The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-22
!, loced shoe is gaining favor.

formed.
Bureau pads are dainty and useful
articles.
Many ladies are employed as bank
cashiers in Finland.
Bonnets No larger than a saucer are
said to be the latest.
Coffee cups should be high and slen-
der tea cups low and broad. 0
Flat, old fashioned, open faced
catches are sty lish tor ladies.
Buffalo, N. Y, is one of the most en-
,husiastic of women's club centres.
Mrs. Astor, leader of Gotham's 400,
never pays less than S25 for a pair of
shoes.
Miss Mary Moody, niece of the famous
evangelist, intends to engage in mission
airy work.
The most beautiful scarfs are the
whole skins Of the Russian crown i'm
perial sable.
The Bombay Sorosis of Bombay,
India, belongs to the Federation of
Women's Clubs.
A Paris sculptor says that the day will
rome when women will be ashamed oil
too small hands.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have had
1904 dresses in her wardrobe at the
time of her death.
The nrst woman lawyer ever sworn in
as a member of the bar, IN Tennessee, Is
Mrs. Martha D. Strickland. .
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of the
late Senator Fair, is very young, very
musical and a great heiress.
The buttons of the welding dress oil
New York ~mlllionaire's daughter, re-
Gently married, cost $500 each.
In Japan, if a woman is not married
by a certain age, the authorities pick out
a man whom they compel her to wed.
Nine. Tel Soma, Japan's only woman
lawyer, is among US. She is lecturing
upon the necessity for missionary work.
Miss Jennie Rockefeller, daughter OF
John d. Rockefeller, the standard oil
magnate, plays the %violincello with great
skill.
The first private Gymnasium (pre'
naratorv school for universities) for
girls in Germany, is to be opened at
Weimar.
The girls of Tasmania are world re-
nowned for beauty and there is no
doubt that they have no peers south OF
the equator.
A number OF leading women OF Kan
sas City have agreed not to wear out
doors any dress or garment that does no
miss the ground by at least three inches.
Ladies' clubs in London grow in
number and increase in size, yet they
are very little heard of. One OF the
largest. the somerville, has over 6oo
members.
Worth, of Paris, ~pronounces emphatl-
cally against a revival of the crlnoilne'
and these two incidents seem to consti-
tute the death blow of the crinollne
movement.
When reappointed to United State:
Government positions, the widows oil
Union soldiers and sailors will not DC
compelled to undergo a Civil Service
examination.
Mrs. Virginia Thompson, ex-Post-
mistress of Louisville, KY, says thai
women are peculiarly fitted to condue
postofices, and that this fitness ought t.
be recognized.
Evening novelties multiply. Among
these are conspicuous the very large
feather fans of ostrich plumes on pear
sticks. Two feet is hardly an exagger
ated measurement.
In Walkertown, Canada, q roma
Miss Roether, is Superintendent OF tn
Jail, and a very favorable report of tn
Bruce County Jail has been rendered Q.
the Ontario prison inspector.
The petticoated sleeve is new in three
quarter coats. 1t is large, full pub, anc
caught in with a few shirrlngs JUST
little above the wrist. and the lower par
is allowed to fall in a little trlit.
Miss Maud Loriilard, the New YorF
beauty. rather changed the order Q
things by first getting engaged {
aTomn Suffern Taller, of coaching lame
and then making her debut IN society.
Miss Florence Bascom, of Williams
town, Mass, who will take the title Q
stPh. d. next June from Johns Hopkln
University, will be the first woman It
receive such an honor from that .institu
ton.
Mrs. Chaloner, a Newmarket (En
0landl woman, has a license from tn
Jockey club, and personally conducts
horse training establishment, perhaps tn
only one in existence that is run by
woman.
The bang is growing perceptlbly less
When it is worn it is only a fluffy frlng
that softens the face; but almost all wo
men are e~ndeayoring to arrange the
coiffures so that an absolute parting WI
be noticed.
Though round waists are the fad q
metal belts of last summer have been 81
tirely superseded by narrow blas 1919
of velvet finished at the back with Q IL.
se trim bow with two pointed enc
Standing stifiy erect.
The palace Of the Empress OF Austrla
as Corfu. is said to have cost ~, 50O, Ool
and yet she spends little of her time Il
sesming to have more pleasure IN cruls
Ing around on her magnificent steal
yacht, the Miramare.