Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

NOlu-Wlre leWelry is IN nlgn favor.
Dress skirts are trife longer than last
season.
DR.. Talmadge says women should be
permitted to whistle.
Black is nsed to trim bonnets, cloaks
and dresses of any color.
Plaid s;uffs are in high favor for the
popular Irish peasant cloaks.
Florence Nightingale is a confirmed
invalid. She is sixty mine.
Cincinnati has a woman's press club,
a woman's paper, and woman's suffrage
club
Francis Hodgson Burnett, the novel.
1st, was born in Manchester England, in
1o40.
Queen Christina of Spain has mania
for being photographed with her chill
dren.
A prominent feature of the new bro
cades is the application of black oD
color.
The rage for gold trimmings has ex.
tended to morning caps and negHge
Jackets.
A lady was recently chosen to fill the
chair of Greek in college at Fargo,
Dakota.
American women have been granted
patents at the rate of two week SO faI
this year.
The redingote style is we'll adapted tc
display the richness of the new brocades
and velvets.
Among the new grays are powder
gray and thunder cloud, dark, and sea-
gull, orange gray, light.
Mrs. Davis, widow of the late Justice
David Davis, has returned to her old
home in North Carolina.
sLabouchere says that ''the American
girl has almost entirely cut out the
English girl in noble favor"
Elderly ladies now choose plain OF
striped cashmereS in black or dark col.
ors for their everyday costumes.
In Cuba a woman never loses her
maiden name. After marriage she adds
her husbands name to her own.
The newest English walking hat has
straight, stiff brim, and lower, broader
crowns than those Of last season.
Mrs Mary E. Tyler, the original Mary
who had little lamb, is now eighty
two aud lives at Somerville, Mass.
New camel's hairs show shaded stripes
of dull red, green and brown, or have
Gloves of white undressed kid are ne
correct thing for brides, and they fit
smoother over the arm than those of last
year.
The new turban hats are much modi-
fed in height, and are shown in various
styles, with crowns square, round or
conical.
Mrs Charles Alexander, daughter of
no LOT Mr. &c oI0o
bly, the richest woman Of her age in
America.
Steel blue is popular shade for cloth
costumes. This hue is much grayer,
however. than that known by the same
title year ago.
1t is said that Mrs. Hopkins Searle has
bought fully $50, 900 worth of paint
ings in Paris for her mansion at Great
Darlington, Mass.
Mrs. Bridget Eooly is probably the
oldest woman in America. She was
born in Ireland in 1772, and has lived in
Wisconsin since 1877.
A very chic little toque for winter
wear is covered with green cloth. shirred
to the frame and embroidered in silk, |
with a garland of daisies.
New styles and patterns in furniture
are very beautiful and exhibit some very
quaint conceits likely to please women
who boast that they are artistic.
Queen Victoria said recently: "Every
movement which tends to raise the
position of women and extend the sphere
of their influence has my warm approval
The fan which the Bonapartist ladies
gave to Princess Letitia as a wedding |
gift cost $500. OF this Detaille, who |
painted it, received $4,000, and the jew
eller $500.
A woman has been elected superinten-
dent of Schools at St. Johnsbur Vt |
Her name is Miss Belle F. Small, and /
she is a graduate of the New Hampshire !,
School, of Amherst.
The Women's College, which has been /
built in North Baltimore at cost Of |
$3.50, 600, will open next September with /
one hundred students. There are two /
buildings for physical training.
a very stylish coat for a miss of four |
teen or fifteen years is IN the Directoire |
style, of heavy faced cloth, with deep, |
round cape, and with wide, loose cuffs /
of velvet, turning UP almost to the ell |