The Opelousas courier., 1893-05-06
Wells are highly colored.

Wells are highly colored.
Tight shoes have mad their day.
Satin is coming again in great favor.
Novelty bengalines show electric ef-
fects.
BIG hands looks monstrous in white
gloves.
Hats and bonnets for spring are things
of beauty.
Patent-leather tips are not the style
any more.
All kinds of buds and berries are more
used than flowers.
High heels are not worn on the street
by sensible women.
Strings are the color of the trimming,
and full two inches wide.
There is a prevalence of smooth, finely
woven surfaces in the spring woolens. ~
Fans most seen are of feathers with
| she'll sticks or of antique painted parch-1
ment.
Well-dressed women no longer lay in
| q stock of boots, for the reason that
styles are variable.
The Princess of Wales has a new pair
of gloves. They are long-wristed and
ten buttons. Each button is a diamond.
At a recent wedding breakfast in
| BROOKLYN, N. Y, the bride made a witty
speech in response to the toast IN her
honor.
The fastest typesetter in California is
said to be a young woman VINO is
ployed in a newspaper office at Santa
Barbara.
George Du Maurier, the English $50
| ciety" artist, asserts that women are
growing taller, broader and generally
healthier.
Colored Isle thread gloves are not COM
| sidered 'selegant" by the presumptlve
critics, but they look nice and they are
cleaner than black.
Ouida has each of her favorite dogs
cremated upon its death, and has a little
stcemetery" for them connected with
her home in Florence.
White an3 gray feather boas are still
worn with decollete dress, but with the
new shawl effects they are superhuous
and must not be used.
Mime. Patti is said to have r~elinquished
her intention to visit the birthplace OF
her father in Sicily, owing to her fear of
possible capture by brigands.
Black kid Is the most expensive glove
in trade. DIst-gray dress kid is tue
best wearing. Brown is durable and
makes the hand inconspicuous.
The lady managers of the Columbian
Exposition hope to collect for the library
of the woman's building every book
written by an American N since
1920.
Bands of velvet are being worn round
| the neck inside the collar of the gown.
These are of any color to suit the dress,
and are fastened with little fanciful stick
pins.
Natural flowers are again worn in the
hair with dressy toilets, and very sweet
they look for the adoring Of fair young
girls and women not too mature in
charm.
Mrs. AdIai Stevenson is a petite,
fragile appearing woman of cultured
mind. She is the daughter of a college
President, and was reared in a literary
atmosphere.
The severe, but to some faces most co.
quettish, Empire poke comes in fine,
colored chip, and is trimmed with vel
vet ribbon in severe lines, and erect os-
trich feathers.
Hairpins come now in sets of seven.
two large and five small ones, cut from
clear amber shell, with circular tips.
Some of the finest ones are delicately
tipped and inlaid with gold.
Mrs. Moncure D. Conway knew Mrs.
Thomas Carlyle very intimately, and pays
glowing tribute to her conversational
abilities, but says that she was wholly
destitute of houseWlfely gifts.
Rip up your white China silk and send
it to a cleaners. If the quality is good
ii is certain to clean we'll. Make it up
in empire style, with sleeves of yellow
velvet and a narrow belt of the same.
The feminine law student in the Uni
tversity of Pennsylvania is Miss Angelina
Choynski. She joined the law school
about a week ago, and is already spoken
of as an especially bright student. Her
brother students a!lude to her as their
"sister-in-law."
Russian female convicts in Siberia are
in future, if a proposal made by the
Ministry of Justice to the Imperial
Council is ratified, to be exempted from
hogging and wearing irons. Restfic-
tions in diet and solitary confinement
are to be substituted.
Among Queen Victoria's most cher
ished possessions are three bracelets. Ii
these ale mounted thirty-three NINA
lures of her grandchildren taken in in
fancy or early youth. Each picture il
set in a narrow frame of gold and the
settings are adorned with pearls AMI
coral.
Women who would retain the beauty
with which they have been endowed
should avoid peppered soups. stews,
game pates, ragouts, and spices. Wo'
men of nervous and sauguine temper
ament should restrict themselves to a
diet of eggs, milk, bread, fruit, light
broths and crustacea.
The Province of Ontario has decided
to admit women to the practice of law in
the Dominion of Canada. A committee
has been Amounted TO nrenara rules for