The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-10-07
Gray is the digniS,d 4 color.
Round waists afe much worn.
Velvet dresses, ,sfe in fashion now.


Velvet dresses ,Sfe in fashion now.
Sleeves are larger and fuller than ever.
The craze for short hair has spent it
ielf
Green !, to be more fashionable than
1sual.
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 poiuted.
Miss Lawson, a young sculptor OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, has sold her statue,
:.The Mermaid" for $4,000.
It is estimated that there Is daily
display Of $5, 900, 900 worth OF diamonds
at SaEassga during the season.
Lady Ponsonby may be said to be the
most interesting aud clever woman con-
ncctcd with Queen Victoris's court.
London furriers announce the furs for
tho coming season to be uuplucSed otter,
the three kiuds-of fox, sealsxin, aud
Russian sable.
The new imperial crown OF Queen
Victoria has its entire surface completely
covered with jewels, several OF which
are famous in history.
A bed quilt with 5000 pieces in it,
and upon which Coopersburg (Penu.)
woman had lahoSed for years, was sold
at her death for $125.
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 brows
and yet keep all pasty cosmetics at arms
length7 Try walnut juice, applying it
with a fine camel's hair brush.
1t is said that Queen Victoria cher
ishes large numoer of dolls, chiefly
wooden aud Of Dutch make, which she
herself dressed when she was a girl.
Olive Thorne Miller, the authoress,
knows az much about ornithology as q
professor She devotes six months of
every year to the study Of birds aud bird
life. ...
DIrs. Julia Stark Evans, of Hampton,
Iowa, though the wife Of n active law
yer and the mother Of five 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 pieccmeals of garniture, and
many of them are quite too fussy and
patchy to be either pretty arc becoming.
1t is said by those in authority that
the fashionable coat of the future will
be the long redingote, cut double
breasted, with wide Directoire reveres,
big buttons, and double or triple
cape.
i Much Of the money which Mrs. Gus
ter, widow o! the General, rellize d by
her seventy-two readings last winter has
uIIv,v r"vuvs -.-s-- 49, ~~->- 'r..'
her husband.
One Of the old insurance companies in
Philadelphia makes a speciality Of insur
ing women's lives on several plans, and
has women ply ysicans, DIS. Auna
Broomall and CLARA MARSHALL, to act as
women examiners.
Women with oval faces, and, unfortu-
natcly, many with less classical contour,
have adopted the fashion of rolling the
hair close to the head and twisting 6
ribbon in aud 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 cuamelled blossoms hung en- q
slender gold chain, is gorgeously re-
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. g., 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 con-
tains disquisition on the principal
topics Of the day. review OF the most
notable books of the month, and story.
The bell-sltirt remains, but it is short.
just clearing the ground, AMI is either
But however plain the skirt may be, the
waist fully makes up for any lack of gar
niturc 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 os various kinds
from the East Indies, and 400, 900 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported 355, 1898 birds from the
East Indies.
The accordion plated blouse is new
and popular factor in the field. There
is no lining except in the little round
yoke, from which the ploitca fuiue 81
falls longer than the waist line, and is
caught up beneath folded belt finished
with ro2cttc on one side.
a pretty and popular way Of making
up China silks in Pompadour patterns is
in Louis Qunze style, with long, sen
der coat back and full blouse font that
reaches just below the waist line, where
the folds are held by girdle or soft sash
run through a pointed buckle.
The in5ling, nerve destroying chate-
laine is to be worn a gain this year. Quite
n little medicine case or surgeons equip
ment is now appended to the silver or
gold bow. There is book, whose leaves
are OF court plaster, silver h,'k OF salts,
q, E,if