Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
FANCIEs FOR THE FAIR.

MRS. DOROTHY STANLEY is preparing illus
trations for the Forthcoming book of travels by
Count Casau.
AJEwBLER says there is great demand for
ladies' cigarette cases and for match boxes to
hang on their chatelaines.
THE late Mrs. Booth left an autobiography
which will be published in a couple of months.
General Booth is writing the introduction.
THE smartest outdoor dresses have three.
quarter length coat-bodiees. OF course. only
tall women can possibly wear them.
TRAINED nurses do not average $500 year.
Wages vary from SIS to s25 a week. but engage
ments arc not as prevalent as illness
THERE are thousands of young women be-
tween the age of 16 and % in New York City
who are working ten hours day for 81, 50 aud
SS week.
MRS. ANDREW CARNEGIE recently presented
the Ringgussie (England) Public Hall and
Library Committee with costly baby grand
piano to be used on public occasions.
MRS. GENERAL BELKNAP is still very
beautiful woman and SO well has her youthful
brilliancy of color been preserved that she looks
more like the sister than the mother of her
pretty daughter.
THE Duchess Of Fife has allowed herself to
become President, by proxy, of the Edinburgh
School OF Medicine for Women. the first insti-
tuition in Scotland where 1t is possible for q
woman to obtain medical education.
COUNTRY weddings, writes > Paris cores
pondent are becoming the fashion among the
upper ten" of France. They cost you see, SO
much less, and give unlimited enjoyment to the
small folks about great country houses.
Miss XAVIER formerly Spanish lecturer in
Wellesley College, has been appointed Secre-
tary of the French and Spanish Consulate.
Miss Xavier is considered one of the most ac-
comphshed linguists In the United States.
THE women doctors of India, constituting
the Womans Society of Medicine, of which
Mrs. N. NJ, Mansell is President, have appealed
to the Viceroy to enact measure torbldding
the marriage of girls under 10 years OF age
THE new muffs shown in England are any
thing but unsightly. They are made of very
dainty materials, velvet for choice, and were
trimmed with birds, tiny tips, or jet, after the
! manner of bonneLs Some were combination
of cloth and velvet.
THY lady love may deceive thee by the
brightness Of her eyes, her glossy hair. her
| white teeth, or her damask cheek. but look you
| and count the smile-wrinkles at her temples.
Count ten years for every long and one year for
every short furrow," runs an old spanish
proverh.
The newest camels hair fabrics are expen-
siye. but extremely handsome, and the shades
| offered are unlike those of any previous i'm
portation. There are what may be called half
tones OF blue and green, plum and mulberry
purple, and soft tan, almond ana biscuit shades
| which combine so handsomely with velvet
A LOVELY tunic is just out. says a London
fashion writer. 1t is embroidered with gold in
| a graceful scroll pattern with stones of every
| hue inserted at intervals. The stones are set
| in metal now, which enhances their cost. Of
| course these trimmings can only be had at Q
. moderately weil-fifsd purse. But, all the
| same, 1t Is interesting to know what our great
danes OF fashion are wearing.