Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-12-07
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The newest round waists are WlthonE
belt.
Houston, Texas, boasts woman
dentist.
The cane a la Tosca is carried by
fashionable damsels.
Women's visiting cards are to con-
tinue Square in shape.
Epaulettes still appear upon prone
made and dress costumes.
One of the best shades is a peculiar
co,or known as steam gray.
Silver gray and green are the promi-
nent colors in the new dresses.
The latest fad among fashionable
young girls is to carry heavy walking
sticks.
Cloth finished fiannels are the preferred
wear of women of taste but limited
means.
Miss Nellie Gould, the daughter of
Jay Gould, is probably the richest heiress
in America.
There are said to be hundreds of pat
ents on bustles in the Patent Office at
Washington.
Both large and small bonnets will be
worn, but the toque of medium size will
be the favorite.
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men were too imaginative and sensitive
to have much logic.
High collars of cream or pale flannel,
that stand high about the throat, super
sede the linen collar.
Gold and silver embroideries promise
to be extensively used is winter to
brighten dark dresses.
Fifty women and girls are employed
as clerks in the office of the Isthmus of
Panama Canal Company.
Snake rings, with body of vari-colored
gold and eyes of blazing topaz and gilt
tering emerald, are in high favor.
Among the new dress trimmings are
cords of white and gilt, combined with
crystals beads having golden centres.
The most stylish of all the stylish
green shades now so much in vogue IS
the new pale gray green known as reed.
Lockets made of silver dollars are
worn, with a miniature burned into the
metal, after the fashion of china paint
ing.
''Price $20'' was the legend that Mt.
Clemens, Mich, lady wore on her cloak
as she went through the town the other
day.
The Duchess de GaIliera has founded
an institution for paying the rent of re-
spectacle working people in monetary
distress.
In London the pulled and slashed
sleeve will hereafter be seen only indoors.
On the streets plain close coat sleeves
are worn.
In Philadelphia the classes in the In
dustrial Art School number 800 pupils,
and the Ladies' Decorative Art Club has
300 members.
The Princess of Wales is more than
ever discarding laces, satins and furbe-
lows in public places. She dresses with
studied simplicity.
The Philadelphia statistics show that
there is not trade or profession pursued
in that city which is not more or less
followed by women.
Some of the new long cloaks for mid
winter wear have yokes as we'll as bands
of fur down the front, and around the
long, flowing sleeves.
The young women of Anthony, Kan,
spend 80 much of their time in the sad
die that it is said the horses at that place
are becoming lop-sided.
Nine. Dieulafoy, the intrepid wife of
the North African explorer, is one of the
latest women to receive the decoration
of the Legion Of Honor.
Nearly all new winter dresses are made
with sleeves in more or less fanciful
style, and the fulness around the arm
hole is a marked feature.
Dresses, redingotes and hats for young
ladies of from twelve to fifteen are made
in very close imitation of those of their
older sisters and mothers.
Gretchen cloaks for little girls snd
Newmarkets for misses will be the rule
this winter. Plush, astrakhln and beaver
ale the materials promised.
Bourette woolens are popular for
travelling costumes. These are shown in
self-colors, and also with stripes or fig
ures of contrasting color.
Queen Marguerite of Italy has been for
some time collecting white pearls, with
which, it is said, she intends to decorate
the dress of her sons bride.
Mrs. Leila G. Redell says: "Probably |
there are more women doing things in !
more organizations in this city (Chicago) !
than in any other in the country"
Moose cloth is the name given to the
camers hair stuffs which come with i'm
proved surface finish, but longer,
stronger hairs thrown into the welt
Leaves in conventionally arranged de- |
signs are the favorites in the new
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