The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-10-08
NEWs AND NOTES FOR WOAENs

Plain black basques are worn With
fancy skirts, an old-tirs fashion hap
PLY revived.
A curious combination Of the new
woman and The old is the Oklahoma
bloomer quilting bee.
1lrs. John G. Carlisle believes IL
bicycle riding as part Of the educa-
ton Of every healthy girl.
Florence Nightingale, who IS now
au invalid, recently completed the
! sixty ty-seyenth year of her life.
\ daughter Of the poet LougEellow
lives in Washington, Her name Is
Marion Lonefel!ow O'Donohue.
After every member OF q woman 5
cI1b in Spokane. WASH. had been
President the organization went to
pieces.
Many Of the basques have fitted
fancy vests, and there are some new,
oddly shaped collars that are very
pretty.
Brown University has conferred the
degree Of Doctor Of Letters upon Mrs.
julia J. Irvine, President Of Wellesley
College.
Mrs. Cioyelands fad is amateur pho
tosraphy, anil she has i'll her posses
sion many snapshots at tho members
Of her household.
NIr= Stanford deTotes all her time
and energies to the management OF
the California university bearing her
deceased sons name.
Among the fellowships most 7alued
at Cornell are those in literature, and
ole of them this year falls to Miss
Louise Robbins of the class Of 81.
Miss Agnes Irwin, Dean Of Radcliffe
College, Harvard University, has been
honorel with the degree of Doctor Of
Laws by tho Western University Of
Pittsburg.
Hair cloth extends no more than
ten inches from the bottom Of the
skirt, and often notasfar. The skirts
are very few where this stifenlng Is
used the entiro length of the back.
If one wishes black skirt to wear
with several fancy waists, the addition
Of the godet hip piecesis desirable; in
fact, last years skirt Of good cut
with this change wo2ld be quite up to
date.
De Brazza's bride is a plucky girl.
She will accompany the great e1plor-
er when be returns to the Congo next
month, and will share the privatlons
as we'll as the hoaors Of his work
there.
Miss Gertrude Pearson, Of Boston,
las received tho prize for tue best
written. work in general chemistry out
of class of fifty-two or more students
Of the College Of Physicians and Sur
geons.
Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated
at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged
by the University of Leipsic to assist
Dr.. Raisel, it's American professor Of
history, in preparing history OF the
United States.
Eastport, Me-, Las genuine new
woman, but Of u type lot likely to be-
come fashionable. She regularly does
a man work on voodpile, handling
the bucksaw and axe with all the skill
Of the hardest male expert.
The Queen Of Italy is said to be al
enthusiastic collector Of boots aud
shoes. Her collection includes shoes
Of Marie Antoinette, Of the Empress
Josephine, Mary Stuart, Queen Anne,
and the Empress Catherine Of Russia.
Al article on the elegencies Of tie
toilets Of fair Parisians, in Figaro,
contains the information that "baths
qualified by fresh strawberries are said
to be very refreshing; twenty pounds
are rubbed through sieve for each
bath.'
When Emma Willard began the
higher education Of her sex by found
ing the Troy Seminary. she was told
that she would be wanting to send the
COWS to school next, and the State Of
New York refused to spend dollar in
aiding her experiment.
Tho fn-de-siecle "iudess carries
her watch anywhere except in pock-
et-pendant for instance, from her
belt or waist. European papers as.
sert that, as consequence. many
more ladies' watches IRE nowadays lost
or stolen--but not stolen by plckpock'
ets.
Tie first women graduates os Glas-
gov University, Miss Sarah Logan
Blair and Miss Isabelle Blackjack, were
loudly cheered by the young men at
their attendance upon the ''cappiug'
ceremony to obtain their N. A. de.
grees. The boys made the old lall
ring with the strains Of ''she's Jolly
Good Fellow
Sonora Maris de Burton died in CHI
cayo recently. She was the wife
Of the late General H. S. Burton,
United States Army, and Was claim
ant for m enormous tract Of land Ill
Mexico, under grant made by the
Hing OF Spain tc her grandfather, Dou
Jose Manuel Ruiz. 4 Chicago syDdl-
cate was negotiating to buy the clelm'
which is valued at S., 100000.
Lady Irving, wife Of the newly
knishtea actor, is described as "a
slender, sweet-faced woman with
weary looking eyes and pathetic
droop at the corners Of he: mouth ~-
| e charming woman, looking much too
youthful and fragile to Ge the mother
Of two tall sons" Lady Irving lives
in stricteet privacy, apart from her
, husband, but her boys visit her very
! often.