The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-09-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The hustle must go. Mrs. Cleveland
isagainst it.
a woman has arrived at Long Branch
with 12S dresses.
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt pays her
physician $40, coo year.
Boston University has women in its
highest governing board.
Mrs. Ernest Hart has taught the
peasantry of Donegal to weave wooden
goods.
White gowns must have some trim
ming Of metal galloon in order to be
stylish.
In Japan 1873 new schools and societies
fol girls and women were established
during last year.
The open-mesh point d'esprit net is
more fashionable just now for brides
veil than illusion.
Miss Harriet P. Haine, seventy years
Of age, is clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington.
Gilt, silver, steel, white or red braids
are used to trim boating dresses, usually
In graduated widths.
A novel color combination is reseda
with terra-cotta, and both these colors
are combined with black.
Miss E. T. Wragg, of Charleston, S.
c., is gaining reputation as the leading
woman engraver of America.
4. No heavy trimmings of any sort are
used. Velvets and pushes have no
place on this seasons bonnets.
Bias folds of Grape or foulard are
chosen in Paris for neckwear in prefer.
ence to either linen or ribbon.
For once fashion is patriotic and
chooses the red, white and blue, either
all together or combination Of any two.
Susan B. Anthony says she is willing
to retire from active work as woman
Buffragist in favor of some one younger
Many of the newest shot stuffs Of WOO
Dr. silk are of red and orange, and the
result is brown altogether indescriba-
BILE.
Nine. Nilsson, the operate artist, has
Il Just recovered from long and annoying
deafness caused by assesses in both
ears.
Lace nets in all sorts Of coloIs, dotted
with gold or silver, are very stylish for
bonnets, and have very light, cool
effect.
The Directoire styles have extended
even to morning dresses, which even for
summer are composed of rich, heavy
materials.
Mrs. Julia Noyes Stickney goes with
The National Educational Association on
its California trip as a newspaper cor.
respondent.
Nassar College has conferred the de,
j gree of LII. d. on Mrs. Catherine L..
Franklin, Fellow of Johns Hopkins
University.
Black and gold is seen in some elegant
combinations on bonnets and hats TIL 8
season. Bright blossoms always trimming
such head gear.
Suede color is tan which combines
very successfully with gold, and is a
favorite color this season in both wooden
and silken fabrics.
Dressy costumes of silk are often made
with pinked-out edges, and plastron
composed of silk scallops in layers com
pletes the corsage.
New Orleans has bachelors bencvo-
lent association with good bank ac-
count. Its investment is now a question
with the members.
Pretty frocks for little girls are made
of surah or other soft silks, and deco.
rated with shocking and Torchon lace
of the finest quality.
Ribbons from four to eight inches wide
are now used upon hats and bonnets, and
some of the arrangements are astonish-
ing, to say the least
Some of the daintiest summer bonnets
are made of rows of straw insertion di
vided by puffings of black, white, cream
or pearl colored gauze.
Many entire bonnets are composed of a
single large bow of ribbon, with full
front of gathered velvet lace or lisse,
and garniture of flowers.
Some forty-three descendants of Re
becca Nourse, "the pious witch of 1892, -
spicnicked in her honor at Danvers
Centre, Mass, the other day.
Wraps of shot falle beaded in cash
mere colors are newer than beautiful,
and should be chosen only by those who
have quieter garments in plenty.
Mrs. Moses Fraley, the wife of mill.
ionaire Spectator of st. Louis, wears
four gowns a day at Long Branch, and
never repeats a gown for three weeks.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant says her expert
ence as matron in a lunatic asylum has
been of great assistance to her in pre-
siding over woman suffrage meetings.
Large flowers are conspicuous feat
ure OF many summer bonnetS Often