The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-05-09
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A bicycle with patent saddle
specially adapted'to fat women IS the
latest.
There are no gifts which pleases
Queen Victoria moro than photo
graphs.
Some of ,the swagger girls of New
York have taken to wearing the
monocle.
Thirteen,girls of the ninety-eight in
the present senior class at Vassar Col
lege have,been awarded honors.
Many extreme things in sleeves are
brought out this season. A novelty
shows the,sleeves and shoulder cut in
one.
Silk and wool MORE is o modish fab
rio for walking dresses. 1t is woven
in changeable effects and is very sty-
lisl.
Anseffort is being made to bring the
old-fashioned buttoned Oxford i'll
again, but it is doubtful if it will sue
coed.
On several of the newest evening
dresses tho floral arrangements como
from the shoulder to the hem Of tho
dress.
TadsuSugie is the name of a Japanese
young woman who has been studying
in Wellesley College for three years,
and who is now teaching in Osaka in q
Christian school for girls.
A Copenhagen (Denmark) young
woman who held thief until tho
police camo was presented with q d1a-
mond brooch and letter of thanks
from the Director of Police.
From all present indications, tho
coming season is to be characterized
by the use of an amount of diapha-
nous material entirely without pro-
cedent in the history of fashion.
1t is to be one of the peculiarities
of this season that the dainty access
series, tho little fixings and cleverly
devised trimmings are to give dressy
character to palmer and more standard
models.
Women who are positive wrapper
CTuukB Gull uliuOSb CACuoCN III UitSil
devotion to this bit Of apparel sinceso
many attractive patterns have APP
peared in French fannels intended for
this purpose.
Forty Dundee women, near Elgin,
organized a society for the prevention
of gossip. Tt lasted two weeks. by Il
series of explosions for violation OF
the cardinal idea only the President is
now left in the society.
The "new woman" is beginning to
assert herself even in conservative Ger
many. -Four mass meetings were re-
Gently held in Berlin to demand
woman's suffrage, both for the Ger
man Reichstag and the Prussian Diet.
The Empress of Austria has not had
a portrait taken for thirty years. She
wants to be remembered as the brill
liant beauty who was almost six feet
tall, whose hair came below her knees
and whose waist measured seventeen
inches.
The wife of Field Marshal Oyama,
commander of the Japanese military
forces at Wei-Hai- was for num-
Der of years resident.of Connecticut.
and lived in the family'of the Rev. DR..
Leonard w. Bacon, of Norwich. She
is graduate of Vassar College and was
chosen President OF her class.
A good quality of black crepon,
surah or bengaline makes one of the
best "standby" gowns that woman
can possess, and in these days of seps-
rate waists and of separate adjustable
velvet stock collars. collarettes and
dainty lace neckwear, the black dress
can be changed in effect as often Us de-
sired.
The modest violet has been brought
into such prominence within the Inst
two years that it no longer justifes its
old-time reputation, Little punches
are tucked here and there on hats,
neck ruffs, fur boas and mutlIs with
great effect, and tiny blossoms are SO
dclicately perfumed that they Guido
nature.
The craze for English open-wor1
embroidery has attacked the ribbons.
and some of the new varieties have
pattern of very open embroidery
down the centre. Colored ribbons
are worked in black, and also in the
same shade. But novelty is all that
recommends them, for they are not
pretty.
In the death of Worth, tho famous
Partisan dressmaker, society loses IA
most efficient servent. His sense OF
color and proportion was SO thoroughly
developed and so true that it amounted
almost to genius, and his honesty and
courtesy led to strong personal
friendship for him on the part OF
those he served.
Hair-dressing has taken a turn back
ward, one might almost think, for
heads seem now dressed in the modes
of our great great-grandmothers, which
IL few years ago we should have called
Greatly very horribly old fashioned"