The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Ecru pongee is used for petticoats.

her forty-ninth novel.
Large, soft silk ties, the color of the
gown, are being worn.
Princess gowns are made of India silks
and thin washing fabrics.
There is a very successful woman
drummer in the coffee trade.
Pale pink underclothing is now occa-
~sionally trimmed with black lace.
The parasols carried in the United
States cost $14, 900, 600 annually.
insertions of lace and embroidery are
used in nainsook and lawn dresses.
Some of the Paris papers have started a
crusade against women who smoke.
Worchester china is used for holding
fruit and flowers in table decoration.
Crepe Mousseline de Sole is a new ma
terial for afternoon and reception dresses.
Fans for mourning are made of black
Grape without o~rnamentation of any sort.
There is an attempt to make popular
again bright and crude tints for dresses.
There are said to be thirty women
butchers in the Jewish quarter of Brook
Ign.
Silk gowns in black and white are
most fashionable when designed in
scrolls.
Broad brimmed hats of silk null are
extremely becoming to certain styles of
beauty.
At a new York wedding the other da7
the bride received 81, OOO, 900 worth of
presents.
Batiste dresses, with parasol to match,
will serve as all-day dresses at the water
ing places.
The professional duster has made her
entry into the business world of New
York city.
Dotted white mule, Swiss and yelling
gowns are in vogue, along with striped
and barred white dresses.
The Cherokees of the Indian TERRITORY
have erected a new seminary for girls.
The building cost $500, 600.
Julian H~awthorne's five daughters
bear the names Hildegarde, Gwendolen,
Gladys, Beatrice and Imogen.
Queen Victoria is the richest woman in
the British Kingdom. She has accumu-
lated a fortune of $50, 000, 600.
Handkerchiefs are tiny, dainty marvels
of color and embroidery this summer, and
at the moment they are very cheap.
Entire dresses of red sateens trimmed
with ecru laces, are worn at French
country houses and on the seashore.
Seaside parasols are large and mostly
in bright colors, sometimes softened with
covers or falls of ecru and cream lace.
Pale silver gray gowns ;~d panels,
surplice waistcoats and Tevers, cuffs and
collars of tan color, are very effective.
Helen Gladstone, a daughter of the
statesman, contends that higher educa-
ton does not unfit women for domestic
life.
The woman who contracts to do house
cleaning from top to bottom has become
q very useful member of society in New
York.
Mrs. D. G. Croly Jennie June) is
English by birth. She came to this
country with her parents when she was a
little girl.
The law passed by the New York
Legislature require proprietors of stores
that employ female clerks to furnish them
with seats.
Mrs. Mackay, of many millions, is said
to be fond of gray walking dresses. But
for all that gray is very trying to dark
pale skins.
The white wool yelling gowns, with
broche borders or stripes in white silk,
are almost as effective as white silk ones
broohe with silver.
When walking out the Empress of
Russia always carries a large fan, which
seems to screen her face from those who
stare rudely at her.
Miss Mary Murfree, better known as
Charles Egbert Craddock, is petite in
person, with dark hair worn in masses of
ringlets over her brows.
Queen Victoria's favorite musical COM
posers are MendeIssohn and Sullivan, and
the latter's 'Lost Chord" is the one piece
of which she is most fond.
Mrs. John W. Mackay, the wife of the
California millionaire, continues to enter
tain on a most lavish scale. Her dinners
are undoubtedly the best in London.
"zazel," who gained renown by being
fired from a Inc and making a great
leap in the air, is o Mrs. George A.
Starr, and is a teacher of acrobatics.
New Orleans is productive of many
successful working ONE The latest
report is OF two sisters who have gone
into the dairy business and are doing
well.
The White House cook is now a wo-
man, Mrs. Cleveland's chef having been
supplanted by Nine. Pelonard, who
formerly presided yer Lord sackville's
kitchen.
Carrick cape is found to be an ex-
tremely useful wrap. 1t is made of four
capes, n over the other, each cape be-
ing fully pleated, and is finished with e
rundown collar and tied with ribbons.
Tt has been suggested by a writer in
Haqper's Baaar that women take up the
trade of upholstering. There is much
about this handicraft that is compatible
with woman's dexterity, skill and
strength.
A Titusville PENN paper tells of a
novel wedding tour. The young man,
who could not leave town, purchased IS