The Opelousas courier., 1889-10-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
White hats are in favor.

MEMS AND NUlES FUN NONENs
White hats are in favor.
Red reigns for country costumes.
Fashion at last accords with common
sense.
The Empress of Austria is studing
Greek.
The simplest draperics are now the
most stylish.
The cost of Princess Louise's trousseau
was $50, 900.
Ten Cinnamon have welded white
women in Chicago.
Soft felt hats are chosen for wear with
mountain costumes.
Plaid taffeta is used for gay toilets by
French ladies this season.
The name given to the dull red now so
popular is ''rouge Eiffcl."
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 Yields
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.
Ideal tennis and boating dresses are
shapely meal sacks tied in the middle.
White serge has been used very extern
slvcly this season for yaching costumes.
The Emperess Frederick of Germany
now enjoys an income of $3.50, 600 a
year.
1t was Nine. Roland who said: tsThe
more [ know of men the more I admire
dogs"
Cut roses in glass or rare old fashioned
china bowls are used for floral table deco
~rations.
The prize for shorthand writing at
the Vienna competition was taken by a
woman.
The Queen of .Roumania OarmeR SSf-
va Ia at work OF the 1ibretto OF a swe-
dish opera.
The Paris dressznakers 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 oftmar-
rage during the past year.
The Kings Daughters, organized about
four years ago, now numbers nearly one
hundred thousand members.
The Romans Journal has found a Mis-
souri, woman farmer who performs her
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 a pleas
ant, attractive woman Of sixty-ive.
It is asserted on good Netherland au-
thority that fly paper is extensively used
by fashionable women as a cosmetic.
The skirts of mountain dresses should
sairly clear the ground, and may be made
up with or without a foundation skirt.
Twenty-Five women are studying medi-
cine, fourteen philosophy and two politi-
cal economy, at the University at Zurich.
Among a collection of rich fans recent
ty 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. Tt 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 a 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 a New Hamp-
shire girl and has followed her trade with
success since 1888.
Diamonds have blazed in English So
ciety this season as never befoKc. They
even appeared In profuslon.1n morn
ing entertainments.
Mrs. Legion, a bright young married
woman of New York city, has opened a
carpenter shop. She is a skillful artisan
finds business good.
Silk gowns that have become*old and
present a very respectable sp-
under gauze and net draperies
IS 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 no
Now she has more than her
who has a very plentiful sup
ply.
A japanese woman, Miss Cassie Tel
sono, has come to America to study the
condition of women here, and to prepare
herself for reform work in her native !!
and.
Parasols with porcelain handles are
while natural wood sticks are deco ,
'ated with punches of cherries, plums,
,r whatever tree the handles are cut