The Opelousas courier., 1893-05-27
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Stockings are fantastic.

Stylish gloves will be embroidered on
the backs to match suits.
A good sewing machine is supposed to
do the work Of twelve women.
The study of astronomy is the newest
fad adopted by English women.
Among the choicest fabrics are the
fine repped, light weight velours.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, although an
artist, has absolutely no taste in dress.
Women no only buy comfortable
boots for their children, but wear them
themselves.
Queen Anne detested the smell of
roses, and became sick when they were
in the room.
A laundry in England, owned by wo.
men and employing only females, earnsd
1875, 600 last year.
Mrs. Reginald de Koven, wife of the
musical composer, is her husbands chief
adviser and critic.
Mrs. Amelia Barr is said to make
from $40, 1000 to SIS, 900 a year from
her literary work.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a lap dog
that followed her to the scaffold and soon
after died of grief.
Italian women and Oriental women
bring with them to this country the arts
of knitting and embroidery.
Miss Wanamaker is heiress to at least
50, 600, 900. She is so pretty that she
would be a catch if she hadn't a cent.
"Chopped Chat is the name given to
q series CT evening talks to be given by
a Philadelphia society lady during Lent.
At a recent luncheon the ices were
served in china cups of rose-leaf design,
each cup encircled with a wreath of
roses.
Walter Besant's sister, Mabel, is an
enthusiastic ~tricyclist and regards a
'sspin" of thirty or forty miles as a mere
bagatelle.
There are believed to be a score of
women in New York City whose collec-
lions of lace vary in value from S20,OOO
to $50, 900.
George Eliot wrote for eight years
with the same pen, and when she lest it
bewailed her misfortune as almost too
hard to bear.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt gives so
much in charity, that she has less money
to spend on her own adornment than
many of her relatives.
Hats have wide brims and low Gowns,
are bent and pinehed into many shapes,
and trimmed in front, at the side, or
back, as is most becoming.
A New York dealer is making an ef-
fort to introduce them under the name
of dress ~extenders. A hoop skirt by any
other name would waste space.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton are raising a fund to secure a life
size portrait of Mrs. Caroline Scott Har-
rison, late President of the society.
A new hair ornament is of fligree sill
yer in the shape of a butterfly, with the
delicate wings studded with pearls. The
butterfly is so mounted that its wings
futter.
The Empress of Austria has made SC
much progress in the study Of modern
Greek that she is about to translate two
of shakespeare's plays into that Ian
guage.
One of the oldest war pensioners O
the United States is Mrs. Semons, OF
Sodaville, Oregon, who draws a pension
from the wal fund Of 1912. She is Owe
100 years old.
Lady Haberton in her zeal for dres;
reform is organizing a league, every
member of which will he pledged t.
wear skirts clearing the ground by a
least five inches.
Ohio's capital r%ejoices in the posses
sion of the only fourf6ld string quartet
in the world played by women. Fou
first vioIins, four second vlolins, fou
violes and four 'cellos complete the Ell
semble.
M. Felix, the we'll known Parisia
man.milliner, has always condemne
c~rinolincs in any shape. He takes son
credit to himself for having brought il
to vogue the infinitely more graeef
style that has reigned of late.
Miss Eleanor Hewitt, daughter Of Ne
York's ex-Mayor, can. play the plan
violin and banjo, drive a four-in.han
OF tandem, ride a thoroughbred and 70
and sail a boat, and speaks French, Ge
man aad Italian like a native.
I Black stockings are, like black K
gloves, very expensive. Cheap GOO
are abominable, as the dye sol
{ the underwear and the shoe lining:
fast black stocking warranted is a lu:
, ury that the rich woman alone can a
: ford.
I The newest Paris gowns are beil
made with the new full skirt, and Il
elk under petticoat is quite separa
from the outer skirt. This Is a retu
. to the style of three or four years az
and is much less clumsy and more CO
n Portable.
A. fashionable wedding gift just nc
I " a slowing cup'' of silver or goI
I beautifully engraved, and with its 70
Q handles in graceful attachment.
q one side is the united monogram of t
a letters of the family names of the bri
II and groom.
e A new deep crimson shade has
), peared among handsome London-ma
q house gowns. It is styled Virgil
r creeper, from frost-tinted leaves Of Il
vine. 1t combines handsomely W
black, chanois color or with ecrt'