West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-11-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

sewn on TO the bodice
Table covers no longer hang all over
and all around the table.
Mrs. ''Stonewell" Jackson is writing
her husbands biography.
In London the women are beginning
to wear the single eyeglass.
Steel knives have come into fashion
again for use in certain courses.
The craze for antique oak and white
and gold furniture is on the increase.
Brown, tan, gray, and black gloves mr..
the correct wear with all out-of-door
toilets.
All waists have SUPPLIES, bretellcs,
plastrons, w%aistcoats or revers of one kind
or another.
The new Duchess of Marlborough is
making a reputation in England by rails
ing fine dogs.
Embroideries arc not used on the
choicest underwear. Lace trimmed goods
are first choice.
A discussion has been started lately as
to the advisability Of having at least
seven pockets in a dress.
Hangings of willow bamboo are used
Tor country bedroom windows. They
can be Topped back or left hanging.
Entire dresses of crocheted wool are
worn by English children, especially
delicate ones, in cold, damp weather.
At the sale of the Duke of Brunswick
effects in London, Mrs. Mackey purchased
Il pair of diamond a r.rings for 300, 600.
The Carrick cape, with a fiat boa or
stole ending in square tabs at the knees
or higher, is a fashionable London wrap.
A handkerchief in the possession of
the Empress of Russia is said to have
cost $500. 1t took seven years to make
it.
In the manicure world filbert finger
nails arc cultivated and the moons
brought out with u touch of cherry lin
rouge.
A piano once owned by the wife of
President John Quincy Adams is now in
the possession of Miss Cordelia Meyers, OF
MELVILLE, Penn.
1t is said the milliner who makes the
bonnets for the Princess of Wales and
her daughters has no other customers and
uoes not nang out "a sign.
The exquisite ''fnish'' which is put
upon all dresses and mantles, and which
is the distinguishing feature of the times,
is an outcome of the tailor gown.
Some one who has made a study of
the chemical properties of veal urges
women who desire TO become beautiful to
sleep with slices of it on their faces.
Mrs. Harrison has now in the White
House several quaint and genuine pieces
OF antique furniture which she picked up
during her summers visit TO Nantucket.
The mother of the famous Guernsey
sisters performed the remarkable feat at
the age of seventy of learning Hebrew
enough to read the Psalms in their orig
inal tongue.
An old friend has come to the fore
again this season in the shape of ladies'
cloth. This fabric appears with border
effects, which are a novelty. 1t is likely
to be exceedingly popular.
The richest woman in Wisconsin is
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, whose husband
left her an estate worth many millions.
She is the widow of the late President of
viz unN o. lAul IOslN.
Queen Maria Pia, of Portugal, who
has been spoken Of frequently rs the
best-dressed woman in Europe, is said to
enjoy occasional flights to Austria, Bel
GUM or Germany IN sympathetic mis-
sions.
The Empress Frederick, in fulflment
of u wish of her late illustrious consort.
sent, on the anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, sums of money to a great number
OF needy soldiers who were wounded in
hat engagement.
The general rule for street toilets is to
have a plain long rendigote of plain
stuff, word over a skirt Of striped tartan.
brocaded, figured, or bordered material.
and this rule is followed for silk suits as
well as for wooden.
Three Austrian ladies, sisters-the
Miles. Welt-have passed the cxamina-
ton on the honor list for the doctors
degree at the University of Vienna.
Women doctors are not, however. per
mitted to practice in the Empire, and two
of the sisers have sailed for America.
Dove or Quaker gray is the most fash
ionable and also the most becoming
shade Of this most trying color. 1t com.
bincs well with Eifel, pale rose, blue.
water green, canary yellow. faminoo
red, and other shades of bright and posi-
tive color, with cream, pure white, black.
silver and gold, copper and steel.
II is TO be feared that the very small
bonnets which even elderly women seem
so fond Of will bring about an invasion
Of hair. ''Too much hair and not
enough hat form "a combination that has
been fashionable before. Can we ever
forget the day Of big chignons and little
tip-tilted saucer-shapcd hatsl Is not the
very thought Of a return to these terrify
iugf
Ringoal is p new English out-of-door,
game for ladies. Il is played with grace
hcops and sticks aud two nets eight feet
high and ten feet wide. u is proposed
20 make DC rival and rule ont tennis. n
possible, as 10 exercises both arms. both
! shoulders, both hands, and the whole
/ body in The running and turning neces
sary 70 catch the hoops before they
reach the goals or nets.
Oriental ideas prevail in costumes.
Persian, Bulgarian, Turkish, servian and