The Opelousas courier., 1893-05-20
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Inc wonen of Hawaii are addicted to
the violin habit.
A well-cared-for hand is a fine point
IN a beautiful woman.
Miss Ellen Terry, the actress, is an
amateur photographer.
The Maine Federation of Women's
Clubs has HOO members.
In these days the art of fine needle
work is in danger of decay.
Steaming the face and then rubbing in
live or almond oil is a good thing.
The statement is made that women
Who ride bicycles are not graceful
walkers.
: Pockets in ladies' dresses first an
reared in England during the reign of
Edward III.
SThe Queen of Italy seldom appears in
! hat, and her bonnets are small and
lose fitting.
Mrs. Astor, Tie New York leader of
ashton, never pays less than $25 for a
pair of shoes.
Queen Victoria, of England, is very
Iond OF making cmelettes, and it seems
has several receipts.
There is a tendency in the new silver
ware to a return Of the straight futed
patterns of the Seventeenth Century.
In these days of cheap stufs the poor
sst housemaid may wear a dress finer
han that Justinian refused to his Queen.
Henrietta Herschfeld, the first woman
graduate of the Philadelphia College of
Dental Surgery, is assistant court dentist
n Germany.
A scientific authority has just given
out that a woman's beauty arrives at its
maximum only after she has. passed her
thirtieth year.
Florence Nightingale, the famous war
nurse, has started a health crusade
among the villages Of Buckingham
shire, England.
Miss Marguerite Gombert has won her
degree of Doctor of Philosophy and
Letters at Brussels, Belgium. She is the
6rst woman to do so.
8 On the authority of Miss Romans, a
professor of gymnastics, the muscular
| young women of Boston discard corsets
and high heeled boots.
. The chignon, as we'll as the %crinoline,
will undoubtedly be revived. No false
| hair is worn with it, but if the hair is
thin, a pad is placed under it.
A sewing machine was included
among the presents the ex-Empress Of
Germany gave her daughter, Princess
Marguerite, on her recent marriage.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the we'll
known ornithologist, has gone on a trip
to Utah, California and the Yellowstone
Park in pursuit of her favorite study.
. Golf is going to be a fashionable game
at Newport, r. l., this year. Among
the ladies who are nov studying up the
subject are Mrs. Burke-Roche and Nine.
LAMA.
Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii is said to
have much musical taste and to be fond
of playing the ukilili, an instrument that
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guitar and mandolin"
The latest Glib for women in London
Is one tor the use of clerks, bookkeepers,
stenographers, telephone girls and others
who earn their daily bread in this city,
but 1--we in the suburbs.
Miss Martha Jordan, of Dallas, Texas,
is the first colored woman to prepare
herself for practicing dentistry. She is
attending the Dental Department of
Denver Coli University.
Lady Haberton, the originator OF the
English Short Skirt League, is making
thousands of converts to her opinion that
walking dresses should be at least five
inches off the ground all around.
The Duchess Of Marlborough is espe-
cially given to gray of the shade OF the
inside Of doves' wings. Gray velvet il
quite a favoritBof her grace, and with
it she wears her wonderful pearls.
The purple or cardinal veil is now
supplanted by a new favorite. the veil
which comes in dark shades of green.
This color is said to be becoming to all,
while the purple can only be worn by a
few.
The fashionable violet known as ''emi-
nence," or s~spontihcal' purple, is by no
means a universally becoming color, and
women who have not really very good
complexions should eschew it In all its
notifications
The prettiest women in the world are
said to be the women of Northern Italy.
They are a mixture Of the French gentry
and the old Italian nobility and inherit
the yivacity of one country and Oriental
beauty of the other.
Secretary Of State Gresham, like many
other men in public life, has a wife who
attends to a great deal of his CORE
unondence for him. Mrs. Gresham is
fond of Washington, but likes it best
when it is most desertGT1.
The old fashioned gray halrcloth is
offered at New York for dress Innings al
TWENTY-FIVE cents t t%hirty-ive cents IN
narrow widths. It's sticky, prickly
edges suggest any amount OF discomfort
for those who handle or wear 1T.
The chlgnon, which in the past has
~companioned the hoopskirt, has made lts
appearance as the Rossetti knot. There
is, however, in this case, nothing in
name, as the inartistic excrescence is
nothing more or less than the old CHG
non revived.
Miss Emily Faithful, the noted Eng
lish social reformer, is e~ndeavoring to
Tan5or a anhurhau home in