The Opelousas courier., 1891-04-18

" AANA VIVA -
Ex-Empress Eugene is said to have
refused a fortune to write her memoirs
for publication.
You a get your eyelashes trimmed
and your eyebrows brushed in New York
City for a dime.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the
President, prefers rich dark shades of
reds and crimsons.
Martha Westinghouse fan brought 5000
at the sale of Washington's relics al
Philadelphia, Penn.
A large glass inkstand, with a musical
box arrangement in the lid, is something
new in Wien goods.
Fillets for the hair, made of a triple
band of ribbon or velvet, are seen ID
public dining-rooms.
Mrs. Garfield still wears mourning as
deep as that which she put on when her
husband died ten years ago.
Black linen lawn handkerchiefs, EN-.
broidered in color, vie with those of en-
broided black crepe de Chine.
The London England Board Of Edu-
cation has appointed six women at a
salary of $500 each to visit schools.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's dark beauty
is well set off by certain shades of red,
although she prefers blues and pinks.
New waist-yokes are striped with vel
vet ribbon, and bands of the same go
round the sleeve from wrist to elbow.
A Burmese girl has established a news
paper at Mandelay, which proves that
woman journalism exists even In India.
Martha j. Lamb, of New York City,
is a member of twenty-five historical and
other literary societies here and abroad:
In wooden dress goods, jacquard
figures promise we'll; leading manufad-
turers having given much attention to
that class of designs.
The Princess of Wales has given orders
that nothing need be submitted for her
inspection, OF that Of her daughters, in
which birds are used as trimming.
A Washington Cd. C.) widow is re-
ported to have dotted her weeds and
achieved a second marriage i'd her we'd
ding dress before it went out of fashion.
Among the special students at Bryr
MaWr Penn College is Miss Mine Tsuda,
a Japanese woman, who is the teacher
of English in the peeresses school a
Toxic.
In Chicago, ILL.,, the experiment oil
teaching girls TO be carpentefs through
the Pedagogical Sloyd Institute has
started with enthusiasm and a number
of pupils.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of the gallant
Indian fighter, Is a singularly youthful
looking, gracious-mannered woman oil
middle height, with black hair and fresh,
rosy complexion.
Mrs. Astor, The leader of Gotham 30.
ciety, washes her hands in oatmeal water
twenty times a day, and believes glycerine
is the best thing for keeping the skin OF
the face fresh and blooming.
The late Mrs. Mary g. Shaw, of Pitts.
burg, Penn, has left the income of her
property, about $500, to Miss Alice B.
Fletcher Tor her lifetime, to aid her In
her researches in. ethnology and arehm.
oiogy among the Indians.
The Working Girls Club, Of New Yorl
City, has a membership of 2l72, divided
into eighteen local societies, only three
of which are self-sustaining. The work
ing girls Of Boston organized in 1888,
and number 100 members, who arr
divided into twelve societies.
One of the most comfortable apart
ments on the AIva, Mr.. w. K. Wander.
bits yacht, is the children's play room
and nursery, just in front of the bed.
rooms on the first lower deck. It Is
padded with plush to prevent che chill
dren from receiving injuries by being
about when the vessel rolls.
Mrs. Annie 4. Diggs, who has bee1
prominent in the Farmers Alliance
movement in Kansas, Is soon to go te
Washington to engage IN newspaper
work. She will write of politics at The
national capital from an Alliance stand
and will be the staff correspondent
Of tie alliance Ado0cdse asd Non Con-
fprmdst.
The hat Of the hour Is over-shadow
Ing; jackets are made with faring Me-
dlcis collars and ear-scraping sleeve
heads; waists taper and tighten and the
full back skirt follows along q
inc which actually melts into the ankle,
civ ng the ona of fashion q sort Of
appearance that il far from
beauty and nature.
Women's clubs are common enough In
SeW York, but a novelty among them Is
he Matinee Club, which was recently
'rganized by q dozen young ladies Of
sthe literary SET Twice 8 month the
nembers of the club attend some theatre
al matinee, selected By q vote, and the
GLOWING week meet at the house Of one
I the members and devote the afternoon
. a discussion of the performance which
hey saw the week before.
In Paris, France, artificial flower max
g earn from fifty to seyenty-Rve cents d
~, but the season is not more than
l~ree-quarters Of q year long. Hair max.
. are often paid 81 Q day, and q dress
aker who receives that sum must be
'le to ft well and provide her own
eals. The seamstresses who work on
ttons and white goods are paid from
7enfy-HVe cents to sixty-two cents d
y, but seldom moro. and there are three
onehs IN the year when It Is impossible
get employment.