Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-22

Mis-. bOndnZd mdCAdy Is Louu Ol gray
walking dresses and always wears a man.
tie.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott spoffard is a
strong advocate of daily exercise for
girls.
Among other fashionable shades of yell
low, maize, or corn-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-
delphia.
Miss Ala NJ. Longfellow, daughter Of
the poet, is much interested in amateur
photography.
Nine. Meiba, the Australian prima
donna, began to sing in public when she
was only sixteen.
The typewriting business nets from
$25OO to $4,000 to many o young woman
in New York city.
The West End damsels of London have
four cricket clubs among them, with
three others forming.
Accordion plated 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.
Crepe de chine is the prettiest fabric in
use that can be worn on 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 parasol twenty inches deep
it requires two and one-quarter yards OF
material that is twenty inches wide.
A woman in Lafayette County, Mo-,
has an apiary of 1875 hives. She expects
to make 10, 900 pounds of honey this year.
The women of Boston have 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
2 and has proved success.
; Thirty years ago the Empress of Russia,
the Princess of Wales and the Dutchess
of Cumberland had to get along with SS
month each pm money.
= The white and cream silk warp materials
: are more dainty and endurable than ever.
; They are particularly desirable for sea-
= side and watering place use.
Women are said in England to seek
4 death according to the following order
a Hanging, abstinence, precipitation,
e drowning, cutting, poison.
b Queen Victoria is to peronally superin'
y tend great agricultural show in Windsor
e Park, and the visitors will be enabled tt
), walk by twenty miles of pigs.
The first woman postmaster appointed
=. | =. ~ %1o n
Z, Colonel Andrew Balfour. Her commits
II sion was signed by President Washington
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, tn,
= novelist, is reported to have remarked re
- Gently that if she had known the penal
= ties of fame she would never have writer
7 line.
ct The new small capotes are very fla
,e and fit the top of the head closely
le Some are mere puffs of tulle or of lace
with flower in front and very marrow
in strings.
E. The new Industrial home for womel
r who have renounced polygamy has bee
= opened at Salt Lake City, Utah. 1t
le support is provided for by the Unite'
~ States Government.
~ Il The revived bereges come with inter
y. y. woven and printed borders on plai
u u colored grounds Of delicate intermediat
10 lo shades, blue, rose, gray, beige, green
se - bronze, purple, yellow and cream.
a ABombay Qndia) newspaper announce
two marriages, in one case the bride be
at ing aged two years and in the other fit
oh teen months, while the bridegroom wa
;s thirty. This is the system which Pur
q dita Ramabai is struggling against.
he Chicago women are looking after th
nd working girls of that city. They have
Ter home for self-supporting women, whic
ng has been patronized all the year by 25
,ly women, and the Illinois Women's Pre'
we Association gives them free popular weel
,rs ly entertainments.
en- Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Salv'
ire tion Army, is young, beautiful, fairly ed'
Gated and gifted. The most fashionab
parlors in New York leave open the
M " doors to her, and the society women
d1- the ,patronolis have hailed her with d