West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


the toe Of dark slippers.
Eggplant purple is shade that
ladies' of serious taste incline TO.
White and reseda is said TO be Worths
latest color combination in cloth gowns.
The seven hundredth female physician
IN. Russia has just passed her cxamina-
ton.
In Kansas there are eighty-onc women
acting as county superintendents of pub
lie schools
The latest fad is finger-ring Of black.
ened steel with small brilliant stone
buried in it.
Two hundred and scventy.fvo ladies
are clergymen in the United States and
occupy pulpits.
The daughters of the Princess of
Wales have become quite expert as
amateur photographers.
Matrons almost invariably select heavy
materials for evening gowns, such rs
velvets, brocades and fables.
Mrs. Amanda Labadie, a colorcd
woman, oil st. Louis, pays taxes on
SlOo,OOO worth of property.
Goose feather fans arc among the in.
novations. Along the edge garlands of
blossoms and buds are painted.
Miss Mia Shakespeare, daughter of
Mayor Shakespeare, of New Orleans. will
be queen of the carnival this year.
A woman's magazine in the Bengal
language has been issued monthly, several
years, by Mrs. Ghoeal, wealthy Hindoo
lady.
1t is singular fact that the wife of
the inventor of the telegraph and the
wife OF the inventor of the telephone were
both deaf mutes.
Oddly adjusted iacket- fronts and com
plicated bodice draperies and plastrons
appear upon many of the new spring
walking costumes.
Many of the handsome coats and lack
cts seen on the promenade have the line
OF the sleeve and shoulder outlined in
glittering passementerie.
Castor gloves, for shopping, have n
purse in the palm of the right one. The
matinee glace kid glove is provided with
little pocket to hold car ticket.
Sophia, Crown Princess of Greece. is
astonishing and delighting the Athenians
with her artistic talent, which she doubt
less inherits from her accomplished
mother.
Madame Carnott, wife of the French
President, is reported to have said that
she regarded Amelie Rives- Chanler as
the most charming American she had
ever met
New York girls favor the felt hat with
brim turned up very high and close to
the low crown in the back, rolling at the
sides and forming low visor over the
forehead
! The colors of haIf-mourning violet,
gray and black, are the favorites OF the
season for street and church, by refined
ladies of fashion who believe so firmly in
the fitness of things.
+ Miss Eva NJ Brown, only daughter of
John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, is
the private secretary of Henry H. Faxon,
of Quincy, Mass, and has the manage
ment of the Quincy Political Temper
ance Bureau.
; Nine. de Barrios, the millionaire wild
ow of President Barrios, of Guatemala.
who has been residing in New York CITY
since her husbands death, will leave the
city in May and make her permanent
home in Paris.
The rage for velvet sleeves is increas.
ing They appear upon cloth gowns.
coats, pelisses and newmarkets. The
bishop style is used for wraps, aud the
leg-of-mutton for gowns, whether for
street or indoor wear.
French dressmakers cover the seams Of
bOdices in the old-fashioned way. cover
ing the cords with the contrasting. ma.
terial used in combination, or that with
which the dress is trimmed, or perhaps
the color or figure of stripe.
A famous hair-dresser prescribes sun
baths for women in middle life. Sit for
an hour with the hair hanging and the
sunlight streaming through it, aud sits
golden glory will melt away the growing
silver" this authority claims.
A pretty fancy for evening is n brace
let OF flowers on one arm Just below the
short sleeve. This may be carried out
in real f)wers. Sometimes cluster of
corresponding flowers is placed on the
tulle puff which forms the sleeve on the
other arm.
There is n charity association in Brook
Ign devoted TO the training of Young
girls between twelve and eighteen for
domestic service OF trade. This society
gave grand ball the other evening in
aid Of its training school saud home for
young girls.
Mrs. Sallie JOY White, Of the Boston
Herald, claims the distinction Of being
the first woman journalist TO have a posi-
ton upon Boston newspaper. Mrs.
White began her journalistic career in
1853 and has been steadily at work ever
since, stopping only long enough to get
married
Fur garnltures and small fur wraps will
be worn throughout the spring and az far
into the summer season ~ they prove
comfortable Fur pcleriues were worn
on evening drives all last summer at cool
mountain and seaside resorts. proving
none too warm after dinner over dresses
Of airy summer fabric.
With spring styles, slim figures will be
introduced, and fat women ordered IN
wear stripes, long, straight draperies
and Jokes for al underskirts Already
the yokes arc in the notion stocks. They