Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
White hats are in favor.

Inc name gwen 10 the OulI req now sc
popular is ''rouge Eiffel."
White waistcoats are particularly popu-
lar with all sorts of gowns.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer.
has left $1,000 to Vassar College
Rosa Bonheur still vigorously wields
the brush, at nearly seventy years.
Every well-appointed dressing table
has its drawers lined and perfumed.
A popular hair pin is of amber shell,
topped by an immense knot of gold.
Awoman with doctors degree has
become a veterinary surgeon in Paris.
Ideal tennis and boating dresses are
Shapely meal sacks tied in the middle
White serge has been used very extern
sively this season for yaching costumes.
The Empress Frederick OF Germany
now enjoys an income of $35O,000
year.
It was Nine Roland who said: "The
more l know of men the more l admire
dogs"
Cut roses in glass or rare old fashioned
china bowls are used for floral table deco
rations.
The prize for short hand writing at
the Vienna competition was taken by
woman.
The Queen of Roumania Carmen Syl-
va) is at work on the ibretto of a Swe-
dish opera.
The Paris dressmakers are said to be
determined on the complete humiliation
of the hustle.
English bellies are adopting the small
! black patches of various shapes, like
those Of a century ago.
A young lady in Wheeling, W. Va,
claims to have refused forty offers of mar
riage during the past year.
The Kings Daughters, organized about
four years ago, now numbers nearly one
hundred thousand members.
The Woman's Journal has found a Mis-
souri, woman farmer who performs hel
out door work in mems clothes.
Miss May Wanamaker, the Postmaster
Generals daughter, will make her debut
in Washington society next fall.
The widow of N. P Willis, the poet,
is living in Washington. She is pleas
ant, attractive woman of siXty-five.
1t is asserted on good Netherland au-
| thority that fly paper is extensively used
by fashionable women as cosmetic.
The skirts of mountain dresses should
I fairly clear the ground, and may be made
up with or without foundation skirt.
Twenty nine women are studying medi-
cine, fourteen philosophy and two politi-
/ cal economy, at the University at Zurich.
| Among a collection of rich fans recent
ly shown was one with sticks of transpa-
rent amber, set with pearls in zigzag de-
! sign.
Ornaments of dull oxidized silver, and
flower brooches in white or pale purple
/ enamel, are worn with half-mourning
| toilets.
There are girls who buy their books to
match their gowns. It doesn't matter
about the contents if the binding is salts
factory.
Mrs William Waldorf Astor, wife of
the New York millionaire, is said to have
adopted a rule always to retire at ten
| o'clock.
Black silk gloves, fashioned like kid,
and with dull kid finish, are more pop
ular than undressed kid for mourning
! this season.
! The only woman barber in Boston is
| Jennie L. Dodge. She is New Hamp
/ shire girl and has followed her trade with
success since 1883.
Diamonds have blazed in English So
ciety this season as never before. They
have even appeared in profusion in morn
ing entertainments.
Mrs. Legion, bright young married
woman of New York city, has opened a
carpenter shop. She is a skillful artisan
and finds business good.
Silk gowns that have become old and
shabby present a very respectable ap-
pearance under gauze and net draperies
/ as tea gowns and ball dresses.
Miss Morosini and Miss Wilson, guests
at the United States Hotel, at Saratoga,
n. Y, have introduced there the fashion
of wearing wreaths about their heads.
Before her engagement to Lord Fife
the Princess Louise of Wales had nc
Jewels. Now she has more than hel
mother, who has very plentiful sup