Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

/ Japanese and Chinese ideas In dress
are introduced in French fashions for the
spring.
! The variety in hats and bonnets grows
more and more bewildering as the sea-
! son advances.
Rev. Eliza Fry, of Maiden Rock, Wis,
| is taking the theological course at the
| Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill.
Statistics of the various colleges for
women show that more graduates Of
| Oberlin and Syracuse have married than
of any Others.
Wellesley College is building a new
cottage which is TO be called the Free
man Cottage" and will accommodate
fifty students.
Mime. Tallien was among the historical
women who bathed in milk, to which she
added crushed strawberries to give it an
agreeable perfume.
Among suits for general wear in the
spring will be many of lightweight can
vas woven black bison cloth oyerskirts
of black MORE silk.
The wives of Clemenceau and Ribot,
the noted French politicians, are both
Americans. The former was a Connec-
tiCut girl and the latter from Al! any.
A Parsee girl named Sorabji has just
been graduated in the University of
Bombay in the first class distinction
won at the same time by but five men.
Madame Sollier, beautiful mulatto
woman, the wife of a French professor,
has passed her examinations and been
received as a Doctor of the Paris Facul-
ty.
The long cloak is very elegant wrap,
hJ1t
and a good walker can take long ICON
stitutional" in one, especially on a windy
day.
Three crushed roses without leaves
nestle under the br1m of directOire bon
nets, while tiny posy peeps now. and
then from the edge of felt or cloth Ca
potes.
Duchesse lace is favorite trimming
for velvet bonnets. 1t is boxpleated
and drawn into shell both at front and
back, between which it makes a ruffle
on the brim.
A very new hat, of fine colored straw,
with a very wide brim upturned at back
against low crown, has been named
ala Tosca," in honor of the Bernhardt's
latest success.
With tan and gray addressed kid slip
pers and half-high shoes stocking to
match are stylishly worn, while with
bronze and black kid the widest con-
trast is allowable.
The eminently bad taste for fancy
plumage is dying out, and the poor,
Slaughtered birds are flying away before
fashions decree faster than ever their
pretty wings carried them.
1t is safe to say that flowers will be the
spring garniture, as never before were
all blossoms and leaves, from rose and
rhododendron to maiden hair eucalyp-
tus, so perfectly initiated, as just now.
Every season we are told that the tan
colored Suede glove is going out of IA
vor, but in few weeks after the open
ings the me-honored favorite proves
that it has come again and come to stay.
MORE antique with long vertical water
waves and MORE Francois with short
horizontal waves are the favorite silks
for the skirts of gowns with draperies
and. bodices of China silk, crepe, or veil
ing.
Velvet and MORE are now made into
petticOats as we'll as satin. They are
dannel-lined, cut with a yoke without
plachet, and ad listed by drawing strings,
and have f1ounce or three ruffies at tbs
bottom.
The Psyche couture is made by form.
ing all the back hair into tight pointed
knot in the middle of the back of the
head, the front hair being arranged in
waves, bangs, or any other becoming
style that is not in violation of the cur
rent fashion.
The young folks of West Deer Isle,
Me-, have organized the Tongue Guard
Society, whose OBJ ,ect is to guard against
saying anything improper to or about
any one. Each offence is punished by
fine of one cent to be placed in box in
the church, the fund to go toward buy
ing circulating library.
Over the delicately tinted Law
ender, pale gobelin blue, ashy pink,
purplish gray, and greenish. blueish,
reddish, pearly and crea ny grounds of
many of the new China silks are ssset
figures in white or black, or some
strong contrasting shade or color, the
designs running through the entire
gamut of new figures spotted birds
eggs, Grecian wheel designs, geometric
figures, whirls, shells, ripples and stars,
moons and crescents, and variations Of
all the old igurings and patterns.