The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-23
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fashions it does not appear.
Florence Nightingale recently cele.
brated her seventieth birthday.
Two Of the graduates this year at the
Chicago College Of Law were women.
A niece of James Russell Lowell, Miss
Ruth Burnett, is to become a Sister of
Charity.
"Tear bottles" are being revived in
modern wares and are again fashionable
bric-a-brac.
Seven of the eight graduates Of the
State Library School at Albany, N. Y,
this year were women.
Women nowadays who never had their
ears pierced are said to be of more con-
sequence than those who have.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has
the privilege of kissing all tho pretty
girls who are presented to him.
Old fashioned Panama hats, such us
the Cubans used 10 wear, are now bent
into fashionable shape for women.
A recent wedding present was a set of
solid gold chess men, and au ebony chess
table, inlad with gold, for the game.
Ordinary ten cent Gshormen's hats,
trimmed very elaboratclY, arc worn by
the fashionable women at the seaside.
Milady's cabinet for curios is now made
| to revolve like book case, and has very
ingeniously contrived glass sliding doors.
| A black pearl necklace worn by Lady
Leicester at recent entertainment is
said to be worth 81 125, 900. There is
only single row of the gems.
Queen Sophia, of Sweden, is rarely
seen by her subjects. She is pale,
middle.agcd lady, almost an invalid, anil
appears only at long intervals in public.
Miss Susan Whitcomb Hasscll, of
Rcdfiold, was nominated for State Su-
perindcnt of Public instruction in South
Dakota by the State Convention of the
Independents.
What Is believed to be tho largest
ranch in the world is owned by a wo-
man-Mrs. Richard King. titles forty
five miles south Of Corpus Christi, in
Texas, and covers 700, 900 acres in ex.
tGut.
1t is quite noteworthy to what an ex-
tNot feathers are worn this season, true,
in no wise to the exclusion of flowers,
but the decree seems to exact that
none but seasonablc flowers shall be
worn.
Two women have been appointed
bridge tenders i'll New Jersey, one at
Green Bank aud the other at Lower
Bank. These are believed to be the
only female bridge tenders in the
world.
| The height OF fashion in Paris is a
dark blue used i'll combination with
emerald green, So we may be prepared
for tho appearance of this somewhat
! incoSruous combination in autumn
| fabrics.
The prettiest japanese fan of the
season is gold AMI silver hccked, open
worked spaces filled in with net, on
which is painted Il foliage, cluster or
single wide petalcd diver. The outside
is cord laced NJ auI down.
From eastern Asia comes a plant the
flowers of which confirm quantity OF
juice that RAPIDLY turns black or deep
purple on exposure to air. 1t Is use |
By Chinese ladies for dyclng their hair
and eyebrows, and i'll Japan for backing
| shoes.
Slxty.ivc branches of lie Young Wo.
mems Christian Association have been
started IN India. In several of these so.
cictics the membership is composed al
most entirely of native women, but in
others caste differences are forgotten
and dak and fair meet upon an equal
footing.
The distinguishing mark of real