The weekly messenger., 1890-04-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


this spring as they have been for the last
two seasons.
Pretty cotton, merino and challie
cloths have printed borders along one
selvage that will work up neatly for
house gowns.
The late Empress Augusta left Queen
Victoria splendid gold bracelet con-
tanning the words "For ever" set in
precious stones.
Iowa is the banner State for women
educators. Fourteen of the State Su-
perintendents are women, and four-tifths
Of the teachers are women.
Barred, plaided, checked, and striped
mohairs and alpacas come in all the color
combinations seen in the wool tartans
and zephyrs of this spring.
The new mohairs and alpacas are more
lustrous than those of last spring, and
they come in all the new colors that are
seen in other spring fabrics.
Miss Louise Meyer, of New Orleans, is
the latest Southern writer for the
magazines. She is only eighteen, but
shows talent of high order.
Mrs. Marshall Field, wife of the Chi
cago dry goods millionaire, keeps a lady
secretary, whose sole business is to dis
pense the private charities of her mis-
tress.
Mrs. Stanley Brown, who was formerly
Miss Mollie Garfield, is now living very
quietly in Washington with her husband.
The only house she visits is Secretary
Windows.
Street gowns grow more and more
quiet and Puritanical in effect. The re-
verse is seen in house gowns of all kinds,
for dinuers, teas, at home in the after
moons or evenings.
The Dowager Empress of China takes
great interest in the development of
the Celestial Kingdom, and spends a
great deal of her time in consultation
with railroad projectors.
Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, wife OF Ohio's
new Senator, was before her marriage a
teacher in the public school at Terre
Haute, Ind, while Mr.. Brice was a strug
Cling young lawyer at Lima.
A woman who, like Charles Dickens's
Jenny Wren, made her living by dress
ing and repairing dolls, recently died in
st. Paul, Minn. Hundreds of her little
friends are mourning for her loss.
New cheviots have dotted stripes and
stripes of broken lines in clustered
effects. Then there are tarlan and striped
cheviots in all the clan tarlan and new
fancy French tartan combinations.
Lady Pauncetorte, wife of the British
Minister, is setting the Washington
women an uncommonly good example in
the matter of walking. Perhaps she may,
yet make exercise and health fashionable.
Light spring wooleus, beiges, mohairs.
light ladies cloths, camels' hair sergcs
and nuns veillngs, of heavier quality
than those worn last year, food the retail
dry goods counters and are selling
rapidly.
Mohair glace in two tones or two
colors will be more worn this spring than
last, while those in pure shades of Eiffei,
gray, biegc, reed green, navy and deep
sea blue suede and tan will be as popular
as ever.
Heliotrope and black arc Introduced
with fine effect in new fancy tartans of
French importation, the other color'
ranging through all the rust and Eitfel
tower reds, the new greens, blues and
yellows.
IN Houiton; Me, lives a lady who
never wore an article of jewelry, piece
of lace nor collar, even in the days of
courtship, which experience she has
passed through more than once, having
married twice.
The Misses Emily and Georgina Hill,
OF London, have opened school for
women journalists. The Misses Hill edit
| the Westnainster and Lambeth Gazette, and
are among the very few journalists of
their sex in Europe.
Mrs. Davis, wife Of the Senator from
Minnesota, and one of the prettiest
women in Washington, has hazel eyes,
brown hair and brilliant complexion.
She is a graceful equestrienne and an ac-
complished ilnguist.
A doll show for the benefit of the new
| hospital for women Is about to take place
in London. There will be prizes for the
best dressed dolls in the different classes,
and afterward the dolls will be sold for
the good of the cause.
New taffeta silks, black and in colors,
shot and with self-colored grounds, have
small peas, dots, leaves, flowers and tiny
geometric figures, broche on the surfaces,
generally in the same color, but occasion.