The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-02-10
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White hosiery is popular.
Nightoaps are to beiin vogue again.
4 Russian sable>is tho most fashionable
fur.
Jewellers report light callfor car.
rings.
Turquoiscs are the favorite stone at
present.
Noarly all the newest silks aud velvess
arc shot.
somc OF tho best farm hands in Sweden
are women.
Now Hampshire has three women
trsasurers Of savings banks.
Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, OF Now
Fork, is worth $l0, 900, 900.
There are 450 industries In New Or.
leans in which women labor.
Tho shot effects in rioh fabrics this
gear are peculiarly beautiful.
Mrs. w. G. Whitney's dinners arc In.
variably for twenty-five people.
One OF tho most marked signs of the
return to Empire styles Is tho rage for
green.
| M..- U;ui. r -:urvr, apIs -oi beautiful
women.
Moro women than over arc employed
as writer's on tho leading journals OF
London.
Roman ladies dress their locks In
eight different styles with numberless
variations.
| 1t is n fact that tho waists OF women
arc larger than they were half dozen
years ago.
Old fashioned splint-bottomod chairs
look exceedingly well painted in soft
green and vanished.
The poke bonnet, in order to be be-
coming, should be worn like the Saliva
ton lasscs wear theirs-far back on tho
| head.
A rcd house gown for Giri OF sixteen
| will look we'll made with a gathered
beltcd waist aud little boloro jacket OF
black volvct.
A novelty In lady's watch has q case
uuanorruu On either side to represent
single penny, with diamond dow drop
in tho centre.
A London woman has tried tho experl-
mcnt Of boy OF sixteen to do her gen-
cral houscwork, and has found it, briefly
at least, becoming
Mrs. John Mackay possesses the big
gcst sapphire in tho world. She pur-
chased it from Russian impoverished
prince for $l50,000. !
1t is considered tho proper freak at
present to surround tho very top Of your,
evening gloves with somo dainty gar.
land of artificial blossoms.
Collecting old china Is Miss Braddon's
hobby, and in her house at Richmond,
near London, tho novelist has series OF
well stocked china cabinets.
Nature never puts the wrong colors In
juxtaposition, and good plan when
choosing an evening gown Is to select
the colors Of n fowor and leaf.
Mrs. M. A. Haulenbeck, Of Now York.
who has been a commercial traveller for
ten years, earns $4,000 year in commits.
sions upon the sales she makes.
Mrs. Monarchcsi, wife of the publish.
or, has invented and received the patent
papers for a new gridiron which is con-
sidered great improvement on tho old
one.
Miss Virginia Penny, the author, who
gave not only her time but hor entiro
fortune for the advancement of women,
is now living in dire poverty In Now
York.
Olivine is tho name Of a now green
stone, initiating an emerald and used for
making the fanciful birds aud beasts
which arc popular for scarf pins or
brooches.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor Of st.
Nicholas, suffers the usual penalty OF
being famous. She receives about eight
letters daily requesting autographs or
sketches of her life.
Mrs. Linden Kent, Of Washington,
has given the University Of Virginia
$50, 900 to endow chair Of English lit!
crature. Her husband was dtstiu-
guised graduate of the university.
Luella Cool, one of tho leading den
lists Of San Francisco, has charge of the
dentistry Of Stanford University. Ow-
ing to her large practice she can give
but one day in the week to the university
work.
The seamless dress has at last been &C.
complished. There are no seams in tho
waist, except on the shoulders, where
they are covered by a simulated yoke.
They hook beneath the fullness of the
front, where no ono would suspect them
of fastening. The material is taken in
the cross, stretched across tho '~-'
Miss Mary E. Greene, Miss Kate
Newell and Miss Sarah X. Barker are the
throe youno women who haye recently
been made deaconesses by Bishop Potter,
Of New York. The ceremony took
place in Grace Church. They are the
first women upon whom the title has
ever been conferred. The young women
are graduates OF the Episcopal Training
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