West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-06-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
DlacIk toiIets atiII Ioad am other..

Mrs. Senator Davis possesses the hand
soonest rubies in Washington.
A Mrs. Phillips is one of the most
wide awake farmers in Georgia.
Mrs. Hanna Nelson conducts a pros
porous dairy school in Denmark.
symptoms Of coming revolution of
coiiInrcs are reported in London.
Miss Ida G. StOwell, Of ST. Paul, Mimi.
has made $3.50, 900 in speculation.
Green has the most prominent place on
all the imported hats and bonnets.
Mrs. Frank Leslie keeps stereotype
plate OF rcfusals of offers of marriage.
The custom for ladies to carry walking
sticks is once more becoming ashiona-
bic.
Paris miliners perfume their most ex-
] pensivc French flowers and flower
! bonnets.
The light green chip hat which Bern.
hardt has made famous is being extern
sively copied.
1t was a sister OF General John A. Dix
who wrote the once popular ballad, "The
Blue Juniata.'
The eight daughters of the new Chief
Justice Fuller have each separate piano
TO practice upon.
Fine nansook is chosen for summer
underwear, and Valenciennes lace is its
favorite trimming.
Daisy buttons exactly Stimulating the
small Engl sh natural flowers are seen
upon many imported gowns.
Miss Susan b. Anthony never cats ice.
cream, while Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan.
ton Is passionately fond OF il.
Green in all shades, from apple TO
olive, is favoritc hue for the trimming
of back straw OF Neapoltan hats.
Striped and cross barred Grape and
scwing-silk grenadines, are the preferred
material for summer mourning gowns.
Jersey waists arc once more in the as
oendant, and the jersey of the present
season is most elaborate and artistic
affair.
Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw has for eight
years supported free kindergartcns in
the poorest quarters of Boston and Cam
bridge.
Turkey-red cotton has been used for
bonnet in London, and fair Partisan
has dared to wear a hat lined with pink
flannel.
Old fashioned lace mitts reappear for
wear with empire gowns, and arc
differentiated only by jet embroidery Of
the backs.
Miss Helen Blanchard lives in Phila-
delphia luxury on the fortune she made
from the invention of a sewing machine
attachment
Grasshopper green and periwinkle
pink are the names of two fresh spring
tints daintily intermingled in the adorn-,
/ Il Bu - ~
A pretty and unique fashion is to face
the brim with one color and have the
outside trimming of round hat of an
other tint of a contrasting color.
The parasol with natural stick, a
bronze handle, unequal divisions or
cores, lace trimmed aud ribbon deco
rated, is the fancy of the present hour.
Satin straws are very pretty and will
be very stylish the coming season. White
straws and white trimmings are to be
worn by both young and middlc-aged.
Sashcs of gauze and satin striped rib.
bon are very pretty on bright summer
stufTs and form the trimming on the
waist by being draped in surplice fash
ion.
Grape flowers are delicate and perish.
able, Tut have the advantage of looking
summerlike and appropriate TO the Cos
samcr effects seen in this seasons mil
linery.
White felt hats, soft and plant, are
very picturesque, and becoming as we'll.
They will be stylish for summer wear in
the country or the seashore the coming
season.
Thirty women make living by
specializing on the open Board of Trade
in Chicago, and half that number do
business through commission firms on
the regular Board.
There arc unmistakablo signs, it is
/ said, that false hair is contemplating a
resurrection, in what form does not vet
seem clearly evident, but long curls.
plaits, and pads have begun to show
/ themselves.
Velvet basques will be much WON with
skirts Of thin stuff, and have the neck
! pompadour and filed in with tuIle or
crepe, and the elbow sleeves cut in
points, falling over a rulilc of lace or
crepe that is met by the glove.
Secretary Whitney's New York house
was the gift OF Oliver H. Payne, his
/ wifc's brother, and it is said Payne gave
/ it TO her as a bridal present. 1t cost
| $500, 600, and its furnishings are est
mated to have eaten up 500, 600 more.
/ Mrs. Lillian NJ Pavy, Of London. Eng
/ land, IS a commercial traveller now visit
| ing the Western States in the interest OF
an English house She travels alone
and finds that in this country woman
/ does not need an escort TO protect her
from annoyance.
Miss Minna Irving. the poetess OF
/ Tarrytown, n. y, claims the proud dis
| tnction Of possessing the smallest foot
in America. She wears n slipper exactly
one size less than a number ono. and
keeps sampled on exhibition at the diff.
fercnt newspaper Offices in New York.
Shocking now so much the rage. gets
I its name from the smock Of heavy white
or blue linen worn by English butchers
and means that the material is first very
/ exactly gathered in several rows and the
I gathers aftcrward caught together I'm
I honeycomb or diamond pattern with
/ strong silk, usually Of contrasting
\ color.
1 TO IS said TO be utterly questionable
/ iu Washington not 10 ride. probably fifty
I cqucstrians being seen now where there
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