The Opelousas courier., 1893-06-03

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for clothes.
Silk sheets are an elegant caprice OF
women who find it difficult to spend
their income.
M. Worth, of Paris, confesses to hav.
ing perpetrated a skirt containi ng sixty
yards of SIX.
Miss Susan B. Anthony recently cele-
brated her seventy-third birthday at her
home in Rochester.
Mrs. Langtry and the Duchess of
Montrose have joined John Strange
Winters non-crinoline league.
A Philadelphia girl returned from the
milliner's and told her mother that most
of the bonnets were ''intensely covet.
able"
Miss Lucy Cablniss is a caterer and
florist at Jackson, Miss, and serves as a
woman's exchange to Mississippi house
keepers.
The beauty of Mrs. Henry Clews, wife
of the New York financier, has been
celebrated By poets, painters and para
graphers.
There are more women Postmasters in
Pennsylvania than in any other State.
They number 463. Next comes Virginia
with $50.
Among the late cable brevities is the
news that the Duchess of Fife recently
received from India the gift of a pair of
beaded stockings.
The German Empress has just sent a
little token of regard to the japanese
Empress in the shape of a water color
sketch painted by RRfFFself.
When hoopskirts d,ere in style women
frequently lost their lives by being
tripped up in the wires or by fire coming
in contact with the distended skirts.
The catalogue of the Georgia Girls
NormA and Industrial College shows
that III young women from seventy-six
counties in the State matrlculated during
its first year.
The fashionable color, which is per.
fectly new, is Eminence. 1t is violet.
with a dash of deep red in it. The term
admits of wide significance. as the
shades are so varied.
Lady Gordon in her search through
English libraries for books written by
women has discovered q Pamphlet on
rights of women, published !" 1895 by
Mary Asset. Its title is /" dvice to
Ladies "
There are heavy zephyrs n basket
patterns, dotted with the tinlest seed
dots in a variety of delicate colors, and
striped with broken bands of white and
pale blue, pink or rose, according to the
ground or cloth.
Ohio has a board of visitors consisting
of three men and three women appointed
in every county of the State to visit
county asylums and prisons, and to gen
orally watch over public benevoience and
reformatorg work.
Mrs. Game, the wife Of Hall Game, the
novelist, does her own milking, churn.
inc and cheese making, and attends to
the other duties of their country home
stead on the Isle of Man. The novelist
himself wears the peasant dress.
Horizontal skirt trimmings mount
higher and higher. To remodel an old
sheath skirt of last season, to give it the
appearance of the width now required,
the easiest resort is several ruf1es of vel
vet set at wide Intervals up the skirt.
MANY women are enthusiastic bicycle
riders and can go great distances with
out undue fatigue. Miss Mabel Besant,
for instance, the sister Of the famous
novelist, is perpetually on the road and
thinks nothing of . spin Of thirty OF
forty miles:
A. new Partisan novelty-bats in dia,
| monds-are bizarre enough to attract the
attention of those neeking after new and
| strange effects. Old jewelry can be
| reset and r~earranged in these bats, which
are described as setting off to striking
| advantage a ball costume.
Velvet sleeves are now considered
passe. They are not worn by any fash
ionable people abroad. In Paris the
newest gowns have velvet bodies, but
sleeves Of the same material as the skirt,
usually cloth. The very old fashioned
pelarine is once more in high style.
They gave a banquet to Senator Bate
of Tennessee, in Washington the othe1
night in honor of his reelection; anc
toward the close Of the speechmakine
his wife appeared in the dining roon
with a party of lady friends, and wa
made the recipient of much homage.
Only rich women can afford to buy
undressed kid. Half the kid gloves ii
trade are not kid at all. Real kid canno'
be brought under So a pair in this coun
try. Ladies' evening gloves that sell TO
So. rs are made of lamb. Most of TIT
str eet gloves are dogskin and some ar
rat.
Mrs. s. A. Thurston is one of tn
noteworthy women of Kansas. Her skill
as an accountant is utilized by firm
winding up or Strengthening out thei
accounts. She recently disentangled th'
accounts of a firm dissolved by the deaf
OF one member-accounts which ma
been running for a dozen years.
The subject of women druggists j
being discussed In France. The societ
of the Amelioration of the Position Q
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