The Opelousas courier., 1894-02-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Ermine is very fashionable.

in the morning.
One-seventh of the land owners in
Great Britain are women
Jet ruf1ing, as supple as r%ufling 81
silk, is used on velvet wraps.
About five feet four inches is consid'
cred the average height of women.
The favorite jewel in London this
season is the pale yellow carnelian.
Rochester IN. " University has
decided to admit women in all courses
offered by the institution.
Miss Ahearn, State Librarian Of In
diana, was recently elected Secretary
of the American Library Association.
Modjeska, the tragedienne, is said to
be q fine pianist and as an interpreter
of Chopin's music ste displays much
esprit, rs well as delicate fnesse.
The florists bill is an item of rather
vast proportions in one New York
house-something in the neighborhood
of 300 a month during the aso
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer is author
ltN lOl TIC StttSllCLl UIHtU III XIX 1dot
twenty-five years Sl1, 900, 900 has been
given in this country to women's COL
leges alone.
Some of the smart women abroad
wear their silk and satin mufs hung
on q silver chain; others utilize the
long gold and pearl chains in vogue a
season or two.
A clause in the charter recently be-
slowed on the University of Wales
makes women eligible equally with men
to every degree and office within the
gift of the university.
Among the novelties for evening
wear are collarettes of black ''footing,'
edged with white inserting. They are
about ten inches deep with double
capes and double ruffles abound the
neck.
Miss Helen Cam is one of the
youngest members of the galaxy of
Gotham amateurs who love the violin.
She Is only seventeen years of age, hut
avery good player. Her instrun mt
is an Amati.
The Duchess of Devonshire is one
of the handsomest women in London.
She is very bewitching when she
wears her ~favorite style of Mary Stuart
ruffle on q black velvet coat, and a
bonnet to suit.
The Harvard Annex has now $50
students, of whom twenty are doing
postgraduate work, about 100 are in
the four undergraduate classes and
the remainder are special students
taking advanced courses.
It is impossible to suppress the
tendency of Dame Fashion to revive
the modes of our grandmother time.
The rumori is that large earrings, which
have not been worn for a long time,
are again to become fashionable.
Women have taken two of the three
special fellowships offered by the Chi
cago University this year. Cora A.
Stewart, q Vassar girl, has become a
fellow IN history; Alice F. Pratt, of
the Chicago University, has become a
fellow in English literature.
The entrance hall to Mrs. John Ja-
cob Astor's country place, Fernclif. is
about fifty feet long by ninety-ive
wide. The walls are done in brass
paneling, with a frieze of blue and
black and terra Gotta. Deer heads,
almost too many to count, adorn the
walls.
The Empress of China has no sym
pathy with gay and Eighty fashions.
She celebrated her sixtieth birthday
by issuing a proclamation enioining a
general restraint Of extravaganza. Her
Majesty has e prohibited the GUS
tomary gifts of silks and Jewels by
ministers.
Mrs. George Gould is President of
the kindergarten and Potted Plant
Association, of New York City. On
each November s she gives out prizes
to the children who have been most
successful in the cultivation of the
plants given to them in the spring by
Mrs. Gould.
The sentiment with which American
girls cherish their wedding own
often preserving them for the first and
second generation, is %curioussly
changed IN the reigning house of
Austria, the Prlncesses of which pre- i
sent their magnificent bridal robes to
the church for priestly vestments.
Mrs. Ambrose Griffith, of Win |
chester City, has secured a patent on
an improved baking pan, her in
vent1on, which promises to yield her a
fortune. The pan is SO arranged that |
the process of baking can be observed
without removing the cover, a feature |
that every cook knows how to appre-
ciate.
The hereditary throat trouble which |
Is last reducing the Princess of Wales
to the stone-deaf condition of her
mother, the Queen of Denmark. has
also made its appearance in the third |
generation. The Princess Maud of
wales has a tendency to weakness of
the throat, which, it is feared, will i'm
pair her hearing, also.
An evening costume is of silver gray
striped MORE antique, family shot
with apple green and heliotrope. and
around the skirt with three
Of silk. The decollete bodice
has a deep collar Of apple green satin,
draped with jewe]ry and embroidered
net, repeating ~cleverly the delicate
coiors seen in the moire itself.
Mrs. Ye Cha Yum, wife of The first
Secretary of the Corean Legation at
Washington, is a handsome as
beauty in Corea goes. and a sweet