The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-06-21

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Modern draw iug.rooms have more
che aspect of being furnished ioi
use.
Tho summer girl viii have Just an-
other season of shirt waist aud sailor
hat
Women who economic In material
for the godot skirt are iashionabiy
lost
Princess Louise Is actively engaged
in many benefits for crippled chill
dron.
Many Of tho tall palms seen Ia the
hallway Of the modern house are arti'
fetal
Nowadays tho really stylish woman
designs her buttons as we'll as her
clothes.
Lady Arthur Butler has had n base.
ball diamond laid out for her tenants
at sandleiord Priory, England.
Bonnots are merely fat little tri-
angles or circlets in front, with straw
supports for bows or other trimmings
at tho back.
Miss Mary Proctor, the daughter OF
the astronomer, will lecture on astro-
nomy at Chautauqua during the com.
ing summer.
Accordion-plaited silks, with the
plaits running across the goods, now
come by the yard, and make very
pretty waists.
Every season IL is predicted that
the reign Of the silk waist viii be over,
and every season it reappears more
beautiful than ever
In order to meet the requirements
Of the fuller skirts of dresses, petit
coats are made wider by the addition
of very deep, full rutfles.
The new sheer French and Venetian
goods are like the finest silk in tex
ture, and may we'll be classed among
the luxurious fancies of the season.
Atwood challies in black and navy
blue grounds, which can now be pur.
chased at half their former price,
make comfortable and desirable house
gowns.
Miss Marion Talbot has been ap.
pointed Dean OF the Woman's College
in the University of Chicago, taking
the place OF Mrs. Alice Freeman
Palmer.
The Dowager Countess of Glasgow
died recently at the age of ninety
nine. She had been a grown woman
several years when the battle of
Waterloo was fought.
The long-necked vases Of clear white
crystal or green glass are still popu-
lar, and, where quality rather than
quantity is to be considered, render q
table most attractive.
1t is not too much to say that the
best-dressed women in Europe are the
Parisiennes, for with them it is not
merely a matter of what they wear
but of how they wear it.
The wise young bride will not ask
her husband to go shopping with her
or to take luncheon in a tea room with
great feminine patronage. It hastens
the day of disenchantment.
Countess Rantzau was one of the
twenty-eight guests at the luncheon
given by Bismarck or March 25. The
presence of woman at political
gathering is novelty in Germany.
Silks are even prettier than ever, il
that is possible Powered designs
on light grounds are popular, and
black gros grain, with a very heavy
cord, is again becoming fashionable.
Many of the female students at the
University of Michigan want to weal
bloomers and they are going to make
fight for the privilege. Some Of the
professors wives are backing them up.
Lord William Beresford will re
ceive $50, 900 a year as the Duchess o.
Marlborough's husband. The Duchess
was formerly Mrs. Hamersley, of New
York City, the widow of millionaire
grocer.
Miss Gertrude Amen, of North Da.
kota, is one of the tallest women in
the world. Miss Amen is six feet one
inch high, but is so graceful and we'll
formed that the height is not particu
larly noticeable.
The new straw hats como in every
imaginable tint. There are darl
green's shading off to the palest zen
ruby red to faint shell pink; deel
purple to lightest mauve. The straw
are either very light and rough or ar
woven "a jour" and almost all hav
large waved brims.
All styles, whether for young o
old. says that sleeves must be eithe
long or very short. The new blouse;
are nearly all made with elbow sleeves