The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-07
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The newest veil envelops the whole
head.
A new dress goods for ladies is
called ''swivel silk"
The lace frills on the shoulders are
very essential feature of every kind of
dressy indoor garment.
Miss Anne Whitney has completed
q fine portrait bust of Miss Francis T..
Willard, the temperance advocate.
Bicycling for women is not popular
in Paris. There are only twenty six
wheelwomen in that city of boule-
Yards.
Butter -colored and deep ecru laces
outrival the pure white laces in popu-
larity as trimmings for dressy summer
gowns.
Princess May arranged that her we'd
ding trousseau should represent
nothing but the handicraft of tho
British realm.
Beige-colored crepon trimmed with
guipure lace and a girdle of two or
three bands of satin ribbon is fa-
vorite dress this summer
The students of Vassar College pro-
duced Sophooles's tragedy, "Anti
sonS," with great success at Pough
Keepsie, N. Y, the other evening.
The Princess Eulalia is blond with
golden hair and blue eyes, rs she may
we'll be, since nearly eleven-four.
teenths of her ancestry are Saxon.
Though women in France are nova,
days permitted to become doctors,
lawyers, architects, ETC., they are not
| allowed by the law to sign legal
document rs witnesses.
1t is . novelty, and shows the rapid
| strides females are making, that the
Odeon Theatre, in Paris, has nominated
n lady, Nine. Jacques Rertillon, as the
doctor of that establishment.
The English Horticulture College
has lately received several applica-
tions for women head gardeners and
one for n woman to take entire charge
of the conservatories and greenhouses.
There is said to be young girl in
Kentucky who has the power of charm
ing animals. She lives near Frank:
fort, and the widest animals are said
to become gentle at the sound of her
voice.
| Cobwebby crepe lisses are figured
with faint, shadowy leaves and flowers
i'll natural colors, and even the stamped
Swiss and organdie muslins arc rs
beautiful in effect as some of the
treasured pompadour patterns in silks
once worn by the beautiful Marls
Antoinette.
The Boston girls complete de-
| pendenco upon glasses is cheerfully
illustrated by one who has just begun
to wear them and who lays everything
to them, even the eft" of her new
cape and the bad behavior of their
friends when she is not looking at them
through these glasses.
The Empress Frederick has recently
founded in Berlin a home for English
governesses, which is open to American
governesses as well. It is a pretty,
cheerful house, where the young women
can live comfortably and cheaply whilo
".' vi situation, and where aid, ad.
had. -""' -.
The Mendocino County (Cal.) gi.
who has gone into the business of tran.
ping shows that the field of women's
occupations is widening, but it is very
/
follow her example and engage in the
healthy occupation that nets this
Northern California girlso good rev.
enue.
A milliner in a certain city who has
the reputation of doing over old bon.
nets and their trimmings so that they
| look "as good as new" restores the
howers that have lost their bloom by
touching up the colors. Her secret Of
making expensive roses and other
blossoms bloom again is well worth
knowing.
Philadelphia has woman architect
who has given great satisfaction to a
large number OF persons for whom she
has designed houses Her work has
included club houses, factories, stores,
seaside cottages and handsome city
dwellings. She also superintends
every detail in the erection of the
buildings she plans
Nine. Patti, the diva, Possesses n
queer fad, which she has kept quite a
secret for many years from the public.
1t is only few months since this pc
culiar fad or hobby became known. 1t
similar pointed weapons; they are
very small in size and many of them
are quite historical. Some of the very
smallest she uses for hairpins.
Mrs Emma p. Ewing declares that
she has cured more cases of dyspepsia
than any ten doctors in America. She
has won wide reputation in her re.
lentless warfare against "heavy" cakes
and bad bread. Her husband was o
lawyer with fair practice in south.
ern city before his health broke down,
This led Mrs. Ewing to become pro.
fessor of the culinary art. Now she is
the money-maker of the family.
Miss Jerusha Lusk, who is a char.
coal burner in Middlesex County, Con.
necticut, affords q beautiful example
OF the feminine home-making instinct
Like her male compeers, she lives in O
sod hut. Inside, however, she has