The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-01-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

they can be applied.
Capes and basques are no longer
plain and smooth-surfaced.
A London laundry is owned and
operated by women exclusively.
The dowager Queen of Portugal is
probably the best dressed woman in
Europe.
Plaid silk blouses, with velvet
jackets, are arrayed in a number OF
pretty variations.
The Waltham Matchmaking estab.
lishment employs 1900 women among
Capo Colony in South Africa has
municipal woman suffrage. The colony
rules J 900, 900 square miles.
Low, small dishes of decorated china
or of out glass are used for bonbons,
and longer low dishes for celery.
White, with pearl trimmings and
ornaments, is very much de rigeur for
the evening gowns cf yyc"ne women.
Silver and gold caps on the ivory
handles Of umbrellas are less obtrusive
than last year, being much smaller.
There are few spinsters in the
Caucasian settlements in South Africa,
as the men outnumber the women ten
to one.
Governor McKinley's mother is
eighty -four years old and has nine
children, who became successful men
and women.
There is no doubt that pierced sill
yer will be the fashion for many long
a"u""""., - =. IT, 'rrt" tt77pit - .bpskets
are magnificent.
There are entire apartment houses
in New York monopolized by self
supporting bachelor girls, and they
are the happiest of their sex.
Lady Eva Quinn, wife of Captain
Wyndham heir presumptive of the
UunrayenJ, mas hIlled Six grown tigers
from the frail shelter of howdah.
Lemon yellow seems to be one of
the popular trimming colors. A hand
! anmA costume of black velvet has
| garniture Of black lace over yellow
satin.
The women of Belgium and Holland
are noted for their snowy linen; they
attain this desired result by the use
of borax, handful to ten gallons Of
water.
Cups with silver mounts carry all
before them. Very chaste are the
pure white china cups, slipped into
| two silver bands, to which the silver
handle is attached.
The University of Chicago puts wo'
men on the same basis as men, whether
students or teachers It's History and
Political Science Club has two or three
women on its list of officers.
The accordion plated idea is in full
force. Blouses, sleeves, skirts and
even founces are crimped in plaits of
varying fineness. Some of them seem
to be little more than a mass OF
wrinkles.
While long and slender waists and
evidences of compressed breathing or.
gans are occasionally seen, there is a
decided tendency toward natural
waists and room enough for the lungs
to expand.
Mrs. Augusta G. Hagen, of Phila
delphia, conducts, jointly with her
husband, q real estate business in
Philadelphia. She takes entire charge
of the Office during hisabsence. Mrs.
Hagen has been appointed notary
public.
New tailor costumes are made O!
mems summer suitings. There are
sleeves, collar, cuffs, and sometimes
shoulder-ruffies of velvet, but the lat
ter are not thought quite as appro
pirate as the plain, perfectly fitted
waist with collar and wide lapels.
A lovely evening dress shows the re.
turn to fashion of the costly lamine
gauze, which displays n more or less
wide stripe of metal foil, giving an eff.
feet which, by gaslight, candle or
electric light, is extremely brilliant,
even too brilliant for those whose taste
is quiet.
Poems over the signature of "Annie
Fields" which appear in the leading
magazines, are written by the widow
Of the well-known publisher, James T.
Fields. Mrs. Fields lives in Boston
where she is we'll known for her yea
in all kinds of philanthropio work
especially in the realms of organized
charity, or the Associated Charities.
u IS quito obvious that differenc.
between the fabric OF tho bodice ant
that of the skirt will be fashionabl,
for some time. AS material for in.
dependent waists changeable silk ha,
been used for some time. The newer
waists are made of solid colors, crep,
being used a good deal. The plair
black surah waist is n favorite, as il
can be worn under the fancy jacket
like the Eton, Bolero and Zouave.
| The Princess Maud of Wales il
credited with an original freak. 4
little while ago she slipped away from
state and went to spend week with
lady to whom shc Is much attached
who had been In attendance on her
but since married. She preserved
strict incognito as Miss Wells, ant
enjoyed herself amazingly at tenni
parties and other country house fes
tivities. She was immensely popular
Miss Grace Thomas is the only wo
man in Washington, d. g., engaged