Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOB WOMEN.

oose-ftting gloves are the latest.
Turquoise jewelry continues fashion.
able
Brooklyn has a new colored woman
doctor
Bracelets to the number of three or
four are worn. not as bangles, but close
| to the wrist.
| Green leather card cases and purses
are fashionable, also dull red any color,
indeed, but black.
Finger rings showing three rows of
! gems. five in each row, give, when en-
the finger, the impression of three five
| stone rings.
A favorite bracelet with horsewomea
consists of a curb-chain, ornamented
with pair of snaffles and a diamond
| horseshoe
taste for the exquisite china and
wide, shallow cups affected by the En-
press Eugene has come in with the En-
pire gowns.
An attempt is being made by Nine.
Belloc in London to establish home for
the dying poor, who have now no shell
ter save the workhouse.
A collection of 1000 butterflies, all
bred from eggs, has been given to the
New York Museum of Natural History
by Mrs. N. Schuyler Elliott.
Rare specimens of the orchid, faith
fully represented in enamel and mount
ed in gold or silver, are worn in the
hair or used to fasten the corsage.
There are in the United States, Canada,
England and Scotland thirty-four
women's missionary societies, and they
have 1897 missionaries in the field.
The new gauze parasols destined for
anything except to shade the face have
gilt frames. One of green gauze has a
heavy cluster of roses dropping at one
side.
The Queen of Denmark is an expert
dressmaker and a good pastry cook. Her
daughters also are all clever needle.
women, and SO is her sister, the Czarina
of Russia.
Copper bronze is to be the fashionable
shade Of hair this season. What it will
be next season cannot be safely an
nounced until the new colors are de-
cided upon.
The colony founded by the followers
of Tolstoi in Russia have been reinforced
by number of ladies of high rank, who
faithfully follow the. prescribed rules
and live like the peasants around
them.
The popular red parasol, effective,
n nd hrir &c 4
drawback. While it gives a most becom.
ing tint to the cheeks, it adds the same
rosy tint to the nose, which is not at all
desirable.
It is reported to be a fancy of the
fashionable girl that after, wearing her
long suede gloves three or four times
she takes them to a shoemaker and has
made from them pair of slippers for her
chosen admirer.
Heart shaped brooches, the Stuart
heart pierced through with an arrow and
the Douglas heart, are the dearest love
tokens in the world, and, if they are set
in frame of diamonds or snowy pearls.
perhaps the costliest.
Virginia is to have woman's college.
"A A0aI ooIdC0 nyuu1CdIe VI LyncnCurS
has offered the Randolph Macon College
twenty acres Of land, with $40, 900 cash
and $50, 900 in bonds, provided an en-
dowment fund Of 500, 900 is raised.
Mrs. Bailey, wife of the editor of the
Utica Observer, has recently devised and
patented an arrangement to be attached
10 hospisal beds, by means of which a
patient is enabled to raise and lower him.
self without the assistance of nurse.
Crepon is without exception the fav-
orite material for young ladies' summer
dresses, mohair in pin strikes for travel
ing gowns, and chiffon for evening wear.
BengaliGe is the favOrite heavy silk, and
China silk still holds its place of favorite
for warm days.
The favorite blooms for bonnets are
single hyaclnths in pearl gray or lavender,
pale yellow primroses, and lilies of the
valley arranged in light aigrettes. Cow
slips and mimoSa, too, are seen, and |
Mercury's wings point backward from
embroidered toques.
The latest cut in skirts has six pieces
which, sloping sharply towaE,7 the belt,
give the desired flare at the bottom. A
velvet binding on the edge of this skirt,
run through with a reed, does away |
with heavy faclngs, and is sure to give |
the required outward sweep.
Miss MILDLY Morgan, the only woman
who reports the stock and cattle markets /
for the New York press, is a tall, gaunt |