The Opelousas courier., 1893-06-10
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Shot velvet canes are LARGELY worn

ate this season, but are very choice.
. Kentucky has more women School
Commissioners than any other Southern
State.
+: Patent leather shoes with Scotch cloth
plaid tops are the newest in fashionable
footwear.
Isabella rings, of which so much is now
heard, arc made of silver and have the
Spanish crest.
Long lace .cloaks worn over silk
waists are to be among the ''elegant
wraps for summer"
A very rich shade of tomato-red cam
els hair serge is used in gay gowns for
very young women.
If Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess,
can be said TO have a fad it is for the
Empire style of dress.
At the last state function in Berlin one
woman tainted and another fell into a
fountain of perfumery.
The new fancy handkerchiefs, said to
be French, are not likely to obtain
among women of refined taste. .
An electrical expert says that it would
be dangerous for a woman wearing Grim
oline to cross electric car tracks. ]
Women in the employ of the Govern
ment at Washington receive salaries
ranging from 5000 to $500 a year.
The high shell combs of our grand
mothers are again in vogue, with the
Empire gown and Josephine couture.
The very fine habit cloth which adapts
itself so admirably to the figure is much
worn in all its new exquisite shading.
The newest fancy is to make a round
waist with yoke and enormous sleeves OF
black or very dark bottle-green velvet
When the military cape is made top
heavy with embroidery and ribbons it is
said to CLOSE its distinctive character"
A large number of the best boarding
houses in Paris are conducted by Amer
lean women, some the wives of French
men. .
The most popular style Of ~priucesse
gown for dressy wear is that which fits
like a glove about the waist portion and
ander the arms.
Three of the titled ladies-in-waiting
10 the Queen of Italy are Americans, and
all are celebrated for their beauty and
accomplishments.
Velvet will be as popular for spring
wear as it has been during the past win
ter. Many of the earlier spring hats will
be made entirely of velvet.
A new fabric is of soft Vicuna wool
with a rough camel's hair figure raised
on its surface. In black and blue woods
the hop-sack cheyiots are faVorites.
Mrs. French. Sheldon, the intrepid At
rican traveller, has applied for space for
exhibiting at the Worlds Fair the fine
collection of curios and trophies she has
gathered.
In the nursery of the ". X. Wander
bilt house, in New York City, Mother
Goose melodies, with other quaint quo
fations, are inscribed on the walls all
over the DON
Mrs. Bradley Martin, of New York
City, has a diamond tiara which has
thlrty.si points and is as large as the
inside of a saucer. It is worth a cool
quarter Of a million.
A custom of French origin, now being
revived for fashionable weddings, is for
the nearest friend to present the bride
with a tiny silk stocking, in the toe OF
which is hidden a gold coin. This is t.
typify the first installment of pin money
Mrs. Daniel Lamont, wife of the Sec
rotary of War, is an amateur photog
rapher. She not only takes pictures,
but develops them herself with NOR
than common success. She is the onl!
wona who has taken Baby Ruth's pho
tographs.
The Worlds Fair National Council o
Women, of which Mrs. May Wright Sc
wall Is President, consists of thirteer
National associations and represents L,
OO0, 900 women. Of this number $50,
900 belong to the W. G. T. U. and 200,
600 to the National Woman's Suffrage.
Nine. AIlemandi, who died a few day;
= ago in Paris, left $4,000 to the swis
Government, 500 900 to the city o
Basel, $4,000 to the Canton Basel AM
$4,000 to the Canton Solothurn. Til
interest of the money is to be used il
paying for tile wedding outfits of th
daughters of poor Swiss laborers.
Amazon cloth has been objected tc
and very reasonably, on account of tn
liability Of its smooth, rich surface t
spot-both in weather and indoor wear
But some important change in its manu-
facture has taken place, and the fabric
now justly deserves all the compliment
AIRY things that can be said about it.
Notwithstanding the fact that the pop
ular gloves for the season are in move
shades of green, violet, blue and othe
ugly heavy colors matching costumes TO
the promenade, very many women clin|
to the Suede and glace gloves of tan
almond and light brown, for the reaso
that they can be appropriately worn wit
a costume of any color and always loo
well.
At one of New York's swell hotel
there is a lady guide whose business it
to show strangers around the city. 5h
is a splendid shopper, knows somethin
of art and the drama and is excellent
educated, speaking several languages
She was at one time O book canVassel
but gave up her position for that 9
guide. Her prices range from $5 to 81
q day.
A new notion in decorations is the US