The Opelousas courier., 1894-01-06
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The Shetland women are the finest
knitters in tile world.
The Duchess of Portland is the tall.
est Duchess in the world.
! Mrs. Roswell P. Flowers charities
cost her On average of $3.50 a week.
The violet is conventionally the only
flower that can be worn by a person in
mourning.
The Queen of Portugal is credited
with making many of her OWE and her
children's clothes.
Eton jackets Of fur are being worn,
and e1mine is going to be the fashions
able lining for cloaks.
Mrs. James G. Aver has a superb
collection of Jewels. Some of them,
indeed, arc world renowned.
Colored shoes are only suitable for
the daintiest feet, and display the
proportion better when made with SIM
plicity.
Dress waists are worn so very tight
fitting that it is almost impossible for
the fashion-loving women in them to
breathe properly.
Round waists have lost none of their
prestige, but are rivaled by basque
bodices and pointed corsages with frills
attached to the lower edge.
Denim is one of the best materials
for dress facings. It will outlast six
facings of silesia and will not rubyou,
shoes white as does the canvas.
Buttons are to be worn in sill sizes
and compositions, but simply as a
trimming. The waist will be fastened
with hooks underneath the buttons.
Crinoline is in stock, but it is not in
style. Modistes use it for hat, collar
and sleeve-head lining, but not a scrap
is put in the skirt Of a stylish dress.
A noted physician says that the most
prolific u of woman's nervous dis
eases, Mysteries, spinal diseases and
sick headaches is high-heeled boots.
Brooklyn boasts of two women who
are employed IS blacksmith and deco
rator, respectively. Mrs. Bridget Due
gan is employed in the former trade
and Miss Mary Leaf in the latter.
To prevent delicate chintzes and
calicoes from fading when washed, dis
solve five cents worth of sugar of lead
in q bucket of cold water and soak
the dress for two hours. Then wash it.
The young Duchess of York has had
to wear mourning twice since her mar
riage. The royal family has now so
many ramiications hat scarcely a
week passes that some connection does
not die.
Long hair should never be sham
pooed more than once a month. Brush
ing stimulates the growth of the hair
and makes it glossy and soft. It also
stops the hair from falling out and is
the best tonic for the scalp.
Mrs. Marshall Field is considered
one of the most charitable women in
Chicago. Sympathy as we'll as help is
rendered women out of employment.
All applications for help are investi-
gated by Mrs. Fields private secre-
tary.
A hundred and fifty years ago IN
married as we'll as married women were
"Mrs." Girls were called tsMiss'
until they left school, when they took
rank as ''Mrs.," while married women
were very generally addressed a
MADAM"
Perhaps the secret of Nine. CARROTS
p~erpetuaIly youthful looking pictures
is to be found in the fact that for the
last fifteen years she has. steadily de-
clined to be photographed. She de-
clares that she will never submit to the
ordeal again.
Mrs. Edward Payson Terhune MAR
ion Harland) is interchangeable in her
literary work. She has written cook
books and novels, essays and blank
verse, and has now sailed for Europe
and the Holy Land to gather materials
for an oriental romance.
A st. Louis woman has lately per-
fected an invention for making sweet
potato flour. The process includes
the potato and drying the peel
rs a food for live stock, drying and
grinding the potato into three grades
Of flour, and also slicing into Saratoga
Wellsville, Allegheny County, in
Western New York, has forty women
agriculturists, all successful. One has
stock farm. One was a housemaid;
her brother failed on the old home
she had saved money; she
the farm a few years since, and
I'll it's belongings are rejuvenated.
Princess Maud Of Wales is particu-
arly fond of assuming an alias and
dropping some of the red tape of roy
atty. Every year she goes to visit
ler former governess, who lives in
Always the sensible
Princess insists on being called "Miss
and upon being treated as a
member of the family.
Elizabeth Banks, once private secre-
AIRY to the British Minister to Peru,
will publish in q London daily series
If articles concerning her experiences
IS a parlormaid and a housemaid in
families. The title will be
In Cap and Apron" She recon-.
nends domestic service to poor girls
n preference to shop work.
The Empress of Germany has just
lad a model of her figure made to be
lsed as a substitute when she cannot
personally have her dresses fitted. It
strange that this should just
AVE been done. when American women
ave for some time had forms made