St. Landry democrat., 1892-12-24
Ficlus are still ia mode.

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Fichus are still IA mode.
Belts arc worn ia ell shapes.
Purses come in heart shapes.
High heels are not fashionable.
Sleeves are becoming elaborate.
Suede gloves are not so much Worn.
Kansas has twenty-five women editors
Cut velvcts in double width are ar
innovation.
Buffalo (N. " has Business Wo'
mems Club.
Green is to be favorite, if not the
favorite color.
Many sensible women have discarded
pointed toed shoes.
Ribbon garniture is now made use of
in dressing the hair.
There Is a perfect craze for old silver
ornaments just now.
One thousand Am erican misses are
studying art in Paris.
Women teachers are subject to Pc
culiar throat affection.
The Empress of China travels with
5000 frocks in her wardrobe. =;
A school of law is soon to be opened
in Toxic for JapaL csc women.
English matrons are now wearing
their diamonds in the morning.
There seems to be very little doubt
that the umbrella skirt is doone l..
Newark, N. j., has woman manu-
facturer of umbrellas and paraso.s.
A Western girl, Miss Amy Johnson,
has started on au SJ0-mie bicycle trip.
There are said to be 20 American
women who practice law or edit legal
publications.
The London Geographical Society and
the Geological Society both admit women
as fellows.
We are pretty sure to have revival of
the polonaise, with pretty up-to-date
adaptations. .
Lavender kid gloves, with broad black
stitching, are still the height of fashion
able haudgear.
"Jane Eyre was the first work of
Charlotte Bronte, written when she was
twenty two years old.
An asylum for mothers .in-law is being.
built in Austria by wealthy Austrian
woman, and provision has been m ade'for
500 occupants.
A beautiful material for trimming
bonnets lis sort of . gauze covered with
gold bees and flies. 1t is soft an cones
in different colors.
In addition to her accomplishment as
a horse-wonan the E nprcss Elizabeth, OF
Austria, has tne reputation Of b,;ug a
'kilful pastry cook.
A black pearl necklace worn BY LAZY
Leicester at a recent entertaiqnaar isslid.
10 be worth $125,O0o There IL oaly
single row Of tie gems.
Brocada silks Of the rjc:icst varieties,
'nch as were made 800 years ago in
gorgeous flowers Oh biac;l grolats, ars
promised fog WRIT ter wear. !
The socialistic Congress at Tours,
France, passed, among others, i reS6lu-
ion forbidding !narEfed wouN to work
outside Of tle!r own horses. o
In toe city OF Rome, N. y. taeg: IS !
,olored COLONY whose spiritual wants for |
The past four years have been hlinlstersi
% by a co!ored woman, Mrs. NJ. X.
Villodas.
Velvet promises to be in high favor the
coming season for dress garniture applied
IS bands, lapels, cqliars, cltfs, yo6cs aud
over sleeves, the upper sleeves being in
'ne or two putfS.
A hairdresser of fashionable replte
ays every womla would be a great deal
iappier and more comfortable if she had
ler head shaved and wore a wig. 1t is
$50 much cooler"
Silkoline is a very fascinating mater
al. Oftet, not always, it is as soft as
ilk. The designs, too, are most often
graceful and deticatcly covered, and to
crown all it is very inexpensive.
The Russians have become 50 alive to
he value of women physicians that the
imperial Government has grtntei 800
100 for medical school for wonel, to
,e established 1T St. Petersburg. The
tie has been giyea by the city.
When whitening age had deepened the
wrinkles in Queen E,izlbeth's lace, mir
ors were banished from the roo MS she
Daring the last twenty
ears of her life she had not the heart to
ool1 at her reflection IN the glass.
In all soaring; the scarfpin must be
placed so that whca seen through the
opening it will appear in the
centre Of that space. TO be placed too
high in the scarf, too low, or on one
Tide, would destroy the conformity.
Mrs. Mary Coons, the wife of Captain
ames Coo1s, the owntr and navigator
f two of the largest passenger boats on
he OeklaHaaa River, Florida, is prac-
cal engineer, having stu1iel civil en-
and received her diploma.
The only known lady chime player, it
stated, is Miss Bertha Thomas, assist.
Mt organist OF Grace Clurcl, New
-ork City. She doesn't have to climb
ito tue steepte TO play the chimes,
'hich she handles from below By the aid
{ an electrical device.
One of the few women who were priv.
eyed to call Prime Minister Gladstone
William" died recently near Liverpool
! her eighty -scventh year. She was
larry Ann Mexican, AMI for more than
alf a century she was in the service of
le Gladstone family.
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