The Opelousas courier., 1889-09-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Paris has a female wrestler.

is thef aVOrlte.
White dresses being in favor there are
many white parasols.
The Empress Frederick's income is
about $3.50, 600 a year.
Three and q half inches is the fashions
BILE height of a heel low.
In most cases parasols match the pre-
vailing tint of the toilets.
The first oma pharmacist has made
her appearance in Norway.
The belle of the royal family is said to
be Princess Victoria of Teck.
For morning and afternoon toilets pom
padour foulards are in vogue. /
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay is fond of gray
walking dresses and always wears a man
tie. ,
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoffard is a
strong advocate of daily exercise for
girls. 80
Among other fashionable shades of yell
low, maize, or c~orn-color, has been re-
vived. ,
The tan-colored shoe is the feature of
this seasons foot wear for both men and
women.
Mrs. George W. Childs is considered
one of the best dressed women in Phila-
Golphia.
Miss Ala M. Longfellow, daughter of
the poet, is much interested in amateur
photography.
Nine. Media, the Australian prima
donna, began to sing in public when she
vas only sixteen. ,
:" TIC typewriting business nets from
$500 to $5Qap to many a young woman
in New YorI1city.
The West End damsels of London have
four cricket clubs among them, with
three others forming.
Accordion-plaited skirts are in high
favor in Paris, so their lease of life is
likely to be extended.
Dotted white null, Swiss, and yelling
gowns are in vogue along with striped
and barred white dresses.
CLse de chine is the prettiest fabric in
use that can be worn IN dress occasions
during the period of mourning.
Patti, the famous opera singer, per-
sonally superintends all the details of
housekeeping in her Welsh castle.
The prettiest white dresses of the sea-
son are made of China silk and silk null,
the null being used for the sleeves.
The French style of mourning is more
generally adopted in this country than
the English, because it is less heavy.
To cover a parasol twenty inches deep
it requires tw6-ed Ane.quarter yards OF
material that is twenty Ahe9wide.
A woman in Lafayette equity, Mo-,
has an apiary of 1876 hives. she expects
to make 10, 900 pofds of honey this year.
The women of b ton 4dve named q
committee of fifty to carry out the plans
for taking the city schools out of politics.
English ladies fond of horseback riding
often arrive at Hyde Park, London, at
| eleven o'clock and do not leave until half
past one.
Straw braids and stripes, composed of
braided rushes or straw embroidery on
an open ground give pretty trimmings
for hats and bonnets.
A guild of the Kings Daughters has
been formed in England. The order is
patterned after the one in this country
and has proved a success.
Thirty years ago the Empress of Russia,
the Princess of Wales and the Duchess
of Cumberland had to get along with So
a month each pin money.
Thewhite and cream silk warp materials
are more dainty and endurabk than ever.
They are particularly desirable for sea-
side and watering place use.
Women are said in England to seek
death according to the following order:
Hanging, abstinence, precipitation,
drowning, cutting, poison.
Queen Victoria is to peronally superin-
tend q great agricultural show in Windsor
Park, and the visitors viii be enabled to
walk by twenty miles of pigs.
j The first woman postmaster appointed
in the United States was t., wife of
Colonel Andrew Balfour. Her commits
sion wasSigned by President Washington.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, is reported to have remarked re-
i Gently that if she had known the penal
ties of fame she would never have written
q line.
The new small capotes are very flat
and fit the top of the head closely.
Some are mere puffs of tulle or of lace,
With a flower in cont and very narrow
strings.
The new industrial home fq5 women
who have renowned polygamy has been
openeG at Salt Lake City, Utah. It's
support is provided for by the United
States Government.
The aavived bereges come with inter-
woven and printed borders on plain
colored grounds of delicate intermediate
shades, blue, rose, gray, beige, green,
bronze, purple, yellow and cream.
ABombay Qndia) newspaper announces
two marriages, in one case the bride be-
ing aged two years and in the other ff=
teen months, while the bridegroom was
thirty. This is the system which Pun
dita Ramabai is struggling against.
Chicago are looking after the
working girls of that city. They have a
home for self-supporting women, which
has been patronized all the year by $50
women, and the Illinois Wemenss Press
Association gives them reepopular week
~ entertainments.
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