Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07
FOR WOMEN FOLK.
News and Gossip from Far and
 Near for the Fair Sex.

Near for the Fair Sex.
 Dresses made entirely of crape are worn only by widows.
 To be fashionable your parasol should match your dress.
 There is not flower in sight at the fashionable florists.
 Henrietta cloth is the material used for the first mourning dress.
 Warm weather fancy work should not require the use of needles.
 The newest wrinkle in Paris is 8 cOlored gown with black sleeves.
 Every we'll regulated costume bears fan attachment at the present time. Never any fashion in dress died so hard as the hustle, but it is almost gone.
 There are fans and fans, but the good old-fashioned palm leaf takes the prize. ...-.
 White flannel gowns look cool; their wearers do not, unless the day i. frigid.
 Blazers are closed with one button at the throat, or three buttons placed lower down.
 The straight skirts which are now so fashionable measure four and half yards around.
 Woolen dresses of different weights are the most appropriate fabrics for seaside costumes.
 Roof gardens are not the fashion, but it is right to pray that they may be in the near future.
 Discount is known to be possible even to girl with red cheeks and 8 dimple in her chin. .... It is said that an insurance company conducted by women has been estab- lished in New Orleans.
 Mrs. Logan, when she returns from Europe, will edit a magazine devoted to the interests of women.
 Accordion-pleated skirts arc in high favor in Paris, so their lease of life is likely to be extended here.
 Mrs. Henry Nash has been elected church-wartlen of Sotwell, small vil- lhge in Berkshire, England.
 The woman who does not wear a corset has an advantage over the one who does at this time of the year.
 Miss Dahl has passed the pharma- ceutical examination, and will be the first woman pharmacist in Norway.
 Crepe de chine is the prettiest fabric in use that can be worn on dress occa- sions during the period of mourning. To cover a parasol twenty inches deep it requires two and one-quarter yards of material that is twenty inches wide.
 Minton china is in high favor for dinner services. Worcester for table decorations and crown Derby for vases.
 The French style of mourning is more generally adopted in this country than the English, because it is less heavy.
 The prettiest white dresses of the null, the null being used for the sleeves.
 White silk and lace parasols have an air that is not truly rural, but which is becoming to light and jaunty costumes nevertheless.
 Pundita Ramabai has named her house for high caste Hindoo widows, ssShada Sadan," or ssThe House of Great Learning"
 Trade for shocmakers will look up if desses which show the ankles find favor. They are the newest importa. tions from abroad.
 The Oakland, California, w. c. T U. sustains coffee house which does an annual business of sixteen thousand two hundred dollars.
 Miss Harriet Hosmer has finished a Chicago the models of two large door of bronze like those in the baptistr, of the Duomo at Florence.
 Angel sleeves, or, as the Parisian call them, ..Mauchcra la Juive," ar worn with sleeveless jackets over skirt the same color as the sleeves.
 Gentlemen who are obliged to remain in town and in their offices wear brett, flannel shirts instead of linen ones an, belts or sashes around their waists.
 The daughter of the Chief Justice O the United States is to enter a law of flee and study for the legal profession She has just graduated from college.
 Miss Juliet Corson, the wellknowl teacher of cooking, is an invalid, an, writes with portable desk fastcne before her. She is confined to her be much of the time.
 The Woman's Educational and In dustrial Union of Buffalo, organize five years ago, has just paid the last o its debts, and owns fine building we