West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-02-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WonEN.

new bodice can be worn over differ
ent skirts and has the effect Of lengthen-
ing the waist.
Mary Anderson, the actress, is OF
Scotch and German descent. She was
born in California.
None but lustreless wooden fabrics with
crepe trimmings are allowed in fashion
ably deep mourning.
Some professional pianists and many
fashionable diners.out have their hands
made up by beauty artists.
President Carnot's wife last Christmas
Day gave each of 400 children savings
bank book with $40 deposit.
Cord and tiDsel ornaments are GRO
cheted together to make bands or trim
ming for cloth and silk costumes.
Ladies of fashion in Boston, one of the
local papers relates, now wear at their
afternoon teas Egyptian costumes.
The German court ladies have adopted
the Marguerite style of wearing the hair
in long braids. The bang will be banished
also.
Shoddy wants color and variety of
style. Elegance demands neutral tints
and simplicity of cut that cannot be re-
produced.
Tho feather waistcoat is a rare novelty
and is made entirely of the fine breast
feathers Of Trinidad birds. The trim
ming is costly caprice.
The newest standing lamps have a
small shelf with an upturned edge placed
about three feet from the floor for hold
ing flowers of what fancy chooses.
A large bow OF plated crepe lisse,
consisting of two fiaring ends caught in
the middle with tight knot, if well
liked as gerniture for toqucs and hats.
A clever Buffalo On. W woman has
been to England, Travelled all around
London, and saw everything worth see
ing, in two months trip, at cost of
5000.
Tho woman who first circumnavipated
the world belonged to -Bougainville's
famous expedition OF 1716,. which
occupied precisely two years and four
months.
new combination Of color of refined
taste is dove gray and yellow, the color
OF gold. This combination is found in
all rich and heavy fabrics and also ID
cheaper goods.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may be
mace easy by laying cloth wet in hot
water across where it pinches, changing
several times. The leather will shape IL
self to the foot.
Among the ultra who mourn no flowers.
no perfumes are allowed in the private
apartment save the odor Of violets and
few punches of white flowers, fit emblcms
of departed souls.
Tho Kentucky University, at Licking.
ton, has just opened its doors to women.
owing to the efforts OF the Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. It has now
twenty young women enrolled.
An excellent substitute for crinoline.
which gives the skirts the desired
''standoffishness," arc layers of cotton
batting sewed in between the lining and
facing, quilted and perfumed.
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. p.
Banks, who has left the stage and is acting
as her fathers Private Secretary in Wash
ington, is a fine German scholar, She
speaks and writes German with perfect
ease
Almost unanimously men dislike the
large grotesque and Rembrandtesque hats
coming into general use, Cunning little
evening bonnets, dainty capotes, coquet.
ish turbans and jaunty toques are com.
mended for the theatre wear.
A very dainty combination of corset
and shirt is of narrow striped mauve and
pink satin. The pink stripes arc threaded
with tiny bouquets of forget me nots.
A deep founce of pink silk shaded with
black lace borders the petticoat.
Fond mothers have baby corner in
the family room. A canopy of blue silk
and portieres OF lace form the inclosure
which, rugged with white bear or lamb
skin, is furnished with sheT-shaped
cradle muffled in lace, and white chair.
An adept advises ladies to take care Of
their own hands and not employ mani
cure. They can do it just as well. she
says, but they must give fifteen minutes
day toit. That is about ninety hours
a year spent in polishing and trimming
the nails,
Miss Mary Garrett IS probably tho
'BAA'tNt III Nilt OntLtu states.
but she has not been so generously IA
yored by nature as by fortune, and mt the
age OF thirty-seven still remains in
maiden meditation, heart whole and
fancy free.
Mrs Tsm, wife NJ the Chinese Minis.
ter at Washington. will not 20 in society
this year. Her little son, youth lust in
ms teens, is being tItored in ENGLISH
night and day, and Until he il able to act
rs ms Celestial mammals interpreter that
distinguished lady will isolate herself
from the gay world OF Washington.
Three New Zealand women have lately
brought out useful patents, ono for IN
improved pastry roller, the second for n
max drawing machine and the third for
patent lax and wool dresser. AZ tho
annual presentation Of diplomas at the
New Zealand University, four ladies re-
cciyed the degree Of Bachelor OF Arts.
For softenin9 the hands, take one-half
cupiul Of Rlycerinc, one cupful Of rose
water, onc-half tcaspoonful spirits Of
cainphor. First put camphor in the bot.
tie, then glycerine, which shake we'll be.
fore adding the rose water. AppIv after
washing the hands and while still wet
Rub in well then wipe with a soft towel
Mrs Rcbecca Collins, Quaker