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Russian railroads have women's
smoking cars.
1t is said that bicycle bloomers are
not popular in Chicago.
An edition of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer was issued by 100 women.
Maladies incident to excessive gay.
ETY. keep the fashionable physicians
very busy.
The opera hat that crushes down
just like mans is being imported for
the tailor-made girl.
Horses are almost unknown in
Japan, but the present Empress is a
skilled equestrienne.
The up-to-date girl is having the
gems that once glistened in her ears
made into finger-rings
The custom of blackening their
teeth after marriage is dying out
among Japanese women.
There is a fashionable craze for
brooches OF all kinds, with the prefer
ence ior Sranunamma 8.
The very latest feather boa is much
shorter than those which have been
worn, reaching only to the waist.
The time has arrived when women
of Vanity Fair wear the same evening
dress twice without exciting comment.
Miss Clara Brett Martin, the lead
ing woman lawyer in Canada, has been
nominated for school trustee of To-
ronto.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's fad in
animals is little white kitten which
came all the way from Paris in q
Grated box.
Fastidious youths make trouble.
One has broken his matrimonial en-
gagement because the young woman
persisted in riding bicycle.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt. the New
York heiress, who recently "came
out" is said to have a great deal of
character, but she is not o beauty.
1t is said that in London alone there
are no fewer than 10000 professional
musicians Of various grades, and that
more than half of them are women.
Moire gauze in lovely pale shades is
a new material for evening dresses,
and decided moire effects are shown
in the new crepons.
The buckles which are sold sepa-
rately for the decoration of stock col
lars can now be had in crystal, moon
stones, rhinestones, silver, gold, steel
and jet.
Walking gloves of dogskin are the
correct fashion for the tailor-made
gown. Tan and red tan shades are
the most worn by the fashionable
women.
The fans used by Algerian Indies are
put together like flags, the spread of
the fan swinging only from side to
side instead of back and forth in the
usual way.
A new purse is made of woven gold
threads, made small at the top by a
patent gold spring and finished with
u gold knob set with jewels or holding
tiny watch.
Mrs. w. j. Baird, the famous chess
prnblem woman, of London, advises
all women to learn to play chess. She
says it will correct their tendency to
jump at conclusions, and will help to
keep them at home.
Very pretty waists are made of
China silk, with stock collar and fold
ed girdle of velvet. Pearl color shot
and fowered with old rose, or olive
with pink, are fashionable mixtures,
magenta velvet being often used for
trimming.
The evening slipper now matches
the dress. This has become the rule
rather than the exception. The slip
per has high heel and low vamp, aud
is decorated with tiny buckle OF
steel, rhinestones or the more brilliant
Strass diamonds.
The paper soled shoe and silk stock
ing have had their day. Shoes made
of pliable calfskin with soles almost
half an inch thick, cut rather low and
with pointed toes, are the correct
style for walking. Woolen CATERS are
worn over them.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is
proficient in eleven European Ian
guages, and that she has in the last
four or. five years completely mastered
Hindoostanee, in which she converses
with great correctness and huency
with any Of her Indian subjects who
are presented Mt court
A new thing in silver for tho dress
ing table is hair receiver. 1t is q
small, low bowl fitted with q cover,
that has circular opening in the
centre about the size OF quarter,
through which combings are thrust.
1t is at once the tidest as well as most
ornamental hair receiver yet evolved.
Hand painted dresses with flowers
and fruit thrown in garlands all over
the skirt, or landscapes panied in me-
dallions on the front and sides, are an
extravagant fancy in Paris. And
added to this elegance is lace which
is threaded, in portIeres, with small
diamonds and costs $2000'pe metre.
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