West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-22
NEWS AND NOrEs FOR WOMEN.

INDOOR dress skirts are frequently
demI-trained.
Wool laces arc still used, but to a very
limited extent.
Butterflies Of gold hlagree arc popular
hair ornaments.
Directoife and Empire designs are
favored for little girls.
Several German ladies enjoy a very
good practice as dentists.
A string Of gold doIIarsis the fancy Of
the hour IN qneen chains.
Flounces, both gathered and plated, are
noted upon dressy costumes.
The oldest woman is New York is Mrs.
Sarah lockwood, of Cortland.
A newspaper entitled the Womsns
Penny Paper is to be started in London.
Farty dresses for little girls are made
Of India silk or cashmere in very light
colors.
The new Persian Minister says Ameri
can woman arc the handsomest in the
world.
Ostrich bands, lying Fat on the 5rim,
are a fayorite trimming for felt hats for
misses.
Women do the work of ushering peo-
pie to their places in most Of tho thea
tres in Paris.
At the banquet TO Kaiser William at
the Niennese court the ladies all kept
their gloves on.
At the "Bcauty Show recently held
at Spa, Germany, eleven different coun.
.ries were represented.
Looped draperies and big bustles are
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by some creators of fashion.
Queen Victoria will be presented with
4 dress of black silk pillow lace by the
ladies of the Maltese nobility.
The FIRST prima donna was Mrs. Cole.
man, who, in 1906, sang in Sir William
Davenant's ''Siege of Rhodes"
A tablet to the memory of Mrs.
Sigourney, the poet, has been erected in
Christ Church, Hartford, Conn.
The small toqne trimmed with ribbon
only is the f@ayorite morning wear of the
fashionable New York woman.
Big bonuets are fashionable on the
other side. but New York women cling
to the little capote and the fanchon.
Skirts, which for the last few years
appeared to be growing shorter and
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Ladies' mantles are to be of such i'm.
mense length ahd envelopiug powers
that the figure will be practically lost.
Mrs. Mackay recently presented hei
daughter, Princess Colona, with a pain
of Jcweled bracelets valued at SIS, 600
New tea gowns are made of cloth, pale
shades of green being tho ~favorite color,
with white or Suede cloth for the fronts
The University Of France has awarded
Les Palmes A%cadcmiques TO Patti. 1t is
an order very rarely bestowed on any
one.
Nine. Goeffrin onco said that there
were three things that women threw
away their time, their money and their
health.
The Women's Rights Association OF
London contemplates running four or five
lady candidates for seats in the County
Council.
The Duchess of Rutland is writer on
social topics. With a view to charging
her field of observation she will soon
come TO America.
Mile. Sumcaret, a Guadcloupe creole,
Won the prize of $4,000 at the Belgian
beauty show. She now considers her.
self some carats finer.
In England it is quite the thing for
ladies to carry Directoire sticks, although
they must always accompany a costume
made in the same style.
Many of the most stylish new gowns
have the front fiat and perfectly PLAN,
with either q sash or long tabs Of trim
ming stuff to stimulate one.
Norv Iorno nfrnn4~s.o coI-oo ---tI.
covering the ears, and tied down with
very broad strings that pass over the top
OF the bonnet, will be worn.
Miss Martha Aldrich, OF Lake Village,
n. H., will soon sail for Toxic, Japan,
to take charge Of an institute for educat.
ing high caste japanese ladies.
The day of the long sealskin cloak IL
about over. Short sealskin jackets are
coming into fashion. The Louis XIV.
jacket is also looming up again.
Shoulder capes of seal and Persian
lamb with their India silk gowns, and
deep collars of monkey or leopard with
those of heavier texture are popular.
The wife of Senator Blair has beer
elected a trustee OF the New Hampshire
Normal School, and is the irst woman e
be chosen for such a position in thai
State.
The Queen Of Sweden rides about on
a little pony, and likes to have the chi
dren come up and give her posies, foi
which she sometimes rewards them will
a kiss.
Anew York woman is making quite e
success in treating her sex for ugiiness.
She warrants to render an ugly woman
preseutable and a plain one fairly hand
some.
Belgium has decided that n woman
can remain beautiful until she is thirty
five. That was the maximum age at the
international beauty show which is Just
over at Spa.
The only trimming used on black silk
dresses when made entirely Of one kind
Of silk, faille, gros grain, peau dc sole OF
MORE, arc jet passementeries aud fine
black chantilly lace.
The new black striped wocleus arc
Btylishly made into r~edingote gowns
with the Wild turncd-dOwn collar, cuffs
pocket flaps, and so on, faced will
green or lawn or mahogany cashmere.
10 must be pretty hard for women &c
lead Gin fashion" Out Of 500 toilets
and 100 hats surveyed on a recent after
noon on Broadway, New York, no two
were alike, while ali were fashionable.