The Opelousas courier., 1892-11-12
Gray is the diguifed color.
Round waists are much worn.


Sleeves are larger and fuller than ever
The craze FOR short hair has spent it
self.
Green is to be more fashionable thar
usual.
There a-e 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 OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, has sold her statue,
"The Mermaid" for $4,000.
It is estimated that there is a daily
display of SIS, 900, 900 worth OF diamonds
at Saratoga during the season.
Lady Ponsonby may be said to be the
most interesting and clever woman con-
nected with Queen Victoria's court.
London furriers announc the furs for
the coming season to be ~uuplucked otter,
the three kinds of fox, ssalskin, and
Russian sable.
The new imperial crown of Queen
Victoria has its entire surface completely
covered with jswels, several of which
are famous in history. =
A bed quilt with 5000 pieces in it,
and upon which a Coopersburg PENN
woman had Iahored for years, was sold
at her death for S125.
Coat basques cut off at the waist and
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 bsows
and yet keep all pasty cosmetics at arms
lengtha Try walnut juice, applying it
with a fine camel's hair brush.
1t is said that Queen Victoria cher
ishes a large number of dolls, chiefly
wooden and of Dutch make, which she
herself dressed when she was a girl.
Olive Thorns Miller, the authoress,
knows as much about o~rnithology as a
professor. She devotes sig months of
every year to the study Of birds and bird
life.
Mrs. Julia Stark Evans, Of Hampton,
Iowa, though the wife of a. active law
yer and the mother of Eve 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 piecemeals G 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 theI future will
be the long redingote, cut double
breasted, with wide Directoire reveres,
big buttons, and a double or triple
cape.
Much of the money which Mrs. Gus.
ter, widow OF the General, realized by
her seventy-two readings last winter has
gone toward educating q young girl
whose father died on the sans field with
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 ~sicians, Drs. Auna
Broomall and Clara Marshall, to act as
WOElC1 GAh444ECtSs |
! Women with oval faces, and, unfortu-
nately, many with less classical contour,
have adopted the fashion of rolling the
hair close to the head and twisting Q
ribbon in and out of the coils to tie in
two pointed ends On top.
The pretty fashion of fower-hung
necklaces which has been carried out
with enamelled blossoms hung en- a
slender gold chain, is gorgeously re- I
produced now by Partisan jewellers in
diamonds and precious stones.
Mrs. L. L. Polk, widow of the late
President of the National Alliance, con-
tinues the publication of the Progressive
Farmer at Raleigh, N. c., in her own
name. The Farmer is published in the
interests of the Peoples Party.
! Emilia Bazan, the Spanish authoress,
runs a monthly review to which she is
the only contributor. Each edition COZ
tains a disquisition on the principal
topics of the day. a review of the most
notable books of the month, and q story.
The bell-skirt remains, but it il short,
just clearing the ground, and is either
plain or trimmed, according to taste.
But however plain the skirt may be, the
waist fully makes up for any lack of gar
niture on the lower portion of the COS
tune.
In one consignment recently a feather
dealer in London received 5000 birds OF
paradise, $50, 900 birds Of various kinds
from the East Indies, and 400, 900 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported S5s, 1893 birds from the
East Indies.
The accordion plated blouse il a new
and popular factor in the Eeld. There
is no lining except in the little round
yoke, from which the plated fulness
falls longer than the waist line, and is
caught up beneath a folded belt finished
with a rosette on one side.
A pretty and popular way of making
up China silks in Pompadour patterns d
in Louis Quinze style, with q long, slen-
der coat back and full blouse front that
reaches just below the waist line, where
the folds are held by a girdle or soft sash
run through a pointed buckle.
The iingling, nerve destroying chate-
laine is to be worn again this year. Quite
a little medicine case or surgeons equip
ment is now appended to the silver or
gold bow. Therei is a book, whose leaves
are OF court plaster, a silver ASK of salts,
q tiny cruet and q scissors, knife and
memorandum book!
Miss leila Nnftall nf Gan rnananaaA