The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
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favor.
R;o black straw hats are shown TOT
children.
Ladies who have discarded perslooa's
grow in numbers.
A large proportion OF jackets are made
of pale gray cloth. -.
The close clinging English SKIRT IL
liked for tailor gowns.
Plaid ribbons will be used for the gar
| niture of summer dresses,
Black round hats are worn extensively
with dresses of all colors.
Butterflies and Brazilian bugs hover
over many of the flowers.
Masculine fashions are adopted by the
women again this season.
Embroidery is used for trimming mus
lin, silk and cashmere dresses
For a walking costume soutane ciotn
| of military blue is very stylish.
A hand of ribbon tied with a DOW
around the wrist is new fasnlon'
Queen Victoria is a sufferer from rneu-
matism which has become chrome.
Both chip and Neapolitan braid Don
nets will be much used thls summer
Some of the flowers seen on the new
bonnets are an impossibility in nature
The tailor-mads jacket and vest all IN
one has started in to be very fashionable.
All purple, heliotrope and mauye
shades are exceedingly fashionable just
at present.
A black fan of turkey feathers is con-
sidered chic with the most delicate even
ing toilet.
1t is a popularity Of the bonnets this
season that the smallest are SAID % DC the
most expensive.
Eyebrow brushes are about as odd a
caper as could be imagined. They come
with embossed silver backs.
If you want to seem tall and COM
handing carry a white parasol and wear
a white hat or white aigrette.
Ornamental hairpins now include bees
and butterflies Of the very natural looking
kind that come only from Paris.
The COUNTESS of Waldersee is the
daughter of James Lee, once a we'll
known grocer in New York city.
Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary OF
the Interior, has a very unique collection
of gold enameled and silver spoons.
In the Scotch tartan dress goods, the
small inconspicuous patterns are held. by
the dressmakers to be the most elegant.
Mime. Patti sleeps with a silk handkec-
chief round her neck. She uses a very
salty gargle of cool water every morning.
A strong reaction has set in against
the soft, clinging, lackadaisical cloths
that came in with the Oscar Wilde eraze.
Old-fashioned silver pocketbooks in
the form of a shell, such as our grand
mothers used to carry, have come back
again.
Lady Dufferin says that the English
are rapidly spelling the exquisite taste of
the East Indians in dressing aud in dress
fabrics.
Mousouetaire gloves comes in all the
new and beautiful shades, and the ones
with the greatest number OF buttons sell
quickest.
An English literary statistician has dis
covered that Of the $50 heroines in last
| years novels 372 were blondes and 100
brunettes.
Mrs. Stanford, wife of Senator Stan
ford, adds charity to her other virtues.
She supports nearly a score of kinder
. gartens for the poor of San Francisco.
The will of the Indiana man who left
S35, 900 to found a home for old maids
has been declared invalid by tie court,
the testator having been of unsound
J mind.
Buy q black straw hat, put q band oil
6 Partisan or Turkish embroidery about
2 the crown and skewer it with a couple OF
8 EsiIver-headed pins and you have q spring
. bonnet. o
The Princess of Wales takes a lively
interest in hammered brass work, an art
: in which she herself is proficient, and
which is taught at her school in Sand
bingham.
! Bodices and Lasques. finished with
Z side effect, whether double breasted or Ia
: Russo, suggest the pretty rosette or bow
: of ribbon pinned on the shoulder or col
J lar under the ear.
q A very unique fan is on exhibition IN
. the window of a London store. It is
made of human hair exquisitely worked
and what seems to be lace fringing on
. the sticks is also hair.
At a rough estimate there are 1S0t
s young ladies in tbs. musical circles oil
!. New York society Apding to a well.
known conduct 10 afddle vel
o enough for orchestral work"
d White t~oilettes will be in vogue thi
e summer; green is unquestionably
: mode; brown is the poets color, and tn
yellow tints, particularly baize, primrose
. apricot and cameo are ON the top wave 0
popularity.
A body can buy a right pretty dres'
pattern for $40, in silk or wool, but the
making and findings cost $50 and tbs
l. bit of fur about the skirt and reverse
SIG. Verify a .well-dressed woman is
+ dear delight.
70 A Washington man has discovere,
y that tall, slender girls take to greyhound
: and dogs of similar build, while shor
= plump girls are invariably seen on tn
:. streets with pags, poodles, and canine,
of kindred shape.
. Christian Reid, one of the most popu
l. lar of Southern novelists, is the daughteI
!. of Colonel Fisher, of North Carolina,