The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-10-07

Gray is the dignif3d color.
Round waists ate much worn.
Velvet dresses, ,Sre in fashion now.
Sleeves are larger and fuller than ever
The craze for short hair has spent it.
pelf.
Green isto be more fashionable thar
asual. 4
There are 800, 900 women engaged in
Industrial pursuits in Massachusetts,.
The very latest trains for elegant even
Ing wear are square-cut and not pointed
Miss Lawson, a young sculptor oil
Cincinnati, Ohio, has sold her statue,
"The Mermaid" for $4,000.
1t is estimated that there is daily
display Of $5, 600, 900 worth OF diamonds
at Saratoga during the season.
Lady Ponsonby may be said to be the
most interesting aud clever woman con,
nected with Queen Victoria's court.
London furriers announce the furs for
the coming season to be unplucsed otter,
the three kinds1of fox, sealskin, aud
Russian sable.
| The new imperial crown Of Queen
Victoria has its entire surface completely
covered with jewels, several Of which
are famous in history.
A bed quilt with 5000 pieces in it,
and upon which Coopersburg (Penu.)
woman had lahoSed for years, was sold
at her death for $125.
Coat basques cut off at the waist aut
prolonged in coat tails at the back are
being made up in heavy and serviceable
material for street wear.
Would you have dark lashes and brows
and yet keep all pasty cosmetics at arms
length9 Try walnut juice, applying it
with fine camel's hair brush.
1t is said that Queen Victoria cher
ishes large numo Ger of dolls, chiefly
wooden aud Of Dutch make, which she
herself dressed when she was a girl.
Olive Thorne Miller, the authoress,
knows as much about ornithology as {
professor. She devotes six months oil
every year to the study Of birds aud bird
life. ...
Mrs. Julia Stark Evans, of Hampton,
Iowa, though the wife Of a1 active law
yer and the mother of five children, is
studying for graduation at the State
University.
The waists Of some of the new dresses
seem to be made entirely Of trimming.
They are pieccmeals of garniture, and
many of them are quite too fussy and
patchy to be either pretty are becoming.
It is said by those in authority that
the fashionable coat of the future will
be the long redingote, cut double
breasted, with wide Directoire reveres,
big buttons, and double or triple
cape.
Much of the money which Mrs. Gus
ter, widow o! the General, realize d BY
her seventy-two readings last winter has
whose father died On the same ae!d Sisl
her husband.
One of the old insurance companies in
Philadelphia makes a specially of insur-
ing women's lives on several plans, and
has women ply ysicians, Drs. Auna
Broomall and CLARA Marshall, to act q:
women examiners.
Women with oval faces, and, unfortu.
nately, many with less classical contour
have adopted the fashion of rolling tn
hair close to the head and twisting
ribbon in aud out Of the coils to tie IL
two pointed ends ON top.
The pretty fashion OF fower-huue
necklaces which has been carried ou
with enamelled blossoms hung en- 9
slender gold chain, is gorgeously re
produced now by Partisan jewellers il
diamonds and precious stones.
Mrs. l.. L. Polk, widow OF the lat
President of the National Alliance, con
tinues the publication Of the Progressive
Farmer at Raleigh, N. G., in her Owl
name. The Farmer is published in the
interests of the Peoples Party.
Emilia Bazsn, the Spanish authoress,
runs a monthly review to which she is
the only contributor. Each edition con
tains disquisition on the principal
topics OF the day. review of the most
notable books of the month, aud story
The bell.skirt remains, but it is short,
just clearing the ground, and is eithe
plain or trimmed, according to taste
But however plain the skirt may be, tn,
waist fully makes up for any lack of gar.
niture on the lower portion of the cos
tune.
In one consignment recently feather
dealer in London received 5000 birds o.
paradise, 800, 900 birds o: various kinds
from the East Indies, and 400. 900 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported 35S, 1898 birds from the
East Indies.
The accordion plated blouse IL new
and popular factor in the fold. There
is no lining except in the little round
yoke, from which the plated fulne,s
falls longer than the waist line, and i,
caught up beneath folded belt finished
with a rosette on one side.
A. pretty and popular way of making
up China silks In Pompadour patterns /.
in Louis Quinze style, with a long, slen
der coat back and full blouse front tina,