Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-24
Colors for sprinr.


New York Sun.
Colors for Spring.
This coming spring is to be character
lied by some of the most remarkable
things in the way of wraps that New
York has ever seen. For one thing
color will run riot in these. No more
plain black or dark blue or gray little
coats, but yellow, if you please, the most
brilliant, steep ped-in-sunshine yellow.
Or, if not that, Polish coat of bright
scarlet, with white vest and gold
braid, and gold cords and buttons. Or
white broadcloth or corduroy, fitting as
snugly as the bodice, with vest of gold
braiding and high epaulets. And hussar
coats of bright blue, and short Spanish
coats of pale gray cloth, lined and
slashed with scarlet. Or, even more
likely to be worn than all these, are the
circular cavalier capes, reaching below
the waist, very full and very straight,
and gathered at the neck into a very
high collar.
These will be of all colors and cloths,
lined with bright silk and finished
about the edge with a heavy cord
of silk or of gold thread. And
then there will be more gold or silk
cord. Perhaps it will be passed about
the neck. fastening the garment in front
and falling in loops and ends. And
perhaps there will be loops of it knotted
on the shoulders and looped so as to
form epaulets on the shoulders. These
are only few of the possibilities. When
they are developed they will be certain
to result in the most daring and smart
little garments the promenades have
ever seen.-New York Evening Sun.
Ono Years Work.
At the annual convention of the
American Women's Christian Temper
ance union, recently held in Atlanta, the
report of the young women's depart
ment by Mrs. Frances Barnes, of New
York, showed that 1900 young men
have enrolled themselves as honorary
members of the Young Women's Chris
tain Temperance union during the year
in addition to the 5000 last year. The
juvenile department, reported by Mrs.
Helen G.. Rice, of Massachusetts, show
ed $500 companies of children organized,
with membership of 100000. In con-
nection with the Women's Christian
Temperance union there are organiza-
tions in forty-four states, four terri
tories and in the District of Columbia
The membership is now 143,973, net
increase of 1,625 during the year. Be
sides carrying on a large publishing
house this institution of American wom-
en- has founding home, day nurseries
and kindergartens; also an Anchorage
for women adrift and without
homes, and last year sheltered 1000
girls; also a cheap lodging house for
men, with baths and free reading rooms,
and restaurant patronized daily by
of people. New York World
Buffalo Journalist.
Miss Jane Meade Welch, who has at
tanned such brilliant success in this city
as a lecturer on American history, is a
writer of much force, grace and origi-
nality. She is entitled to the distinction
of being the first woman who acquired
celebrity as newspaper writer in Buff
falo. A few years ago, after overcoming
a strong feeling of timidity, she consent
ed to try to edit column of society
news in The Buffalo Courier. Her first
batch of manuscript was addressed per-
sonally to her friend, the lamented Da-
vid Gray, who was the editor-in-chief of
that newspaper. He, without consulting
Miss Welch, attached the nom de plume
"Nemo" to her "copy." The first pub
LEGATION created sensation. Never be-
fore had society news been handled SO
so accurately and so clev-
erly in a Buffalo paper. ''Who is Nemo?"
was on everybody's tongue, but SO care
fully was the secret of authorship pre-
served that for two years that eager
question remained unanswered. Finally,
when Miss Welch became one of the reg
ular editorial writers for The Courier,
the riddle was solved, and everybody in
society wondered that he had not guessed
it before.-New York Times.