Richland beacon., 1888-06-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Broad sashcs are in favor.


Gold braiding is much used on cloth
dresses.
Quite new and very effective is tortoise
shell jewelry.
The ex Empress of Spain had 3s bon
nets in one month.
Flower bonnets promise to be popular
during the summer.
Each of Worth's employees is allowed
one dress year made up to suit them
selves
Ribbon. ribbon, ribbon, Never was
there seen so much Of it, or such latitude
Of choice.
Tweed in biz checks of light and
lark blue is a favor.te material for Eng
lish tailOr,' suits.
Some of the new trimming is maie Of
jet and gold strands combiAcd-gO.den
threads among the black.
Gath says Mrs. Jefferson Davis was
Of Northern extraction. a descendant of
IN early Governor of New jersey.
Crepe is again in high favor as stuff
for headgear; but bonnet or hat of it
Very elegant brocaded moircs are
woven upon a ground of glace moire,
and show brilliant changeable tints.
Mrs. Celia W. Wallace, rich and
philanthropic Chicago woman, i plan
ming an industrial school for boys in that
city.
Miss Amy Morris Homans, who has
organized the coo iiug schools in Boston,
is pursuing her good work in Balti
more.
Real wheat is used to considerable
extent on the new bonnets, for making
the bonnet itself as well as for trim
mings.
Hemstitched linen sheets are used by
those who can afford luxuries, with pil-
low. cases and bolster cases hemstitched
TO match.
The first official act of the Emperor
Frederick was the comforting of the rare
ard exalted order of the Black Elg!e
upon his wife.
Miss Percilla Woody, of Iumpk
County, ia, was so popu ar thar all
girl children born in the county Were
named after her.
Long wraps suitable for travelling pur-
poses are made of scrviceablc goods.
such rs Henrietta cloth, cashmere, OF
even brOadcloth.
1t Is said that p. r. Barnum's wife
writes every hing which appears over his
name, and that what pay he receives is
turned over TO her.
Madame Bruhl, oncc protegee OF
Empress Eugene, died in ! ittsburg re-
Gently, where she taught French, being
in reduced circumstances.
The physician in attendance on the
Queen of CoEea is an American woman,
who is said to receive an annual salary
of SO, 900 for her services.
Sprays and clusters of faded roses,
wind torn till sometimes but three petals
cling to the sterms, are the latest real
istic' effect in bonnet flowers.
Gloves having wide bands of stitch.
ing, in self or contrasting colo s, are
still in vogue, nevertheless the plain
STYLES are quite as desirable as ever.
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, the famous
beauty, and her mother have returned to
Cleveland, Ohio, from Florida. Miss
Chamberlain will soon sail for Europe.
The newest poonaises, according to
fashion authority, in u uilIy correct
Boston, are very long and iully draped,
the entire effect being that of slender
ness.
Miss Jenny Flood, the daughter of the
California fifteen mi Iionairc, Is an ex-
celltnt business woman, and personally
manages her own snug little fortune OF
IS, 5,0Ju, 900.
Passcmenterie is becoming so ponder
GUS and heayy, not to lay odd, that there
Is good prospect that at last the broken
china and glassware in the family cup
board can be utilized.
Miss Bayard, of Baltimore, niece of
Secretary Bayard, is six feet tail; Speaker
Car isles w .fe is five feet nine inches and
several other Washington society ladie,
are about the same height.
The garland of crushed roses, either
under or around the crown, is the favor
ite garniture for summer wide hats,
while many ,urbans are inappropriately
made of roses veile1 with lace.
Miss Carrie May, who was at one time
engaged to lie MARRIED to Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett, editor of the Heratd,
is now Mrs. William Wright, and pro-
nounced 1.-The most beautiful woman in
New York to-day"
New serges, showing bars and blocks
of red terra Gotta suede, navy and gobelin
blu., upon a cream-white ground, will
very largely take the place of the so-long-
Worn plain cream, both for entire gowns
and in combination toilets.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Flora West, daughter of the British
Min ster, TO Mr.. Gabriel Salanson, one OF
the >ecrctaries of the French Legation at
Washing ton. The wedding will take
place in Faris some time tn summer
Mrs. +. r. Briggs, of Washington
City. has determined TO donate her e.e
giant residence property, known as the
-, ape Square" for the foun 1aiion o, a
coll, ge for women, to be patterned after
Girard College. The property IS valued
at 5000, 900.
The mot charming cifects are some
times produced by the simplest means,
as sten, .or instance. in the outlining
glaces which any young girl may do in
her leisure moments. This outlining
NAV lie done in color or in gold and
silver threads.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord owns what is proba.
bly, the most costly fan in the country.
1t is the finest VII te point Alencon, of
a pattern combining flowers, leaves and