The Opelousas courier., 1893-02-11

Corduroy velvet is to be largely worn.
Cloth covered bonnets are to be much
worn.
pumpkin yellow is a new shade in up.
holsteries.
The Alpine hat will be as much in
vogue this winter as last.
Sulphur satin, h-ocadcd with irises, is
charming for an Empire gown. 4
Pointed bows are no longer being worn
in the front of the hats, but at the sides.
In new stationery, pale lilac, with
address or monogram in darker tones, is
shown.
Girls should be taught to sew, mend,
read slowly, speak lowly, to swim, be
polite and respect their elders.
A hospital has been founded at Paris
by a Danish woman, with nurses speak
ing all the principal languages.
Black velvet capes, with most of the
fitness massed at the back by pleats or
shirrings, are among the fashionable
wraps.
Queen Victoria has granted a pension
of $3.50 per annum to Mrs. Cashel Hoey
as a recognition of her merits as an
author.
Tapped skirt panels, buttoned at the
top, with real or simulated buttonholes
on the panel flaps, are a feature of very
many Of the new gowns.
Very handsome and artistic buttons
are sold both for coats and for fastening
the sides of the front breadths of skirts
Of Russian princesse gowns.
Queen Victoria couats among her
many accomplishments that of etching,
an art in which she was instructed by
Sir Edwin Landseer and Thomas Land
seer.
A lady, writing from st. Louis, says
that her hair is ffty-four inches in length,
and there is another lady in Chicago who
can easily stand on her hair, which is
five feet nine inches long.
Four women were among the honor
airy pallbearers at Mr.. Whittier's funeral,
viz. Mrs. Mary B. Claim, Mrs. Eliza.
beth Stuart Phelps Ward, Miss Lucy
Larcom and Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer.
Mrs. Pierce, wife Of the Hon. Gerald
Pierce, OF Bismarck, North Dakota, is a
clever, energetic woman, thoroughly in
tcrested in political matters and the ae-
complished private secretary of her hus-
band.
Mrs. Dora Wheeler Smith is doing
decorative work on the ceiling and frieze
of the Woman's Building, at the Chicago
Worlds Fair, without charge, which
would have cost $4,000 il done by any
one else.
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who gave her
name to one of the earliest of 'sreform'
dresses, is still alive, a gentle little old
lady in good health, at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, where she has lived for the past
thirty-three years.
An exquisite ring was recently ordered,
the center being a rubyin almost perfect
heart shape. The stone being somewhat
irregular, this was easily cut. A circlet
oil diamonds finished the design, which
was set on a plain hoop.
Mrs. Columbus is to be remembered in
various ways during the Worlds Fair.
Her father being a navigator, and her
marriage dover comprising charts, jour.
mails and memoranda, undoubtedly aided
her husband in his discoveries.
aDiamondsn and jet are now COM
bined in the fashionable clasps for hats
and bonnets. A very pretty one is in
the form of a buckle, some three inches
broad, a piece of the velvet being passed
through it to match that trimming the
bonnet.
An attractive little waist Of pale blue
rough cloth has a deep plastron ane
pointed girdle of kid embroidered il
Russian work. The sleeves are made in
two puffs, which are separated by a
pointed band, and have pointed cuffs Of
the embroidered kid as well.
Anew rainy day dress skirt is of che
viot, which reaches within eight or ten
inches of the ground, and is supple
mented by a band of macintosh of the
same shade. This band buttons OF i'm
yisibly and can be taken off and cleaned.
It is the invention Of an English tailor.
An adorable hat for a little girl is OF
white felt, with big loops Of wide white
satin ribbon. The ribbon is bordered
on one side by three rows of velvet, like
baby ribbon. The colors are pink,
green, and faWn, aud there are three
rosettes Of velvet baby ribbon, one Of
each color.
Sister Emma Durham, who nursed
Lord Tennyson during his illness, has
handed over the fee of $1,000 which she
received for her services to the National
Pension Fund for Nurses. The gift was
made by Miss Durham in connection
with. the poet laureate's e~ighty-thlrc
birthday.
II has been discovered that lady
cricketers date back to 1871, when {
match was played between the DANES Of
Hampshire and Surrey for 500 guineas
d side. The young women wore shawls
and the old ones long cloaks, and the
best runner and bowler on the Surrey
side was one Ann Baker, who was sixty
years old.
An odd woman's club exists In Paris.
Its object is social intercourse, afternoon
tea, and gossip, and in further adher-
ence to the general lines Of mems clubs,
only wives Of clubmen are eligible. The
club is called the "Cercle des Femmes
dn Monde and its club precincts are
jealousy guarded from masculine inva-