West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-02-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


White and gold furniture is tho pretty
fancy OF the passing season.
The hustle fuctuates in size and gen.
eral outline from month TO month.
Gold and silver braids are used 20 OK
cess on light wool spring costumes.
The contest between little aud biz
bonncts will be resumed in the spring.
Habutai is the silken fabric that will
be used this spring for brides under
( wear.
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, III.
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 new
cottage which is to be called the Gree.
man Cottage" and will accommodate
fifty students.
Nine. Tallien was among the historical
women who bathed in milk, TO which she
added crushed strawberries to give il an
agreeable perfume.
Among suits for general welr in the
spring will be many OF light weight can
vas woven black bison cloth oycrskirts
of black moirc silk.
The wives of Clcmenceau and Ribot.
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Americans. The former was "A Connec.
ticut girl and the latter from Al any.
A Parsee girl named Sorabii has lust
been graduated in the University Of
Eombayin the first class, " distinction
won Mt the same time by but five men
Madame Solier, beautiful mulatto
woman, the wife of French professor,
has passed her examinations and been
received as Doctor of the Pa is Facul.
ty.
The long cloak is a very elegant wrap,
but none except very strong woman
and good walker can take long "con
stitrtional" in one, especially on windy
day.
Three crushed roses without leaves
nestle under the brm of directoire bon
nets while tiny posY peeps now and
then from the eIge of fc.t or cloth ca
potes.
Duchessc lace is favorite trimming
Tor velvet bonnetS. 1t is boxp!cated
and drawn into she'll both at front and
back, between which it makes ruffle
on the brim.
"A very new hat, of fine colored straw.
with very wide brim upturned Mt back
against low crown, has been named
IA Tosca,' in honor of the Der hardt's
latest success.
With tan and gray undresscd KID slip
pcrs and half-high shoes stocking To
match are styiishly worn, while with
bronze and black kid the widest con
trast is allowable.
The cminently bal taste for fancy
plumagc is dying out, and the poor.
slaughtered birds are fying~away before
fashions decree faster than ever thei
pretty wings crricd them.
1t is safe 10 say that flowers will be the
spring 8arniturc, as never before were
all blossoms and leaves, from rose and
rhododendron to maiden hair eucalvD-
tu', so perfectly initiated, rs just now.
Every season VIC are told that the tan
coiored Suede glove is going out of IA
vor, but in few weeks after the omen
ings the time honored favorite proves
that 1t has come again and come to stay.
MORE antique with long vertical waite
waves and moirc Francois w Tn short
horizontal waves are the favorite silks
for the skirts of gowns with draper.cs
aud bodices Of China silk, crepe, orwell
ing.
Velvet and MORE arc now made into
petit coats rs we'll as satin. They are
fgnncl-lined, cut with n yoke without
p achet, and al listed by drawing strinr
and have flounce or three rufles at the
bottom.
The Japa-es women are beginning to
adopt European fashions in dress. and
are even using the woolens, silks. vel
cts, plushes, and linen and cotton dress
fabrics of France, Germany, and Ing
land
The London mind has evolved Ia
whose crown of velvet is encirc.cd by
fur boa with pendant end long enough
TO 90 round the neck, and in rcd velvet
and black lynx, is the acme Of STYLISH
ugliuess.
Brcssy frocks for misses OF cashmere
or crcIelinc, have the criss cross horcy.
comb shirring on yoke waist and sleeves
with velvet pointed girdle, deep front
drapery, and skirt edged W tn six-inch
velvet band.
The shaded moon" and the star and
fountain are favoritc convcntionalizcd
designs among the new 'set figures" ON
China silks, hcngalines, satcens. and
other printed dress fabrics OF This
springs mroftat.ons.
The Psyche coiffure is male by form
ing all the back hair into q tight pointed
knot in the middle Of TIN, back of tho
head, the front hair being arranged TO-
waves bangs, or any other becoming
style hat is not in violation Of tho cur
rent fashion.
The young folks Of West Deer Isle.
Me-, have organized the Tongue Guard
Society, whose oh cct is 60 guard apainst
saying anything improper ~ or about
any ono. Zach offence is punished bv
fine Of ono cent, TO be placed i'm % box In
the church, the fund to q toward buy.
ing circulating library.
over the dcicatcly tinted law
cnder, pale goboin blue. ashv pink.
purpish gray and grccnish. blucish
reddish, pearly and crca ny grounds OF
many Of the new China silks arc LET