The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-12-20
FEMININE NOTES,
How tho Winter GIrl l' Preparing for tho
EnnAnn.

| How tho water Glrl IL Preparing Tor thI
| Sen5On.
The winter girl is going 10 be rs Rus
sian rs possible. Her gloye.dt.lng gown
vii, have band OF fur about it, and shc
herself will be wrapped up in iura from
out OF which her pretty face will look
like the fresh rose that Bhe is. The girl
oil to-day has lost the rather d.ied-up
look that the girl OF ten years ago had,
and the reason for it lie this: Knowing
that her home Is kept at summer heat
all through the cold days, she dresses ne
belts that, and only when she goes out.
doors doeB she assume the very heavy
furs and the warm long wraps that ehe
knows are desirable rs we'll 40 becoming
Walking out in the fresh mir, sho gains
all that is good from II and doesn't grow
cold, and when she comes in and throws
aside her coat she Is not too warmly
gowned for the heated air in which she
exists. She has learned that while the
room may be warm it Is also dcairablc 10
have 1t well ventilated, and the conse.
quenCe is that her eyes arc brighter and
her skin clearer than ever beforc.
1t has Just became law in Norway
that no girl o! any estate shall be oligi-
bic TO marry until she Ia accomplishments
spinning, knitting and baking. From
the same country comes the announce.
ment OF the establishment OF n servant
girls union-the first reported. Five
hundred members are already enrolled,
and the grlerlences taken in hand dem.
0nssrate that "help" nature is the same
the land OF the midnight sun as in the
country OF overhead electric wires. This
Norwegian guild proposes that fed work.
Ing houts, fled hours oil, better wages,
and better servants rooms shall hence.
forth exist.
The females oil Ecuador are proverbial
Tor beauty, those among the gristoCracy
being said to have the iairest complexion
OF any in South America, while ail
possess large, soft and expressive dark
eyes, the blacklist and mos: abundant
hair, the whi,est teeth, well.rounded |
figure, aud smell hands and feet. Like
all women in tho tropics they mature
earlyand fade quickly, but perhapstheir
average span o! forty yeaIs includesmore
heart.happiRess than comes to women
OF colder c!iuies IN thrcc.score years and |
Ten, for these are harrassed by no "eask-
ing cares" or high ambitions.
a woman said to writer in New
York Truth: physical culture has
ruined my figure. 1t has developed the
musceS above the waist 30 that cannot
put my old.sized corset on. Ny waist lie
as small rs it ever was, but oh those
horrid muscles" The muacies referred
10 are those between the bust and the
waist line. Possibly this is tho reason
why SO many physical.culture girls tske
of stays-i. E., because they cannot wear
them any more; the once trim waist is
thing OF the past, The physical.
girl grows muscular in figure. For that
reason the Indian club is going out OF
fashion.
In the rural parts OF Scotland the
Young women 20 barefooted most Of the
year. On Sunday these bnxom damsels
may be seen proceeding to church with
their shoes in hand aud their stockings
hung properly over their arms. When
they reach the chatchyafl they sit down
on tue grass and with more ease than
proceed TO don their hosen aud
Bhoon, for it would be regarded as quite
improper to enter the kirk withou. these
OF attire properly disposed.