The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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Bracelets to the number of three or
-FOUR are worn. not as bangles, but close
to the wrist.
Green leather card cases and purses
are fashionable, also dull red; any color,
indeed, but black.
Finger rings showing three rows of
gems, five in each row, give, when On
the finger, the impression of three five
stone rings.
A favorite bracelet with horsewomen
consists OF a curb-chain, ornamented
with pair of snaffles and diamond
horseshoe.
A taste for the exquisite china and
WIDE, shallow cups affected by the EN-
press Eugene has come in with the EN-.
pire gowns.
An attempt is being made by Nine.
Belloc in London to establish home for
the dying poor, who have now no shell
ter save the workhouse.
A collection of 1000 butterflies. all
bred from eggs, has been given to the
New York Museum of Natural History
by Mrs. NJ. Schuyler Elliott.
Rare specimens of the orchid, faith.
fully represented in enamel and mount
ed in gold or silver, are worn in the
hair or used to fasten the corsage.
There are in the United States, Canada.
England and Scotland thirty-four
women's missionary societies, and they
have 1897 missionaries in the field.
The new gauze parasols destined for
anything except to shade the face have
gilt frames. One of green gauze has
heavy cluster of roses dropping at one
side.
The Queen of Denmark is an expert
dressmaker and good pastry cook. Her
daughters also are all clever needle.
women, and so is her sister, the Czarina
of Russia.
Copper bronze is to be the fashionable
shade of hair this season. What it will
be next season cannot be safely an
nounced until the new colors are de-
cided upon.
The colony founded by the followers
of Tolstoi in Russia have been reinforced
by number of ladies of high rank, who
faithfully follow the prescribed rules
and live like the peasants around
them.
The popular red parasol, effective,
dressy and bright as it is, has a decided
drawback. While it gives a most becom.
ing tint to the cheeks, it adds the same
rosy tint to the nose, which is not at all
desirable.
1t is reported to be a fancy of the
fashionable girl that after wearing her
long suede gloves three or four times
she takes them to a shoemaker and has
made from them a pair of slippers for her
chosen admirer.
Hesrt-shaped brooches, the Stuart
heart pierced through with an arrow and
the Douglas heart, are the dearest love
tokens in the world, and, if they are set
in frame of diamonds or snowy pearls,
perhaps the costliest.
Virginia is to have woman's college.
A real estate syndicate OF Lynchburg
has offered the Randolph Macon College
twenty acres of land, with $40, 900 cash
and $50, 900 in bonds, provided an en-
dowment fund of 500, 900 is raised.
Mrs. Bailey, wife of the editor of the
Utica Observer, has recently devised and
patented an arrangement to be attached
to hospisal beds, by means of which
patient is enabled to raise and lower him
self without the assistance Of a nurse.
CrepOn is without exception the fav.
orite material for young ladies summer
dresses, mohair in pin strikes for travel
ing gowns, and chiffon for evening wear
Bengaline is the favorite heavy silk, and
China silk still holds its place of favorite
for warm days.
The favorite blooms for bonnets are
single hyacinths in pearl gray or lavender,
pale yellow primroses, and lilies of the
valley arranged in light aigrettes. Cow
slips and minosa, too, are seen, and
Mercury's wings point backward from
embroidered toques.
The latest cut in skirts has six pieces
which, sloping sharply toward the belt,
give the desired flare at the bottom. A
velvet binding on the edge of this skirt,
run through with a reed, does away
with heavy faclngs, and is sure to give
the required outward sweep.
Miss MILDLY Morgan, the only woman
who reports the stock and cattle markets
for the New York press, is tall, gaunt
creature, nearly six feet in height. She
tramps about the Hoboken stock yards
in big boots and does her work well.
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