The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-26
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China is without sold maids"

Cdllou swivel Bl1h.
The lace frilIs on the shoulders are a
very essential feature of every kind of
dressy indoor garment.
Miss Anne Whitney has completed
q fine portrait bust of Miss Francis Z.
Willard, the temperance advocate.
Bicycling for women is not popular
in Paris. There are only twenty-six
wheelwomen in that city Of boule-
wards.
Butter-colored and deep ecru laces
outrival the pure white laces in popu-
larity as trimmings for dressy summer
gowns.
Princess May arranged that her we'd
ding trousseau should represent
nothing but the handicraft of the
British realm.
B~eige-colored crepon trimmed with
guipure lace. and a girdle of two or
three bands of satin ribbon is a fa-
vorite dress this summer.
The students Of Vassar College pro-
dueed Sophocles's tragedy, CAN'T
| gons," with great success at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, the other evening.
The Princess Eulalia is a blond with
golden hair and blue eyes, as she may
well be, since nearly eleven-fours
teenths of her ancestry are Saxon.
Though women in France are nova
DAYS permitted to become doctors,
lawyers, architects, etc, they are not
allowed by the law to sign a legal
document as witnesses.
It is o novelty, and shows the rapid
striden females are making, that the
Odeon Theatre, in Paris, has nominated
o lady, Nine. jacques Bertillon, as the
doctor of that establishment.
The English Horticulture College
has lately received several applica=
tons for women head gardeners and
one for q woman to take entire charge
of the Conservatives and greenhouses:
There is said to be a young girl In
Kentucky who has the power OF charm:
ing animals. She lives near Frank:
fort, and the widest animals are said
to become gentle at the sound OF her
voice. n
Cobwebby crepe Bf'j5es are figured
with faint, shadowy Eyes and flowers
in natural colors, andeven the stamped
Swiss and organdie muslins are as
beautiful in effect as some OF the
treasured pomPadour Patterns. IN SILKS
once wern by the beautiful Marie
Antoinette.
The Boston girls complete de-
pendence upon glasses is cheerfully
illustrated by one who has just begun
to wear them and who lays everything
to them, even the 'sft" of her new
cape and the bad behavior of their
friends when she is not looking at them
through these glasses.
The Empress Frederick has recently
founded in Berlin a home for English
governesses, which is open to American
goyernegses as we'll. It is a pretty.
cheerful house, where the young womeI
can live comfortably and cheaply while
out of q situation, and where aid, I'D
vice and suggestion are always to bt
had.
The Mendocino County (Cal.) gi-.
who has gone into the business of trap
ping shows that the field of women
occupations is widening, but it is very
doubtful whether many of her sex vii
follow her example and engage IN tn
healthy occupation that nets thi
Northern California girlso good a rev
enue.
A milliner in a certain city who ha
the reputation of doing over old bon
nets and their trimmings so that the.
| look sas good as new," restores tn
flowers that have lost their bloom 3.
touching up the colors. Her secret o
: making expensive roses and othe
blossoms bloom again is well wort
knowing.
Philadelphia has a woman architec
; who has given great satisfaction to
) large number of persons for whom sh
has designed houses. Her work ha
included club houses, factories, stores
seaside cottages and handsome cit,
dwellings,. She also s~uperintend
every detail in the erection Of tn
buildings she plans.
Nine. Patti, the diva, possesses
queer fad, which she has kept quite
3 secret for many years from the public
It is only a few months since this pr
culiar fad or hobby became known. ]
] is the passion she has for daggers an
8 similar pointed weapons; they az
!; very small in size and many of thel
are quite historical. Some of the yer
smallest she uses for hairpins.
i Mrs. Emma P. Ewing declares tbs
she has cured more cases of dyspepsl
than any ten doctors in America. ST.
has won a wide reputation in her re
lentless warfare against '.heavy'' cake
. and bad bread. Her husband was
4 lawyer with a fair practice in a soutt
ern city before his health broke doW1
= This led Mrs. Ewing to become o pre-
= lessor of the culinary art. Now she
the money-maker of the family.
Miss Jerusha Lusk, who is a cha.
: coal burner in Middlesex County, Coz
necticut, affords q beautiful examp
, of the feminine home-making instinc
!. Like her male compeers, she lives in
!, sod hut. Inside, however. she hi
eretonne hangings on the walls,
bright, neat ''rag'' carpet on the foo
Z To- movable platform of matche
u boards), a sideboard of the kind fami
+ lar to denizens of city clearinghouse
u for it is q cabinet bed, and q prett
: bookcase well filed.