The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-13

A new Partisan fancy prohibits the
wearing of jewels upon the skin.
Gray, tan, suede and fawn Oxfords
show no abatement of popularity.
ABaltimore spinster has become in
sane over the death of her pet dog.
The lighter the color the more stun
ming the costume for summer wear.
Coitfures are now very low, with
long curls of a plated catogan at the
back.
About the only women in the world
who swing their arms walking are Amer
leans.
The skirt must give round the feet,
hence the retirement of the mohair
braid.
Miniature swords and scimitars are
used alike for hair ornaments and letter
openers.
Fruits, flowers and vegetables orna-
ment the natural wood parasol handles
in vogue.
Miss Susan B. Anthony does not look
over sixty but will soon be seventy-fve
years old.
Little red shoes, both high and low,
will be worn by infants and children as
we'll as by their elders.
A return to the Vatican styles has re-
vived the deep aounce of net for the
sleeves of evening dresses.
Miss Maud Humphrey, a clever artist
in water ~colors, has won the title of the
Kate Greenaway of this country.
Bracelets are not In fashion for day
wear, but may be worn, if harmonious
with the toilet, in the evening.
There are only two kinds of bodices in
favor for the street.-The coat-tail bodice
and the coat bodice.
The favorite low shoe is a French kid
made on an Oxford last, with pointed
toes of patent leather.
A Boston girl who is now in Paris be-
came engaged while in Germany to a
DANISH gentleman who is in China,
where they will live.
The Arkansas Legislature decided
that girls shall hereafter be excluded
from the State University, to which they
have been admitted for the last twelve
years.
1t is said that the Princess of Wales
never wears the same dress twice. She
wears false hair, and her wigs are the
finest productions of the Paris wig
makers art.
The buttons used on Louis XIV. coats
are in reality jewels made of fligree
silver and set with turquoise. A set in
clddes eight the size of nickels and is
worth $40.
English girls are said to dread the
presentation ordeal at the Queens draw
ing room. The only compensation is
the lovely gown with its enormous train
four yards long.
Get a bright plaid dress of silk or
rough Scotch goods, put a velvet yoke
in the waist and a narrow bias velvet
rs1e about the skirt and you will have a
very stylish outfit.
Ruehing, plating and rufiing on street
dresses only extend across the front and
side cores. The fan plaits in the back
have become tiresome, and for variety
modistes are trying gathers.
Miss Frances Wizards long practice
in presiding at public meetings has
given her the ease of manner that might
| be expected if she were entertaining a
single guest in her own drawing room.
The back hair is sometimes imprisoned
in a golden network which is fastened
behind the hat, or three jeweled velvet
bands fall over the hair, filling up the
unbecoming space between the head and
the hat.
Of all the insane and disgusting freaks
to which fashion has committed the cos
TUNES of women, the present pattern of
walking dress, with skirt sweeping the
dirt of the streets, is about the most of
fensive.
a home for lonely women is about to
be erected at Helsingborg, in Sweden.
The home will provide a pleasant and
cheap residence for women, and there
will be a common room, with piano, .
library, etc.
Young ladies wear dresses OF white
tulle, two or three tulle skirts, looped up
with flowers, or bows, or ribbon over an
under silk skirt. The low bodice is
draped, Grecian fashion, and trimme q
upon the shoulders.
Everybody who is anybody in thu
feminine world must have a ruffied sill
petticoat. Such is the pronunciamentt
Of Dame Fashion. The skirt may be ap
propriately made of black or one of thu
new changeabie taffetas.
Gray hair has become very fashionable
on the continent with the young peopl
as well as with those who are older, AMI
MANY ladies in the flush of beauty AMI
the pride of womanhood now appea
with their heads so disigured as to max
them look white.
A lady employed in a New York Jew
elry house receives u salary of $4,000 TO
designing watch-cases and lorgnettes
which are submitted to critical buyers.
This young woman was a green %countr.
j girl living on a farm in the hills of Mas
j sachusetts ten years ago.
\ aBraye Love- a little poem whic
James Whitcomb Riley recently said wa
his favorlte, but whose author he did M
/. Lnow hoe hean identified hv An Ore0o