The Opelousas courier., 1894-02-17
.IcEEN0TE5A
Fewer colors are seen on hats.

parliamentary procedure.
Roman ladies carried at their girdles
lunches of metal ornaments, purses,
keys and looking glasses.
In all the best styles of pocketbooks
the flap folds over the clasp with no
visible fastening to confine it.
Two Chinese women have taken the
examination for the medical depart
ment of the University of Michigan.
ABurlington, kan. woman is going
to start a crazy quilt with the ribbons
her husbands sheep won at the Worlds
Fair.
Miss Osgood, of Brooklyn, is the
only woman who has ever been allowed
to work and copy in the Palace of YER
s%ailles, France.
Gowns trimmed with all the furs will
be extremely swagger, and the mink
tails will be used as an accessory to
muffs and toques.
Envelope moisteners are tomething
new. 1t will soon be considered vulgar
to seal letters by moistening them with
the tip of the tongue.
Mourning paper is going out OF
fashion abroad. Instead a little trl-
angle is printed in the corner OF the
envelope and the note paper.
The late Mrs. Elizabeth Shute, Of
Lynn Mass, left by her will, which
has just been probated, 500, 600 for
the erection of a new public library
building i'll that city.
Therei is talk ofreviving the Chantilly
wells, which are worked all over and
serve as a sort of mask. They will
hardly become very popular, as they
are not generally becoming.
Black satin slippers with huge
f~osettes Of tulle are the favorite for
evening wear. The rosette is placed
so that only the point of the toe is
seen, making the foot appear much
shorter.
On large hats the Prince Of Wales
plumes are still stately conspicuous,
Wings and quilts are relegated to the
toque, which has returned to us nor
pertly and jaunty than ever after its
brief eclipse.
A Parsee woman named Miss obragi
has studied law at Oxford. England.
and Intends to practice in India. This
is the first Oriental woman who has
dared to venture into the domain of
Jurisprudence.
A marked simplicity and elegance,
which is the perfection of chic, is the
chief feature of millinery this season.
Feathers are the most important
decorations. Those used on bonnets
are the small ostsieh tips.
Some of the new mittens of silk
show the fingers divided by a small
ridge of silk. which passes between
each finger and il deep enough to pre-.
vent the mittens from being pushed
up on the back of the hand.
Fur is 6 prominent hat trimming.
There is a good deal of it used in edges
and in defining outlines. Tiny fur
heads, with heady, bright eyes, are
made to do duty as clasps to hold stiff
wings and aigrettes in place. i .
Mile. Aimee Rapin, the armisss art.
list, who drew with her feet the pastel
of the Duchess of York, is a young
Genevoise of remarkable ability. and
as a child drew with her feet better
than most people draw with the T
hands.
The fancy for neck ruches still RACES.
Although they ara called E~lizabethan
they are made of soft and light mate
rials, which do not hold the head SO
stifty as the original models did. Only
ladies with very long necks should in
dulge in these ruches.
"No woman" said a promenader,
"attracts more attention in the streets
than do the simply but strikingly at.
tired women of the Salvation Army.
Though they have been among us now
for years they seem to attract as much
curious notice as ever"
An English fashion in letter writing
is the commencing of letter upon the
last sheet, instead of the first, and con-
tinuing in the same way. 1t is more
! elegant to write a short note upon the
inside of the double sheet, leaving the
two outside pages blank.
Ice cream was first made by Dolly
Adams, the charming, hospitable lady
whom every one associates with the
beginning of our country's history.
The first time ice cream was served was
at Washington's first Inauguration as
President in New York, 1889.
It is said that ''Newmarkets" are
coming in again for colder wear, and
| there are certainly some ''stunning'
| listers of fawn-colored doeskin, with
several capes, each piped on the edge
with red or myrtle-green cloth snd
fastened across the front with a little
silver chain.
A set of handsome dress or CLOAK
trimmings in almost any color or Gem
bination of colors can now be I,ur-
chased in fringes, %corselets, in vide
girdIes, plastrons with revers, bre-
telles, or shoulder capes, to be used on
the round corsage. Fringes are largely
imported in jet, silk, Persian, and
gold-lined crystal beads; also in imi-
tation of gems and old coins both in
gold and silver.
THE black and white craze has ex-
tended to gloves. Black undrensed
evening gloves come with all the seams
stitched in white, the back braided in
W hite, narrow bands of white above
the wrist and another band at the top.
White evening gloves have similar