The Opelousas courier., 1892-09-03

Women of every rank 60 bareheaded
In Mexico.
Strictly fashionable china must now
be- all white.
There are three thousand female com
p~ositors in the, United States.
The worlds typewriter record is 182
words a minute, held by a lady.
Rustling skirts are decidedly the thing
with European ladies of fashion7h
Paris has one woman chemist, Lh{lle Id
Clerck, who passed afrst-class exanlna7
ton.
Several titled Russian ome have
sold their jewels and laees for the fam
inc sufferers.
Crocodile skin shoes for young women,
will be n of the fashions in footwear
this summer.
Worth, the Partisan dressmakef,
works hard and regularly, putting in
ten hours y day at his desk.
Mrs. Edison, wife of the electric light
WApc1ts pICICAS IdudiOo u 6hy SeASA
form of household illumination.
Mrs. Tuana Neil, of California, gets
SIC, 900 a year in the insurance business,
the largest salary paid to any woman.
The Woman's Medical College of Chi
cago has become a department of the
Northwestern University of Evanston,
Ill.
Miss Charlotte NJ. Yonge, the author
has given SIC, 900 for building a mis-
sionary college at Auckland, New Zea.
land.
The Empress of Germany has mani.
tested a deep interest in the religious
and charitable institutions in and about
Berlin.
A young st. Louis girl is said to have
made a profit of $1,000 last year in fur
nishing bread for the Womau's Ex-
change.
To make your bureau drawers sweetly
odorous, cover the bottom with layers
of China silk filed with sweet smelling
powder. Z.
Shadow cretonnes, so called because
they do not show any decided pattern
until placed against the hight, are summer
favorites.
A female preacher in Page County,
Virginia, has made application to the
County Court for permission to perform
the marriage ceremony.
Madras muslin in palm leaf and ara
besque scrolls are being usedfor draping
parlor, dining and bedroom of seaside
and suburban cottages.
In Rome, N. j., there is a colored
church under the ministration of a col
ored woman preacher of good education
and considerable power.
A movement is on foot in Chicago to
induce Mayor Washburn to appoint "a
number of fashionable women to seats in
the Board of Education.
Most New York women won't believe
it, but the women of Paris do not wear
what are known here as French heel
boots when they are out walking.
Paul Deschanel, the Frenchman who
was over here recently studying the labor
question, pronounees the girls of San
Francisco the prettiest in the county.
The machine for making square-bot.
toned paper bags was invented By
Margaret L. Knight, who has since then
invented a machine for folding these
bags.
Queen Natalie, of Servia, has a finer
head of hair than aay other feminine
royal parsonage in Europe. She gener-
ally wears it hanging in two plaits down
her back.
Miss Marie Moran, of Newark, N. r.,
a girl of eighteen, recently offered her
services as nurse in a smallpox hospital
when the courage of the regular nurses
failed the II.
Girls do not grow so tall in Paris as In
London. nor have they such rosy cheeks,
but they are more pleasing to look upon.
Thew know how to dress so as not to OBJ.
iiterate outlines that are feminine and
charming.
Miss Catherine Annie Hoppin, of Ober-
lin, Ohio, was the one woman in the
graduation class of twenty at the last
commencement of the Oberlin Theologi-
cal Seminary.
1t is estimated that over six thousand
ONE in the United States act as post
mistresses. The largest number for any
n State-463--are In Pennsylvania and
460 in Virginia.
The Harvard ssAnnex'' for the &C.
commodation of women students now has
241 names on its books. Thirteen years
ago the number of students there was
only twenty-five.
James n. Fish, for many years official
stcnographer of the New York Supreme
Court, says it is easier to find a frst-class
stenographic clerk among young women
than among young men.
The leila Reed" House, which is to
be opened as a home for Boston street
waits, is being built by Miss Cynthia
Bates, a business woman, in memory of
a beloved niece. The Rev. Phillips
Brooks laid the corner. stone.
The bargain counter fourishes in Paris
as in the retail stnras of tho Hnita.l
States. ''occasion. is the sign by which
it is known, and the Parisian housewife
is not q whit behind the housewife of
America in knowing how to take advan-
tage of it.