West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-07-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Pink is now the color in Paris.
Knitting IA a new fashion in concerts

| whim OF the hour.
Oxidized twenty-five cent coins are
the rage In cuff buttons.
Short summer wraps approach more
and more the mantilla.
Lady Londonderry is trying 10 make
green fashionable in London.
In wooden evening gowns pure white
is now better style than cream.
Gloves are now chosen to contrast
with rather than to match the toilet.
'Jenny" is one of the baptisma
names of the new Empress of Germany.
For boating costumes nothing is better
than blouse of flannel or light CASH
mere.
Miss Catharine T. Simonds las COM
pleted fifty years as Boston school
teacher.
Large quantities of white null aud
country wear.
Nothing is better style than pure
white linen ornamented with dainty
hemstitching.
The New York MdH says that the wo-
men Of New York appear to be stronger
than the men.
Mrs. Garfield will eventually take up
her residence with her daughter, Mrs.
Stanley Brown.
The records Of the patent Office show
that women have obtained patents on
1900 inventions.
A favorite finish for gowns Of gray
cloth is pinked edge, with an under
pinking of white.
Ouida, it is reported in Europe, has
become extremely religious, and will
give up literature.
Lace and net are so much the rage for
dresses that they are brought out in all
hues and patterns.
Mile. Leblois is the first woman in
Paris to be awarded a diploma OF
Docteur-es- Sciences.
Cream white Flemish lace has the call
as the preferred garniture of Jokes,
blouses, vests and Tea gowns.
Sarah Bernhardt, when entertaining
guests at her table, sits on a regular
throne with canopy overhead.
DIR. Annie Pomberger, of Philadel.
phia, is the first woman in America TO
be granted the degree of d. ID. S.
A pure white silk, soft and fine, and
capable OF washing ike linen, has just
been brought out by a London firm.
The ladies are preparing to let So
derby hats with the gentlemen against
$50 bonnets on the result Of the election.
A very new fabric is silk elastique, the
thinnest possible China silk, so woven
that it draws up into shallow ACCORDION
pleats.
The lovely but trying absinthe green
will be even more the rage in the fall
importations than in those of the present
season.
One OF the warmest advocates of
woman's cause before the general confer
ence was DIR. Potts, of Michigan, who is
stone deaf.
Somerset county. Penn, has female
Hercules who can shoulder three bushels
of wheat and walk away with it, She
has never seen railroad.
Countess HenckeI Won Donnersmarck,
wife of the great German nobleman, gave
birth to boy and the happy father gave
her 500, 900 diamond necklace.
A Brooklyn young woman has beau
tiful and curious table cover in stripes of
white and golden brown. 1t is woven
Of the shorn hair of her st. Bernard dog.
While miles of ribbon in the form of
fats, bows, loops, rosettes, and knots
are worn on all dressy summer frocks,
not an inch of IL is ever seen on tailor
gown.
The twentieth birthday of the Care
witch was celebrated by ball at st.
Petersburg, Russia, at which all the
ladies appeared in white, and all the
men in red.
The figuring on some of the latest
China silks, bengaline3, foulards, and
Sateens are exceedingly suggestive of
crazy quilt co.ors and sections, or of
clowns clothes.
| Dainty little sun bonnets for babies
are made of pink OF blue chambery and
have an edging of valenciennes lace as
finish. These arc worn with little
dresses to match.
Grasses and grains are particularly
liked among the artificial foliage this
season, and wheat ears are made in every
possible metal as we'll as in straw, for
millinery purposes.
The wife Of the painter, Hermann
Kauibach, of Munich, has received the
! gold medal of the Order OF Merit of the
Bayarian crown for having. at the risk
Of her own life, saved young man from
| drowning.
This is flower year very decidedly,
and for the nonce plumes are not worn
on stylish millinery at all, unless it be a
! quill or two on rough wear hat, when
for travelling head gear these delicate
flowers are entirely inappropriate.
The popular materials for dust cloaks
are pongee, striped and barred twiled
silk in dark colors. plaid and plain mo
hair The Irish peasant cape is the fash.
/ ionable form OF these cloaks, but the
loose Raglan is the most popular.
Never were so many garands Of fine
blossoms worn rs this season, when II
would seem that the art Of the artificial
/ flower maker must exhaust itself ia re-.
| producing the projections Of even the
most delicate wild flower OF wood and
field.
| On exhibition at the Italian show In
London is a lamp designed by the Queer
o Italy. II is Of ruby glass with fig.
ures Of gold olive leaves and blossoms
laid upon It, and gold doves perchin1 or
/ the globe There is also caudelabra,
partly designed by TIE same Queen.
which has small winged angels climbing
up by the suspended chains.
Human Electric Battery.