The Opelousas courier., 1893-10-21

Peanut shade is the latest thing in
gowns.
Mrs, Levi. Morton's laces are worth
about $40, OOO.
Carrots are said to be excellent for
the complexion.
Women may now be seen driving
cabs in New York.
Mary Anderson-Navarro is engaged
on her stage "reminiscences.
Mrs. Meissonier gets 1916, 900 from
the sale of her husbands remaining
pictures.
The latest designs in tortoiseshell
combs show O pair Of wings rs the
ornament.
A laundry in England owned by wo-
men and employing only women earned
S25, 900 last year.
Books, flowers, sweets and music,
these are the four things a youth may
present to his 'ladye faire."
There are now women writer's on the
London morning and evening paper,
as well as on the strictly society jour-
nals.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has on exquisite
fan made of white silk, embroidered in
colors and ornamented with small
pearls.
The Infanta Eulalia has her maid
spray the flowers of her hats with the
perfume of the flower with which they
are adorned.
The Queen Consort of Siam has q
lotus-shaped thimble of gold studded
with diamonds, which spell her name
and dates of birth and marriage.
At Mrs. Austin Corbin's country
place, Babylon, Long Island, one OF
the avenues through the grounds IS a
mile long and as wide as Fifth avenue.
Street car conductors in Atchison,
Kan, are said to stop the cars going
| in opposite directions to allow the te"
male passengers to greet one another
and gossip.
Mrs. John Mackay, wife of the Bon
ANA millionaire, has a superb neck.
lace of oak leaves and acorns; the for
mer are diamonds, the latter, pigeon
blood rubies.
Queen Victoria has not attained her
green old age by practicing the "Poor
Richard" rule Of early to bed. In spite
of her seventy-four years she seldom
retires before midnight.
Governor Jones, Of Alabama, has
appointed Miss PEBBLES, of West End,
Birmingham, a notary public. 1t IS
the first appointment of a woman to
that office in the State.
|, Queen Amelie, of Portugal, is
comparatively early riser. 1t is
= seldom that 7 o'clock finds her in bed
! of q morning. She always takes 6
, cold plunge bath on rising.
0 The Empress of Austria for the frs
time in many years is taking part II
o the court ceremonies in Vienna, hay
e ing returned from her chosen home a
q Corfu in the Mediterranean.
q Mrs. French-Sheldon, the African
explorer, is a petite woman, with fai
4 complexion, light brown hair ans
!, beautiful figure. Her expedition in
to the Dark Continent cost her owe
q s100, 900.
= Mrs. Hieks-Lord, of New York City
= is quoted as saying that no young
!, girl over sixteen needs q chaperon
= "An American girl over that age" sh
d says, scan always take care OF an
= chaperon herself"
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, wife Of tn
d President, has recently received
beautiful piece of Russian embroidery
b The gift is in token of the gratitud
q of the Nation to the Americans for thei
sending relief in time of famine.
ss Both indoo and Musselman wome
wear glass bangles and in the nortl
west provinces they are regarded
n sacred objects. IF a glass bangle b
y accidentally broken its pieces must /
le gathered together and kissed thre
il times.
The strict rules of German nobilit
70 seauire that the mother must be 1t
es husbands equal in rank, in order
70 place the children in the full possessic
of the fathers rights. The rule h
~ y been observed in many Germs
families.
Governor Russell, of Massachusett
"a appointed a woman, Mrs. Ella G. job
~ son, to represent the Old Bay State
= the National Prison Congress viii
met in Chicago June Z. Mrs. Johns
is superintendent of the Reformato
at Sherman, Mass.
OF Miss Cornelie K. Hood, Miss Ka
MS Hogan and Miss Stanlietta Titus we
Id the three women who graduated fro
the University Of New York this ye
n as full-iedged lawyers, taking t
,ng regular course of study and exami1
No ton with the
Miss Isabella Bird Bishop, the we
na known traveller and writer of boo
~ of travel, is the first woman to deliv
-: an address before the British House
II Commons. She was summoned the
~ ~ to tell what she had seen of the Chr
tians in Turkish Koordistan.
ma 4 st. James Palace is ready for I
Duke of York and his bride. The
MT eeption room is paneled with VIII
ov wool and silk woven il England;
A drawing room is in white and yello
1st the Princess Mays boudoir was ful
ished under her own direction.
IN At a fashionable dinner given ]
Did long ago, beside each woman's pl'
az was a Dresden china candle-stick a