The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-07-08
Alpaca is having quite revival.
The wsttear plsat still fourishes.
ultra high sleeves are fast disappea

sale.
Mrs. Ward, author of "Robart Els
mere,' is firmly opposed to woman's
rights.
There are several kind of sailor hats
in straw this season for the girl of the
period.
Violet, fawn, almond, hyacinth, blues,
greens and chocolate are popular street
shades.
CDR. Mary Weeks Burnett and hus-
band" were registered the other day at a
Chicago hotel
There is no European country in
which women clerks are more employed
I--nrvntircly new aft or grumg emma
has been invented by Miss Emily Healy,
of Washington.
Mrs. Abbott, Of Cambridge, Mass,
aged ninety-four, has kept daily Jour
nal for fifty years.
The material par excellence for clab-
oratc thin dresses for the summer Is del
icately colored dotted organdie.
The authorities of Merau, in the Aus.
trian Tyrol, have forbidden tho outdoor
wearing of long trains by women.
In fashionable stationery the new
shades and tints are very beautiful,
although there never will be objection
to plain white.
1t keeps some women buster to see that
their careless husbands are properly at
tired than to see that their own dresses
are in fashion.
Mrs. Frances IIodgson Burnett, tho
authoreesxnont tinnes,to observe in Wash
t'fscon tho CdsCUm s6e ADOPTED while
abroad of holding Informal receptions on
the Sundays.
DR.. Jennie MCGOWAN has been re-
elected for the third term as Secretary of
the Academy Of Natural Sciences, at
Davenport, Iowa.
AS a whole fashions are much the same
as last year, as can be proved when last
summers India silks come out of the
trunk and last summers hat is produced.
Miss Frances Willard, the celebrated
advocate of woman's rights, is slender
blue-eyed woman, apparently of delicate
physique, but really capable Of great
ieal Of hard work.
a popular glove for the summer will
be the pale yellow wash chamois skin.
They have been found to wash as we'll as
the white ones, which will be worn quite
As much as last year.
The American dress reformers ore pre-
pairing to renew their crusade at Chau-
sauqua this year. Tlfey declare that
their reformatory ideas are making rapid
progress all over the country.
Turkish women, all of whom wear
earrings from their seventh year, derive
the use of these jewels from Hagar, who
is held in veneration rs the mother of
lshnael, the founder of their race.
For those who like slender effects the
novelty Of the season in the Dominican
gown. The breadths extend from throat
tc hem, aud the fulness is laid ir broad
box plat down the front and back.
A pretty summer fancy is for lace
hat and parasol of the same material,
Valencicnnes with "A broad brim and
three large Prince of Wales feathers
erect on the crown is IA becoming style.
The American Federation of Women's
Clubs now includes ia societies, repre-
senting Is, 900 members. The oldest OF
them all is supposed to be sorosis, which
recently celebrated itstwenty-tirst birth
day. -~-----
One enormous puff reaching to the ell.
bow, and equally full all tho way down,
seems to be the present favorlte in
sleeves, and many of the dresses now be-
ing made for the summer will have such
sleeves.
Women have been admitted as students
at JOHNS Hopkins University. Baltimore,
Md, since 1879, the pioneer among
them having been Miss Christine Ladd,
who, by special vote of the faculty, was
permitted to study mathematics.
Massage, which used to be taught on
wooden dummies, with skeletons as
further assistants. is now demonstrated
on living subjects, children even doing
for experimental models. In this way
the profession affords double industry.
Miss Ume Tsuda, now a special stu.
don't at Bryn Mawr penn College, is
anxious to raise $4,000 to found schol.
arshlp to give Japanese women four
years training in America, and fit them
to return home as teachers for JAPANESE
girls.
lIulda Friedrichs, young German
woman, has been engaged by the Pail
Mall Gazette TO make a tour of the United
States for the purpose of writing up the
social institutions Of the country, especi
ally in their effect on woman's con-
ditons.
rhe new book writteA by the Arch
duchess Stephanie, of Austria, is said tc
be remarkable both for the elegance OF
style and descriptive talent displayed
by it's author. These gifts are so rare in
the case If royal authors that the Arch
duchess Is to be Congratu,H':d
An cxcclllnt Innovation tn secure /the
comfort of la!,c, who travel is the cm
ployment on some Of the trunk liners o
colored maids. These girls are handy
with their nee lies, they Eavw how t
comb the hair, wash aud dress children,
and render inuumerable services tina!
make travelling more endurable.
Miss Rp1ino Mornhv of New Orleans