The Opelousas courier., 1892-11-19

Josephine was twenty-three when she
married Napoleon.
If there is any change in bathing dress
fashions it does not appear.
Florence Nightingale recently cele-
brated her SEVENTEEN 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 the pretty
girls who are presented to him.
Old fashioned Panama hats, such as
the Cubans used to wear, are now bent
into a fashionable shape for women.
A recent wedding present was a set of
solid gold chess men, and an ebony chess
table, inlaid with gold, for the game.
Ordinary ten cent fshermen's hats,
trimmed very deliberately, are worn by
the fashionable women at the seaside.
Milady's cabinet for curios is now made
TO revolve like a book case, and has very
ingeniously contrived glass sliding doors.
A black pearl necklace worn by Lady
leicester at a recent entertainment is
said to be worth $125, 600. There is
only a single row of the gems.
Queen Sophia, of Sweden, is rarely
seen by her subjects. She is a pale,
middIe-aged lady, almost an invalid, and
appears only at long intervals in public.
Miss Susan Whitcomb Hassell, of
Redfeld, was nominated for State su-
perindent of Public Instruction in South
Dakota by the State Convention of the
Independents.
What is believed to be the 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.
tent.
It is quite noteworthy to what an ex-
teat feathers are worn this season, true,
in no wise to the exclusion of flowers,
but the decree seems to exact that
none but seasonable flowers shall be
worn.
Two women have been appointed
bridge tenders in New Jersey, one at
Green Bank and 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 in combination with
emerald green, SO we may be prepared
for the appearance of this somewhat
incogruous combination in autumn
fabrics.
The prettiest japanese fan of the
season is gold and silver iecked, open
worked spaces filed in with net, on
which is painted a foliage, cluster or
single wide petaled flower. The outside
is cord laced up and down.
From eastern Asia comes a plant the
flowers of which contain a quantity of
juice that rapidly turns black or deep
purple on exposure to air. It Is used
by Chinese ladies' for dyeing their hair
and eyebrows, andsin Japan for backing
shoes.
Sixty-ive branches of she Young We
mems Christian Association have been
started IN India. In several of these So
cTeties the membership is composed al
most entirely of native women, but in
others caste differences are forgotten
and dark and fair meet upon an equal
footing.
The distinguishing mark of a real
Partisan toilet is a touch of black, deftly
added. A ~favorite method Of its ar
rangemeht with slight women is to make
a belt with loops of ribbon hanging
about the waist, which gives a pleasing
fulness to the slight figure aud is sug-
gestive of Venetian slashings.
Kate Marslen is one of The worlds
true heroines. At the age of fifteen she
accompanied the Russian Army on its
Bulgarian campaign as q member OF the
Red Gross Society. In late years she
has labored among the lepers of South
Africa and Siberia and believes she has
found a remedy for the terrible disease.
The University Club OF San Francisco
is to have an annex for ladies. There
are only four large cities in this country
that have taken the ssu~nclubsble sex"
and given them a portion of the build
Ing. They are the Metropolitan Of
New York, the Hamilton of Brooklyn,
and the Somerset and Algonquin of Bos-
ion.
Perfumes, to be agreeable, should aoat
about the garments, but never oyerpower
the senses. The odor should be subtle
and suggestive. Handkerchief and
gloves are best porfumed by keeping
| them in sachets powdered with the favor
! lite violet, heliotrope, or whatever the
preferred scent may be. 1t is nice also
to have small sachets.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, is the antithesis in physical and
mental attractiveness OF the preceding
mistress of the Elysee, Nine. Grevy, for
whereas che latter was q plain and
practical old lady, devoid of the graces
which the French demand of women in
official station. Mime. Carnot Ia as