West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-20
NEWS AID NOTES FOR woMHNs


ton.
Partisan ladies Of fashion have intro
duced the faintest shade of pink visiting
cards.
The "Fife" travelling cloak is another
name for the Connemara cloak when
L.Ndc of plaid
In the public schools of Chicago,
1852 schoolma'ams are employed, who
are paid S199, 624.6 so month.
The New Jersey Legislature has re-
jected bill giving women the right to
practice in the courts Of that State.
Mrs. Levi r. Morton has five daugh-
tiers, all of them blondes. The oldest,
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 round belted
waists, slightly full ut the belt, but plain
on the shoulders.
Crescents of gold held together by slen-
der wires appear in bracelets. There is
also n decided tendency toward the
heavy curb bracelet.
White embroidered muslins are used
TO trim Scotch bingham dresses, rs yokes,
collars, cuffs, Spanish jackets and as in
sertions in the skirts.
Miss Clara Mcknight, an eighteen
ycar-old lady Of Ironton, Ohio, has passed
n satisfactory examination and been adj
mitted as a pension attorney.
The selvages of silks of good quality
arc still liked for trimmings. They are
oftcnest 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, " "reefcrs," are among the popular
names.
Brown figures on green grounds are
fashionable color contrast, while blue
and green are fashionably combined IN
various designs of stripes, polka dots and
flowers.
Delaware has recently allowed school
suffrage TO women. Out of forty-six
States and Territories there are now
twenty five where women have some form
of suffrage.
In Denmark most of the girls are
trained in agriculture, which is there an
important industry. The owners of
farms receive pupils, who undergo a
regular training
A charming addition to a dainty even
ing costume is an aigrette of isinglass,
sprinkled with numberlcss small dia-
monds, which may be worn in the hair
or upon the corsage.
The Duchess of Albany, daughter-in-
law of Queen Victoria, has Just received
her diploma as Il hospital nurse, after
taking the regular course and standing
the usual examination.
Pretty ginghams have bourettc stripes
alternating with thin, lace-like ripes.
Sometimes rough bourette 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 ever
| graduated at Columbia College, is to be
commemorated by window in the
| college library. The design is an al
| legorical treatment of her career as n
! scholar, cut short by death.
Bordered ginghams are so wide that
| the width serves for the length of tho
skirt the border forming the skirt trim
ming. The borders are wide, and are
OF Scotch plaid, or have graduated stripes
Of the new chine designs in vines.
Although large sleeves, made precisely
as last summer, will be worn by many
upon bingham and other wash dresses,
| dressmakers advise moderately large coat
sleeves. or the mutton-leg sleeves made
without too much fulness Mt the top.
The full enveloping cloaks worn with
| travelling costumes are known as douil-
| lettes, and are completed by Sultana
sleeves, which are really capes, of which
the sleeves form 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 or
| grape clusters, or stripes of Yellow, green,
white or red, placed two inchcsiapart in
/ clusters Of two narrow lines witlila Law
cuder stripe between.
A curious fact is that seventeen clerks
7 in the Senate Of the new State Of Wash
ington, a majority Of them-niue-ar
| women, and there is but one'who carries
Mrs before her name. The same rule
holds goods with the House, % majority
Of ITS clerks being ladies.
Velvet ribbons arc used lcnptrayiso 10
trim skirts An effective way IS to fnstcn
them 40 the belt. then allow them 20 droop
boz loops below the hips, where they. are
tackled. and drop thence 10 the foot.
where thcyarc finished with fortcd ends
I or are fastened 90 the hem with large
rosottcs.
There is o curious law in vogue i'm
Switzerland which c9mpcls every newly
married couple top.aut trees shortly after
I Che marriage ceremony. The trees