The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-08-04
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In Asia women are yoked with oxen.

Over lOU,UOU women II New York
are working for wages.
Mrs Levi p. Morton imports nearly
all her wardrobe from Paris
Stylish suits for women are those OF
white duck, made in Eton style.
Mrs. Joseph w. Drexel, of Phila.
delphia, has some fine emeralds.
Bamboo furniture for country houses
is evidently at the height of fashion.
Sailor hats for women have higher
crowns and wider brims than last year.
Fewer colors are introduced into
one costume than were used last sea.
son.
The masculine girl is becoming more
and more in evidence as summer adj
vances.
Glove trees, which do for gloves
what boot trees do for boots, are being
widely used.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor wears beauti-
full slippers, and she buys great many
pairs of them.
1t is said of the Leghorn hat and
plumes that their effect depends upon
who wears them.
The Infenta and Eulalia fashions
and styles increase in way compli~
mentary to tho Spanish Princess.
A young English woman has been
appointed lecturer on fruit growing
before the Derbyshire County Council.
Old-fashioned cake should surely
come back with the revival of the
silver cake basket Of our grandmother
time
Queen Margherita, of Italy, on the
occasion of her silver wedding day re-
ceived among other things over %, 900
begging letters
Mrs. Theodore Sutro WAS the vale.
dictorian for the first grade gradual.
ing class of the University of New
York Law School.
Mrs. NJ T. Van Rensselaer,, of New
York City, well known as writer
upon architectural subjects, is tall,
slender blonde, with an interesting
face.
An obnoxious mole, too prominent
for beauty spot, may be covered
with wax and powdered over. A light
yelling may be draped over scars OF
bruises.
Mrs. Magnusson, the Vice President
for Iceland of the Worlds w. G. T. u,
has founded girls school in Iceland.
1t is the only one among 10000 in
habitants.
The first public appointment held by
n woman in VralanI woc hncfDwa1
Gently on Miss Fleury, NJ. D. She
was made clinical assistant to the
Richmond Asylum.
Mrs. Henry Willard, wife of the New
York financier, and her daughters
speak German as well as English. The
home life of the family is very happy,
very simple and very charming.
One of J. d. Rockefeller's daughters
was educated at Vassar College, and
instead of spending her allowance on
herself, the daughter of the Standard
oil king, paid the tuition of country
girl.
In stationery fashion tends to the
use of oblong envelopes, instead OF
square ones. The paper folds but
once. Extraordinary colors, such as
deep orange, willow green and mauve
are in vogue.
The wealthy dame sometimes carries
fan worth $500 ofpale amber tortoise
shell, mounted with Venetian point
lace and spangled with diamonds, with
most likely a slender monogram on
the outside stick.
Mrs. Judson, the widow of ''Ned
Buntline," once popular author, il
an inmate of an New York State aims.
house. Thepoor old lady is paralytic,
and 30 far superior to her surround.
ings that her life there is doubly hard.
OF fifteen physicians recently ex
amined in Baltimore by the State
Board of Medical Examiners, in which
Is vested the authority to grant license
to practice, Miss Ida Pollock took th,
highest rank, making an average O
92t.
The Queen Regent of Spain is fin,
swimmer. Every day in the season a
San Sebastian the seashore is thronget
with spectators to witness her remark
able feats. She is always accompanied
by two men in boat, who watch he
closely for fear of accident.
Miss Mary E. Culver, senior partne
in the firm of Culver & Edwards
Peoria, ILL.,, is well-known and sue.
cessful business woman. For the las
ten years she has been in business TO,
herself. For fifteen years she hss
been Notary Public.
Mrs. H. III. A. Beach, of Boston
who composed jubilate for the Go.
lumbian celebration, is authority fo,
the statement that between the wear
1916 and 1885 women composed Is:
musical words. including fifty-fy,
serious operas, six cantatas and fifty
three comic operas
The Queen of England in recen,
years has found the singing of the
yellow-coated birds too strenuous, and
at present her canaries have given
place to bullfinch and q Iinnet.
These follow her everywhere, there
being special provision for their com.
fort in the royal train, just as there il
for the three pet dogs.
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