The Opelousas courier., 1892-10-15

bnis country.
One of the very ~favorite silks Of the
season is changeable taffeta.
As a rule, women require one hour of
sleep more a day than men.
The married wo men on an average
live two years longer than single ones,
The bigger the chou upon your higa.
heeled slipper the smaller the foot will
look.
The long handled parasol is defunct,
the short, club handled being il che
ascendant.
Many attempts have been made to. re-
vive paniers on handsome gowns of var
lous sorts.
One of the botanists of State reputa.
tion in Maine is Miss Furnish, a Bow.
dom graduate.
The Constitution Of Louisiana permits
women to hold any Office connected with
public education. 81.
Fichu style of trimming is popular for
bodices, and indeed no bodice is Goa
sidered trimmeo without lace.
All the smart women have dropped
the train to the bell skirt and again the
tailor-made costume is truly swagger.
Miss Maud Ritteuhouse, OF Cairo, Ill.,,
has received q prize of $1,000 for a story
from a Southern Improvement Company.
A woman's chance of getting married
is calculated to be only two aad a half
| per cent. when she reaches her fortieth
loyear.
Among the vagaries of the ribbon
craze is that of embroidering ribbons of
various widths with beads and metal
braid.
Caroline Kilby is the art decorator Of
the largest carriage building establish
ment in New York, and has twenty wo-
men under her supervision.
In England it is not very uncommon
for women to serve as vestrymen in the
Episcopal Church, but in America the
idea is not received with favor.
The Empress of Austria when in her
younger days was considered the best
| horsewoman in the world. She still
keeps up hG old love for riding.
"Good health, calm nerves, good
friends aud a modest opinion of herself
are the results Of a college education to
a girl, in the. opinion. of Mrs. Alice Free.
man Palmer.
The first international club for wone
has just been started in Nice. The
foundresses are a few Americans, three
French aud two German ladies, all of
whom are authoresses.
Donna Lastenia Larriva de Llona, a
Peruvian woman well known in South
America as a poet, publishes a weekly
called El Tesoro del Hogar (Fireside
Treasure) in Guayaquil. Ecuador.
The Countess de Nurasol, Eta Hughes
and Franklin Paula, Spanish, English
and Austrian ~governesses of the 1nfan-
tas of Spain, receive each $1,000 a year
for their services, besides a home ih the
royal household.
Mrs. Osborne, a widow, has cleared
| $4,000 to $4,000 a year from her ranch
near Salt Lake City, Utah. She raises
vegetables. Lately she added a chicken
ranch and two ~incubators, and expects
to clear $40, 900 a year.
Becoming blue yelling is hardly to be
found. Occasionally a piece appears which
whiteus and adds to the clearness OF the
skin. You are fortunate if you can run
across it, as you will then have secured
n important adjunct to your toilet.
The women of Hungary are erect, Wig.
orous with fine figures, small feet, pretty
| hands, rich compilations, and are said to
be among the most beautiful women in
the world. They are fond of athletic
sports and are especially graceful walk.
ers.
Miss Florence Balgarmi is making her
influence felt in the way of reform, since
her return to England from this country.
She is agitating q movement to do away
with artificial barriers to the employment
of women, and TO equalizs the wages oil
men and women.
In Sweden, where many bread. win.
Ming employments are open to woman, a
recentbill t.. the Legislature asks for per.
mission to hold Office as sexton in the
State Church. A school of horticulture
has also been lately established to pre-
pare women gardeners and florists.
Miss Mary Day, Of London, has been
successful in her experiment of taking
deaf and dumb girls as pupils in type.
writing. Miss Day ID Que Of the longest
established woman-typewritsrs in Eng
land. As so much typewriting is tram
scribed from manuscript the girls
affection is no drawback.
Jean Ingelow il the daughter of a
banker OF Lincolnshire, and was one of q
family of eleven children. She wrote
her first poems on the window-shutters,
closing them away out of sight when
completed. Her brother was the first to
secure the publication Of her poems, and
-four editions OF a THOUSAND copies each
were sold tho first year. Twenty sir
editions of the same volume have sin ce
been published.
The little Queen of the Netherlands is
becoming a personality in Europe, and
already various nupsial possibilities are
hanging over her head. Apropos of Her
Majesty's visit to Berlin it has been
pointed out that alliances between the
House OF Orange and either German OF
English RoyaItles have generally en-
broiled Holland in war and disaster. II
In posssble, therefore, that the matrirno.