West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-01-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

OoictO OF tOFeauOf shape are fashionable.
Flounces have appeared upon dressy
winter toilets, dinner costumes and tea
gowns.
Black Russian net appears in a new
guise, and a pretty kind is studded with
large interviewer spots.
Cne OF the ~liyeliest and most success
full drummers out West is Miss Ellen
Green, who travels for a paint house.
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation Of Chicago propose to build an
addition TO their home at u cost of
$50, 900.
The beautiful and gifted Queen of
Roumania, better known as Carmen
Silvia, is threatened with permanent loss
of health.
One Of the most beautiful of the o
lar shoulder capes recently seen was of
black ostrich feathers, quilted and lined
with satin.
Many of the fashionable women of Lon
don have their wraps, ulsters and seal
skins lined with Scotch plaids, which is
the ''Fife craze"
White washing p%etticoats are some
times made Of the finest China silk, and
embroidered flannel ones have deep hut-
ings of torchon lace.
Among the luxurious soalskin gar
ments recently imported is the Russian
riding-cloak, which is lined throughout
with silver-fox fur.
A small, close bonnet, with crown of
heliotrope passementerie, has a bow of
Topped resoda velvet formed like q Cath
crime wheel in the front.
Mrs. Aston, wife of the New York
millionaire, says that well-bred women
are learning to dress more and more
plainly every year in public places.
Brown furs are in high favor for small
garments, capes, cuffs, etc. The long
iiceced cinnamon bear and the darker
grizzly bear are especially favored.
Some of the newest brocades show
black velvet leaves in relief on colored
grounds, with another satin -brocaded
leaf coming from beneath the velvet.
Mrs. John r.. Gordon, of Cunning
County, Neb., has ten thousand o
ready for shipment as the result of her
first seasons experiment in silk culture.
Miss Bertha Willard Brown, of Rox-
bury, has won n State scholarship at the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
She is the first woman who has done so.
There are at present two dental col.
legcs in Philadelphia which admit wo.
men, but, strange TO say, only "A few
American women take advantage of the
fact.
Miss Maude Banks, who essayed the
stage a few years g for a couple of sea
sons with slight success, is now the pri-
vate secretary of her father, Congressman
n. p. Banks.
Mildred Fuller, the Chief Justices fifth
daughter, is a blonde, with large blue
eyes and golden hair that lies in short
ringlets over her head. Her cheeks have
a brilliant color.
Mrs. Ellen Swallow-R Richards, the ONLY
woman instructor in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, has charge of the
water analysis of the Massachusetts, State
Board of Health.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is overwhelmed
with the conviction that the luxurious
chambers which young city bachelors
can now provide for themselves are dis
couraging to matrimony.
A new model shows q rich indoor dress
OF green velvet, finished at the foot by n
border of tau-colored leather, embroid-
cred in iridescent beads. The same trim
ming is used on the bodice.
Fichus aud boas of bearskin and Alaska
sable are imported in the new fiat shapes
fitted close to the throat, with two long
V-shaped ends, to be worn with Direc-
TORE mutfs of the same heavy fur.
A pretty gown of late design has n
of the new long, narrow buckles which
curve into the figure, the material being
drawn down from the shoulder il bccom-
ing folds into the buckle in front.
The first woman graduate of a New
York college was Miss Emily Schettler,
now deceased. The alumnm of these in
stitutions number over 200, which dem
onstrates the increasing demand for
women doctors.
Many Of the fashionable ''plaited"
skirts are not plated at all, but strips or
old are laid, overlapping each other on
the skirt, so as to afford opportunities for
the introduction Of contrasting material
in a simple way.
There are sixty-fve thousand women
in America interested in the cultivation
OF fruit, and among them arc some of the
most successful orchardists in California.
Last year one woman made a profit Of
$1,000 by raspberry culture.
Many Of the elegant newmarkets Of
sealskin are wholly untrimmcd, but the
looscr surtouts with flowing sleeves have
borders Of sea otter, lynx, black marten.
or Russian or American sable. An edge
Of sable is frequently placed along the
wide collars and cuffs Of sealskin wraps.
A japanese nun is a decided novelty
Ia % Roman Catholic convent. How
ever, n young japanese lady belongings
one Of the highest families in the Mika-
dos Empire, and who has recently been
much admired i'm Munich society. will
take the veil this month TO enter Bavar.
ian nuunery.
A Russian girl, eleven years old and
Six feet eight inches in height, has been
on exhibition i'm London. She rows an
inch every two months, is awkward and
shy, plays diligently with her dolls. is
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