West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-07-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Colored straw bonnets are much worn.
Peaked bodiccs are not yet given up.
Amber jewelry promises to be popular
this season.
The Queen OF Sweden is teaching her
peasantry how to cook.
The woman who docs not wear hustle
is no longer conspicuous.
A long French Polonaise appears on
many of the imported dresses.
Mrs. Howard Crosby is one Of the best
walkers in New York.
Queen Natalie. Of Scrvia, always
wears her hair down her back.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt spent $t25,
600 for the fittings Of one room.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has start
ed new cab company in London.
Among the most attractive of the sea-
sons bonnets are those of straw lace.
Queen Victoria always takes her wines
and liquors with her whenever she travels.
Emily Faithful isan enthusiastic lead
or OF the Primrose League of England.
Jet fronts for the waists OF dresses arc
heavy enough to make the frail girl tot
ter.
President Eliot, of Harvard, says that
women should never lecture to young
men.
Real silver hooks and eyes are seen on
the corsages of some OF the summer
gowns.
Miss Ida G.. Allen, of Dover, N. H., is
TO receive $27O0 year as teacher at
Smith College.
1t is said that thousands of women in
Paris are shortening their lives by the
use of morphine
Most OF the broad -brimmed imported
hats arc provided with long ribbon or
gauze streamers.
Nine. Wilson, the daughter of ex-
President Grevy Of rance, is coming TO
New York TO live.
At the last meeting of the Royal
Botanic Society in England three ladies
were Gle ted members.
The white cloth skirts, now so fash
ionable, make women look as if they
had come outdoors in hurry.
Silk gloves exquisitely embroidered on
the back are new and very comfortable
and beautiful substitute for kid.
A Ladies' Bicycle Club has been formed
in Washington, with thirty active mem
bers, largely artists aud musicians.
The woman of fashion who intends to
keep up with the procession will have a
fan to match each and every dress.
Black lace scarfs passed about the
throat and reaching almost to the hem
of the dress are extremely fashionable.
The Marie Antoinette fchu is being
revived, TO wear with high or low cor
sages of afternoon and evening dresses.
Princess Isabella of Brazil summarfly
dismissed one Ministry that was not in
sympathy with her views on emancipa-
ION.
Gu en- Victoria has sent to the Glas-
sow exhibition two table napkins manu-.
factured from yarn spun by her own
hands.
Boas of cream white, coffee colored.
and black lace will be worn on cool
evenings at seaside and inlaud summer
resorts.
Poppy red dresses are imported in
great variety of fabrics, and are likely
to be extremely popular at the seaside
resorts.
Colored beaded ornaments and metal
lie galloons are used to trim black lace
dresses, but excess should be guarded
against.
After this season lace dresses are likely
to be almost as common as calico. Every
body has one, now, and the cheapest
laces arc used.
Japanese raindrop jars, used in East
ern countries, have been introduced
here, and are sure to be the craze, like
the potpourri.
Mrs. Louis Hammersley, whose name
is associated in a matrimonial way with
the Duke of Marlborough, has a necklace
that cost SOL, 900.
Mrs Ernestine Laffner spends the
greater part Of her time and money in
behalf of persons whom she believes to
be wrongfulIy accused.
1t is now certain that the sailor hat
turned up in the back will be worn as
much as anything by the most fashion
able bellies during summer.
Some of the embroidered sunshades arc
almost too elaborate and beautiful to be
exposed to the rays of old Sol, and ought
only to be used on cloudy days.
The magnifcencc of street costumes
would appear to have reached its hight
this season, and we'll may strangers with
in the gates stare in establishment
Bologna University, where in former
times women professors taught mathe-
mates and anatomy, will celebrate its
eighth hundredth anniversary in June.
A Philadelphia doctor warrants that
wearing reuch-heeled shoes will cripple
any female inside of two years, but that
won't deter a single woman from wear
ing them.
Lettuce green is one of the new colors
and comes in some Of the new dress
goods, and in gloves and ribbons as we'll
II is color that is likely to please the
hired girl.
Among the most satisfactory Summer
silken stuifs must be reckoned the
foulards with wo on ribbon edge, which
is so much a godsend 20 the hurried
drossmakcr.
A fashionable girl in New York wears
flower buttons, pansies with tea gowns
and daisies and buttercups with other
gowns, all being finely wrought with
gold and jewels.
Miss Mercer Henderson, the great
Scotch heiress, will restore an ancient
family mansion to historic splendor when
she marries the impoverished Earl of
Buckinghamshirc.
The Boston 7roascript notes that only
a fraction over "a per cent. Of the prison