The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-18
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Grccian women had longer feet than
the average man has now.
A Kentucky Episcopal church has
elected two women as "yestrymcn.
A patent has been issacl to woman
for an improved fastening fol 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 Eiifel 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 aud kicked off every
article OF lace.
The girl bachelors OF New York are
mostly artists, writers, editors, doctors
and designers.
The square. toed shoes and slippers are
avoided by ladies who do not take kindly
to severe styles.
Lady Malet, the wife Of Sir Edward
Malet, has collection of 1000 pairs OF
shoes Of oil kinds.
Satin will be worn by most brides, and
already the modistes have finished some
most exquisite gowns.
White alpaca as 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.
II looks very much as If our young
women college graduates OF the near
Sfuture will wear the ''mortar board.
A brown straw hat trimmed with blue
( is about as pretty and serviceable an any,
thing that can be selectedfor child.
The wooden and flannel blazers are to
the front again They will be worn over
a muslin or wash-silk. skirt and leather
belt.
Two ladies only have obtained the de-
gree of Mus. Doc, namely, the Princess
OF Wales and Miss Annie Patterson, OF
Dublin.
Tho Punch OF Melbo lrne, Australia,
is edited by women, Miss Murphy,
who is said to be both brilliant and
beautiful.
Black is still worn in preference to
colors in underwear by many American
women, and 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 Gaaf, wealthy manufacturer
OF agricultural implements In Indiana.
gave his daughter check for 500, 900
on her wedding day.
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
with black ribbon.
In a recent parlor lecture which she
delivered in Chicago, Mrs. Custer, widow
of the Inflated cavalry General. said that
she was the first woman in this country
to shoot buffalo.
Chiffon is so generally the covering fol-
parasols that some women who want to
have q pretty one, and who also have
skill, are covering their old parasols
themselves with the chiffon.
1t may interest the extravagaut young
woman Of small means who signs for
silk findings in her dress to know that
some OF the very best customers Of the
uptown ihodiste prefer cotton Innings fol
their street suits.
Thirteen girl graduates frpn Mount
Auburn (Ohio) Young Ladies Institute
~bauqueted defying in every possible wa,
the omens OF evil. They walked unde
aladder, broke mirror, raised umbrellas
had thirteen walters aud caused the or
chestra to play thirteen pieces.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the poetress, j
ffty-sevcn years old. She is a tall, hand
some woman, with dark face, dark eye
and snow white hair. Appleton Isle o
I Shoals, was her home when she was tel
years old, and it has been her summe
home ever since she was sixteen.
Christian Nilsson, the prima donna, j
u
jeska, the Polish actress, plays Chopi
and speaks half dozen languages. Patt
is very proud of her needlework, especi
ally OF her darning. A!bani, thesingel
Cultivates the domestic arts and write
entertaining letters to her friends.
Alice NJ. Bacon, of New Haven, Conn.
has for nearly ten years taught withoa
4 salary in the Normal School for In
dians ana colored children at Hampton
besides caring ior a little motherle,
Japanese girl, supervising the ne'
Dixie Hospital aud training school fo
coloreS nurses, which sac has founded
and doing editorial WORK ON tue HamE
ton School paper.
Not afew wives of prominent Amer
cans Of to-day have been schnolmarm
a notable instar ce is that Of Mrs. job