Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-04-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

French models show vlolets and
cowslips mingled in charming con-
fusion.
OF the large body OF property own
ers in Great Britain seventh are
women.
Marion Harland has gone to Pales-
tine with the intention of writing az
Oriental novel.
Military braid sprinkled with gold
or embroidered in Oriental fashion is
used to trim wool dresses.
The Jet bands and tiny fringes OF
spangles and fine cut beads are to be
very much in evidence OF bat brims.
Jet bonnets from Paris are In small.
close Puritan shapes. with a wreath o:
violets over the face and at the back.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the write,
on birds, did not know n bird from
another until she was past middle
age.
Sculptors contend that the height OF
the Venus de Medici, FIVE feet five
inches, is the perfect stature fol-
women.
One of the prettiest trimmings TO,
the new bastistes and ginghams is
opcn-worked embroidery wrought or
the goods.
Flowers are tied in huge knots OF
ribbon in front or at the back, many
dropping low over the hair, but very
little side trimming is seen.
Mrs. Amelia A. Frost, of Littleton,
Mass, is the first woman preacher to
be ordained by the straightlaced Con,
gregationalists of the Bay State.
A little handbook of "Women'A
Employments,' recently published in
London, schedules fifty-six recognized
callings at present open to the sex.
The bouquet that will be most
fashionable in London this season is
called 1.-THE New Victoria Shower, '
and is composed chiefly of orchids.
An American colored woman, Mrs.
Amanda Smith, IS a temperance
evangelist in England now, lecturine
under the auspices of Lady Somerset.
The directoire capote is announced
in London for elderly ladies, but
American women did not take kindly
to the shape whan it appeared be-
fore.
The regulation sailors hat has
| appeared with a very high crown and
a narrow rim, which gives it a very
mannish effect, not becoming ito many
faces.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. it is said,
received the very munificent sum of
s. for the Battle Hymn of the Re-
public and so for her poem, "Oul
| ORDERS"
Mrs. Nancy Gilman, aged ninety,
recently secured 100 signatures to
petition asking the New Hampshire
Legislature to grant the right to
| vote to women
The unpleasant habit that young
mothers have of insisting upon kissing
the baby has resulted inca Philadel
| phia organization called "The Anti
Baby Kissing Society"
Mrs. Frances Crosby, authoress o.
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and
three thousand other hymns, is sixty
four years old. She lives IN New
York, and has been blind since she
was six weeks old.
Miss May Philbrook is the first
woman to apply for admission to the
bar of New Jersey, and the justices
are SO bothered with the problem that
the whole Supreme Court Of the State
will consider the question.
When writing a letter the Empress
Eugene always uses the diamond
pen with which the Treaty of Paris
was signed. 1t is a quill plucked
from a golden eagles wing. and
mounted with diamonds and gold.
Miss Helen Carroll is said to be thu
richest girl in her own right in Wash
ington. She is a sister of Roya
Phelps Carroll, and inherited I'm in
come of $40, 900 q year from he
grandfather, the late Royal Phelps
Of New York.
Judge Newton, ofUniontown, Penn
has made Mrs. Sarah Elkins a tip
staff Of the court, TO have charge o
the ladies' wsiting-room and looh
after the female witnesses and prison.
ers and take charge of their rooms.
The philosophical faculty Of tn.
University of Heidelberg has resolved
that women students can be ADMITTED
to the degree of doctor there. II
Gottingen also similar facilities are
permitted, and two English ladies,
who have already stndied mathematic:
at Cambridge, are attending lecture.
there.
In the style Of dressing the cal,
there Is a tendency to loosen the front,
wave 1t over the ears, and fasten j
into a bunch of curls. which must b.
tied with a wetered ribbon a. the lack
Gray hair has become SO fashionahl.
that whatever the color may be ia.
lstes. fad, IS 10 wear one little car. 0:
gray at the side of the forehead.
The Empress Elizabeth. OF Austria
by q severe system OF fasting and CT
e~rcise, massage, and training like
SPORTING man succeeds ~ taarTn- -.