Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-03-25

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Pink is in favor again.
OYSTER white is a new tint.

worn.
Silks are much used for dinner
dresses.
In decorating skirts, ribbon has COM
pletely superseded lace.
Floral slippers are the correct thing to
throw after a bridal pair.
Queen Victoria, of England, has al
income of $4,000 per day.
Meriden, Conn. has had a woman
Assistant City Clerk for six years.
The number of lady students in Swift
er.and is continuously increasing.
Eight girls are now studying at the
Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ire
land.
Lace edgings of Valenciepnes are
placed on ruchings, but they must be
narrow.
The number of patents applied for
and obtained by women is still on the
increase.
An ecru staw alpine, with matching
ribbon, makes pretty walking hat with
the tan coats.
Galician women have petitioned the
Emperor of Austria for permission to
serve as soldiers.
Persian women, generally speaking,
are unusually bright and shrewd, as
well as very beautiful.
Baroness Burdett-C outts, of England,
believes that sapphire blue velvet is the
proper mourning color.
Women are now employed as stenogra-
piers in the Parliament at Copenhagen,
Denmark, for the first time.
The students Of the Women's College,
in Baltimore, Nd, have decided to wear
the academic cap and gown.
The State Librarians of Kentucky aud
of Mississippi are women, and the posi-
tions they hold are well paid.
Mulls in delicate hues will be popular
this summer. They are scattered over
with clusters of flowers and look very
pretty.
Rosa Bonheur, the French artist, is
one of the women on whom the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor has been
conferred.
Mrs. NJ. D. Young, daughter-in-law
OF the late Brigham Young, is a worker
on a Salt Lake City (Utah) paper which
is opposed to Mormonism.
The Chicago Woman's Club has been
agitating for eleven years the subject Of
establishing a county hospital for the
care and treatment of contagious dis
eases.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference
Of Kansas, by ballot Of eighty-five to
twenty-f voted in favor of admitting
women as delegates to the General Con-
ference.
One of the successful lawyers Of Mis-
souri, is Mrs. Dudgeon, of Mexico, who
has a good practice as counselor, and
is also a clever stenographer and no.
tary public.
A bust of Queen Victoria of England,
executed by her daughter, the Princess
Louise, will be one of the attractions Of
the Woman's Department of the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
Kate Field proclaims that woman,to
be agreeable, must listen. "Keep man
wound up she counscls; "look as
though you were hanging on his lips, and
he'll think you charming"
The Girls Friendly Society of Eng
land is a union of over 10, 900 women
and girls of all classes which holds re-
ligious aud secular classes, provides
homes of rest and training, lodges, Ii
braries, etc.
Woman's work in foreign missions is
making itself felt in noble way. The
summaries Of last year show sixty eight
womens societies, supporting 146S for
eign missionaries, and raising for this
work 81, 692, 962.
To prevent new ginghams from fading
let them lie for several hours in water
in which has been dissolved a goodly
quantity of salt. Put the dress in it
while it is hot, and after several hours
wiring it out; dry and wash as usual.
1t takes a woman to think OF and dare
to do so unconventional a thing as 70
make her rounds as a physician on a
tricycle.. Yet precisely this a New York
woman is doing, getting her exercise and
practicing an economy Of time as well.
Mime. La Croix, the French painter,
has the honor of being the first French
woman to be elected a member of the
Academy of Madrid, Spain. The distinc
ton was conferred on her for the excel
lence of her paintings on the walls of the
Madrid Atheneum.
Buy hat or bonnet with wing or
quill feathers, if you want service. Flow
ers, even the best of them, are perisha.
BILE; colored rosettes wash out in damp
or wet weather, and unless a woman
knows how to curl a feather it will cost
her the price of her hat to keep the os-
trich plumes in trim.
If a girl does not know what colors are
unbecoming, it will pay her to seek adj
vice OF disinterested woman Of taste.
Very often the photographer is a good
man to talk to when hints are wanted;
so is a dressmaker, but milliners are not
to be depended upon, their aim being to
force a sale if need be.
A native Hindoo woman, Miss Jagan-
nadham, has been educated as physi
clan to serve as a medical missionary IN
her native land. She studied first three
years in Madras, then two years in Ed
inburgh School OF Medicine for Women,
where she passed her examination most
successfully, and obtained the diploma of
the Scottish conjoint college, thus plac.
ing her name on the British Medical
Register.
Miss Mary wilkins, the writer, is a
slender little woman, with a fair skin,
blue eyes, clean-cut features aud nose
that might be called sharp but for the
gentleness and refinement Of the face.
She wears her hair in a knot at the nape
of q neck which is simply perfect. 10