Richland beacon., 1888-03-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

point ana head, are now fashionable.
Pale and deep tan plush skirts are worn
with dresses of various oolors and fabrics.
Cloth gowns of pale suede have white
moic vests and 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-thrcc.
but she makes up so well as to pass for
sweet sixteen.
Dainty home toilets arc almost inva-
riably made with bcltcd 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 n recent publication a woman an
nOunces that she is the only woman inf
del lecturer in the world.
Very new draperies are straight
breadths, showing their sclvagcs. which
are further accented by lining of pirot
ribbon
The o. lest old maid in the country is
Miss Betsy Sargent. Of Canterbury, New
Hampshire. She was one hundred Yeas
old last July.
Oxydized silver lace pins in the form
of turkeys claw are popular. Another
new design represents a silver log with
tiny gold frog upon it,
The wife of Don. NJ. Dickinson, the
new POstnasterGcncral, is Il handsome
woman, tall, with auburn hair, clear
complexion, and large dark eyes.
Whit. ribbon, 70 ded, or b ircly show.
ing the edge and ending in a tiny bow
outside. is still the fashion for the neck
and sleeves Of dark wooden gowns.
The PrinC eos of Wales, it has been re-
ported, has a velvet basque trmm nd with
black long haired fur Basqucs, it need
hardly be told, are now in fashion.
The contour of the head is best dis
played by a low coil of hair If one has
Grecian profile, the small, high Psyche
knot is becoming, as well as fashionable.
Skirts of cross barred Bengalinc and
watered silk are fashionably worn with
polonaises or basques and drapcries of
cashmere of harmonious or contrasting
shades.
The st. Louis RpuVi-w, having DIS
covered that the b.lles Of that town are
growing thinner, expresses fear that
the women will ultimately disappear al
together.
With costumes of light tan camers
hair, nothing Is so stylish as long wrap
of gray blue cloth, edged with paoation
fur, aud accompanied by cloth bonnet
of like hue
The Chicago Ners, without mincing
matters, admits that "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 Mr.. Horace Walpolc, nephew
and heir of Lord Oxford. The wedding
will be in London in May.
Collars, frills, jabots, fichus, plastrons,
vests-every shape, form and 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 walking hat direct from
London, and a good part of them upon
the bands and loops, now the accepted
garniture for brown felt hats and bon
nets.
The Baroness Burdettc- COutts and
other philan.hrOpists, of London, are
perfecting plans for furnishing work
shops and sewing machines where poor
seamstresses can go and use the machines
tor 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 be 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 considered promotion it causes Mrs.
Villas to move down one place in the line
of cabinet ladies at the White House re-
ceptions.
uC ulSu craze Ill I.OHuOu
Taris has about done away with the
tight sleeve, in which the ann had quite
the effect of sausage roll, though it is
questioned if some of the draped, slashed
and pulled affairs that replace it are not
even more of mOnstrosities.
White and god is throughout favor
lite combination. Young matrons par
ticularly affect evening gowns of white
broadclOth, flannel or chuddar cloth,
heavily enriched with gold-silver too,
sometimes the fan'y further ap-
pears in both hats and bonneis.
An "Anti-Celibacy Insurance Com
pany" has been established in Denmark,
in which young women bcyinnirgai AT the
age of Is can insure themselves for Il
tri1ing sum. II they marry they forfeit
all claims, but ii they remain spinsters
until 40 they ere entitled TO small an
nuity.
Two startling, not to say romantic,
events have transpired at Vassar College
sincc-the opening of the present school
year. One young lady, who was passing
herself off as ''bcing still in the market"
was discovered TO have been married for
some time. Another fair dan:scl fell
into the college lake and was rescued By
handsome artist who was ridin! by.
A Quail for Thirty Day.