The Opelousas courier., 1890-04-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.

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Bouquets are no longer considered
fashionable for the ball room.
Vice-President Morton's wife wears
the biggest diamonds in Washington.
seyen-eighths of the subscribers to
magazine literature are said to be women.
Even elderly ladies wear light and
delicate toned evening gowns this season.
Black is the sine qua non of all winter
bonnets. It appears in every dlreceioh.
Scotch stripes are to take the place OF
~tartans or plaids in early spring woolens.
Coouettish little velvet hoods form the
headgear of many of the wee genera
ton.
One of the highest novelties in furs is
the application of embroidery or astra-
khan and seal.
Wedding gowns are trimmed with
| pearl passementerie in a way that Is OF
the olden time.
Maud Howe, the authoress, advises
Young ladies to make their engagements
as brief as possible.
While cloth is very popular, some OF
the handsomest of the winter walking
gowns are entirely of velvet.
With heavy silk net of lined or dotted
pattern stuff muslin is used for a found
ton quite as often as satin or silk.
A fashionable toque is of reddish
brown velvet, the crown of which is Gov
cred with holly berries and leaves.
Some of the richest women are eco
nomical, and make a trip abroad whenln
need of clothes, to save expenses.
DR.. Alice Bennett has been elected to
the Presidency of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Medical Society in Pennsylvania.
Long nantes which entirely cover the
dress, with long loose sleeves, are a feat
ure of outdoor dress as the season ad-
vances.
The Innings of velvet sleeves are Of
chamois on street gowns, so that the fur
cape can be worn with such in all sorts
of weather.
1t is said that Henry Edwards, the
story writer, refers all the doubtful ques-
tions of dialect to his wife, who is quite
an authority.
Admirers of the conspicuous will be
charmed with the fad now prevalent of
dressing rom head to foot in the tint Of
ones own hair.
The wife of Congressman 8. s. Cox is
said to be a good business woman. She
owns considerable property in Washing
ton, and looks after it herself.
An improvement in cuff, an inner
band buttoping tightly arc nd the wrist
and preventing the cuff from slipping,
has been introduced in London.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the greatest
woman Psychologist writer, and at pres
emit lecturing in this country, has made
fame for herself but very little money.
Anna Katherine Green, the novelist,
is described by an admirer who met her
at her home on the Hudson, as "tall,
graceful, with a face full of character"
1t is intimated that hoops will again
become popular. In Paris and London
they are limited in rotundity as yet, but
promise to spread to extreme proper
tions.
Some very pretty u~nderskirts are made
of fine white flannel, embroidered with
fax thread. Colered ~aannels, too, are
selected and finished with two or three
rufles of inexpensive lace.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
given Susan B. Anthony $500 for the
benefit of the woman suffrage cause.
Five thousand pamphlets wills6 dis
tributed in South Dakota.
A pension of 1886 has been granted
by the British Government to Emily
Faithful, the devoted English woman
who has spent her life in alternating the
condition of her countrywomen.
The Queen of England has an erEaine
! cloak in wheh she encases herself when
is t~raveliNA in cold weather. No one
NOD ecloak yske it, as is would not be
consid3ls1 form to copy it.
vs The Asto4 lew York possess a for.
tune in rich shich are 1rlooms in
the family, but Mrs: G. P. Huntington,
wife oil the railroad magnate, owns the
finest set of Russian sacques in the
country.
Zouave jackets are the particular fashion
of the moment, and all the more costly
dresses would appear to be trimmed t.
simulate them, handsome guipure ans
laces being specially prepared to applique
ON bodices.
The sleeve of high fashion for matroni
for church weddings and the reception
following, comes we'll down to the elbow,
where it is finished with a cuff and deer
lace, falling over the long glove, which
reaches above the elbow.
Mrs. Custer, widow of the gallant
General, is said to beMToman- absolute
ly without fear. usea TO accompan.
her husband whereV x haDdld allow he
to go during his campaigns, and he
fondness for out-of-door life has nevel
left her.
A Beggar on Horseback.