The Opelousas courier., 1890-04-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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continue popular.
The seven hundredth female physician
in Russia has just passed her examlna-
ton.
Partisan ladies of fashion have intro
duced the faintest shade OF pink visiting
cards.
The esFife" travelling cloak is another
name for the Connemara CLOAK Wnen,
made of plaid.
In the public schools OF Chicago
1882 schoolma'ams are employed, VINO
are paid $199, ga. 81 a month.
The New Jersey Legislature has re-
iected a bill giving women the right to
practice in the courts Of that State.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton has five daugh-
tiers, all of them blondes. The oioest,
Edith, has promising artistic talent.
Mrs, William Walter Phelps, wife of
the American Minister, has introduced
GIVE o'clock tea" in Berlin with much
success.
Plaid bingham dresses are made up on
the bias throughout, with beiteo
waists, slightly full at the belt, but plain
on the shoulders.
Crescents of gold held together by slen-
der wires appear in bracelets. There Is
also a decided tendency toward the
heavy curb bracelet.
White embroidered maslins are useo
to trim Scotch gingham dresses, as yokes'
| collars, cuffs, Spanish jackets and as In
s~ertions in the skirts.
Miss Clara Mcknight, an eighteen
vear-old lady of Ironton, Ohio, has passed
a satisfactory examination and been al
mitted as a pension attorney.
The selvages of silks of good quality
are still liked for trimmings. They are
o~ftenest arranged in jabots on the skirt
along the side or back breadths.
The colors fashionable in cashmeres
are repeated in Scotch ginghams, and
| black stripes or bars of sateen are feat
ures of many of the newest patterns.
Tailors who work for ladies are fond
of giving mannish names to feminine
garments. "Mess jackets" "covert
coats" 'reefers," are among the popular
| names.
Brown figures on green grounds are a
| fashionable color contrast, while blue
and green are fashionably combined IN
various designs of stripes, polka dots and
1owerss9 ,
Delaware has recently allowed school
suffrage to Out of forty-six
| States and Territories there are now
TWENTY-FIVE where women have some form
of suffrage.
In Denmark most of he girls are
trained in agriculture, whnh is there an
important industry. Tne owners OF
farms receive pupils, who undergo a
regular training.
A charming addition to a dainty even
| ing costume is an aigrette OF isingIass,
spTinkled with numberless small dis
tonds, which may be worn in the hair
or upon the eorsage:
The Duchess of Albany, dauehtersin;
law of Queen Victoria, has just received
| her diploma as a hospital nurse, after
taking the regular course and standing
| the usual examination.
Pretty ginghams have bourette stripes
| alternating with thin, lace.like stripes.
| Sometimes rotigh bouretts threads, black
or white, are scattered at intervals over
the surface of ginghams otherwise plain'
The worlds supply of human hair
comes chiefly from Germany, Switzerland
and the French provinces. It is bought
up by drummers from the European
capitals who attend the country fairs for
that purpose. ~
Miss Hankey, the first woman Y e
graduated at Columbia College, is to be
| commemorated by q window in the
college library. The design is an al
legorical treatment of her career a. a
scholar, cut short by death.
Bordersd ginghams are 50 wide that
the widthA serves for the length Of tbs
@skirt, the harder forming the skirt trim
rAE T& borders are wide, and are
of sJssh plaid, or have graduated stripes
LOT the : sschige designs in vines.
Althougk.a:9ge. sleeves, RR@de precisely
as last1slmmer, will be worn by many
upon bingham aud other wash dresses,
d~ressmakers advise moderately large coat
sleeves, or the mutton-leg sleeves, made
! without too much fulness at the top:
The full enveloping cloaks worn with
travelling costumes are known as .douil'
l~ettes, and are completed by sultana
sleeves, which are really capes, Of which
the sleeves form a part. The entire wrap
is usually lined with gay plaided surah.
! Dark indigo blue India silks will again
be used for morning gowns. The newest
designs are white flowers, thistles OIL
grape clusters, or stripes OF yellow, green,
white or red, placed two inches apart lr
clusters of two narrow lines with a Law
ender stripe betweepA
A curious fact (thatsseventeen clerks
in the Senate of &c nsBtate of Wash
ington, a majority 81 them-nine-are
women, and there is but one who carries
"Mrs." before her name. The same rule
holds goods with the House, a majority
of its clerks being ladies.
Velvet ribbons are used lengthwise tt
trim skirts. An effective way is to faster
them at the belt, then allow them to drooI
in loops below the hips, where they are
tackled, and drop thence to the foot
~rharo +bmv ara Enished With forkad end