The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05

Anna Dickinson IS hfty-one year
old.
Women of rank go bareheaded il
Mexico.
Alexandria, which is green by day
and red by night, is a woman's stone.
A novelty for vests for the front OF
dresses is of white cloth embroidered
with jet.
Silver and gold caps on the ivory
handles of umbrellas are less obtru-
sive than last year, being much smaller.
Evening cloaks of black brocade are
trimmed with an ermine collarette and
lined with white MORE or brocaded
satin.
The Infanta Eulalie, who has been
spending much of her time in London,
is going to live in Paris during the
winter.
Evening cloaks of black brocade
are trimmed with an ermine collarette
and lined with white MORE o.
brocaded satin.
The Princess of Wales always sends
word to those who wish to present her
with bouquets as to the size and
weight of the presentation. The rose
Is her favorite flower.
To prevent the hair from coming
out take a pint of bay rum and half an
ounce of quinine. Mix and apply to
the scalp twice a day with a wooden
cloth, rubbing it in we'll.
The horseshoe is introduced into
various styles of dress. The horse
shoe crown is one of the newest forms
for bonnets, generally supplemented
by Mercury wings in front.
Chrysoprase, q charming light
green tinted stone, is in particular
favor this winter. Double hearts of
it,, surrounded by diamonds, are the
prettiest thing to be imagined.
"Miss Smith, of England" is de-
scribed as the protector of "inexpen-
sive homes for g~entlewomen." Among
these desirable places are some small
furnished cottages as low as $1.25 a
week.
Mrs. Ellen @. johnson, Superinten-
dent of an English prison for women,
finds she can control and stimulate her
charges to higher effort by offering
them prettier clothes as a reward for
improved behavior.
Fashionable hairdressers say that
hair brushed to q satin finish will be
worn in the near future, although the
fringe of short curls about the face
will be retained, rs they make a wo-
man look more youthful.
The skirt of the day is no longer
lined stiff stuff, but is wadded up
to the waist with very thin wadding,
and, of couase, covered with silk or
satin, the softer the better, for it is
no longer good form to have the gown
rustic.
Silk and wool mixtures will be
largely used in the making of street
and church costumes for the spring.
In its weaving the silk threads are
thrown almost wholly on the surface
of the goods, and a rich lustrous effect
produced.
Mrs. Casey Tincher, ninety years
old, went to Carlisle, Ky, the other
day to draw her pension. She walked
twelve miles and seemed no more ex-
hausted than a woman of thirty would
have been. She walks to town at least
once a week.
Artificial flowers are worn on even
ing dresses, placed as if they were
growing at the side of the skirt, but
nearly always mixed with ribbons.
Large punches and large trails are
used, and only the most natural look
ing flowers are worn.
Imagine q household numbering
5000 persons and no woman allowed
any part in the management. Suchis
the case at Dolma Bagtche palace of
the Sultan. His Majesty uses
q plate and seldom a knife or fork,
but the dinner services are of gold and
silver.
Everything that is waved is fash
ionable. Worsted braids waved come
in all colors. and a design in waved
velvet with a jet edge has jet stars
worked all over the velvet. Some of
the braids HAYES waved edge crocheted
in silk, which makes them very hand
some.
Double breasted effects appear upon
many of the bodices of winter
costumes, and this mode is often
carried out in stylish house-dresses,
tho bodice pointed or in basque form,
and cut down low, over a guimpe of
some pretty contrasting color and
material.
A woman mail carrier, Rose Shell
ley, carries the mails regularly be-
tween Dexter and Goshen, an eight
een-mile stretch of lonesome road in
Lane County, Oregon. Early or late,
snow or shine, she makes the trip, and
no stress of weather or fear of road
agents has yet interfered with her
performance of her duty.
A curious fashion has found some
favor in England. The hostess at an
afternoon at home is supposed to feel
sufficiently odd, as the only lady in
the room without a bonnet, that she |
had adopted the custom of wearing /
some head covering herself. As a
lookeron observes, it is rather a queer /
spectacle to see the lady Of the house
in a hat receiving her friends under /
her own roof.
One of the latest ideas is to keep a
scrap book containing all the refer