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Fluted effects are sought whenever
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 il
probably the best dressed woman ii
Europe.
Plaid silk blouses, with velvet
jackets, are arrayed in number oi
pretty variations.
The Waltham Matchmaking estab.
lishment employs 1900 women among
its 5000 work people.
Cape Colony in South Africa has
municipal woman suffrage. The colony
rules 1000, 900 square miles.
Low, small dishes of decorated china
or of cut glass are used for bonbons,
and longer low dishes for celery.
White, with pearl trimmings and
ornaments, is very much de rigeur fol
the evening gowns of young women.
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
day to come. The large fruit baskets
are magnificent.
There are entire apartment house.
in New York monopolized by self.
supporting bachelor girls, and they
are the happiest of their sex.
Lady Eva Quinn, wife of Captain
Wyndham their presumptive of the
Dunraven), has killed six grown tigers
from the frail shelter of a howdah.
Lemon-yellow seems to be one OF
the popular trimming colors. A hand.
some 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. Its 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 mass oi
wrinkles.
Mrs. Augusta G. Hagen, of Phila
delphia, conducts, jointly with hel
husband, a real estate business in
Philadelphia. She takes entire charge
of the Office during his absence. Mrs.
Hagen has been appointed notary
public.
A lovely evening dress shows the re-
turn to fashion of the costly lamine
gauze, which displays 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 zeal
in all kinds of philanthropic work,
especially in the realms of organized
charity, or the Associated Charities.
1t is quite obvious that difference
between the fabric of the bodice and
that of the skirt will be fashionable
for some time. AS material for in
dependent waists changeable silk has
been used for some time. The newer
waists are made of solid colors, crepe
being used good deal. The plair
black surah waist is 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.
little while ago she slipped away from
state and went to spend week with O
lady to whom she is much attached,
who had been in attendance on her
but since married. She preserved {
strict incognito as Miss Wells, an(
enjoyed herself amazingly at tennit
parties and other country house fes
tivities. She was immensely popular.
Miss Grace Thomas is the only wo.
man in Washington, D. c., engaged
in the real estate business. The origin
and growth OF one Of the popular su
burbs is attributed entirely to her en-
ergy and enterprise. Miss Thomas
began her training for the business as
an under secretary in the Office of I
Cincinnati real estate agent. Having
learned the business, she selected