West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

velvet Is the fayorite finish for light
wool gowns.
Mushroom and leather shades lead in
neutral tints.
Connecticut has but one woman law.
yer, Miss Mary Hall.
"A novel favor is Brazil nut in bisaue
fer holding perfume.
Toques are so small they fit the head
almost like jockey cap.
The newest gold embroideries arc sun.
posed to come from Cairo.
Victor Hugo's only daughter is an old
woman in lunatic asylum.
Suede gloves in old rose shades are
worn upon dressy occasions.
Some of Philadclphia's fashionable girls
are expert with boxing gloves.
Over 40, 900 girls attended the cook.
ing classes in England last year.
Plaid percalcs, sateens and challies
appear among other tartan stuffs.
Julia Ward Howe is the best Greek
scholar OF her sex in the country.
Plain and brocaded mohairs are effec-
lively combined in some new gowns.
The high front trimming on capotes &.
preferred, and il is the most becom:np
Bonnets are almost covered with
wreaths and sprays of flowers this sea.
son.
Black satin bids fair to be the mate.
rial generally preferred for summer petit
coats.
Handsome buckles and clasps are in
order with the belts Of every description
now so much worn.
The light, soft wool goods worn by
gentlemen in the summer make pretty
skirts for little boys.
Ribbon velvets are, ifpossible. used in
greater profusion than ever. Some of
the newest show plaided effects.
A useful bodice to wear with skirts of
black sstiu, silk or lace, is OF black Chan
THY lace and pink ribbon velvet.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman gives AWAY
s<Voo every year to various charitable
institutions in and about Chicago.
New modes for fashionable house
toilets show brocade in Louis XVI. de.
sign combined with silk or velvet.
Upon cloth toques the fur trimming
may be either light or dark, but Is
usually selected with view to contrast.
Pretty shoulder capes of white cloth
are laid in side plaits on the back and
shoulders with double-breastcd reyers
fronts.
The Medici collar and some of the dis.
tlnctive features OF the styles of the
Louis XVI. and XIV. periods are now in
vogue.
The Queen Regent of Spain is an early
riser, and takes cold water bath winter
and summer. She is very fond of games
of chance.
Rosa Bonheur, the best known living
female artist, claims that she has painted
her best pictures since she passed the age
of fifty years.
Miss Flora Woodward Tibbits. of Ann
Arbor, is the first woman in Michigan to
apply Tor admission to the bar of the
Supreme Court
A pretty wrap consists of alternate
capes of gray and white cloth, with
pointed edges braided with gold, and a
deep white collar.
The efforts being made to establish a
hospital Unnamed" by women, and for
The exclusive treatment of the sex, are
surprisingly successful.
Miss Henriette Markstein is a Young
lady in New York city who devotes her
talents and time to giving entertainments
Tor the benefit of the working classes.
A broad, low forehead is an attribute
Of beauty, according to the latest arbi-
tration, and front hair is cultivated TO
grow down about the forehead and tenn
pies
There are over 900 widows on the
pension roll Of the Exempt Firemen's As.
of New York city, each of
whom draws $50 year. There is $3.50, 600
n the fund
Abby Burgess, now Mrs. Grant, has
lad charge of the Matinious light north
,f the PenObscot River for twenty-eioht
fears-at first rs assistant, but was given
'ull charge in 1866.
Miss u. p. Otis, the newest Of New
1 orks women editors, is described rs
being beautiful, five feet four inches tall.
With light hair and pretty figure. She
s about twenty-four years old.
The Chinese Minister has consented to
slow his wife to mingle with Washing
on society, but as she speaks no Eng.
ish and society speaks no Chinese, the
benefit 20 either party will be small.
IL has become tho fashion in Chicago
or men to buy their wives's bonnets.
The milliners like the change, and say
hat rs a general rule man displays bet
er taste than woman in these matters.
Carmen sylvia" the Roumanian
Queen, is said 10 be an illustrious epi-
'ure. She has invented a number of
'alatabie culinary compositions and oc
'asionally cooks n dish for the King with
ieT own hands.
The last new smelling Bottle is di-
'cct copy Of ono in use during the first
Umpire, at which time it was called the
.osebud. II is made Of gold, euameled
"a colors, with a tiny central rose worked
mt in small pearls.
a Philadelphia journal says Mrs. Fer.
'and0 Yznaga's failure TO make n gensg.
Jon ~ a beauty in London is due 10 tho
act that she is blonde, and the blonde