The free press., 1895-10-03
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in demand.
Lady Habberton is urging that fe-
male servants dress in knlckerbockers'
Catharine Parr Trail is yet writing
books, although she is nlnety-two
years of age.
Men no longer offer their arm to
ladies in handing them from dining TO
drawing room.
An active agitation is carried on at
Vienna, Austria, in favor OF the higher
education of women.
A new fad of society girls is to col
lect the little bows from the hatpands
of their gentlemen friends.
Susan B. Anthony is not radical IN
appearance. She dresses very quietly
and has very motherly ways.
Tweeds in varied qualities and new
stylish color schemes occupy proml-
nent place among autumn dress goods.
Violet and lavender hold..their own
remarkably we'll as fashionable col
ors. The former continues to lead In
Paris.
The Princess of Wales has tea SER
vice set of sixty pieces, and each piece
is decorated with photograph which
she took herself in Scotland.
New waists are made with very
short basque skirts that turn out
abruptly from the waist-line and are
slightly ruffled around the edge.
Among the Colonial danes and
maidens embroidering the family coat
of-arms or crest is what may be called
fashionable fancy work in public.
Mile. Jeanne Benaken, licentiate of
philosophy at Paris, took her bache-
lor's degree at the age Of sixteen-al-
most an unprecedented feat in Euro
pean universities.
Artificial flowers are much the vogue
on dancing gowns. A Partisan frock
recently seen was of violet glace silk
with the short puffed sleeves made en-
tirely of pink rosebuds.
Princess Stephanie, the widow of
Rudolph of Austria, is one of the most
daring woman mountaineers in Eu-
rope, and has made several extremely
perilous Alpine ascents.
Tho eightieth birthday of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton will be appro-
priately celebrated by the National
Council of Women at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York City.
Medium and lightweight crepons,
plain and with colored stripes and
dots, will remain in fashionable favor,
but they will not reach the universal
popularity they enjoyed this season.
1t IS not correct to have pockets in
the up.to-date dress skirt. Therefore,
the pocket handkerchief is something
produced from the most unexpected
places on the person of the young wo-
man.
The mother of Mrs. Jack Gardner,
the famous Boston society leader, is
the second wife of Bierstadt, the ar
tist. Her first husband left her for
tune, which he made in the candy
trade.
1t is said that Mary E. Wilkins has
an extremely immature, girlish hand
writing, which was great drawback
to getting her manuscripts accepted
when she first began to write for the
press.
A hat in modified sailor shape is
trimmed with loops of very wide rib
bon that stand upright on either side
of the crown. The entire front is
covered by a wreath of roses with
foliage.
Radical changes in the style o!
coitfure are predicted for the autumn
by Paris papers that have space fol
such important announcements. And,
it is further stated, "false hair is com
ing back"
Fans are much smaller than hereto
fore, and the most fashionable are the
pretty Empire air-givers mounted on
tortoise-shell sticks of yellow. Others
are embroidered very finely with baby
ribbon, in Louis XIV. styles, and il
Illuminated with spangles.
Very charming waists are develope
of the gorgeous silks in which are com
mingled the French and Roman col
ors, but they are not intended fol
women of forid complexion. Th,
Oriental silk crepons of Eastern de
signs produce very much softer an(
prettier harmonies.
Pale green is popular color thi
season. Gowns and hats, cloaks an(
toques, evening frocks and street suits
share the craze. Tho tint never ap
pears to better advantage, though
than when used as a foundation colo
for the open work linens and lawn
that enjoy favor equal to its own,
New waterproof cloaks OF red, blacl
and mixed colors are piped with white
giving an extremely smart effect. On
quite perfect i'll It's way is of fawl
color, piped with white. 1t is of ul
ster pattern, with enormous armhole
to its sleeves, IA boasts II velvet col
lar and mammoth mother Of pear
buttons.