The Opelousas courier., 1894-02-10
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California has women tramps.

Mrs. Annie Besant just now is inter,
ested in a proft-sharing laundry.
Bret Harte's young daughter has in.
herited her fathers literary tastes.
There are nearly 200, 900 more wo.
men than men in England and Wales.
Princess Louise, of England, is now
at work upon a bust of L@rd Tenny-
son.
There are seven women in the coun-
try who have received the degree OF
LII. D.
Blonde beauties revel in two ethe.
real shades Of heliotrope, lobelia and
digitalis.
Mrs. Fernando Yznaga, of New York,
is often referred to as the "queen Of
blondes
A good stuff for inexpensive nantes
is hop-sacking, made thick and trimmed
with MORE.
A we'll known New York belle named
Violet uses violet-tinte9 paper, with a
few stray violets as a heading.
Mrs: c. 2: Huntington; wife of the
railroad niaeDate, is fond Of fubies
and has some of the finest in the coun-
try.
Mrs. William Morris, wife of the
poet, has the reputation Of being one
of the most beautiful women in Lon
don.
A pretty schoolma'm IN Weymouth;
Mass, has succeeded in tanning the
village terror, the worst boy in the
school. and IS going to marry him.
Strikingly pretty by themselves, few
compilations can stand the two promi-
nent greens of the season, q yellowish
hue called serpolet and q clear bright
emerald.
Miss Dora Miller; q New Orleans
teacher, has patented q blackboard
eraser, for the right of which she has
been offered $4,000. She's going to
wipe out a mortgage with it.
Mr.. Gladstone has Informed the Wo-
mems League OF England that a pro-
vision would be introduced in the
Parish Councils bill giving women the
right of vote in parish matters.
The first in the world to re-
ceive the degree of electrical engineer
is Miss Bertha Lameur, of Springfield,
Ohio. She is a graduate of the Ohio
State University, where she led her
class throughout the entire course.
A new idea in dressmakidg is the use
of wool mixtures with black, MORE an
tique silk and Persian lamb; Every
dress to be stylish must have an ,ad-
mixture of fur. With the fur, lace
and jet may be safely and effectively
combined.
What many New York housewives
long for is a company that will call for
dirty dishes twice a day, wash them
and return them without chipping or
getting them mixed with those of
other persons, and do it at a reason
able price.
Mrs. John G. Carlisle, wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury, has joined
the circle of women who have stopped
in the middle. of busy and famous lives
to set the seal Of authority 6n kitchen
chemistry. Mrs. Carlisle will soon
publish a cook book.
And now no one need regret her in
ability to afford a trip to Europe. A
school teacher of Philadelphia has
spent a month i'll study at the Edin.
burgh Summer School, and the cost of
her trip, including ocean voyage and
living in Edinburgh was less than $3.50.
1t is to be regretted th,t the human
face divine is once more to be disfigA
ured by the hideous aud barbareus
earring. The stud earring which but.
tons the ear neatly, OF seems to do so;
it is to be feared is only the forerun:
ner Of the still more ungainly pen.
dant.
It is to be hoped that American wo-
men will not adopt the suggestion OF
Colonel Dodge that they shall ride like
the Egyptian women. who use g mans
saddle with shortened stlrrups. then
sitting as far forward OH the saddle as
possible they throw ther feet to the
rear and ride solely from balance:
The Empress Augusta Victoria Of
Germany is a victim of the photo
graphic craze. She is having Der
photographs made in all sorts of cos
tunes and upon all occasions. One of
the latest was taken by n of her
suite during q hunting expedition. 1t
represents her with q large hunting
knife by her side, d revolver in one
hand and a lasso in the other.
Mrs. Catherine Mindock is the keeper
of Rondout light, on the west shore ct
the Hudson River. just south of Kings
ton. N. Y. Her husband died one yaaf
after he had been appointed to the
position during Pieree's Administra.
ton, and she at once took his place.
The light is il d tower in the north
east corner of the granite dwelling in
which she lives.
Miss Klumpke is a young woman as
tronomer at the Paris Observatory,
who ONE from California. With a
staff of women assistants she has charge
9f the eastern tower Her duty is to
record the movements of planets, etc.
Although only tw%enty-four years old,
she has been q pupil in the observatory
for five years, being the first woman to
be SO admitted.
A well known firm of fashion pat
tern manufacturers has lately bought
from Miss Laura Lee, the young Bos-
ton artist, her designs for a reform
dress for women. Miss Lee, who has
attractive personality, frequently