The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Earrings are CublfeIy out OIL FASHION.
Belts with silver buckles are only $40
each.
The gray still remains the fashionable
color.
Moons. rings and cresce nts are much
in vogue.
Some women in London feed their cats
live sparrows.
Dolores Marburg the popular novelist,
is about twenty-five.
Queen Victoria suffers overwhelmingly
from rheumatic govt.
Open briramed hats and bonnets are
lined with net and lace.
Some of the new window curtains in
striped cotton look like bed ticking.
Antagonism to trained skirts in the
| streets becomes more and more pro-
nouneed.
The walking gloves with overlapping
saams and big buttons are proper with a
cloth gown.
A girl in Saxony has become insane on
the subject of religion, and insists on
starving herself to death.
The feminine students at Cornell Uni,
versitY have adopted the mortar-board
hat of the male students.
Two society women of Albuquerque,
New Mexico, are said to have become in
sane from the use of cosmetics on their
| faces.
Macon, Ga, has a ten-year-old stenog-
rapher and typewriter who has started in
business for herself in a prominent hotel
of that town.
Silk is more used than it has been for
many seasons. Panels, waistcoats and
sleeves in most of the wooden stuffs are
now in favor.
When black hats are selected for chill
dren the brim is gayly decorated with
buttercups, blueys, daisies, peoples and
other bright blossoms.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to be a
liberal purchaser of rare books. She has
a passion for unique bindings, and knows
q genuine article from an imitation.
Emeralds are at present a fashionable
jewel, but as much care is necessary in
their selection as in that of diamonds.
Some people seem to forget this fact.
Small brooches in fantastic forms are
popular among the ladies of Paris. One
in the shape of a bow knot, popuIarized
by Mime. Carnot, is especially IN vogue.
Connecticut young women are amusing
themselves and maxim, work for the post
Office officials by writTg letters to one
another on the backs IF postage-stamps.
Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, editor of the
american Magazine Of History, is a mem
Der of twenty-five historical aud learned
societies in Europe and the United
States.
Miss Couzins, the determined Secre-
tary of the Board of Lady Managers of
the Columbian Exposition, refuses to be
removed, and a rafting legal fight is
promised.
Women who know how to cut dresses
earn from S25 to $50 a week. They are
notnumerous. TIE men master the trade
and their salaries vary from $500 to
$500 a year.
The hats of the season are amusing, if
they are not becoming. The small hats
and bonnets suggest a soup plate turned
over, and the large hats resemble platters
with 1uted edges.
DR.. Helen L. Belts, of Boston, was the
first woman physician appointed to visit
DR.. Koch's laboratory, and enjoyed equal
advantages with the other doctors in in
vestigating the case.
Mrs. Koch. the wife of the famous
German specialist, has the entire charge
of her husbands immense correspond
ence, and performs her duties as secge-
tary very successfully.
The s%tiletto hatpin has found q fresh
victim-this time III Scotland. A lnfcl
in her carriage drove the bally-a iiustel
pin into the head of a woman in Elm
burgh lately with fatal effect.
The statue oftEmma Willard, the
pioneer of higher female education in tint
United States, and founder of the Wilt
lard Seminary at Troy, y. Y, will nc
doubt be completed before the close Of
the current year.
New York. cabmen complain thai
women victimize them by taking a car
rage to a store, ordering them to wait,
and then leaving the store by a ditferen
door from the one they entered, without
paying their fare.
The daintiest stockings to be worn by
a bride are of fine white silk with
medallion Of Valenciennes lace set in the
instep, the design being one of orange
blossoms. They are as frail as the pro
verbal cobweb, however.
One of the finest artist. aof the day in
Spain is a woman-M6tR Anselma La
croix. She has n studio in Paris, s.nC
the work of her brush is said to be s.
admirable as to place her at the head O
the women artists of the present decade
A Massachusetts girl planned the com
plex machine which makes paper bags,'
New Jersey girl found a way of %turnin:
out horseshoes by machinery, and a Ney
York farmers wife is the patentee of a
arrangement for feeding cattle on trains
An Indian woman, Miss Nancy Coz
nelius, a graduate of the Indian schoo
at Carlisle, Penn, has taken full cours
in the Hartford Training School fe
Nurses, and has just received her d
plona. She is the first Indian woma
to prepare herself for nursing BY a scier
tic training.