The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
The Queen of England is a practit

The Queen of England is a practical
housekeeper.
Mrs. Cochran, an Illinois lady, has in,
vented a dish-washing machine. 1t is
perfect success.
Mrs. Maria M. Lean, a homeopathic
physician in Helena, Montana, earns
SIP, 900 a year.
Mrs. Emily Crawford, the most famous
Of women journalists, has lived in Paris
for more than thirty years.
The "Heavenly Foot Society"h has been
started in China by the women, in re-
bellion against the venerated fashion that
congresses their feet.
Many of the handsome new ginghams
will be lined with silk and so elaborately
beribboned that they will cost more than
a gown of silk throughout.
Just two living women, Queen Mar
gherita, of Italy, and Mrs. Bonanza
Mackey; are lucky enough to own gowns
embroidered with real pearls.
Miss Ume Ysuda, a japanese young
lady, is paying her second visit to this
country. She is here for the purpose of
studying the methods of normal schools.
Some very handsome new oval cuff
buttons are of platinum and gold woven
into a lattice pattern, with a small dia-
mond and ruby alternately at the cross
Ing.
Green muslin of the reseda shade halls
from Paris. Its advent should be greet
ed with delight, for it affords a most well
come change from the inevitable blues,
pinks and mauves of ordinary life.
A novelty in white nuns yelling is
crossed with lines of light color, forming
large squares. In the center of each
square is a design in a darker shade,
looking like an ornamental monogram.
The fashion of puffs on the shoulder is
decidedly pretty upon slender women
and children-much p~rettier than the
aesthetic pulled sleeves. The pufs are
put On over the close cut sleeve after it
has been made.
Some of the most elegant of the new
scarfs used for trimming dress skirts have
borders of v%elours, with leaves or flowers
of thick-piled black velvet on peach
colored, pansy, green, coper-color, red
dish brown, very dark blue or Eiffel red
grounds.
An improvement in the mechanism of
umbrellas is promised which will be
hailed with pleasure. By touching a
spring concealed in the handle the umbrel-
la will instantly open, thereby avoiding
the annoyance of shaking, often vainly,
10 often experienced.
A beautiful presentation brooch is one
in which the diamond figures 1889 are
interviewer SO delicately as to half con-
ceal themselves, while in the centre of
each sAgure is dropped a single gem, either
a diamond, emerald, amethyst, ruby,
signifying "dear' in a graceful hero
glyph.
Gay wooden handkerchief gowns for
young ladies' will be made up of eight
large squares Of serge or camel's hair,
red, green or blue, surrounded with blsck
borders in irregular stripes. The borders
trim the foot and the top of the skirt,
and also the sides, the plain centres of
the squares being folded in large plaits.
A gorgeously-bound volume, termed a
wedding album, has come into use. 1t
contains marriage certificate, photographs
of bride, bridegroom, trademarks, best
man and the officiating clergyman, with
the autograph of each under the CORE
spending portrait. Date, time and place
Of the marriage are also recorded.
Queen Victoria and one of her daugh-
tiers were driving in Windsor a few days
ago when they heard a blind street
musician playing "Abide With Me" upon
~ accordion. The Queen ordered that
a f1orin be1given to him for her, and all
England is up in arms at this royal en-.
couragement of an instrument of tor
ture.
/ The latest artistic craze in England is
bent iron work. The metal used is cut
in thin strips and bent into curls and
curves by pliers, initiating wrought iron
work as far as possible. It makes rather
pretty stands for light articles such as
flower glasses, fairy lamps and night
lights; the materials are cheap, and the
work is noiseless. %
LJhdon seems to be rather crowding
out Paris as the great purveyorto feminine
taste for fnery. The daughter of a great
Spanish hidalgo has gone to London for
her trousseau, That will be particularly
strong in ~petticoats, of which countless
numbers will be in silk, lace, insertion,
and ribbons, and the other underwear
will be equal in style and quality.