Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Trains are the rule now for house
dresses.
Barmaids are going out of fashion in
England.
FiliTee jewelry, always beautiful, Is
again in fayog-
Ostrich feather trainings may be worn
on evening gowns
Ostrich plrmage is a conspicuous
feature in millinery
If caste women in,Corea shows her
face she is outlawed.
Silk fsh-net costumes are made up
over silk skirts and waists.
''Hot-potato napkins" are the very
latest novelties in fancy napery.
American women are said to spend
S62, ,O00, 900 year for cosmetics
Miss Laura White, of Kentucky, 10
making a reputation as an architect.
The women of Chicago want repre-
sentation on the Educational Boards.
Tea cigarettes are said to be coming
into fashion for feminine smoking in Eng
land.
Round waists and belts are slowly but
surely displacing pointed bodices and
basques.
There are six women police officers in
the London police force, all employed as
detectives.
Black hats and bonnets are trimmed
with the yellow minosa, favorite trim
ming flower.
Bonnets of white and rose tulle are
decorated with roses. The eglantine is
the favorite. H.
Chicago has home for self-supporting
women, where board is to be had for
1928 week.
With dresses of pale green crepe de
chine black gloves and ribbons are now
worn by the fashionable.
Brocades with Empire designs of floral
scrolls and laurel leaves are made up over
skirts of white satin or silk.
The monks gown of brown carnel's
hair, which envelops the wesrer from head
to foot, is used for travelling.
France is somewhat shaken up over al
legged indulgence in morphine taking by
thousands of Partisan women.
There is such craze for reviving old
fashions that it is to be expected that snuff
boxes will soon come into use.
Bishop sleeves of chantiIly lace are a
yard and a half wide and show closer
one of bright color underneath.
A London milliner has invented cork
bonnet. It is made wholly of the bark
of the cork tree and is very light.
Shoulder capes are sometimes made in
a V shape of two pieces of ribbon with
bias sides, meeting in the front and back.
A discovery, due to the plentiful royal
deaths abroad, is that diamond necklaces
worn between two jet ones is strict half
mourning.
The authorities in Holland have decreed
that a woman cannot serve on school
board. In Sweden it has been decided
that they can.
You can buy child's s sash of washing
silk five inches wide and one-haf yards
long for one shilling, but you must go to
London for it.
Seen upon recent hat: Two birds.
three butterflies, two yards ribbon, fom
of lace, about ten of silver cords in rows
and rings and rosettes.
Frocks of fine white wool braided aD
| oua, ,,,b;&o a,lI~ lob opI oiu,y,Ia
enough for shepherdess and are costly
enough for a princess.
A new finish for sashes of silk or rib
bon is two bands of jet openwork across
the ends, with handsome jet fringe fall.
ing from the lower one.
A young lady in Portland, Me-, hat
worked up a new business, in which she
is said to be doing well-that of reading
to old or disabled people.
For morning walks or shopping thick
wells are allowable, but for all other oc-
casions the sheerest dotted net, coming
Just below the chin, is the correct thing.
An easy mitigation Of the new baggy
sleeve is to shirr it just below the arm
hole, and set velvet or galloon under the
shirring, with another row just above the
cuff.
| It is discovered that Brooklyn nurses
have habit of drugging children when
they take their charges out for an airing,
in order to gossip and fiirt with the po-
hcemen.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptress, at
a reception given her by the Chicago
Woman's Club, wore five medals, four Of
gold and one of silver, which had been
awarded her in Italy.
The punishment of women by fogging
still exists in the Transvaal. Though the
South African press is down on the prac
tice, only recently woman was sentenced
to receive fifteen lashes.
A servant girl in Easton, Penn, wha
recently died, left $500 to the German
Lutheran Church, and $4,000 to grand
daughter of her employer. The money
was all saved out of her wages.
Miss Mary F. Seymour, editor of the
Business Womsan's Journal, approves Of
women learning stenography and the use
of the typewriter as an aid to proficiency
in other businesses and professions.
The newest thing in London household
economy is female butler--a maiden
jressed in n livery of blue. green. cold.