The Opelousas courier., 1893-01-21

A Wellesley College girl has joined
the Salvation Army.
The Queen of Denmark has, perhaps,
more orders than most royal one
Women who have prematurely gray
hair are rated among the hand soonest of
the day.
Women with advanced theories refuse
to do any kissing. They are afraid Of
bacteria.
Mile. Leclare, of the Paris School of
Pharmacy, has taken a first class degree
in chemistry.
Nobody will be sorry when many OF
the present grotesque fashions in dress
become obsolete.
The ex-Empress Eugene paid 5000
per ounce for a braid of hair that exactly
matched her own.
Mary c. Robbins, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who died recently, left. 100000 to
various charitable institutions.
Julia Dickinson, of Michigan, left to
Oberlin College, Ohio, $40, 900, to pro-
vide physical culture for women.
One of the popular cloaks of evening
wear is a dark red cloth circular, fitted
to the shoulders ami lined with thin silk.
Miss Morgan, the New York cattle re:
porter, has made money enough by her
work to build and furnish a comfortable
home.
Miss Madden mas travelled 1000 miles
horseback on her mission for the lepers
of Siberia. She has secured $4,000 for
a hospital.
It is said that Queen Victoria and the
Duchess of Somerset both pour their tea
into their saucers rather than swallow it
while it is too hot.
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of the
ex-President, is about to write hook on
Egypt, and has gone to that far-oH
country in search of material.
Mrs. Heber Newton has the reputation
of being one of the few women who
would never consent to have a photo
graph taken or a portrait painted.
The university commissioner of Scot
land has passed au ordinance making
provision for the teaching and gradua-
ton of wonen in all its universities.
The cashier of the new Holland House
in New York City, is Lisette McEvoy, a
handsome young brunette. She is tbe
only female hotel cashier in that city.
The very swell women of the world use
on their Beis sheets of channels, bound
with silk. Quite a luxury are these
soft and warm. They cost sixty dollars.
The daughter of W. K. Vanderbilt,
New York, has a reputation as a linguist.
Though only fourteen years of age, she
speaks French, German, Chinese and
Italian with ease.
From a report recently issued it is
learned that the number Of women pur-
suing studies at the various colleges in
Paris have increased from 152 in 1890
to 252 at the present time.
Lace promises to be more fashionable
than it was last summer. In many cases
the entire bodice is of lace. This is
particularly effective when the gown is
of the fashionable light-shaded silk.
Mrs. Newman, wife of Bishop New
mau, of Omaha, Neb., has been elected
fellow of the American Geographical So
ciety. She has earned this distinction by
her observations as an extensive traveller.
Young ladies are now employed in the
spectre photographic department of the
Paris Observatory. 1t has been found
that they are gifted with keener visual
power in regard to minute objects than
men.
A pretty evening mantle is of heav,
blue velvet, lined with light-blue silk,
| composed of a draw-in back, with the
straight fronts bordered with Mongolia
goat around the length. The straight
sleeves have deep velvet cuffs.
Mrs. LIE Favre, President of the New
York Vegetarian Society,", has expert
mented for several weeks with a view t.
finding how cheaply she could live ant
vet have the very best Of food, and sh'
says she can live royalty on $1.3Oa week
Winnie Ream Hoxie, the sculptor, j
an Arkansas girl who in her youth was
'protege of the late General Albert Pike
the Masonic poet. Since her marriag
some years ago to Lieutenant Hoxie sht
has executed only n piece of sculptura
work.
Hulda Friedricks, a young German
woman, has been engaged by the Pal
Mall Gazette to make a tour of the Unite
States for the purpose of writing up the
social institutions of the country, es
p~ecially their effect on wcman's con
dition.
The lovely old lace so much in vogu
with our mothers and g~raudmothers, sa.
half a century ago, and called SPANS
blonde, is coming into great favor thi
year. It always looks like froste
feathers, so softly does it fall and 8
graceful are its patterns.
The most coveted jewels now are th
Sugar River pearls from Wisconsin
which rival the Oriental pearls in SOLE
respects, and come in rare colors-pink
black and bronze. They are. much use
in rings, set in rows of three or five. {
encircled with small diamonds to set Of
the natural tints of the pearls.
Miss May Miller, of Whitneyville, !
acquiring fame as the first young lady t
lay up a bunch of shingles in Maine
Miss Miller is but ten years old, an
probably has many years before her j
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