The Opelousas courier., 1889-10-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.
Rich black toilets are very popular.

EuZaDetn CaQy SLantOn Is III LEI
seventy-fourth year.
The city editor of the Muncie Gnd,
Eoeniag Herald is a woman.
Srimati Hardevi, a Punjabee lady is the
first woman editor in India.
There are a number of women who are
notaries public in Chicago.
Fine Suede kid shoes with vanps of
patent leather continue to find patrons.
The New England Women's Press As
ISOLATION numbers almost 100 mem
bers.
A Berlin professor says that constant
piano practice will ruin the health of any
girl.
The real name of the author who signs
herself 1.-The Duchess" is Mrs. Hunger
ford.
The newest driving cloaks are less vol
luminous than they were several months
ago.
An insurance company conducted by
| women has been established in New
Orleans.
Mr.. Gladstone never drinks tea except
what is specially made for him by Mrs.
Gladstone.
Full bishop sleeves are seen on wraps
and gowns, though coat sleeves continue
to be worn.
Very pretty rustic stands of pottery
simulate stunps and gnarls of wood in
form and color.
Nearly one-half of the AIS medical
students graduated at the Boston Uni
Verslty are women.
The black ribbon collars now seen on
tight dresses are fastened with small
Rhine stone buckles.
Women are said to have the bumps of
order and cleanliness more highly de-
veloped than the men.
T~wenty-three young ladies will make
up the list of fashionable debutantes in
Philadelphia next winter.
Pongee silk corsets are exceedingly
cool and comfortable, and consequently
in demand at the present time.
Sarah Arabella Mackie, of London, has
been granted a patent for Improvements
N the manufacture OF artificial fuel.
The Woman's Educational and In.
dustrial Union, of Buffalo, N. Y, owns
4 fine building, adapted to its work.
It is rumored that long-waisted cor
sages will be made to extend over the
lips in medieval fashion, next winter.
EtNhe latest thing in women's sailor hats
Is a startling combination of red brim and
white crown, or blue crown and white
brim.
A London firm Of diamond dealers has
an order to supply the stones for d neck
lace for Lady Guinness, which is to cost
b125, 900.
When white gloves are used for driving
they are stitched on the back with three
lows of black, each row a quarter of an
nch wide.
With the Recamier wrapper, which is
! simple short-waisted gown, is worn a
urned-over collar of embroidery, with
cuffs to match.
The Princess Sophia takes daily les
IONS in Greek that she may be able to
converse with her future husband, the
Duke of Sparta.
Book-covers that fit over any novel, and
ire of a correct shade to match the read
RS costume, are favorites with this sun
ner's seaside girl.
New tulle gowns are some of them
made up with a succession of skirts.
Zach skirt has a deep hem and falls
rtraight all around.
Lady Forester sends to the factory girls
If London every week upward of 1000
punches of flowers gathered by the SER
rants On the estate.
Mrs. Napier Higgins, the author, is
;he first lady Fellow of the English
Royal Society of Literature since the
lays of Hannah More.
gSilk Innings have not been used as ex-
.ensively as last year. The waist lining
and foundation skirt for cotton dresses
IRE made of white lawn.
Birdie May Wilson, of New York. has
been granted a patent in Great Britain
for a device for plucking hair, to be used
In the dressing of skins.
The City Council of Chicago has
authorized the appointment Of five
women to inspect the sanitary condition
Of factories and tenements.
It is said that the Japanese women who
embrace Christianity exercise an influence
in moral questions hardly inferior to the
English and American women.
All the lovely tints of lilac, mauve and
heliotrepe are suddenly restored to their
old-time popularity, some Of the new
dyes shading exquisitely into faint tints
Of old rose.I
The cook problem-in New Orleans
possibly the most unsolvable problem of
all-is about to be worked out in Lon
don, where $4,000 girls are now attend
ing the cooking schools.
This has been q great season for the
s'lady guide" one of the latest develop
ments of women Of education who have
to earn something. The Worlds Fair at
Paris has helped them wonderfully.
Black laces and white laces are beauti-
fully combined in some of the new Cor
day and Marie Antoinette fchus, and
eapes and gowns formed of this magpie
mixture are among some Of the most ele-
giant dresses of the season.
Five dozen pairs were the number of
gloves in a recent bridal trousseau.
There were a dozen and q half in white
suede, stitched with pale pink; a dozen