The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR W0NEN.


vogue.
High buttoned boots are still the
favorites.
Pale yellow is one of the prettiest
shades for evening dresses.
Patti, the singer, says she has only
$500, 600 worth of diamonds.
Furs and fe-ther trimmings play Il con-
spicious part in midwinter millinery.
Bodies are still much trimmed, only
a few perfectly plain ones being seen.
The princess dress appears in a new
shape exclusively for tea-gown models.
Sable has never been so univers ally
worn since the days of our grandmoth-
ers.
Fashion now equally favora two styles,
the quite tight, and the half-itting
jacket.
The Princess May is described as a mar
vel of ~punctuality aud a girl~who is ex-
~ceptionally neat and orderly.
The Sultan has prohibited Turkish
women from wearing French costumes
in the streets of Constantinople.
The turquoise and diamonds given to
Miss CORVALLIS West when she became
the Princess of Pless were the tinost ever
seen.
Mrs. Leland STAFFORD has purchased
100 handsomely bound Bibles, to go in
the students room at the Palo Alto
(Cal.) University.
Clara Barton, the Red Cross President,
is the only woman to whom the old Ger
man Emperor ever gave the decoration
of the Iron Cross.
I The catalogue of the new Leland Stan
ford, Jr., University, Of California, On
tains the names of 430 students, ninety
of whom are
The Vanderbilt ladies, OF New York
City, are said to possess $500, 600 worta
of laces. The Astors value their stock
of laces at $500, 600.
Dom Pedro's daughter faucies that
she has rights in Brazil almost as big as
the country. The right to keep out of
it will be the safest right she can exer-
else.
The fashionable bouquet in London,
England, consists of s~tephanotis, and
heather, tied with a long white satin rib
bon, and in such a way that rather a
loose effect is obtained.
Mrs. Phoebe Durand died a few days
ago at the home of her daughter in
Irvington, N. J. She was 100 years old
on the 18th day November, and up
to that time she had never known what
it was to be Frustrated with sickness.
Two German women of Orange, Mrs.
August Erdman and her step-daugater,
recently issued two editions of bhe Orange
FVolksbote entirely alone, writing the
copy, setting type, reading proof, making
up the forms and working them off on a
hand press.
At a Civil Service dinner the Prince
of Wales made q speech, at which he
said that he was t'glad and proud to
think that the Duke of Clarence would
marry a woman born in this country,
living In this country and having the
feelings of an English woman"
MIS-. AuLOliGGbC AHCtif VIM
has been callel the pioneer wom&n
preacher of America, lives a life of great
retirement at Elizabeth, N. j. But dur
ing the year she will make an appeal for
public recognition in the form OF book,
on which she is now at work, concerning
the relations of religion and science.
The Birmingham (England) School
Board have approved an arrangement
made by the Educational Committee
with the Council of the Birmingham
Athletic Society whereby athletic in
struction will be afforded to the female
pupil teachers on each of the five ordi,
nary school mornings in every week.
The Woman's Baking Company oil
Chicago has just been incorporated with
a capital stock of $3.50, 600. 1t is com
posed eff Woman's Christian Temperance
Union women of Chicago and is pledged
to use only the purest materials, to have
the work done entirely by women and to
run the establishment strictly on business
principles.
Albani, the prima donna, does not
stand alone in the proud possession of a
diamond stomacher. Mrs. Astor has one,
too. 1t is made of a skeleton girdle oil
silver wire, pointed back and front,
reaching from the corsage to the end oil
the bodice and literally nailed with bril-
liants. The stones are individually
mounted and can be unfastened at will.
The last gown made for Eugene, once
Queen of French fashions, typiies the
change in her position in life. It is {
diuner dress of plain black silk with
only a slight trimming of jet On the cor
sage and skirt to relieve its somber
severity. It is simplicity itself for an
Ex-Empress who once spent $50, 600 d
year on her costumes.
In Reykjavik, the capital of remote
Iceland, a charitable lady has erected on
her own land high school for Iceland
girls. Needing more funds for teachers
salaries, books, ETC., than her private
income would cover she has sold hel
family jewels, many of them heirlooms
700 years old, in order to obtain thu
money for her enterprise.
Mile. Elsie St. Omer, a Frenchwoman
is starting out at the age of sixty to
make a tour OF the world by way of the
southern hemisphere. Sac expects tie
spend three years in collecting statistics
for the French Geographical Society and
it is to behoped shs will not meet with
any Of the mishaps that beset Mrs. French
CboIJoo On har io,Irnnv into the Dark