The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-25
The japanese fever IS still raging.


Velvet suits of gown and coat are
seen.
Hooded capes and cloaks are fashion
able.
Pearls are among the most fashi enable
Jewels.
Plaids and checks are very large at
present.
All the newest gowns are being made
aith short waists.
Everything is being trimmed with
:lbbon this season.
Very few women who car afford it
now wear any but silk lined gowns.
The princesse dress appears III a new.
shape exclusively for tea-sown models.
Shaded chrysanthemums, yellow and
Drown, are fashionable bridal bouquets.
Black henrietta is made up for little
girls wear with Scotch plaid surah
guimpes-
About 30 900 women in Great Brit
ain and Ireland earn their living as hos
pital nurses.
And now word comes that Rosa Bon
heur is scornfully refusing $4,000 for
her last picture.
If there isn't a gas-jet in the guests
chamber there should be a candlestick
and plenty of matches.
The average pay of male teachers IN
Rhode Island is $40 per month; that OF
women teachers S41.S9.
There are said to be 200 women in
New York City who go to Europe twice
q year to buy their dresses.
The newest cut of skirts is either the
umbrella shape or the make with a cross
way seam down the centre of the tront.
Sixteen thousand women are now en-
ployed in the postofices of England, he
sides 8S77 in the permanent staff of the
department.
A beautiful fish service lately seen is
of sea green china, picked out in gold
and ornamented with exquisite designs
of floating seaweed.
The latest novelty in fancy NUTS is OF
cocks feathers and with it is worn a boa
to match. In the muff is a pocket for
holding the handkerchief and purse.
Alice Parker, an attorney-at-law, de-
Iivered an able address in Boston, Mass,
the other nigat on the shameful injus-
tice of Massachusetts, laws toward women.
Mrs. Lynda A. Dent has been the first
woman to be admitted to the practice of
law in Florida. where it had heretofore
been extremely difficult to attain this
end.
Alice Jane Campbell, a London Eng
land) lady, has just patented an i'm
proved measuring attachment for shears
and scissors, that promises to make her
famous.
The short, stout woman will do well
to flee from the fur sleeves which are to
be a feature for midwinter costumes. 1t
takes a tall woman of commanding pres
ence to successfully wear them.
Trimmed silk blouses for evening wear
are very popular; also loW-necked ones
in pale shades of surah or bengaline,
trimmed with chiffon to match; these
are adapted to wear with any skirt.
A eglove tidy" is the name of a pretty
little pocket, made to hang to the look
ing-glass, containing a glove stretcher,
button-hook, scissors, thimble and silks
and needles, all rea ly for mending gloves.
There is one vocation particularly fit
ted to a woman who has deftnass and
skill combined with artistic taste. This
vocation is to furnish floral and table
decorations for elegant entertainments.
The Comtesse Martel de Janyille,
widely known to the readers of French
literature from her pen nan of "Gyp,'
is a grandniece of Mirabeau, OF French
Revolution fame. She is forty-two years
old.
The influential women of London,
England, who are sending clothing to
the destitute Russians have showed the
instinct of true charity in having these
garments fashioned after the national
dress.
OF 430 women graduates from a single
medical college in the United States, 390
are engaged in active practice, at an
average age of tWenty-seven years, with
incomes varying from $4,000 to $50, a00
a year.
The Confederation of Women's Club.
now represents $50 clubs, some Of whict
contain as many as 500 members. Chi
cage and San Francisco have the largest
clubs, but New York claims the pionee
-Sorosis.
Long gathered skirts Of cashmere ar
worn to just escape the floor on girls Of
two to five years, and have very large
sleeves and round waists in fine 0
medium tucks, with a ~corselet of velve
covering the waist SO that only the uppe
part shows like a yoke.
Constance BLACKSTONE describes th
woman of the upper class in Southern
Italy as a brilliant humrning bird whose
irresponsible existence Is passed in flash.
ing her own bright hues in the sun, Will,
the women of the lower classes endure
with cheerfulness lives Of trial and pri
walton.
The vagaries of bridesmaids favor
grow. Recently IN London the eigh
attendants upon the bride carried walk
ing-sticks of the Alpine sort with Dresdei
china heads, gifts OF the bride, and 4
another wedding little silver whistle
were worn BY the maids because the brid,
bestowed them,
Miss Kate Miner, one Of the Vice
Presidents of the Board of Managers oil