Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Chain bracelets are being revived.
Small Swiss watches are the craze.
Heirloom jewclry is again in vogue.
The sold Creek couture is revived.
Jewelled pen holders and fan-sticks
abound.
She shoppeth best who shoppeth before
IL a. N:
All miilinary shown this season is ex-
IRENE in size
Silver bead necklaces are so delicately
made as to closely resemble nearL
White Shanghai silks have large or
small figures of light or dark color.
There are new designs in Chinese and
japanese fans, some exceedingly pretty.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is fat
and waddling old dame of circus-Eke
girth.
A three -cornerei coachmaa's red hat
Tor child looks well with the triple
capes.
Fine handkerchiefs, with wide hem
stitched border and elaborate initial are
revived.
Mrs. William c. Whitney, wife of the
sx-Secretary of the Navy, has fondness
'or fawn color.
Ex-Empress Eugene is said to have
,efused a fortune to write her memoirs
for publication.
You can get your eyelashes trimmed
md your eyebrows brushed in New York
City for dime.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the
President, prefers rich dark shades of
eds and crimsons.
Martha Washington's fan brought 5000
1t the sale of Washington's relics at
Philadelphia, Penn.
A large glass inkstand, with musical
box arrangement in the lid, is something
new in Wien goods.
Fillets for the hair, made Of a triple
oand of ribbon or velvet, are seen in
public dining rooms.
Mrs. Garfield still wears mourning as
1eep as that which she put on when her
husband died ten years ago.
! Black linen lawn handkerchiefs, EN-
oroidered in color, vie vita those of en-
broided black crepe de Chine.
The London (England) Board of Edu-
cation has appointed six women at
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 piuks,
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 news
paper at Mandelay, which proves that
woman journalism exists even in India.
Martha ] 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 well, leading manufac-
surers having given much attention to
that class of designs.
The Princess of Wales has given orders
that nothing need be submitted for her
inspection, or 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 in her we'd
ding dress before it went out of ashion.
Among the special students at Bryn
Mawr Penn College is Miss Mine Tsuda,
japanese woman, who is the teacher
Of English in the peeresses school at
Toxic.
In Chicago, H., the experiment OF
teaching girls to be carpenters through
the Pedagogical Sloyd Institute has
started with enthusiasm and number
Of pupils.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of the gallant
indian fighter, is singularly youthful
looking, gracious hammered woman of
middle height, with black hair and fresh,
rosy complexion.
Mrs. Aston, the leader of Gotham So
ciety, washes her hands in oatmeal water
twenty times day, and believes glyceriuo
is the best thing for keeping the skin of
the face fresh and blooming.
The late Mrs Mary c. Shaw, of Pitts
burg, Penn, has left the income of her
property, about $500, to Miss Alice B.
Fletcher for her lifetime, to aid her in
her researches in ethnology and archie
ology among the Indians. r
The Working Girls Club, of New York
City, has membership of 2l72, divided
into eighteen local societies, only three
Of which are self-sustaining. The work
ing girls OF Boston organized in 1888,
AMI number 100 members, who are
divided Into twelve societies.
One Of the most comfortable apart
ments on the AIva. Mr.. w. K Wander
bilt's yacht, is the children's play room
and nursery, just in front of the bel
rooms on the frs. lower deck. 1t is
padded with plush to prevent the chill
dren from receiving injuries By being
thrown about when the vessel rolls.
Womens clubs are common enough in
New York, but novelty among them is
/ the Matinee Club, which was recently
organized by dozen young ladies of
"the literary set" Twice a month the
members of the club attend some theatre
cal matinee, selected by a vote, and the
following week meet at the house OF one
of the members and devote the afternoon
to a discussion of the performance which
they saw the week before.
In Paris, France, artificial flower max
ers earn from fifty to seventy five cents a
dty, but the season is not more than
thTee-quarters of Il year long. Hair max
ers are often paid 81 day, and dress
ma ;er who receives thar SUN must be
able to fit well and provide her own
| meals. The seamstresses who work on
cottons and white goods arc paid from
twenty-five cents to sixty-two cents a
DAY, but seldom more, and there are three
months III the year when it is impossible
! to get employment.
Played the Rogues' March.
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