Cashmere bonnets, with pinked edges
and caps sewn inside, are in vogue for
babies and little girls.
In recent publication woman an
nounres that she is the only woman inf
del lecturer in the world.
Very new drnperies are straight
|
are further accented by lining of pirot
| ribbon.
The Oldest old maid in the country is
Miss Betsy Sargent, of Canterbury. New
Hampshire. she was one hundred years
old last July.
Oxydized silver lace-p;ns in the form
of turkeys claw are popular. Another
new design repI esents silver log with
a tiny gold frog upon it.
The wife of Don. NJ. Dickinson, the
new ostmaster-G General, i; handsome
woman, tall. with auburn hair, clear
complexion, and large dark eyes,
/ White ribbon, foided, or bIrely show
ing the edge aud ending in tiny bow
outside. Is still the fashion for the neck
and sleeves of dark woolen gowns.
The Princess of Wales, it has been re-
ported, has velvet basque trimmed with
black ioug haired fur. Basques, it need
! Hardly be told, are now in fashion.
The contour of the head is best dis
played 10y low coil of hair. If one has
u Grecian profile, the small, high Psyche
knot is becoming, as well as fashionable
Skirts of cross barred Bengaline and
watered silk are fashionably worn with
polonalses or basques and draperies of
cashmere of harmonious or contrasting
shades.
The st. Louis Republican, having DIS
covered that the bellies of that town are
growing thinner, expresses a fear that
the women will ultimately disappear al
together.
| of Aon lpa
hair, nothing is so stylish as long wrap
Of gray blue cloth, edged with mou6on
fur, and accompanied by cloth bonnet
of like hue.
The Chicago Nc,cs. without mincing
matters, admit, that 1.-THE genuine Chicago
complexion is undeniably grimy," and
that "few Chicago women ever have
really clean faces"
Miss Louisa Corbin, niece of Austin
Corbin, now at Nice, has become en-
gagged to MIR. Horace Walpole, nephew
and heir of Lord Oxford The wedding
will be in London in May.
Collars, frlls, iabots, fichus. plastrons,
yests-evcry shape, form aud color Of
net, lace, ribbon, or muslin, is now ad-
missible for neckwear, but care must be
used TO fit them to their occasion.
All the spots of the leopard may now
be had upon IA walking hat d drect from
ondon, aud good part of them upon
the bands and loops, now the accepted
garniture for brown felt hats and bon
nets.
The Baroness Burdette- Coutts and
other philan hropists, of London, are
| for fttro r.
shops and sewing machines where poor
scamstrcsses can go and use the machines
for small cost.
Fashion insists on the absolute aban-
donment of black stockings and patent
leather slippers with evening dress. Only
one kind, and that the color of the tan
suede glove, can he worn, and stockings
and slippers must match.
1t is an interesting fact that although
the appointment of Postmaster-General
Villas to the Secretaryship of the Interior
is con idered prompt.On it causes Mrs.
Villas 10 move down one place in the line
of cabinet ladie, ut the White House re-
ccptions.
The 'high art" craze in London and
raris has about done away with the
tight sleeve, in which the arm had quite
the effect Of sausage roll. though it is
questioned if some OF the draped. slashed
aud pulled affairs that replace it are not
even more of monstrositlcs.
White and go d is throughout favor
itc combination. Young matrons par
cularly alect evening gowns of white
broad 10th. flannel or chuddar cloth,
heavily ent.ched with gold-silver. too,
sometimcs-a the fancy further ap-
pears in both hats aud bonncis
An Anti.Ceibacy Insurance Com
pany" has been established in Denmark,
in which young women lie ginning at the
age Of lJ can insure themselves for a
tri.iing sum. II they mary they forfeit
all claims, but il they remain spinsters
until 40 they are entitled 10 small an
nuity.
Two startling, not to say romantic,
events have tmnspired at Vnssar College
since-tho opening Of the present schuol
lad. b.,, a,aoci IN ~