The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-23
Josephine was twenty-thrce when she


fashions it does not appear. ss
Florence Nightingale recently cele-
brated her seventieth birthday.
Two Of the graduates this year at the
Chicago College of Law were women.
A niece of James Russell Lowell, Miss
Ruth Burnett, is to become Sister of
Charity.
"Tear bottles" are being revived in
modern wares and are again fashionable
bric-a-brac.
Seven of the eight graduates of the
State Library School at Albany, N. Y,
this year were women.
Women nowadays who never had their
ears pierced are said to be OF more con.
sequence than those who have.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has
the privilege of kissing all the pretty
girls who are presented to him.
Old fashioned Panama hats, such rs
the Cubans used TO wear, are now bent
into fashionable shape for women.
A recent wedding present was set of
solid gold chess men, aud an ebony chess
table, inlaid with gold, for the game.
Ordinary ten cent fishermen's hats,
trimmed very elaborately, are worn by
the fashionable women at the seaside.
Milady's cabinet for curios is now made
to revolve like book case, and has very
ingeniously contrived glass sliding doors.
A black pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at a recent entertainment is
said to be worth $3.50 There is
only single row of the gems.
Queen Sophia, OF Sweden, is rarely
seen by her subjects. She is pale,
middle-aged lady, almost an invalid, aud
appears only at long intervals in public.
Miss Susan Whitcomb Hassell, of
Redfeld, was nominated for State Su-
| perindent of Public Instruction in South
Dakota by the State Convention Of the
Independents.
What is believed to be the largest
ranch in the world is owned by wo-
man-Mrs. Richard King. titles forty
five miles south of Corpus Christi, in
Texas, and covers 100000 acres in ex.
tent.
1t is quite noteworthy to what an ex-
teot feathers are worn this season, true,
in no wise to the exclusion of flowers,
but the decree seems to exact that
none but seasonable flowers shall be
worn.
Two women have been appointed
bridge tenders in New Jersey, one at
Green Bank and tho other at Lower
Bank. These are believed to be the
only female bridge tenders in the
world.
The height of fashion in Paris is a
dark blue used in combination with
emerald green, so we may be prepared
for the appearance Of this somewhat
incoeruous combination in autumn
fabrics.
The prettiest japanese fan of the
season is gold and silver fecked, opon
worked spaces filed in with net, on
which is painted foliage, cluster or
single wide petaled diver. The outside
is cord laced up aud down.
From eastern Asia comes a plant the
flowers OF which contain a quantity of
juice that rapidly turns black or deep
purple on exposure to air. 1t IS use1
by Chinese ladies for dyclng their hair
and eyebrows, and i'll Japan for backing
shoes.
Sixty-fve branches of .he Young Wo.
mems Christian Association have been
started In India. In several Of these so.
cictics the membership is composed al
most entirely Of native women, but in
Others caste differences are forgotten
and dark and fair meet upon an equal
footing.
The distinguishing mark of real
Partisan toilet is touch of black, deity
added. A fayoritc method OF its ar
rangcmcht with slight womeo is to make
q belt with loops of ribbon hanging
about the waist, which gives a pleasing
fulness to the slight figure aud is sug-
gestive of Venetian slashings.
Kate Mas len is one of the worlds
true hcroines. At the age of fifteen she
accompanied the Russian Army on it's
Bulgarian campaign as 4 member Of the
Red Cross Society. In late ycars she
has labored among the lopors of South
Africa and Siberia aud believes she has
found remedy for the terrible disease.
The University Club OF San Francisco
is to have an annex for ladies. There
are only four large cities in this country
that have taken the "unclubable sex"
and given them portion of the build
ing. They arc the Metropolitan Of
New York, the Hamilton of Brooklyn,
and the Somerset and Algonquin of Bos-
ton.
Perfumes, to be agreeable, should float
about the garments, but never overpower
the senses. The odor should be subtle
and suggestive. Handkcrchicfs and
gloves are best porfumed ny keeping
them in sachets powdered with the favor.
lie violet. heliotrone, or whatever the
preferred scent may be. 1t is nice also
to have small sachets.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, is the antithesis in physical and
mental attractiyeness of the preceding
mistress of the Elysee, Nine. Grevy, for
whereas the 'atter was a plain and
practical old laly, devoid OF the graces
which the French demand of women in
Official station, Nine. Carnot is as
CHARMING as she is clever