The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-31
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

oASs hSAeWSASAt SaEuaGaCS Will %
much worn.
All sleeves seen upon the newest wraps
are extra full.
MarquetrY davenports adorn many
tasteful homes. =
Gold and silver slippers are in demand
for evening wear.
Worsteds of all the celebrated makes
are in high favor.
Capes are longer and more deliberately
embellished that ever.
England has 45, 900 women who earn
q livelihood as printers.
Bannockburn cheviots with plain or
rough surfaces are worn.
Fine passementerie points play an i'm
portant part In millinery.
Bismarck's wife is expert with the
needle. and is a good cook.
A New York city dentist employs a
lady assistant at $50 a week.
Mary Anderson has the largest feet of
any stage beauty. She wears No. 81
shoes.
Single roses having buds, foliage, and
. long stem are the preferred corsage
bouquet.
All the rough stufs will be worn in
wooden textures, both as cloaking and
dress material.
New suede ties have a large tongue
and pointed toe of patent leather and a
huge gilt buckle.
A permanent library, composed solely
of books written by women, is to be es-
tabllshed in Paris.
The town of Kniazeff, Russia, has
elected a woman, Mime. Alexandra Elyne,
to the Office of Mayor:
A lady at Benton Harbor, Mich, has
o 1000 silkworms in her house, busilY at
work spinning cocoons.
Miss Jane Detheridge, of Kingston,
Jamaica, worth 81, 600, 900, has refused
thirty-seven offers of marriage.
Mrs. Oscar Wild is said to be the
most picturesque woman in England in
the matter Of toilet and posing.
MIR. Henry Nj. SANKEY'S wedding cake
served as one of the s.ssidc shows" at o
bazaar held in London, recently.
A block of admirably arranged houses
for working women is being erected at
Bedford Park, a suburb of London.
Miniatures for brooches are being set
invisibly with a circle Of small diamonds
and t~urquoises arranged alternately.
Mrs. Elliott Shepard is building, at
her. own expense, a lodging house for
self supporting women in New York
city.
An announcement comes from the
other side of the Atlantic that hoop
skirts will come into fashion by and by
again
The revival of bengaline is a charming
fact for tFhich lady lovers of this beauti-
full and adaptive dress material are
grateful.
The resident physician of the New
York Infant Asylum is Lucy Davis,
daughter of the President of the W. G.
II. U. of that State.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, who first
brought to this country from Germany the
kindergarten method of teaching, is
eighty-seven years old.
There is no daintier house-gown for a
girl than a nainsook empire belted high
up with a three-yard sash of rose, green
OF brown china crepe.
The fashions of the first years Of Queen
Victoria's reign have served for models
to the designers of many OF the French
gowns worn this year.
Miss Minnie Trueblood, President of
the Equal Suffrage Association, of Ko-
komo, Ind, is one of the chief dry goods
merchants of that city.
There are several women real estate
brokers in Chicago. Probably the most
successful of them ali is Miss Emma
Case, who makes an income Of $4,000 q
year.
Mrs. Emily Pfeifer, the English po-
etezs, who died recently, bequeathed al
most her entire estate of $3.50, 600 to
charitable and educational establishments
for
Rev. Sarah German, of Boston, the
first licensed woman preacher ofthe Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church, has re-
signed her pastorate and gone to Ethiopia
to save souls.
The first colored graduate from the de-
partuaent Of music of the University OF
Pennsylvania is Miss Ida e. Bowser. She
IS an accomplished violinist and has
written several short sonatas.
Fur viii continue in favor dur
inc the winter. Astrakhan, Persian
lamb, lynx, marten and monkey pelts
Vie with costlier skins, and wool seal win
come IN for a fair proportion Of regard.
Miss TAFT, the daughter Of the late
Archbishop OF Canterbury, devotes her
whole Life to the poor of London, maxi
Ing her home in n Of the poor streets
ID the vicinity Of the ecclesiastical pal
bee.
Princess Louise is now modelling q
statue of the Queen of England as .
soung girl, intended for the Kensington
beopIe as 4 memorial OF Her Majesty's
residence in the district during her early
life.
one If the successful stock brokers m
London il Miss Amy g. Bell, . pretty
vounD woman with yellow curlss Wao
has an attractive Office near the stock
exchange. Her clients are for the most
part women, although she numbers orne
men among them.