The Opelousas courier., 1892-10-01
you must have streamers on all your

You must have streamers on all your
hats.
Wells for large hats are very long and
wide.
The Vatican fold is revived TO,
dresses.
Chip hats are again introduced al
as novelties.
The Alpine straw hat is a strong rival
of the sailor.
The cult of clothing places women as
far asunder as the poles.
The fashionable stick pin is a gold
pearl, surrounded by diamonds.
Tobacco brown and pale blue is the
most pleasing combination Of the season.
The number of women in Massachusetts,
who earn their own living Is placed at
300, 900.
It is the fad to wear one large ring
If you have tin preference to several
smaller ones.
Cater tops can be obtained only six
buttons high. These short ones are
much cooler for summer.
The white muslins with flowers IN
them, such as our mothers wore, have
again appeared in the shops.
Though Anna Dickinson is only fifty
years old, she has been before the public
for nearly a third of a century.
The lore of visiting cards requires that
&c n p,axrinI aar hcaro tho CANA no mo "a
his father the mother shall add "Sr." to
her name.
The fashionable shoe for women's wear
at the resorts this summer will be the
patent and colored leather Butchers in an
Oxford tie.
The bride Of to-day refuses to wear
gpick and span new clothes on a wed.
ding trip, but DISCUSSES herself in second
best clothes.
The salaries paid to women librarians
in this country range from S240 a year
to 1880, which makes the average sal
airy about $50.
Rev. Florence E. Kolloch, the Chicago
woman preacher, was viewed with great
curiosity at Cambridge because she was
the first woman in holy orders ever seen
there.
Secretary Mobiles wife and her two
sisters, the Misses Halstead, resemble
each other SO closely that casual &C.
quaintances are unable to tell them
apart.
A we'll known Partisan beauty attrib-
utedf she sustained radiance of her eyes
and complexion to the fact that she ate
nothing but oranges and bread for weeks
together.
The late Amelia B. Edwards was a
p~recocious author. Her first story was
written when she was only four years old,
and executed in capital letters ex-
clusivelY.
Edna Dean Proctor, the Boston
poetess, is a charming woman just past
middle life, with gray hair and a soft
voice. She does but little literary work
nowadays.
The laundries of the summer resort
hotels will he taxed to their capacity
this summer for the reason that fashion
has again recalled linen collars and cuffs
for ladies' wear.
The long Spanish lace scarf has re-
turned to favor again, and is wound
picturesquely about the throat twice, the
ends reaching nearly to the bottom of
the dress in front.
The latest development of the souvenir
spoon craze is found in club life. A
certain womaa's club has a souvenir
spoon of its own open to be purchased by
members and friends of members.
Miss Nancy Cornelius, who has just
graduated from the Hartford Comm
Training School for Nurses, is said to be
the first Indian who has fitted herself for
such service by scientific training.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has a
generous scheme which aims te provide
women of limited means, who may at.
tend the Worlds Fair. with good living
accommodations at fifty cents a day.
Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
ex-Premier, is the Vice-Principal of
Newman College, the women's of
Cambridge University. Miss Gladstone
is forty-six years old and of q very re-
firing disposition.
Mary Sheldon Barnes, wife of Profess
sor Earl Barnes, of the chair of educa-
ton in the Stanford University, Palo
Alto, CAL, has been made assistant pro.
lessor in modern history in that iustitu-
ton. This is coeducation with a pur.
pose.
Women have been admitted as stu
dents at Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, since 1879, the pioneer among
them having been Miss Christine Ladd,
who, by special vote of the faculty, was
permitted to study mathematics.
The long street skirts are going out of
fashion, and in their place is a prettily
shaped round skirt, which just touches
the ground. Demi-trains are for calling
and house wear, and long trains appear
only on very elaborate occasions.
French women have suddenly devel.
| oped a craze for cinnamon. Everything
must be favored with it, from the a pple
sauce to the salads and sweets. The bon
bonnieres which were formerly used for
carrying tiny candies now hold small
sliYers of cinnamon.
Elizabeth Robbins Pennell learned to
ride the bicycle about q year ago-her
husband, the artist, being something of
an enthusiast for the wheel-and in the
meantime she has ridden on it from
Cologne to Vienna, and all through ths
Pennsylvania country.