The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Chantilly lace is revived.
Yellow leads in millinery.
Velvet stiIi holds ;ts own.

Velvet still holds its own.
The new parasols are most elaborate.
Flowers continue to rule the toilette.
Everything is trimmed with feathers.
An evening yellow has a greenish
cast.
There is again a rage for trimming
laces.
The brunette is going to have her in
nings.
Dress buckles are made of metal and
pearl.
Fashion never seems to tire of the
polka dot.
Flowers are worn invariably at the end
of a round waist.
The imported gowns and wraps show
many ribbon bows.
The true cornfower blue has a pur-
plish lavender cast.
In spite of the attractive grenadines,
lace nets are good sellers.
The broche China silks in self tones
make stylish tea-gown fronts.
Diamond buttons on shoes actually
button and are actually diamonds.
Three female physicians are doing q
thriving business in Adrian, Mich.
Tea gowns of figured China silk vary
those of black, white and plain color.
A girl in Iowa recently ran away
from home to avoid practicing on the
piano.
The daughters of the Princess of
Wales are reported as having no taste in
clothes.
Mrs. P. D. Osgood has been post
mistress of Penobscot, Me-, for twenty.
eight years.
A funeral took place the other day at
Hannibal, Mo-, at which six young wo-
men officiated as pallbearers.
An attempt is being made to establish a
library for medical women in London,a as
we'll as a new medical institute.
Lace straw is quite as transparent as
the metal laces aud trellis-like founda-
lions one sees everywhere in millinery.
Muguet, OF lily of the valley green,
frasier or strawberry leaf, emerald and
Russian are among the more subdued
greens.
Mrs. John G.. Carlisle, wife of the
Kentucky Senator, has a set of spoons
which are very odd. The bowl of each
is an antique coin.
Ministers declare that in nine cases
out of ten brides are much more self
possessed than br~idegrooms during the
marriage ceremony.
A fashion writer says Ehat at least one
third of the handsome lats one sees on
the fashionable promenades of New York
were made by their wearers.
Banana is a very pale yellow, Cythere
is a shade darker, and Cleopatra is of a
rich golden hue; paillete, straw and corn
color are pale evening shade.
Mrs. Langtry, the English actress, is
the owner of a pin cushion made of the
silver in which vegetables were once
served to the Kings of Ireland.
Spanish combs are worn with carriage
, costumes of black silk. As a compile.
: ment to this, black undressed kids are
worn with all ball gowns by young
misses.
Lady Brooke is said to be not only the
! handsomest woman in the British no
) bility, but the handsomest woman in
Great Britain. The Prince of Wales
. hath said it.
Quite a new blue is hyacinth, which
true to nature, is exactly the color of th'
beautiful sprir- blossoms. Pervencht
or perewinkle blue is of a darker shade,
6 inclining to lavender.
!, Lady Humphrey, an Englishwoman,
I making a business of training servants
o She has places for a dozen at a time
Why will not some unselfsh woman star
: such an enterprise in this country
= Blondes are said not to marry in Sc
, large a proportion as brunettes, an
= Worth, the Paris man-milliner, is re
ported as much preferring to desig
. dresses for dark hailed women tina
4 others.
Y A. short time ago a lady, the first o
her sex, graduated in medicine i
Mexico. AS an appropriate complimen
:. her fellow students of the other sex go
up an amateur bull fight in honor Of thu
occasion.
rs Everything has "a serpentine head
le cloak clasps, hair ornaments, shoe ant
belt buckles, stick-pins, brooches, hat
pins, chatelalnes, spoons, bu~tton-hooks
hair-brushes and even key-rings coil u
tail to tongue.
A few lace wells are worn, and tht
j. are found to be as becoming 20 as the
n were considered to be hideous a few yea
.. ago. Lace ~handkerchiefs make cha
Is protectors, as well as the antique la
ID parasols. Lamp shades, too, are max
er of the latter, and cushions,
The black net dresses this'have bee
ID favorites for the past two seasons al
" to be worn, but with thick silk or eve
cloth waists in place of the lace. Phi
m ines or bands OF the silk are place
ce around the skirt in rows. For vel
IN Young girls gilt braid is used, and is r
peated upon the bodice and jacket.
~ The General Committee of {
=. Woman's Branch of the Worlds Fair
g a recent meeting in Chicago select
y twenty name Of well-known people
honorary members of the a~uxiliar
co among them being Queen Victoria, El
press Eugene, Dorothy Tennant-sta
" lev. Princess OF Wales, Marchioness
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