Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-05-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

coming.
Yellows will be used with browns the
coming season.
For summer travelling wraps the Eedin-
cote is the garment.
Scarlet will be less used the coming
season than it was last.
Real poke bonnets are seen among the
Aew 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 Henrietta
cloth.
The wife and daughter of General
Boulanner are believers In woman suf-
irage.
Mrs. Cleveland never walks in the
st1eels 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 a knack
with the needle and makes beautiful EN-
broidery.
New straw bonnets are so soft and
plant that they are folded, not pressed,
into shape.
Some of the women of Paris have
formed a 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, isEa
tremendous stickler about etiquette. &
Prof. Simon Newcomb's 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 tho 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 o: any color, with
ShlTtS u Julie, Grape VI dItcedu VI "ulte
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
is a 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 bonncts, with the heads forming an
open cross bar pattern, are filled in with
tulle. of black, poppy red, suede or
apple-grccn, 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 fastcn a little to one side,
either with a small buckle or a chou
cabbage bow-of the trimming ribbon.
to cloth, and while in the light stutfs
tIlCS Ell luu Will uoSS SiN, III Ill I1CdH-
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
drapcries, and either forming q loose
girdle or edging the sash.
The killed skirt introduces a 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.
new idea for bodices of soft stuff is
to have the full front caught in at the
wais. by bands of inch wide ribbon SC
crossed as to form a double diamond
and give a slender effect.
One of LISTS feminine pupils preserves
as a highly priced relic a handkerchiel
with the great master wrapped about hi
finger one day when it was bleeding. A
few dim bloodstains still remain on thu
handkerchief
Mrs: w. B. Shoemaker. of Muscle Fork
, Township, near keytcsville, Mo, ha.
not been away from home. not even t,
visit a neighbor, for more than twenty.
i've years, although all the time she has
enjoyed the best of health.
4 New York belle has lust ventured
upon a green dinner. at which the deco.
rations were wholly Of palms. maiden.
hair and smilaN: the soup asparagus.
the lce-cream> pistache, the china ali
green, with suspicion Of gilt, the host
esss Jewels, emerald.
Malatesla, a warm russell brown. an
antique pink Of a peculiar shade known
as heart Of the tea rose. Usage. a dark
blu gray. old oak, deerskin, ANTIQUE
blue which has a tinge of green and
tordova a 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 a chain.
sItlSh-beil~, large palm-leaf fans. bars
made of dots, disks. leaves. and parallel
lines made UP Of dots checker.board
harebells, fuchsias. lilies, etc.