The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,

IeagOWns are OF llght cclOreo vel
veteen.
Petticoats are made of striped silk
and velvet.
Heavy white satin is seen with a sort
of ground-glass effect.
The leading florists of San Francisco
and Cleveland are women.
Curled cocks feathers are used a
| great deal on black hats.
Fancy handles of fans are extensively
adorned with gold feur-de~lis.
France has had sixty-seven queens,
| of whom thirteen, Oh od1 number for
luck, led happy lives.
Golden c~ornelian is heard much of.
Abroad it appears in everything, from
match boxes to brooches.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, there is a horse
shoeing establishment that is owned
and run successfully by a oman
Twenty-Five spinsters are Numbered
among the inhabitants of the Cherokee
Strip. They have located their homes.
Velvets and bengalines will be used
for coats, and SO will cloths, the anew
est of which are rough cheviots in plain
colors and in mixed effects.
Pearls, black, white and pink, of
unique beauty of shape and color, are
wSrn set bud fashion in q tiny cup Of
brilliants as ornaments for the hair.
A Swedish woman has hit upon a
new field for women's work. She has
started in business as an analytical
chemist in a town which is the centre
of the mining industry.
New gloves in prune, navy blue and
bottle green have moderately heavy
stitching, ending OF the wrist i'll fancy
scrolls. Large buttons in horn or
nickel are in high favor.
Jet in every form will be more in
vogue than ever-crowns, bands,
aigrettes, buckles and sprays being
eagerly sought for hat and bonnet
decoration by both young and old.
Miss Fareedi Flute, of Bayrout,
Syria, has presented to President
Cleveland a portrait of himself made
in mosaic in Damascus. It took four
months to complete it, and cost $500.
White silk hose intended to accom-
pany rich bridal costumes have real"
lace inserted over the instep or a lace
effect woven in. The silk is beauti-
fully fine and the lace handiwork truly
exquisite.
Mrs. Flora Kipball selected and
superintendent the planting of trees on
seven miles of the streets of National
City, CAL, by request of the Super
visor, who deemed her tho most com.
petent person in the place.
There is positively an epidemic of
MORE antique raging in London. You
may have it in black or in mother of
pearl tints, in combination of blue
and green and brown or heliotrope,
but have it you must if you would be
in the fashion.
The new basket-plaited Eulalie
couture is worm with a high Spanish
comb set with Irish brilliants. Often
this comb is set in sideways in coquet-
fish fashion. To some this is
becoming, but to others it is little
short of ridiculous.
Gloves are growing longer. The short
sleeves are pulling them up the arms.
All the shades of red and brown are
worn in the dogskin and heavy kid
walking gloves, while suede and glace
kid dress gloves are in colors to har-
monte with the costume.
Rosa Bonheur is still painting in
her quaint study near Fountainebleau,
France. She is now an old woman,
small, sunburned and wrinkled as o
peasant. The grey hair is cut short
and is still thick. As she wears q
blouse she dons q cloth cap.
Nine. Fateno, wife of the new
Japanese Minister, likes American
dress, with the exception of corsets.
She is trying to accustom herself to
them, but finds it very hard to sit on
the floor gracefully and comfortably,
as she can in her national garb.
A letter holder is made of a square
of cardboard covered with dull, dark
green silk, To this is eyerhanded a
cloverleaf piece of cardboard covered
with a somewhat lighter shade of the
silk and sewed at three sides so that
the letters may be inserted at the top.
There are ladies who would be
strongly tempted to turn back if. while
on the way to church to be married,
they should happen to meet a funeral.
and others who would be almost as
greatly shocked on seeing a black cat
or a crow, both of which animals are
known to be unlucky.
Mrs. N. E. Bronston, of Atchison,
Kan, has been setting type for forty
three years. She learned her tradein
her fathers Office, in Newport, KY,
beginning when she was twelve years
old. She has been part owner of one
or two newspapers in her day, and has
set type in many offices in Kansas.
A new career has been opened to
German women by the foundation OF a
school of decorative art in Berlin. At
a moderate fee girls receive instruc-
ton i nsall branches of the decorative
industry, such as arrangement of cur
tains and draperies, the manufacture
of fringes, pattern drawing, etc. The
course lasts from four to six weeks.
Miss Roberta Ackerly has been APP
pointed by Hon. John Paul, Judge of
the United States District Court Of the
West District Of Virginia, deputy clerk