Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-22
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Earring covers of gold fligree are
new.
Princess Louise, of Lorne, is at work
On a statue.
Lady Shaftesbury, the latest titled
shopkeeper.
Gray and purple are again used for
half mourning.
Fencing is now the rage among the
New York ladies.
Lady Eva Quin has just killed five
tigers in upper India.
The shortest veil now admissible COM
pletely covers the face
Twenty-Five young women are study
ing at Columbia College.
At every railroad in Holland there is a
watch woman at the crossing.
For evening gowns milk white is now
more stylish than cream color.
Solid twilled serges, soft and fine, will
be long favorites for spring gowns.
London is making heroic effort to
bring Breton lace again into fashion.
There is a woman's art club in Thila-
delphia which calls itself - Bohemia"
There are 5000, 900 women in the
United States earning their own living
A prophet of evil foretells for this
year Easter gowns and bonnets of fashy
red
Mrs. Sargent is the enrolling clerk of
the House Of Representatives at Topeka,
Kan.
Miss Catherine T. Smonds, of Boston,
has been teacher for fifty consecutive
years.
Miss Kate Sanborn is collecting mate
rial for a book on the eminent women of
New York.
During the past year 1900 girls have
been graduated from the Boston cook
ing schools.
Chicago no longer has any ''dressmak-
ers." They are all "gowning and frock-
ing artists"
Princess gowns, when worn by very
young women, almost invariably button
in the back.
For an all-round serviceable full-dress
gown nothing approaches good black
real lace one.
It is said two of the best artists on the
London Graphic are women who use
man signature.
A permanent library, composed solely
of books written by women, is to be es-
tablished in arts.
A fashion that is quite the rage in the
East among young women IS the coIlec-
ton of china cups.
Rose Terry Cooke is out of health, SO
that she will have to lay aside literary
work for the present.
Sashes fringed with all the colors of
the gown now come with the new box
empire dress patterns.
The new color, "burnt rose" has more
than family likeness to the old-fash-
Toned E'ashes- of-roses."
The Crown Princess of Denmark is
great heiress, and has lately inherited
large estates in Holland.
Mrs Cleveland now combs her hair
straight back, coiling it in broad knot
at the nape of her neck.
New wooden writing sets now come in
shape of seal with the pen stuck through
in the place of harpoon.
In Italy there are eight American born
Princesses, seven Warehouses;, twelve
Countesses and Baroness.
Inc dlrectOlre and empire dresses IN
Paris are beginning to be replaced by
Greek and Princess costumes.
Miss Roosevelt, the New York heiress
who has married German Baron, paid
SD, 900 for her wedding dress.
The Empress Eugene is said to have
once paid 5000 an ounce for braid of
blonde hair to match her own.
Nine. KOwaIewska, to whom the French
Institute receutly awarded the grand
prize in mathematics, is a descendant of
the illustrious Matthias Corvinus, King
of Hungary.
A company is proposed to furnish lady
guides for ladies visiting New \ ork city.
For so much an hour strangers will be
shown the attractions and conducted on
shopping expeditions.
Sashes to be draped across the waist
with the ends falling at the side, Orna
mented with gayly colored fringe, are
found in the boxes with some of the new
empire dress patterns.
The New York Prison Association,
after long investigation, decided that the
women convicts should be cared for in a
separate institution, with rules and
regulations of its own