The Opelousas courier., 1893-07-01
E~o1@S ST 49,
AMZAME9
Lace hats are to be worn.

Artificial flowers should never be
lsed in decorating rooms.
The heavy bang is now equally as
vulgar as blondined hair.
Shelled roasted peanuts have taken
he place of almonds at many of the
eason's dinners.
Three hundred and eleven societies
If women in New York expend 49,
100, 900 annually.
Mahogany, ox-blood and the medium
md dark browns head the list of modish
treet shades of gloves.
The diadem of the Russian Empress
Anna contains 2536 large diamonds and
} ruby valued at $500, 600.
Miss May Moody, a niece Of the
evangelist, it is announced intends to
Engage in missionary work.
A toast given at a meeting Of a
voman's club in Springfield, Mo-, was
"The Men We Left Behind U.s."
It is just as well to note that Nine.
Jarnot, wife of Frances President,
Frequently appears in an India shawl"
Mrs.. Pierpont Morgan's correspond.
ence, social and benevolent, is SO large
that she is obliged to employ a private
secretary.
Queen Victoria preserves a number
Of oil paintings that we're executed by
herself and the Prince Consort in their
Youthful days.
Miss Mary Conant, a school teacher
at Turk Hill, near Rochester, N. Y,
made $500 last year from a two-acre
asparagus bed.
Soft effects are always TO be aimed
at in arranging the hair. A hard hue is
as abhorent TO an artistic dresser as to
a portrait painter.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord. ofNew York, whose
fortune runs into the millions, has the
details of every piece of property she
owns at her fingers end.
The Empress of Germany has intro
duced q new dress material--chame-
leon velvet--which gives two colors,
yellow-orange and rose-pink.
Miss Mary Hammond, of Nashua, N.
H., completed the thirtieth year of her
continuous service as O teacher in one
building and room the other week.
Dress trimmings in rich Persian
colors similar to those worn four years
ago are revived this season in prices
ranging from 81. SO to SO the yard.
The lobster pocket for street gowns
is the latest fancy. It consists of a
lobster of red velvet, claws and all,
sewed on to the dress, midway the waist
and hem.
Princess Maud, daughter of the Prince
Of Wales, amuses herself by making
ornamental articles out of the feathers
that drop from the peacocks at Sand
bingham palace.
All hair at present is completely
waved all over the head. Fortunate is
the woman whose hair wave naturally.
Others must betake themselves to the
curling iron.
In wearing wells a woman should be
guided entirely by the color of her hat,
and if this is apt to be unbecoming to
her complexion let her wear a simple
black veil, which is at all times a beau
tiier.
The following advertisement is from
an Australian paper: Wanted, a young
woman the palmer the better to help
a small, genteel family in their domes-
tic matters; n without ringlets pre-.
ferred."
Lady Gordon, in her search through
English libraries for books written by
women, has discovered a pamphlet on
rights of women published in 1896 by
Mary Asset. It's title is advice to
Ladies'"
Jet is popular, and much used on
black silks, and belts of it are very mar
row OF else faneifully wide and shaped
to the figure. Long fringes of jet are
in vogue for waists, and are known in
Paris as 'jet rain"
Mrs. Alice NJ. Cheney, the only wo-
man express messenger in Boston, be- |
gan business four years ago, taking the I
transfers for the Adams Express Com |
pany between Chelsea and Boston. I
She now he's five teams at work every
day.
Green is at present the most fash
ionab1e color for interior decorations,
and is very refreshing after the vivid
tints that we have been using. The
newest curtains, carpets and uphol-
stery show various and exquisite shad-
ings of M oss green,
A school teacher in Waterville res
Gently originated a novel contest in
her school. She offered a prize for the
best collection of clippings from the
current newspapers. The scheme is to
be a~pplauded, as it at once set the
youngsters to read the clippings.
English girls have a new fad. They
have taken to setting up their favorite
bits of literature in the "Braille" type
for the amusement of the blind. The
work is easy, and is a praiseworthy
form of charity, since the literature for
the blind has hitherto been limited.
: A lovely morning gown for a bride is
Of .heliotrope cashmere, with a short
,zouave jacket of white guipure lace,
which is confined at the waist with vel
vet ribbons. For a simple gown, q
striped pink and gray French flannel
with pink md gray ribbons is pretty.
Mrs. Hieks-Lord, according to hear
say, pours her tea from a Dresden pot
that looks like q big bunch of Parma
~yiolets. The handle is a lilac ribbon
OF china, and each cup of violets rests