Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-04-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Fellows will be used with browne the
coming season.
For summer travelling wraps the redin-
cote is the garment
Scarlet will be less used the coming
season than it was last.
Real poke bonnets are seen among the
new models for summer.
The tucked sleeve has come to stay, Il
Is SO pretty and so becoming.
Lady Mcdonald takes an active in
terest in revival meetings at Ottawa
Among the prettiest of demi-trained
toilets are those of cream-white Henrietts
cloth.
The wife and daughter of General
Boulanger are believers in woman suf-
frage.
Mrs. Cleveland never walks in the
streels unless accompanied BY her dog
''Kay."
Tucked panels of china crepe on we'd
ding gowns of MORE are new and very
stylish.
The Empress of Russia has knack
with the needle and makes beautiful en-
broidery.
New straw bonnets are 90 soft and
plant that they are folded, not pressed,
into shape.
Some of the women of Paris have
formed league for the suppression of
impure literature.
Mrs. Dutton, of Indiana, is 1902 years
old. She has been a confirmed smoker
for ninety-two years.
The Duchess of Madrid, the wife of
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is .
tremendous stickler about etiquette.
Prof. Simon Newcombis daughter en-
! joys the distinction Of having been the
only female student of Johns Hopkins
University.
/ Flowers are now mounted with their
own leaves, or ferns, or grass, as the
taste of the moment is against the mix
ture of blossoms.
The daughter of Mayor Hewitt, of
New York, is one of the best whips in
the country. She can drive four in hand
better than most men.
The old, old fashion of silken bodices,
pink, blue, green OF any color, with
or cream, has been revived.
The teagown grows upon the English
public. For country house wear it is all
but universal, and in London it is quite
the thing for home dinners.
Absinthe-a pale, creamy yellow green
lis new fashionable color for summer
evening toilets. which will be combined
with black lace or cream lace.
For the last twenty years Queen Vic
toria's weight has been a mystery. She
| is very sensitive about her increasing
size and refuses to be weighed.
Jet bonnets, with the heads forming an
open cross bar pattern, are filed in with
tulle, of black, poppy red, suede OF
apple green, according to fancy.
A honeycombed or shocked blouse is
one of the prettiest of the stylish neglige
waists which will be sure to be popular
with young girls the coming season.
The belts of round waists begin under
the arms, and fasten little to one side,
either with small buckle or a chou
cabbage bow-of the trimming ribbon.
Tucks appear in all fabrics, from tulIe
to cloth, and while in the light stuffs
they are run with floss silk, in the heav-
Ter ones they have a layer of wadding
added.
Red or black bengalines are trimmed
with gold galloon plated in them. and
laid around collar, vest, cuffs, and along
draperies, and either forming a loose
girdle or edging the sash.
The killed skirt introduces novelty
this season in the trimming which is
placed on the edge of each plat; this is
sometimes a row of pinking or a small
cord, in contrasting colors.
A new idea for bodices of soft stuff is
to have the full front caught in at the
waist by bands of iDch-wide ribbon so
crossed as to form a double diamond
and give a slender effect.
One of LISTS feminine pupils preserves
as highly priced relic handkerchief
with the great master wrapped about his
finger one day when it was bleeding. A
few dim bloodstains still remain on the
handkerchief.
Mrs w. B. Shoemaker, of Muscle Fork
Township, near Keytesville, Mo-, has
not been away from home. not even to
visit neighbor, for more than twenty
five years, although all the time she has
enjoyed the best of health.
A New York belle has just ventured
upon green dinner, at which the deco
rations were wholly of palms, maiden
hair and smiIax: the soup asparagus,
the ice-cream pistache, the china ali
green, with suspicion Of gilt; the host
ess's Jewels, emerald.
Malatesla, warm russell brown, an
antique pink Of peculiar shade known
as heart Of the tea rose, Usage, dark
blue gray, old oak, deerslxin, antique
blue which has a tinge Of green, and
Cordova lovely pale golden shade of
terra Gotta, are among leading new
shades.
Among the novel designs seen upon
the new sateens are forked lightning
streaks, clusters of dice, spades inside
circles, three large links Of chain,
sleigh-bels, large palm-leaf fans, bars
made OF dots, disks, leaves, and parallel
lines made up Of dots checker-board,
harebells, fuchsias, lilies, etc.