Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-03-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


her husband, the novelist.
With tailor made suits many ladies Of
good taste wear collars of printed per-
Gales.
A new bodice can be worn over differ
ent skirts and has the effect of lengthcn-
ing the waist.
Mary Anderson, the actress, q Of
Scotch and German descent. She was
born in California.
None but lustrelcss wooden fabrics with
crepe trimmings are allowed in fashion
ably deep mourning.
Some professional pianisss and many
fashionable diners-out have their handR
made up by beauty artists.
President Carnot's wife last Christmas
Day gave each of 400 children a savings
bank book with so deposit.
Cord and tinsel ornaments are cro-
eheted together to make bands or trim
ming for cloth and silk costumes
Ladies of fashion in Boston, one of the
local papers relates, now wear at their
afternoon teas Egyptian costumes.
The German court ladies have adopted
the Marguerite style of wearing the hair
in long braids. The bang will be banishcd
also.
Shoddy wants color and variety or
style. Elegance demands neutral tints
and simplicity of cut that cannot be re-
produced.
The feather waistcoat is a rare novelty
and is made entirely of the fine breast
feathers of Trinidad birds. The trim
ming is a costly caprice,
A clever Buffalo On. " woman has
been to England, travelled all around
London. and saw everything worth see
ing, in two months trip, at a cost Of
$500.
The woman who first circumnavigated
the world belonged to Bougainvillc's
famous expedition of 1915, which
occupied precisely two years and four
months
A new combination of color of refined
taste is dove gray and yellow, the color
of gold. This combination is found in
all rich and heavy fabrics and also in
cheaper goods.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may be
mace easy by laying cloth wet in hot
water across where it pinches, changing
several times. The leather will shape it
self TO the foot.
Among the ultra who mourn no flowers,
no perfumes are allowed in the private
apartment save the odor of violets and
few punches of white flowers, fit emblems
of departed souls.
The Kentucky University, at Le1ing-
ton, has just opened its doors to women,
owing to the efforts of the Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. 1t has now
twenty young women enrolled.
An excellent substitute for Crinoline,
which gives the skirts the desired
"standoffishness, are layers of cotton
batting sewed in between the lining and
facing, quilted and perfumcd.
Maud Banks, daughter of General n. p.
Banks, who has left the stage and is acting
as her fathers Private Secretary in Wash
ingtOn, is a fine German scholar She
speaks and writes German with perfect
ease.
Almost unanimously men dislike the
large grotesquc and Rembrandtesque hats
coming into general use. Cunning little
evening bonnets, dainty capotes, coquet-
ish turbans and jaunty toques are COM
mended for the theatre wear.
A very dainty combination of corset
and shirt is of narrow striped mauve and
pink satin. The pink stripes are threaded
with tiny bouquets of forget me-nots.
A deep hounce of pink silk shaded with
black lace borders the petticoat
Fond mothers have a baby corner in
the family room. A canopy Of blue silk
and portieres of lace form the inclosure
which, rugged with white bear or lamb
skin, is furnished with "A shell-shaped
cradle mutfled in lace. and a white chair.
An adept advises ladies to take care Of
their own hands and not employ mani
cure. They can do it just as well, she
says, but they must give fifteen minutes
year spent in polishing and trimming
the nails.
Miss Mary Garrett is probably the
wealthiest spinster in the United States,
but she has not been so generously ia
vored by nature as by fortune, and at the
age of thirty-seven still remains in
maiden meditation, heart whole and
fancy free.
Mrs. Tsul, wife of the Chinese Minis
ter at Washington, will not 20 in society
this year. Her little son, youth just in
his teens, is being tutOred in English
night and day, and until he IS able to act
as his Celestial mamma s interpreter that
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