The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-29
White hosiery is popular.

Wnlte hosiery Is popular.
Nightcaps are to beaRn vogue again.
Russian sable is theamost fashionable
fur.
jewelers. report aAight call for ear
rings.
Turquoises are t~heAfavorite stone al
present. O
Nearly all the newestSilks and velvets
are shot.
Some of the best farm handsin Sweden
are women.
New Hampshire has three women
tisasurers of savings banks.
Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes, of New
Cork, is worth $40, OO0, 900.
There are $50 industries in New Or
leans in which women labor.
The shot effects in rich fabrics this
gear are peculiarly beautiful.
Mrs. W. G. Whitney's dinners are in
variably for twenty-five people.
One of the most marked signs of the
return to Empire styles is the rage for
green.
Mrs. William W. Aston has a unique
collection Of photographs of beautiful
women.
More women than ever are employed
as writers on the leading journals of
London. 4
Roman ladies dress their locks in
eight different styles with numberless
variations.
II is a fact that the waists of'women
are larger than they were half; a dozen
years ago.
Old fashioned splint-bottomed chairs
look exceedingly we'll painted in soft
green and vanished.
The poke bonnet, in order to be be-
coming, should be worn like the Saliva
ton lasses wear theirs-far back on the
head.
A red house-gown for a girl Of sixteen
viii look we'll made with a gathered
belted waist and a little bolero jacket OF
black velvet.
A novelty in a lady's watch has a case
enamalled on either side to represent q
single penny, with a diamond dew drop
in the centre.
/. A London woman has tried the expert
ment of a boy Of sixteen to do her gen.
eral homework, and has found it, briefly
at least, becoming.
Mrs. John Mackay possesses the big.
gest sapphire in the world. She pur-
chased it from a Russian impoverished
prince for $3.50, 600.
It is considered the proper freak at
present to surround the very top of your
evening gloves with some dainty gar
land of artificial blossoms.
Collecting old china is Miss Braddon's
hobby, and in her house at Richmond,
!, near London, the novelist has a series OF
we'll stocked china cabinets.
Nature never puts the wrong colors in
iuxtaposition, and a good plan when
choosing q evening gown is to select
the colorstsof a flower and leaf.
Mrs. N. A. Haulenbeck, of New York,
who has been a commercial traveller for
ten years, earns $4,000 a year in commits
sions upon the sales she makes.
Mrs. Monarchesi, wife of the publish
or. has invented and received the patent
papers for a new gridiron which is con
sidered a greatimprovement on the ole
j. one.
, Miss Virginia Penny, the author, who
! gave not only her time but her entire
. fortune for the advancement of women,
is now living in dire poverty in New
:. York.
, Divine is the name of a new greer
stone. initiating an emerald and used fol-
!. making the fanciful birds and beasts
= which are popular for scarf pins OF
l brooches.
8 Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of st
It Nicholas, suffers the usual penalty o
: being famous. She receives about eigh
8 letters daily requesting autographs Q
sketches of her life.
y Mrs. Linden Kent, of Washington
= has given the University OF Virgin
= $50, 600 to endow q chair OF English LII
. erature, Her husband was a dstln
: guised graduate of the university.
Luella Cool, one of the leading Den
. lists of San Francisco, has charge OF th
d dentistry of Stanford University. oV
a. ing to her large practice she can CIV
but one day in the week to the iniverslt
Is work.
IT The seamless dress has at last been a.
ID complished. There are no seams in th
waist, except on the shoulders. whe'
thew are covered by a simulated yok
8. They hook beneath the fullness OF 81
le front, where no one would suspect the
is Of fastening. TIL material is taken
the cross, stretched across the back al
under the rms.
p, Miss Mary E. Greene, Miss Ia
Is Newell and Miss burah K. Barker are tt
E. three young women who have recent
w. been made d~eaconesses by Bishop Potte
ne of New York. The ceremony 20.
place in Grace Church. They are d
he first women upon whom the title b
ever been conferred. The young won
US are graduates OF the Episcopal Traini
10 School established In 1890.