The Opelousas courier., 1892-07-16

Three hundred and sixteen American
girls are teaching in China.
Ancient Grecian women had longer
feet than the average man has now.
Women who sew for a living are
warned against the use Of cheap thin
bles.
Spring fashions from Paris show some
new departures and some startling eff
fects."
The most expert woman conductor Of
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies.
Jetted wire and jetted net are to be
used in covering frames for dressy bon
nets and hats.
There are in London, so report says,
over ten thousand women "conn ected
with the press"
The famous singer, Christine Nilsson,
Countess Miranda, has been visiting her
childhood's home in Sweden.
Lady Sutton recently gave an enter
tainment in London, at which $I5, 900
were expended for flowers alone.
Qneen Margharita, of Italy, has prom
| ised the loan of her famous collection of
laees for exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
Queen Margharita, of Italy, though still
a very beautiful woman, is said to be
growing very fat. She has been married
tWenty-four years.
DR.. Mary P. jacob, in New York,
and DR.. Mary Hoxon, in Washington,
are each reputed to earn $40, 900 a year
at their profession.
DIR. Caroline Bertellon has been ap-
pointed visiting physician to that very
important college for girls, the >Lycee
Racine, in Paris, France.
For the sombre taste in dress fashion
has designed a large variety of flowers
in brown and gray shades of silk to be
worn as bonnet garniture.
The newest feature in millinery is what
is called the ''boulevard crown." Of
course it is very broad and very fiat, and
rather longer than it is wide.
Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh air,
that she is said to keep the temperature
of her apartments in Windsor Castle so
low that the rooms are unpleasantly chilly
for other people.
Little hats of jetted wire are almost
covered by the full blown roses and
shaded peoples used as trimming, a
single flower often hiding all but the
edge of the brim.
Police matrons in New York and
Brooklyn get $500. School teachers
begin on half that pay and work four
teen years to secure the maximum salary,
hich is $3.50 a year.
A distinguished Methodist preacher
once said: "But for the interest and de-
votion of the women of our churches,
one-half of them would die the first
year, and tie other half the second"
Antelope skin, which has been extern
slvely used for pocketbooks, photographs,
frames, etc., is now being employed for
gloves. It is very soft and pliable, re,
Hembling the finest suede, ard comes in
all the tars and light shades.
A rev wrinkle is the wearing of col
ored ribbons as collar trimmings, some
are merely folded and set over or or
the edge of the dress collar, and fastened
at the back with a rosette. Ribbons are
worn in every imaginable manner.
Lady O'Brien, the wife of the Gov
ernor of Newfoundland, is much alb
sorbed in the wives and children of the
men engaged along the coast in the fish,
ing industry, aud has organized a small
society to work up material into suitable
clothing for her proteges.
There are many women registered a
the Patent Office in Washington as in
ventors. Their inventions range from
pillow lace to locomotive appliances
though they have been especially sue
eessfui in devising ice-eream freezer
and sewing machine attachments.
The Duke of Westminster has beer
RECOMMENDING young women or the mid.
die classes to train for teachers OF cook.
cry. He says That he. is convinced. BY
careful examination of the subject, that
there is a good living for any woman
who will fit herself to teach cookery.
Senator Fefer's wife is a Pennsyl-
vanian, and she has been married Just
forty years. She is a woman of business
ability, and while her husband was in
the war she so husbanded the savings he
sent home that when the war was over
she had the nucleus of a snail fortune
awaiting. him.
The newest muddy weather costume
consists of a skirt, perfectly plain, and
umbrella shaped. The lower edge is
bound with leather. The leather ex-
tends up the outside of the skirt to form
q trimming, and also lines it to the depth
of six inches. a short Jacket like the
skirt, and trimmed with leather, is also
Worn.
Only forty-four wone have been
decorated with tue blue cross Of the
Legion of Honor altogether. One o.
the youngest women who have ever re-
ceived the cross is Juliette Dodu, d
creole, and the cause was an act OF
bravery during the Franco-Prussian war.
cfe - now an inspector of primar,
schools in Paris.
The little maid who has been discree
In choosing either q stylish mother or !.
sensible mother, is dressed in cloth
crepon, cheviot, or cashmere, and in tn,
simple cotton fabrics, of which ginghan
is the prime favorite. Her skirts ar,
short and plain. Her hodices are gath
cred and frilled or made with iaunty