Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-03-11
Rings are a perfect frenzy.

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Crochet needles are OF silver and gold.
Purple as a color is having a ruu III
Paris.
Painting is out of fashion in fac! and
fiction.
Pearls of different colors are popular
in combination.
There are jelly spoons aud pudding
knives Of silver.
Women wear as many rings OF their
fingers as they can.
The fashionable woman cultivates a
shrill and strident voice.
A Partisan novelty is an electric fan
with Rhinestone ornaments.
The openings Of gowns are more deity
concealed than ever before.
An anti-crinolinc league just started
in LONDON already has 5000 members.
The new sleeves are merely an arnpli-
f~ication Of the full sleeve Of last summer.
Those new tinted note sheets are pref
tier - look upon than for correspondence.
Genuine kid gloves are expensive,
perhaps more than they have been for
year..
Newest fur shoulder cspes are cut
long front and back and masniiccntly
lined.
A Jewel fastened on the forehead By a
gold wire is wcru by London society
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The Big beaver hat all covered with
black ostrich plumes is the ''headycar
that goes"
A page carrying the bridal ring on a
cushion IS y new theatrical feature at
weddings.
White leather pockctbools are ap.
p~arently mounted in Old iron, 10 reality
it is silver.
Large perforated silver bowls, with
panier-like curves, nave been introduced
for dessert.
No girl o: the periods wardrobe is
complete without at least oae Scotch
plaid dress.
Kentucky leads all the other Southern
States in tue number Of her women scuooi
commissioners.
London society papers are becoming
chagrlned at the number OF Anglo.
American weddings.
Fewer and fewer trained skirts are seen
on the street. Happily they are going
out Of fashion at last.
Among the new Partisan color comb.
nations arg pale blue and nellotrope, and
maroon and sea green.
Blue seems to be AIRS. Grover Clcve-
lands favorite color, although not tue
most becoming one she wears.
The Queen of Henry " of France on
one great occasion wore a dress sewn with
$4,000 pearls and 5000 diamonds.
Baroness Burdett Coutts expects to
cone to the Columbian Exposition at the
bead Of the Philanthropic Section
Both Mrs. Mary Mspes Dodge md
Kate Field use p~honograpns instead of
Iictating their matter to stenograshers.
For women, the most fashionable head
gear in Paris is the ''Sugarscoop hat -
made of blue felt and trimmed with
feathers at the back.
Florence Howe Hall, who has been
elected President of the New Jerscv
Woman Suffrage Association, IS 4
daughter OF Julia Ward Howe.
Mrs. Henry CIess's bath room ia he,
New York residence. is a grotto OF onyx,
walls, floor, ceiling, BASIN and tub, all
,oipr maIn cF thn cp,lrt,r, tD,
Miss Mary A. Ball. Of Sioux CITY
Iowa, has been successfully engaged in
the insurance business for nearly four
years. She employs severaI assistants.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper. Of San Fran
cisco, Cal, has an adult Bible class of
ever three hundred men aad women.
She has been engaged in suca work over
iorty years.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York City, always studies her own per
sonal points rather than the prevailing
style in the arrangement Of her nair. 4
hair dresser visits her every day.
When Mrs. Anirew Carnegie is at her
home in the Scottish Highlands, Clunv
Castle, she presents each guest with a
dainty blackhorn spoon, which bears the
aame "C!uny" on "a tiny silver plate.
Mrs. Martin n. elcKay, OF Indian.
apolis, is to write the monograph on tao
Literary Associations of Indiana for the
series now in preparation for the Indian.
educational exhibit at the WoSld's Fair.
Miss Isabel Walker IS acting as a mis-
sionarg IN the advancement Of physical
:~rairlng in Canada. Under the auspices
ot the Cadet Templars OF Temperance
she organizes classes IN the towas All
, cities.
Mrs. Charles Carroll. Of New York,
made an arctic voyage as par, o: bel
wedding trip in 1891. The wife OF Cap
tain Healv mas maize four cruises 10 the
Arctic Ocean on the revenue cutter Bes.
with her husband.
Over 5000 acres o{ la1i IN four towa.
sh!ps D. the State OF Wilmington are
neld by women. Some of the land !.