The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

Newport, r. l., is to have a s'yacht
manned entirely by women"
Mourning tea gowns are made with
crepe de Chine front and Vatican back.
Steel and c~oraline are preferred by the
best dressmakers to whalebone.
Diamonds mounted on invisible pins
and worn in the hair are decidedly novel.
Women Of exquisite taste and abundant
cash use gold glove clasps on dressy &C.
casions.
China-lined teacups of solid silver are
used by fashionable people at FIVE
o'clocks.
Wedding dresses are of white SATIN,
trimmed with orange blossoms and point
d'angeleterre.
all the little girls in Mrs. Hamilton
Twombly's family have Vanderbilt for
their middle name.
Terra Gotta, modified to old rose, pale
blue and greens of every shade, are pet
colors in millinery.
Almond green, trimmed with blood
red roses and real rose leaves, make a
charming confection.
The mutten-leg is still the popular
style of sleeve for toilets and costumes
of every description.
Black rough straw hats will be the
fashion for young girls with great-great-
grandmother bows of satin ribbon.
The newest colors are turquoise and
peach-pink; yellow and green Of many
tones have been most worn hitherto.
A Sioux City Qowa) belle wore such
narrow-toed shoes that one of her toes
became so injured as to require amputa-
ton.
N~inety-nine per cent. of all of the
brides ego away in gray gowns, which
gives them away quicker than their new
trunks.
A fashionable hairdresser observes
that it is work TO dress the hair of a girl
Of fifteen, pleasure for one of twenty-five,
and art for one of ~thirty-fiye.
Miss Mary E. Byrd, teacher of astrcn-
omy and director of the observatory at
Smiths College, has been elected q mem
Der of the British Astronomical Associa-
ton.
DR.. Helen L. Belts was the first woman
physician appointed to visit DR.. Koch's
LABORATORY, and enjoyed equal advantages
with the other doctors in investigating
the case.
Recently the Princess of Wales ap-
peared in a long white lace boa, en-
broidered with real pearls, the cost OF
which London society papers give as
tower $780,"
When you construct or order your
next gown, see to it hat the sleeves
come quite down to your knuckles. It
not, your gown will stand . chance OF
looking old fashioned.
Rhoda Broughton lives at Oxford,
England, where she took up her abode
lust ten years ago. In all she has written
about thirty books, but she has allowed
only half of them to be published.
The practice of employing women as
clerks in the Government service origi-
mated with Secretary Chase, who ap-
nointed Miss B. /. Wilson to . place In
the Treasury Department September Ii,
1861.
Miss Elsie Stanley is an Australian girl
of fourteen who has great musical talent
and has Just won q scholarship at the
London Royal College of Music, which
entities her to a free education for three
years.
Linen lawns promise to be much worn.
They are usually printed in black figures
and flowers on q white ground; n
when laundry work is not a matter Of
serious consideration, no material Il
neater or more durable.
Mrs. Al. Claxton, an Englishwoma1,
has invented q patent ear cap, and hence
forth no one need be dis6gured By ears
that stand out too far. The cap is like
! skeleton of tapes, which ~efecually con.
VERGE over the ears. The cap i intended
to be worn at night
LADY Florence Dixie is n OF ths
most talked-of women in the United
KINGDOM. She has q head like a hand.
some bow. with short, Wavy hair, fnii OF
threads Of gold. Her features are bold,
avas fine. nose d little heavy, mouth as
t~ractive and decided. Her complexion
Z brilliant, Is of a woman who live
much out of doors.
The use Of a moderately hot curling
iron is not deprecated by hairdressers
but. o n the contrary, Is Beneficial 20 TN
Growth Of the hair. A email amount o
hair lightly waved and pinned IL plac'
with shell or gold pins makes . much
more attractive arrangement than tn
Quantities of false hair appropriated IRON
acme other head that YVES formerly used
The Duchess of Leinster ID to inaugalr
ate ! revival of a bygone fashion IN ap
bearing 1T the Dublin DraWing.room ~
raved ii as costume designed after HOP
ner's portrait Of the ssDuchessof Dorset
which IS now on exhibition at the Ne
GALLERY. The chief innovation, how
ever. consists ii her wearing the mug
.snodding'' feathers ii the hair 90 muc
worn Of old.
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