The Opelousas courier., 1893-01-28

All women declare the new French
ribbons to be the finest they ever adj
mired.
Heavy link bracelets of carved gold
are especially handsome, studded with
jewels.
There is reason to believe that French
fans wilhhave the fashionable call this
season.
Fashionable mourning often causes
the fury and jealousy of those who are
in colors.
Crowns of new hats aud found ations
of the new bonnets are really ''rldlc.
ulously small"
Parasols trimmed with fur, an affesta-
ton of French women, have reached this
side of the Atlantic.
In Vienna recently guests at a dinner
party were invited to put their auto
graphs on the table cloth.
Somebody says that the one kind of
wrap never out of fashion is the ''real
genuine camel's hair shawl"
Furs dyed in all sorts of bright coLors
are to be trimmed on cloth dresses, ac-
cording to a Paris correspondent.
A new gray material for winter walk
ing gowns is Russian army clota. It IS
intended 10 be trimmed with fur.
We are to have Scotch tweeds OF
whatever pattern or cola fancy dictates,
and we are to have them built to fit.
Miss Luella Cool, a lea ding dentist Of
San Francisco. has been p laced in charge
of dentistry at the Stanford University.
It is easy to see, even with defective
vision, that the reign of suspenders Cd
the backs of women is drawing to a
close.
Miss Kate Drexel, of Phil ade lphia,
who recently took the veil, has 81 ,000,.
900 in her own right and much more to
come.
Necklaces made of the genuine gold
coins of all Nations, beautifully sized,
are something new in tae jewelers.
stocks.
Shoulder bows Of expen sive ribbon are
seen on many of the new house dresses
made with pleated instead of pulled
sleeves.
Tne other day a lady was discovered
in a mans tie shop in London having a
lesson in tying her cravat. She meant
to do the thing well.
Belgian telephone girls are required to
pass an examination in four different
languages before they are considered
competent to perform their duties.
Miss Leila Finney, of Fort Valley, Ga,
who is not yet twenty years of age, has
made up to date All quilts, twenty
seven OF which were made during this
year.
The Innings of seal aud fur trimmed
cloaks are unusually gorgeous this sea
son. Pale brocades, gay t%artans, brill.
liant silks and high-coiored satin eHe cts
are m
All the chairs in Madame Adelina
PATHS boudoir at C~raig-y-Nos, Wales,
are draped with ribbons of all @colors,
taken from innumerable bouquets which
have been thrown to her.
Mrs. Ernestine schaffner, of New
York City, the 'a NIGEL Of the Tombs,"
or the ssprisoners' friend" has given bail
bonds during the last five years aggre-
eating almost 81 900, 600.
The swag ger girl crimps her hair in
a very aston ishing manner, these days,
reserving one fat effective ringlect
which she coaxes to epo picturesquely
at the central point of her very classic
head.
At Brussels, Belgium, a few days ago
Mile. Marguerite Gombart was awarded
her degree as d octor of philosophy and
letters amid great applause. Mile. Com.
bart is the first y oung girl who has OBJ.
tanned this degree.
Miss Sadie Price, of Bowling Green,
KY, has devoted nearly four years to
collecting and classifying the wild plants
of Warren County. Sh e has found in
all about lightweight different orders
aud about $50 species.
In the i've Swiss universities of Basel,
Berne, Geneva, Laasanns and Zurich,
during the past summer, the number of
women students was 224, of whom 127
was in the medical departments, sixty
two in the philosophical and FIVE in the
law.
Walter Satterlee. the artist, says one
Of the greatest difficulties he meets is the
lack of models in this country, whose
hair is so black that it has blue or pur-
pie lights in it. He adds that what he
wants is common in Europe. but almost
unattainable here.
A high school for girls in Iceland has
been established. The subjects taught
include English literature and scandi.
navian literature aud history, besides
the regular branches of study. Cookery
and tailoring are also taught, because
Icelandic women have always to make
the mems clothes.
Miss Romans, head Of the Normal
School of Gymnastics in Boston, in a re-
cent interview said: aTwo years age,
out of a class of thlrty-seven, there were
but two or three young Women at the
end Of the school year who continued to
wear ~corsets, and no one continued to
wear French heels. Last year, out of a
class of seventy lone, seven,eighths gave
up wearing corsats.