Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

than ever.
Old-fashioned berege is again worn to
some extent.
There are a dozen Working Girls
Clubs In Boston.
The skirts of tulle dresses are now
made in fan plisses.
Narrow plaitings are no longer used to
finish the edge of dresses.
The highest salary obtained By any one
woman in Maine is $500.
Fruit is only occasionally used as deco
ration for hats and bonnets.
Rosa Bonheur, the great French animal
painter, is seventy years old.
Sailor hats in colored straw are effec-
lively trimmed with black lace.
New queen chain pendants are clusters
of moonstones with claw settings.
Some of the newest gauze fans are
mounted on sticks of frosted silver.
The old-fashioned red coral necklace is
to be seen about some fair throats.
Of the 334 inmates in the Fulton, Mo,
insane asylum, but one is woman.
Dressy young married ladies wear white
tulle wells with capote-shaped bonnets.
Many of the summer dresses made of
thin fabrics have bOdices without darts.
Mourning is worn for longer period in
the United States than any other couD-
try.
The ribbons used for sewing in rows
on net dresses are generally two inches
wide.
The Directoire ruf1e of white or black
lace is one of the features of summer
gowns.
Yellow daffodils were the floral table
decorations much used in London this
spring
It has been found that 10, 900 books
have been written by women in the United
States
A new statue of Queen Victoria has
been erected in the London University
building.
Five hundred women have already APP
piled for positions as factory inspectors
in New York.
Mrs. Hetty Green, worth $50, 900, 900,
walks when she is in New York to save
street car fare.
White silk brocaded or lace parasols
are not seen to advantage in al uneX-
pected shower.
Effective hairpins are topped with stars
of cut silver, which glisten as if set with
brilliant gems.
English ladies wear large, soft silk ties,
the color of the gown, in place of the
discarded boas.
The popular Alsatian bow of ribbon
used as bonnet decoration is often edged
with gold braid.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has five
huge sapphires which biazed out at the
last drawing room.
Women are to be admitted to the Hart
ford Conn., Theological College on the
same terms as men.
The attendants in the Queen of Eng
lands household are on duty only six
months out of twelve.
Expensive parasol handles are those Of
solid gold, with monographs in diamonds
and rubies on the end.
Sir John A Macdonald, the Canadian
Prime Minister, favCrs women voting for
members of Parliament.
Lady Burdett-Coutts is the only woman
who has received the freedom of the city
of Edinburgh, Scotland.
In five months the police matrons Of
Philadelphia have had under their care
1929 women and 1873 children.
Some new satteens have black grounds
with large Empire green or bright red
flowers scattered over their surfaces.
The Woman's Medical College Of
Chicago is about to erect a new building
which will accommodate $50 students.
Mrs. Smith teaches laundry work at
Forsyth College, England, writes novels,
makes dresses and invents new recipes.
Mrs. John A. Logan is about to found
q postgraduate course of domestic train
inc for women in a Chicago institution OF
learning.
A woman living in the central part of
New York State has a flower farm of
seventeen acres from which she some
times clears $4,000 year.
Five hundred women in Toxic and
Yokohama have subscribed to fund for
the purchase of handsome Bible to be
presented to the Empress of Japan.
Fourteen thousand girls are attending
the London School Board Cookery cen
tiers. Still further facilities for increas-
ing this number are now being made.
Seven girls in ladies' seminary near