West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

NsJ os'a bhsetho WIFI ROlu.
ornamcnted jewelry is having high
favor.
Big black straw hats are shown for
children.
Ladies who have discarded petticoats
grow in numbers.
A large proportion of jackets are made
OF pale gray cloth.
The close clinging English skirt is
liked for tailor gowns.
Plaid ribbons will be used for the gar
niture of summer dresses.
Black round hats are worn extensively
with dresses of all colors.
Butterflies and Brazilian bugs hover
over many Of the flowers.
Masculine fashions are adopted by the
women again this season.
Embroidery is uscd for trimming mus.
lin, silk and cashmere dresses.
For walking costume soutane cloth
OF military blue is very stylish.
band OF ribbon tied with a bow
around the wrist is new fashion.
Queen Victoria is n sufferer from rheu.
matism which has become chronic.
Both chip and Neapolitan braid bon
nets will be much used this summer.
Some of the flowers seen on the new
bonncts are an impossibility in nature.
The tailormadc jacket and vest all in
one has started in to be very fashionable.
All purple, hcliotrope aud mauvc
shades are exceedingly fashionable just
at present.
A black fan Of turkey feathers is con.
sidered chic with the most delicate even.
ing toilet.
1t isa popularity of the bonnets this
season that the smallest are said TO the
mOss expensive.
Eyebrow brushes are about ms odd a
caper as could be imagined. They come
with embossed silver backs.
III you want to seem tall and com.
handing carry white parasol and wear
white hat or white aigrette.
Ornamental hairpins now include bees
and butterflies of the very natural looking
kind that consc only from Paris.
The Countess of Waldersee is the
daughter of James Lee, once a we'll
known grocer in New York city.
Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, has very unique collection
of gold enameled and silver spoons.
In the Scotch tartan dress goods, the
small inconspicuous patterns are held by
the dressmakers to be the most elegant
NINE. Patti sleeps with silk handker
chief round her neck. She uses a very
salty gargle of cool water every morning
"A strong reaction has set in against
the soft, clinging, lackadaisical cloths
that came in with the Oscar Wilde craze.
old-fashioned silver pocketbooks in
the form of n shell, such as our grand
mothers used to carry, have come back
again.
Lady Dufferin says that the English
are rapidly spelling the exquisite taste of
the East Indians in dressing and in dress
fabrics.
Mousquetaire gloves comes in all the
new and beautiful shades, and the ones
with the greatest number of buttons sell
quickest.
An English literary statistician has dis
covered that of the 562 heroines in inst
years novels 372 were blondes and 100
brunettes.
I. Mrs. Stanford, wife of Senator Stan
lord, adds charity to her other virtues.
She supports nearly a score of kinder
gartens for the poor of San Francisco.
The will Of the indiana man who loft
s35, 900 to found home for old maids
has been declared invalid by the court,
the testator having been of unsouud
mind.
Buy black straw hat, put band OF
Partisan or Turkish embroidery about
the crown and skewer it with couple If
silver-headed pins and you have spring
bonnet.
The Princess of Wales takes lively
interest in hammered brass work, an art
in which she herself is proficient, aud
which is taught at her school in Sand
ringham.
Bodices and basques, finished with
side effect, whether double breasted or In
Russo, suggest the pretty rosette or bow
of ribbon pinned on the shoulder or col
lar under the ear
A very unique fan is on exhibition IN
the window Of a London store. IL is
made of human hair exquisitely worked,
and what seems to be lace fringin0 on
the sticks is also hair.
At rough estimate there are 1900
young ladies in the musical circles OF
New York society, according to we'll
known conductor, who fiddle we'll
enough for orchestral work"
White toilcttes will be in vogue this
summer; green is unquestionably la
mode; brown is the poets color, and the
yellow tints, particularly baize. primrose,
apricot and cameo are on the top wave OF
popularity.
A body can buy right pretty dress
pattern for SO, in silk or wool. but the
making and "fndings" cost $50 aud the
bit Of fur about the skirt and reverse
SIG. Verify well-dressed woman is a
dear delight.
a Washington man mas discovered
that tall, slender girls take 10 Qreyhounds
aud dogs Of similar build, while short
plump girls are invariably seen on tho
streets with pugs, poodles, and CANNES
Of kindred shape.
Christian Reid. one Of fbe r,osf ,,o,,,,