Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR W0MEN

exits are severely paln.
Irish poplins are in demand.
0mbre plaids viii be largely worn.
New York City has a female lock
smith
The Empress of Japan is scholarly
woman.
Women's vests are to be a feature next
season.
There are 200 women preachers in this
country.
There are about los women to every
100 men.
Printed pongees will be largely favored
for spring wear.
Thirty per cent of Americas females
are working women.
Blazers for women will be much more
elaborate than last season.
1t is ell nonsense to assert that ladies
copy the fashions of actresses.
There are in China societies of young
women pledged never to marry.
There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men.
Martin Chattoway, formerly custodian
of Shakespeare's birthplace, is dead.
Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the ex-Presi-
dealt, is taking lessons on the violin.
Srring fashions are promised to be the
most beautiful and stylish ever seen.
Cloeh cloaks and gowns are much
trimmed with iridesceat pas5ementaries.
It-is considered bad form in England
for women to do much talking at dinner
parties,
Czlrina is the name of new, soft
shaggy cloth much resembling French
camels hair.
Feathers beneath the brim are to be
seen on some of the new hats, and very
pretty and becoming they are.
A titled English lady has set up a
laundry on her husbands estate in Dor
setsairc, and is doing profitable bust
ness,
There Is a girl at one of the London
England music halls who plays eight
nrs;cal instruments, including from
b3ae.
Tie women are in the majority in
Mexico, III. The census just taken shows
that the ogn mas 2J52 males and 2703
females.
Among foreign dress fabrics for spring
wear TO be introduced this year are
named toiie d'embal!age and chevron
maiange.
4 number Of wealthy New York ladies
propose to establish sort of club house
: which will receive women at all hours of
the night,
An adroit arrangement of hair prevents
the silver ones from exhibiting them
selves on the head of the beautiful Prin-
cess OF Wales.
A bright little woman said the other
Gay Chat if she had to choose between all
/ the gifts OF beauty she would choose
beautiful complexion.
Straw hats are to be of extraordinary
shapes and styles next summer. One
begins to laugh already looking at adj
vance fashion plates.
England has more women workers
than any other country, in proportion to
the population; twelve per cent of the
industrial classes are women.
Whether fashionable or not, the fact
remains that wigs and false hair are worn
now more than ever by women who are
TO be CLASSIFIED as fashionable,
HIS. Henry NJ. stanley's manner is
gracious and gentle, and her perception
keen. She exercises much tact in her
intercourse with men and women.
The Queen of Madagascar formerly
took the sacred bath, an annual cere-
mony, in the presence of the public, but
j the progress of civilization has changed
the custt m of the royal lady.
Mrs Anna C. Fall, who was recently
admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass,
has entered into partnership with hus,
/ band. and they are now petitioning the
/ State Legislature to change the law for
bidding contracts to be entered into be.
tween man and wife.
The Wellesley College girls have been
measured, and the average waist measure
of the 100 students was found to be
242 inches This appears TO show that
they are we'll developed, healthy young
women and that their growth has not
beea stuatel by study.
3 Silver mourning rings are unique
idea in jevelry. Taey are composed Of
two small silver rings connected by a
chain. Usually they are worn together,
but when it is DESTROYS for the wearer 10
remember any special thing they are
worn on different fingers.
The use of ''gum tissue" for mending
nice dresses, by drawing the rent neatly
together and cumming the bit of tissue
upon the back, has suggested to one
bright housekeeper the idea of mending
lace curtains in much the same way. A
piece of lace is wet IN starch, placed over
the break on the wrong side, and ironed
dry.
One of the most graceful sleeves seen
is made of fall of lace touching the
elbow on the outside and rising on the
inside in a double jabot to the shoulder,
where it is held by an ornament. The
parting of the sleeve prettily reveals the
upper arm. If desired the lace may be
caught together with jeweIed clasps OF
tiny bows of ribbon.
A South American lady, now the wife
of French judge, has created a sensa-
ton in Paris, France, by appearing at
Nine. Carnot's reception wearing the
most wonderful pearls ever seen in Eu-
rope, except perhaps those of the Queen
Of Italy. The same lady has set of
Brazilian diamonds valued at six or seven
millions of francs-about 81 100000.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, the ten-year-
old daughter of the Countess of Aber-
deem, edits the childrea's page Of q paper
styled Oaacqrd and Upwdrd, published
in London, England. Little Lady Mar
jorie writes lively letter to her young
constituents, and tells them interesting
stories about her pet animals, being
probably the youngest editor in the
world.
A clause Of the marriage contract be
tween the late DR.. Schliemann, the arch
biologist, and the Greek girl whom ne
made his second wife, was to the effect
that she should improve her knowledge
Of Homer BY learning and reciting fifty
lines of The Iliad nightly. Schliemann,
when telling the story to his friends, al
ways said that neither tears nor entreat-
les ever induced him to let her of q