The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-02
Capes are The present fad.

Arrangements OF tne nair are nctaoiy
simple.
The wearing of green wells is said to
be injurious.
In Harlem, New York City. Mary
Evans, is licensed captain OF ship.
In New York City, Mrs. Elijah eth
Gill, purs,ics the craft of a cobbler.
Women OF every rank go bareheaded
in Mexico and the fashions never change.
There have been patents granted to
GAG women from New York State since
1909.
Fashion dictates how to hang lace
curtains straight, so as to show their full
design.
In China small, round eyes are liked.
But the great beauty of Chinese lady
is in her feet.
Six of the most successful business
stores in Maeaias, Me-, are owned and
run by women.
In Brooklyn, Miss Cornelia X. Hood,
President Of the Kempin Club, is lawyer,
lecturer and writer.
Mrs. J. q. Salley, of Traer, Iona, Ia,
owns 1040 acres of fine prairie land and
does her own farming.
The modern Persians have a strong
aversion to red hair. The Turks, on the
contrary, are warm admirers Of it.
"Cricketing teams" of ladies are the
fashion in England now. Lady Brassey
is responsible for introducing them.
The Province of Bhopal, India, Is celc-
brated for the unusually great admiuis-
trative powers of its female sovereigus.
The fashion in bridesmaids bouquets
lately has been the horseshoe, with the
nails worked out in contrasting blossoms.
Last years gowns may be heightened
by band Of cloth about the skirt,
while the waist is enlarged with vest and
falling collar.
A college for girls is to be opened next
autumn at Buda Pesth, Hungary, which
is to be chiefly for the study Of medicine
and philosophy.
Panels of black and some light tone
may be inserted in street frocks, together
with jaunty addition in the way Of a
stimulated jacket.
beginning to bear evidences of wear as q
pointed belt of ribbon from which de.
pend jet pendants.
Tea cloths that initiate not only the
Dresden china pottery, but also Royal
Worcester, Coalport and other wares are
used with services to match.
Mr.. Jollivet declares that American
women are welcome in Partisan society
because so many Of them are pretty,
clever and exquisitely dressed.
The long train skirt which is now in
fashion among women is said to date
Rass tq ths tiRe1 of OF tnEeGSsga nEeGSsgaha: ac"" tA"
An artists rule as to color is:
"Choosc carefully only those tints of
which duplicate may be found in the
hair, tine eyes or the complexion"
The late Mrs. w. T. Sherman, aud
Miss Mary Gwcndolen Caldwell have
given more money to the Catholic Church
than any other women in America.
Miss Florence Nightingale is seventy
two years of age. Her health is very
poor, but she still continues to do lot
Of writing for the nursing journals.
Rice flour waters, which are slightly
sweet, are the correct thing to serve
with o'clock tea They are to be had
at the Japanese shops in pound tins.
The first International club for women
has been founded. The IncorpoIators
are n group of American, French and
German women in residence in Nice.
sc
has decided that from now on the con-
tracts with all women teachers shall be
cancelled by their marriage at the end OF
the school year.
There has just died in Poland once
celebrated beauty, who refused the hau6
of Napoleon i'll. She was the Princess
Helene SaSOnsko, and died unmarried
nj the age Of tifty-seven.
Mr.. Peter Marie, of New York, is said
to have the finest collection in existence
OF the miniatures Of pretty womsn uu-
less there Is excepted the collection of
the late King Ludwig OF Bavaria.
The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers
and toes red ani their lipd blue. In
their eyes and ornament their faces with
representations OF various figures.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell advocate,
that perfect cycling dress should be a
skirt of gray tweed, made without
foundation, with deep hem turned up
on the outside and secured by rows of
stitching.
Though the Duke and Duchess of
Edinburgh are not particularly wealthy
in monetary way, the Duchess pos
sesses jewels worth S4,OOO,OOO. They
are heirlooms, however aud by the late
Cars will they caunot be sold.
Princess Margaret. Of Prussia. is one
of the most indefatigablc equestrlennes
in Europe. Horseback riding was re.
commended to her as a palliative of
obesity, and the prescription pleased her
so we'll that she has taken it to excess.
In making clover pillows only the
blossoms should he used, and they must
be packed first IN slips of stout muslin.
An ovcrslip of clever. blossomed cretonne
is pretty and suitable if one had neither
time, skill nor inclination to enbroider