The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.
Every shade of gray is popular.

Laces are coming into fashion again.
General Sherman had four daughters.
Street dresses will run largely tc
cloth.
Every black dress must have a dash of
color.
Goats, like capes, are cut longer this
season.
White broche is now in demand for
neglige robes.
The Empress of Austria employees a
female doctor.
There are fifty or more female physi-
clans in Chicago.
Hairdressing just now is very elegant
and remarkably simple.
The %manicures say that a pretty woman
rarely has a pretty hand.
A point d'Alencon shawl has been
known to sell for SO, 600.
Mrs. Campbell Praed is probably the
prettiest of English literary. women.
There are ifty-nine women in New
York City who keep provision stores.
The only woman in America who is an
operate conductor is Miss Emma Steiner.
In the last five years twenty-seven
Americans girls have married Cinnamon.
Individual asparagus tongs are novel
ties that may serve a purpose as wedding
gifts. !.
The late Lady Roseberry, of England,
bequeathed to her secretary, Miss Moick,
$500 a year.
Mrs. r. L. Stuart's collection of laces
would easily sell for several hundred
thousand dollars.
Stripes, checks, plaids and mixtures
are about equally divided between
fabrics for both sexes.
Nine. Henri Greville says that the
American woman makes too many &C
quaintances and too few friends.
Vice President Morton's wife and Mrs.
w. G. Whitney have laces worth from
fifty to seventy thousand dollars.
A single lace dress belonging to Mrs.
William Astor, of New York City, cost
$28, 900 in Paris, some years ago.
For seaside or mountain wear this sum
mer gowns of substantial WOODEN at fifty
cents a yard will not come amiss.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley is said to be the
recipient of a souvenir from her hus.
bands manager in every city visited.
Ultra-fashionafh women are having
one-button gloves made to wear with the
very long-sleeved gowns that are SO fash.
ionable.
The beautiful Mime. de Barrios, whose
magnificent ball electrified New York
City recently, is good for Sc, 000, 00l
worth of credit.
The Princess of Wales has not al
tered the shape of her bonnet for years
although in other matters she follows the
flights of fashion.
The very newest of fancy note-paper
is cream-laid, charmingly decorated with
lilies, lavender, white lilac, violet ano
stephanotis blooms.
Lady Stanley, the wife of the Cover.
nor-General of Canada, is very popula,
among the Canadians and is simple ant
agreeable in her manners.
One of the latest fancies for table dec
Grafton is a miniature Turkey carpet as
a table cover; the fancy, however, i
| scarcely one likely to last.
A Ne&rYork "beautiier' sued tbs
| wife of Millionaire G. P. Huntington TO
5000 for services rendered to his wife il
removing her double chin.
Nine. de Stael once said that the thinl
that most pleased her was the fact tina
she knew seventeen trades, by airy ont
of which she could earn her living.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the Frenc
President, is the best dressed woman
Paris, and is extravaganza enough neve
to appear twice in the same costume.
Mrs. Arthur Wellesley, a gra ndniee
of the Iron 9uke, and Mrs. Hesketh
Smith, two members of s'good' society
have recently opened a flower shop
London.
{ Many years ago George ". Childs in
structed his assistant editor never to lie
a witticism rejecting upon gentle Woina
creep into the columns of the Philade
phia Ledger.
A new muff of sealskin has gauntlet
like pieces added about the openings &c
the hands, which give the wearer the az
pearance of having on deep gauntl
gloves. It is exceedingly comfortable.
A bright young girl who has fine tast
earns her living in New York by supe
intending the arrangements for any kin
of entertainment. She d~ecorates the tab
and makes some delicious dishes wit
her W hands.
Cora Bacon Foster, Of Houston, one
the most successful real estate agents
Texas. has immortalized herself by vo
ing at the election held recently in th,
CITY. She is the first oma who ev
voted in Texas.
Tailor-made gowns can b. worn on
by ONE who can walk gracefully.
is a notorious fact that few women wa
well. l might also add that tailor-maC
gowns can be worn only by women WI
can afford them.
Carmen Sylvia has a great litera
admirer in the Sultan Of Turkey. I
Queen of Roumania recently sent a supe
edition of her works to the Ottoman ?
t~entate, who has expressed great pleasu
in reading the Queens poems.
The craze for elegant e~mbroideries h
spread from gowns to wraps, until I
models employed are legion. Exquisi