The Opelousas courier., 1898-07-23
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George Augustus Sala's widow has
gone into bankruptcy through taking
upon herself her late husbands debts.
Miss May Scraggs, q young South.
ern woman, not yet twenty years old,
has been made teller of q bank at WAY
Cross, Ga.
At the recenttown election in Natick,
Mass, 624 women voted, and Mrs.
Anna L. Goodnow was elected to the
School Board.
Mrs. Minnie Williams, of Marquette,
Big Horn County, will succeed Mr.. J.
A. Williams as Register of the United
States Land office, at Lander, Wyom.
ing.
There is a WON MS club in Roches.
ter, N. Y, w%hich1exists avowedly for
the purpose Of giving the members an
opportunity to show how little they
know.
Miss Louise Porter Haskell, of Rad.
cliffe College, has OF the prize offered
by the MASSACHUSETTS, Society of Co.
lonial Danes for the best essay on
colonial history.
Women druggists are .legalized in
Russia, and many ply their ''new
woman vocation in the apothecary
shops Of inland towns as we'll as in
the large cities.
Miss Elise Mercur made the de.
signs for the new buildings of the
Woman's Seminary at Washington,
Penn, and Mrs. Clara Meade, of Chi.
cago, q the contractor.
Mrs. Roger Wolcott, wife of Cover.
nor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, is
erecting a monument to the memory
of her ancestor, Colonel William Pres.
colt, M of the heroes of Bunker Hill.
Mrs. Barney, the round-the-world
missionary of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, has returned
after a trip around the globe, and is
now at her home in Providence, r. I.
Two women have been elected on
the standing committees of the Boston
University Corporation: Sara E. Sher-
man for the Medical School and Sara
A. Emerson for the College of Liberal
Arts.
Mrs. julius McAfee, a daughte: Of
the late General Humphrey Marshall,
of Kentucky, died in. Washington
suddenly of heart disease. Mrs. Nc
Afee was q poetess and authoress Of
some note.
Maryland has O bank whose presi-
dent is q woman. She is Mrs. Evelyn
s. Tome, of Port Deposit. who suc-
ceeds her late husband, Jacob Tome,
as President of the Cecil National
Bank of that place.
Mrs. Laura Smith Haviland, who
died in Grand Rapids, Mich, the
other day, was one of the originators
in the famous Underground railroad"
Of passing slaves to the North
the Civil War.
A little colored girl only thirteen
years of age, Isabella Horton Dynamo,
IS doing evangelistic work at Pitts
burg. She breaches in a s~emi-scholas.
tic, semi-clerical dress. From the
proceeds of her work she intends to
educate herself for further and more
advanced labor.
Fashion Notes.
The ultra fashionable coat has a
semi-tight-itting front with almost
light back, and no fulness in the
basque.
Popular materials for walking
lresses In England are the new black
with the fine white hair stripe
them.
A dainty and beautiful effect in sum-
ner costumes is produced by combin.
ng white lawn with many insertions
# black lace.
Velvet boleros, shaped to cover the
whole upper portion of corsage, but
'ariously shaped below, are to be o
eature of early spring gowns.
A neat walking gown of turquoise
ray face cloth, with diagonal trim
aing of black cadet braid. The waist
as a slight blouse effect, with white
loire revers, and q collar and tie of
ace.
The pretty and picturesque neck
md shoulder effects, and the new way
f adjusting the fronts, render the
cry fashionable princesse dress one
t the most attractive models of the
eason.
Edgings and founcings made in all
tyles of lace are shown. Among the
lost popular are Brussels, Chantilly,
Falenciennes. Venetian, Genoa,
'landers, point, duchesse and point
Paris.
For women with high foreheads the
orrect way to dress the hair is to
ave a few curls over the temples.
his softens the face considerably and
exceedingly becoming when the hat
ONES far over on Che eyes.
Dog collars of pearls, and coral
eads of the old-fashioned irregular
hape fastened with jeweled buckles,
re still worn with dressy afternoon
owns, as well as with the square
ecollete theatre waists, and they are
made of flagree silver and
It.
Cheese q Valuable Food.
Cheese is a very rich and valuable
'od, likely to form a very large con-
fluent in the future, and, especially
the workingman, to be very ex-
'nsively used. There is a difference
stomachs in their ability to digest
lis article. The writer is able to