The Opelousas courier., 1892-08-27
Heliotrope is the favorite perfume.

much lace was worn.
The faddish maiden is now making =
collection of belts.
Black lace scarfs are worn, tied with
long ends at the back.
Grecian women had longer feet than
the average man has now
Fine cotton fabrics are coming to the
front more and more every day.
A Kentucky Episcopal church has
elected two women as "vestrymen."
A patent has been issued to a woman
for an improved fastening for shirt but
tons.
Portraits of SIX American women hang
in the present exhibition OF the Paris
Salon.
A summer school for female students
is to be established in the Eitfsl Tower,
Paris.
This summer lace dresses will be worn
by many women, as they have been in
the past.
Fashion has set her foot upon the
graduating dress and kicked off every
article of lace.
The girl bachelors Of New York u
mostly artists, writers, editors, doctors
and designers.
The square-toed shoes and slippers are
avoided by ladies who do net take kindly
ito severe styles.
Lady Malet, the wife of Sir Edward
Malet, has a collection of 1000 pairs of
shoes of all kinds.
The Russian blouse is made up for
children of all ages, from well-grown
girls to tiny tots.
Satin will be worn by most brides, and
already the modistes have finished some
most exquisite gowns.
White alpaca as a material for DIR essy
gowns has been brought to the fore By
no less an authority than Worth.
Linen cuffs have been recalled into
the ranks of fashion, and will be worn
with link buttons with tailor gowns.
1t looks very much as, if our young
women college graduates of the near
future will wear the ''mortar board"
A brown straw hat trimmed with blue
is about as pretty and serviceable an any.
thing that can be selected for a child.
The WOODEN and flannel blazers are to
the front again. They will be we
q muslin or Wash-silk skirt and a leather
belt.
Two ladies only have obtained the de-
gree of Mus. Doc, namely, the Princess
of Wales and Miss Annie Patterson, of
Dublin.
The Punch of Melbo 1rne, Australia,
is edited by a women, Miss Murphy,
who is said to be both brilliant and
beautiful.
Black is still worn in preference to
eolors in underwear by many American
women, end hosiery in black has the
largest sale.
Doucet, Worth, Felix and the rest of
the Partisan designers are using green in
hight and tender shades in all summer
gowns and bonnets.
Abram Gaar, a wealthy manufacturer
of agricultural implements in Indiana,
gave his daughter a check for Sl00, 600
on her wedding day.
Very high effects of pulled hair, with
the wavy part of the front hair drawn up
over these puffs by being held up by
small ornamental combs, are now seen.
A pretty gown for light mourning re-
Gently seen was of white serge. A band
of wide black ribbon was on the bottom
Of the skirt, and the jacket was trimmed
sith black ribbon.
In a raeent parlor lecture which she
delivered in Chicago, Mrs. Custer, widow
of the i'll. 'fated cavalry General, said that
she was the first woman in this country
to shoot a buffalo.
Chiffon is so generally the covering Tor
parasols that some women who want to
have a pretty one, and who also have
are covering their old parasols
themselves with the chiffon.
It may interest the e~xtravagant young
of small means who sighs for
silk findings in her dress to know that
some of the very best customers Of the
uptown modiste prefer cotton Innings for
their street suits.
For summer gowns, the most fashion,
able fabrics are clingiag silk crepons
and stripped grenadines. They are to
be made up very plainly with trimmings
of embroidery, guipure or velvet and
more especially with some light tint
near the face.
Thirteen girl graduates from Mount
Auburn (Ohio) Young Ladies' Institute
banqueted defying in every possible way
the omens of evil. They walked under
a ladder, broke a mirror, raised umbrellas,
had thirteen walters and caused the or
chestra to play thirteen pieces.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the poetress, 10
ifty-seven years old. She is a tall, hand
some woman, with dark face, dark eyes
and snow white hair. Appledore, Isle of
Shoals. wal her home when she was ten
years old. and it has been her summer
ever since she was sixteen.
Christian Nilsson, the prima donna, is
d clever woman of business. Mime. Mod
ieska, the Polish actress, plays Chopin
and speaks a half dozen languages. Patti
is very proud of her needlework, especi-
ally Of her darning. Albani, the singer,
cultivates the domestic arts and writes
entertaining letters to her friends.
a great deal Of lace will be worn this
season, and many are the devices resorted
to to make Few styles out of the multi.
tude of old aud familiar lace dresses with
which we have 80 long been deluged.