The Opelousas courier., 1894-01-13
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next red to be handed down from ages
ago.
New evening gowns have a white
silk skirt with black silk muslin
bodice.
Shoulder-capes are made with double
fronts in Russian style and enormous
ly full plated collars.
In spite of the black and white fad,
black and magenta is having lin pros
pect) a successful run.
Velvet-dotted moires trimmed with
mirror velvet are already ordered for
matrons reception gowns.
The fchu cape with long ends fall
ing over the front of the skirt is ono
Of the features of autumn costumes.
The women of Iceland have had
municipal suffrage for more than
twenty years. They are TO- eligible
to municipal offices.
New York has five women lighthouse
keepers; New England has two.
Nancy Rose, of Stony Point, N. Y,
has been in the business thirty-fve
years.
Knitted corsets are an invention
which comes from England, and are of
service to the weak and nervous who
cannot bear any pressure Of tight OR
u%nyielding clothing about them.
Quite the latest idea in lamp shades
is 10 have a series Of shades of delicate
heliotrOpe. They can be either round,
So a or octagonal, and made of silk,
chiffon over silk, or mousseline de sole
without any lining.
An observant statistician makes the
amazing assertion that girls with re-
trousse noses marry soone and are
more fortunate in catching good hus-
bands than II ladies whose fea-
lures are of the Greek or Roman type.
All the important cretonnes are now
perfectly initiated in wall paper and
are considered very artistic. For
morning rooms and bed chambers the
cretonne and paper are used together,
and the effect is harmonious and
pleasing.
In a plot of ground twenty by thirty
feet Mrs. Mary E. Loud, of Chelsea,
Mass, has succeeded in cultivating
wild flowers to such a degree as to win
the commentator of the Massachusetts,
Horticultural Society. She has Sc
| lected the plants 50 that some are in
bloom all the year.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, as we'll as
, her distinguished husband, is an ar
dent lover of music, and her charities
are very apt to take the musical form,
50 to speak. If a Kindergarten or q
hospital is in need of a piano Or organ
an appeal to Mrs. Carnegie is certain
tc enlist her sympathy as well as her
substantial aid.
II used to buy shoes Of the best
quality" said a young m "but
now l buy shoes at just half the price
that 1 formerly paid and get twice as
many pairs. The result is that they
are always fresh and fresh looking.
OF course the quality isn't so nice, but
l think the lackin quality is mere than
madeu Up by the increase in daintiness."
Near Madison Square, New York
City, in a side street, there may be
found q "Millinery Institute" in which
| young women are instructed in the
magic art Of making SIS and 800 hats
out of . dollar and eleven cents worth
OF material. This should be a valua-
BILE tip for young married N and
others of the fair sex who would prac-
tice economy.
Mrs. Sallie Walsh johnson, who died
q few days ago in Washington, was the
daughter Of the late Governor Wilson
Shannon, of Kansas, and q famous
beauty. She is said to have attracted
the attention of the Grand Duke Alex
is, of Russia, at a ball in st. Louis,
during his visit to this 7ountry several
years ago, when he declared her to be
the handsomest woman in America.
Among the stitched serge. cloth and
cancels hair hats, that with Tam crown
and rolled, stitched brim, is the pretti-
est. The crown is lifted slightly by a
quill or two, pointing forward. This
hat was added to the small variety of
travelling hats last spring by one or
two houses, but, together with the
stitched turban, has waited until
autumn for a more general introduc-
ton.
The revival of the overskirts is Great
ing some attention in the fashion
world. They are being made to fall
in long points, nearly covering the
skirt beneath, one point extending
down the front and another each side
of the back. Skirts without overskirts
will, however, still remain in favor,
and are being worn plain at the front
and sides, with all the fullness at the
back.
"Composition" millinery, as it is
called, is the millinery of the hour. A
fashionable French hat of brown felt,
fawn color, on the underside has ros-
cites of brown satin brocade and fawn
velvet with m~ulticolored cord edging,
green-blue wings, a peacock osprey,
and one flaming red quill, completing
a tumble of colors and materials any
thing but artistic, no matter how fash
ionable.
To carry ones fan in the hand or
swinging from the arm is no longer de
rigueur. A fan bag is an essential part
of the voguish evening toilet. Of satin
brocade or kid, with jewels sprinkled
in aimless fashion across its surface,
the bag adds quite q dash of p%rettiness
to it's wearer's costume. Long satin
ribbons, through which the wrist is
thrust, support this cunning fan nest.
a few sandal wood chiDs scattered