The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
Flower jewelry is in demand.
Trains have become narrower.

Turkish teas are the new sensations.
Fan painting is the coming caprice.
Jet snakes are used for hat ornaments
"Royal blue is a new shade in cloth
Dressing bags are now made of lizale
skin.
Refers are in great demand for chill
dren.
Crepe and velvet adorn the same
toque.
Bedford cording is made for carriage
cloaks.
Short Jackets are set aside as quite out
of date.
Stripes will reduce the width Of a fat
woman.
Simplicity is the order of things in
riding habits.
The Princess of Wales is a first rate
photographer.
Very becoming fichrs are made of lace
and silk combined.
l.. A home for poor girls has recently
been opened in San Francisco.
Rouff, always a fashion authority in
Paris, is DOW more so than ever.
Cancels hair suitings have figures of
Persian coloring in long, silky hairs.
Very narrow belts of silver and French
gilt are worn with afternoon dresses.
Orange colored facings, cordings, lin
ings, and trimmings are in high vogue
abroad.
Miss May Lyle Smith, of Chicago, is
the most accomplished lady futist in this
country.
A London woman has a class of 100
cooks to whom sho gives CENTRE dinner
lessons"
Many gowns now considered the acme
of style are the counterpart of those seen
in old portraits.
Let nc fat woman dabble in the full,
high sleeve. Every inch of Goth adds a
foot TO her width.
The heirs of a wealthy Austrian who
died recently have given SIS, 600 to found
a school OF housekeeping for girls.
The ideal umbrella is a dull red or
dark blue silk, with a natural wood
stick and a small handle of Dresden
china.
The plateau hats appear to have taken
the fancy of the people who ought not
wear them e., those with perfectly
round faces.
Brocades are growing in favor in Eu-
ropean cities, appearing in more variety
and greater g~orgeousness I'D brightness
than ever before.
Miss Lincoln, daughter Of the United
States Minister to England, wore a white
satin costume with silver trimmings tc
the last drawing room.
The Queen of England cares nothing
about old lace. She patronizes the
Honlton lace makers when any bridal
walls or dresses are in request.
The bridal train of the daughter OF
Princess Victoria Louise, daughter of
Princess Christian, is to made at the
Royal School of Art Needlework.
Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew dresses with
great taste, wears very costly Jewels
when she wears them at all. and is a
brilliant and accomplished pianist.
The queer old fashion of cutting the
bodice off In a straight line around the
shoulders, and finishing it by d broad
turn, down frill of lace, has been re.
vived.
When Miss Elsie de Wolfe, the New
lork society gitl, makes her ess~sut as
professional actress, it will be under the
management of another woman. Mrs.
Elizabeth Mabury.
Mrs. Leland Stanford gives $50, 600
year to charitable objects, and keeps a
of women employed in making
pretty decorations for her Washington
and California homes.
More white and cream colored gloves
are seen with evening dress than tar
shades. Suede is reserved for indoo,
toilets, the street glove being distinc.
tiVeiy heavy, serviceable and easy in fit.
Challie is a wonderful dAnty materia
fs home dresses; but it is not a service
goods, and much of the cotton and
mixture is a delusion and a snare
In cotton fabrics there is a still create,
There are two hundred members i,
the Society of the Daughters of thu
American Revolution in New York City
md all have in their possession colonial
'andlestlcks, cranes, spinning wheels O,
of their fore-mothers.
The demands of feminine adorn.
nent are said to be responsible fer tht
prospective extinction of the beautiful
British kingfsher. 1t has disappeared
llready from the English counties o.
sussex, oxfordshire and Hampshire.
Ono of the latest ads is a collection o.
hoes of various lyGtions as a drawing.
ornamentyPersian, Egyptian
Chinese-And if madame has q !
foot she inserts among the motely
rev her W tiny, coauettish Partisan
sleeves are worn almost uncomfortable a
ong. They must extend certainly owe =
wrist, and preferably, down to thu G.
nuckles. They are full at the shoulde;
no down to the elbow, where they be
close fitting for the remainder Of IL
length. II
me walls Of Lady Randolph Church. n,
london drawing room are hung in S,
gold, the window draperies repro. 81
uce tbs same tints, the floor is of light. a
'iored wood, highly polished, and the 10
is all of the Louis XVI. period,
lsplaying much gliding.