The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-08-17
NEWS AND. NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Green denim Is a new fabric

| WOTns
The use Of laces this season is I'M.
limited.
A silk dust cloak imported trom
Paris has full collarette or deep lace.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the Virginia
author, is planning O tripto the Holy
Land.
Mrs Astor; the rich American wo-
man, who now lives in England, has d
$780, dinner set
Silk waists have, In all shades and
colors never before been so particu-
larly successful as this year.
A sister OF Thomas Carlyle is living
in Toronto, Canada, the widow Of
train dispatcher named Manning.
"Health, recreation and lovely In
spiration" are the chief benefits of
riding bicycle, according to Miss
Francis Willard.
Tho will of Elizabeth Anthony
Brayton Hitchcock bequeaths $500
to the Union Theological Seminary,
schenectady, N. Y.
Mrs. Rebecca T. Robinson, of West
| Newton, Mass, is to defray tho ex-
penses Of the erection Of new scien-
tiflo building at TUFTS College, Mas.
| sachusetts.
A granddaughter of John @. Cal
| houn has just made success in France,
playing in French with French COM
pany the role of Hermione in Racine's
"Andromaquc."
A new bathing suit is n blouse rod.
ingote of blue serge, held at tho waist
with q sash Of white serge, aud revcrs
of whito opening over plastron
striped with blue.
Mrs. Catharinc Salisbury, q sister
of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith,
who was killed by mob ut Carthage,
ILL.,, June 81, 1874, is still living ncar
Fountain Green, Ill.
A school for women students Of
medicine has been founded in Russia.
ukasc has been issued allowing
women to act rs assistants to physi-
| clans in tho railroad districts.
Mrs Frederick Duppcn, of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, has just learned That seven
teen years ago Frederick Miller made
remark derogatory to her character,
and has entered suit for slandcr.
Large and very rich buttons arc
coming into favor. Some Of the but
tons arc set with jewels. others are OF
stamped metal oxidizod and FURNISHED
and others arc rivctcd Jet on steel.
The WooIforl prizo in oratory,
which is given annually ut Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y, was award
ed this year to wom9n,, for tho first
time i'll tho history of the, university.
1t appears that out of 500 young
ladies employed in tho Savings Bank
Department OF the English Postohi:a
only about q dozon, or l. per cent.
leave during tho year to get married.
Miss Mcllo S. Titus, the first woman
to apply for admission to tho bar in
New York City during tho last twenty
years, passed successful examination
before the Supreme Court of that city.
Miss Annie Thomson Nettlcton has
resigned her position in Vassar Col
ege to become presiding officer of
Guilford cottage at the WOmon's Col
lege Of the Western Reserve Uni
yersty.
Miss Helcn Gould is living very
quietly at Irvington on Hudson. Lato
in the season she will spend we elk or
two ut Roxbury, n. Y, whcro she is
building church, as memor ial for
her parents.
The Civil Service Commission ut
Washington has admitted women to
tho examination to fill the position Of
assistant in the department of vege.
table pathology in tho Department OF
Agriculture.
The most fashionable way Of treat
ing diamonds now is what is called the
double-cut brilliant. 1t il also tho
most expensive. Tho old style of cut.
ting was in single. cut brilliants of
thirty-oight facets.
One of tho cloverest conductors OF q
periodical in the world is Lady
Clementina Hay, daughter Of tho
Marquisc of Twccdala, who publishes
and edits n magazine called City Spar
rows. She is fifteen years Ct age.
Marie Antoipctte fichus of chiffon,
dotted and plain muslin, net or lace,
either black or white, are one OF the
fashionable accessories OF summer
dress, and tho very chick ones are
knotted in the back with falling ends.
Miss Anne Whitney, the sculptor,
has completed q bust of Keats in mar.
BILE. which is to be placedin the parish
church OF Hampstead, London, rs n
memorial from tho American and Eng
lish lovers of tho poet. This bust is
pronounced triumph Of artistic
gonius.
There nro somo 800 young women
in attendance on Cornell College,
Ithaca. N. Y, bat 1t app cars that
these -cds,' rs they nco callod, are
extremely unpopular with the mnlo
students, who do not recognize them
ns thcir social equal, and ignore thcm
ns much ns possible.
A movement has boon orSauizol To-
Gently in Chicago to build n station
house for women md children whore
they may be detained until their cases
can be heard in court, whore they may
he tried without association with mnlo
criminals, and where they may havo
comn notpnt fnmolp caro-