The Opelousas courier., 1892-09-10
Alnaca is having quite q revival.

Alpaca IS having 4u1so S
The Vatican pleat still fourlshes.
Ultra high sleeves are fast disappear
ing,
Small crowns are seen on the majority
of hat shapes.
The Queen of Greece spends most OF
her time over need!ework.
Cleaned kid gloves may be economical,
but they are never satisfactory.
No one ever laid eyes on sucE beau
tiful collection of new fans as are now on
sale.
Mrs. Ward, author Of "Robert Els
mere" is firmly opposed to woman's
rights.
There are several kind of sailor hats
in straw this season for the girl OF the
period.
Violet. fawn, almond, hyacinth, blues,
greens and chocolate are popular street
shades.
"Dr. Mary Weeks Burnett and hus-
band" were registered the other day alta
Chicago hotel.
There is no European country in
which women clerks are more employed
than in France.
An entirely new art of gliding china
has been invented by Miss Emily Healy,
of Washington.
Mrs. Abbott, of Cambridge, Mass.
aged ninety-four, has kept a daily jour
nal for fifty years.
The material par excellence for elab-
crate thin dresses for the summer is del.
icately colored dotted organdic.
The authorities of Meran, in the Aus
trian Tyrol, have forbidden the outdoor
wearing of long trains by women.
In fashionable stationery the new
shades and tints are very beautiful,
although there never will be objection
to plain white.
Il keeps some women buster to see that
their careless husbands are properly at
tired than to see that their own dresses
are In fashion.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
authoress, continues to observe in Wash
ington the custom she adopted while
abroad of holding informal receptions on
the Sundays.
DR.. Jennie MCGOWAN has been @e.
elected for the third term as Secretary of
the Academy of Natural Sciences, at
Davenport, Iowa.
As a whole fashions are much the same
rs last year, as can be proved when last.
summers India silks come out of the
trunk and last summers hat is produced.
Miss Frances Willard, the celebrated
advocate of woman's rights, is a slender
blue-eyed woman. apparently of delicate
physique, but really capable of a great
deal of hard work.
A popular glove for the summer win
be the pale yellow wash .chamois skin.
They have been found to wash as well as
the white ones, which will be worn quite
Is much as last year.
The American dress reformers are pre-
pairing to renew their crusade at Chau-
sauqus this year. They declare that
their reformatory ideas are making rapid
progress all over the country.
Turkish women, all of whom wear
earrings from their seventh year, derive
the use of these jewels from Hagar, wao
Is held in veneration as the mother of
[shmael, the founder of their race.
For those who like slender effects the
novelty of the season in the Dominican
gown. The breadths extend from throat
to hem, and the fulness is laid ia q broad
box plat down the front and back.
A pretty summer fancy is for a lace
bat and a parasol of the same material,
V~alenciennes with a broad brim and
three large Prince of Wales feathers
erect on the crown is q becoming style.
The American Federation of Women's
Clubs now includes TIA societies, repre-.
senting ID, 900 members. The oldest OF
them all is supposed to be Sorosis. which
recently celebrated its twenty first birth,
day.
One enormous puff reaching to the ell
bow, and equally full all the way down,
seems to be the present favorIte in
sleeves, and many of the dresses now be-
ing made for the summer will have such
sleeves.
Women have been admitted as students
at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Md, since 1879, the pioneer among
them having been Miss Christine Ladd,
who, by special vote of the faculty, was
permitted to study mathematics.
Massage, which used TO be taught on
wooden dummies, with skeletons as
further assistants, is now demonstrated
on living subjects, children even doing
for experimental models. In this way
the profession affords a double industry.
Miss Ume Tsuda, now q special stu
dent at Bryn Mswr penny College, is
anxious to raise $4,000 to found 8 schol-
arshlp to give Japanese women . four
years training In America, and Ut them
to return home as teachers for Japanese
girls.
Hulda Frieafichs, a young German
woman, bag been engaged BY the Pail
NAH Gazette TO make q tour of the United
I States for the purpose Of writing up the
social institutions Of the country, especi-
ally in their effect on womans con-
ditions.
The new book writteA by the Arch-
duchess stephanie, Of Austria, is said g
be remarkable both for the elegance Of
stYle and descriptive talent displayed
hr liz author. These Gifts are so rare In