Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

sician in Ottawa.
An Es1uimau woman is lecturing in
he United States.
A great deal of ingenuity is exercised
N the matter of sleeves.
Hats with low crowns and broad brims,
ike scoops, are fashionable.
Ribbons of gold and silver metal are
extensively used for trimming.
Twenty thousand women and girls in
Chicago earn less than SO a week.
Empire fans are sometimes made of
yauze ribbons mounted on white sticks.
Worth makes his mourning dresses in
1 design that never goes out of fashion.
A young colored girl from Atlanta,
Georgia, has gone to Congo as mission
ary.
Diamond earrings of the latest mode
consist each of two stones, one set above
the other.
The Empire dress with train of three
yards is the prettiest style for brides seen
this season.
All the women elected to municipal
office in Kansas this spring write "Mrs.'
before their names.
Dresses made of fish net have for trim
ming rows of moirc or satin ribbon run
through the meshes.
Swiss belts of jet beads are worn with
black net and lace dresses. They are
pointed back and front.
Women who wish to preserve the slim
ness and contour of their figures are ad-
vised to learn to stand well.
Irish poplin, though not yet favorite
with the world at large, is very much
used by the leaders of fashion.
Big silken single tulip petals set amid
frills of lace or lisse, bloom on the caps
now sent out by London milliners.
I A popular st. Louis girl recently re-
ceived during temporary illness 5000
roses and forty-eight pounds of candy.
The fact is noted that some of the most
tender hearted ladies do not hesitate to
have the ears of their pet dogs clipped.
A lady named Lanesco was chosen
Mayor of town in Roumsnia, but the
Minister of the Interior quashed the elec-
ton.
Some of the handsomest of new i'm
ported cretonnes come in scroll and daisy
patterns, with much cream color in the
ground. .
1t is said that never before at the be-
ginning of new administration have
there been so many women officeseekers
at Washington.
Cambridge, the seat of England's fam
Gus university, has the further distinction
of sheltering within its walls college of
carpentery for women.
Entire gray toilets are trimmed with
silver braiding, gray passementesies in
Arabesque designs, or made up with vel
vet or brocade of deeper shade.
Nine. Kerschbaumer, NJ. D., who prac-
tises as an oculist in Salzburg, recently
delivered an important lecture in Vienna
on the study of medicine by women.
Fichus of India silk muslin, edged
with knife-plaited lace, are in high favor.
They are particularly effective when
worn with gowns of scarlet sicilienne.
| Gray in an infinite variety of shades is
notable color in the newly imported
French and English gowns, and but few
of them are trimmed with contrasting
colors.
New and very stylish are the clotf
costumes which consist of Russian red
ingote of one color opening over yes
and draped front of cloth Of contrast
ing shade.
The round French waist, which is gath
cred at neck and waist-line, front ant
back, and shows neither darts nor sid
bodies, is used for all summer fabrics
whether silk, wool OF cotton.
A popular garniture for skirts of darl
cashmere is latticed border of mario,
black velvet ribbon laid over light cash
mere. The upper part of the corsag
also has this velvet trellis pattern.
The newest thing in London househol
I economy is female butler-a Made
, dressed in livery of blue, green, gol
or scarlet, as taste may prefer. The et
1 feet alleged is "more quiet and equ:
G style"
e. English dust coats for driving or tray
J cling are made of gray mohair in plai
redingote shape, single-breasted, ope
1 down the middle of the back, and wit
s large coat sleeves, full and high on tt
shoulders.
Turquoise blue is the new pale shad
which is sometimes almost green, an
D which is most popular in India silk, bel
/ galine and crepeline, figured or stripe
9 with black, or trimmed with black ri
L bons or laces.
By the will of Baroness de Fahnenbur!
, who died lately in st. Louis, most of h
!, large fortune is devoted to the buildir
!. and endowment at Lexington, Kentuck
:, of an asylum for old Protestant white mt
~ y and women and young white Protesta
poor children.
,e Here are heroines indeed from Nor
le Carolina: Miss Lucy Miller and her SIN;
s. niece, Hattie Rainey, found that q hi:
lc and dangerous railway trestle was afir
81 and by dipping water from near cre
s. with their felt hats extinguished it in til
G. to save. from harm train of cars close
ID hand.