Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1902-01-23
or INTEREST
For Outdoor Wear.

For Outdoor Wear
The latest fancy for walking cos
to Paris-is brown
corded velvet, made with short skirt
and a long jacket blousing at the waist
over beige leather band; the collar,
revers and cuffs in sable.
Smart and wintry is skating cos
tune Of fleecy white zibeline, which
looks exactly like fine fur, and
braided with narrow lines of ivory
glace silk worked with Quaint design
Of diamonds in gold outlined with
black and made in the very simplest,
prettiest fashion, with Russian blouse
bodice and plain skirt.
In lovely shade Of scarlet face
cloth is charming walking costume: a
narrow band of black caracul Is in
serted down the front of the skirt,
and on the shaped flounce, which is
cut into double tabs buttoned across
one another with gold-chased gun
metal buttons; the tabled corselet
waist buttons in the same style on to
the bodice, which pouches in front
over vast of cafacul relieved by
bib and collar Of gold, spotted with
black chenille.
A walking costume of brown beaver
tint is bordered at the hem with pref
tily scalloped cloth trimming embroid-
cred with silk and chenille; the coat,
which can be worn open or closed, has
a short basque over the hips, deepen
ing into smartly pleated coat-tail at
the back trimmed to accord with the
skirt, while the revers and collar of
embroidered velvet are bound with
mink.
A picturesque costume is Claude
Duval coat and skirt, in brown zibe-
line serge, the deep basques and many
little capes bound with wide silk braid
and the collar beautifully embroid-
cred with pale-colored silks. - New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A Library of Women's Books.
"A cable dispatch has reported the
death in st. Petersburg of Mme
Kaissavoff, whose passing fame rests
on the fact that she had collected a
library Of nearly $4,000 volumes, all
written by women. No book by male
author ever had place on her shelves
It is momentarily astonishing to
read Of such a library. One feels at
first that the collection of books must
lack variety, since so many fields Of
literature seem to- have been in the
particular and almost exclusive pos
session Of masculine writer's. Woman
has popularized a number OF the
sciences. Even so dry and abstract 4
topic as political economy has found
its able exponent in Harriet Marti-
neau. But the search for woman his
torians, biographers, mathematicians
and theologiars Of distinction is diff
cult.
Great women poets-Efizabeth Bar
rett Browning, Jean 1ngelow and the
rest-are Of fair number; novelists-
George Eliot, Miss Mulock, Charlotte
Bronte, Mrs. Stowe - their name is
more than legion; in belles-lettres Lady
M -ry Montagu, Nine. de Sevigne,
Nine. de Stael and host are ready;
Louise Muhlbach stands at the fore
of historical novelists; George Sand
leads with the novel philosophical
When the collector starts on these
lines the places fill rapidly, and the
women writer's of the present day are
| steadily creating a demand for more
| shelves.
It is a unique and must be thor
| oughly interesting library that is be-
| queathed in the Russian capital. The
expressed desire win be generally
echoed that it shall not be scattered
but shall become the undivided pos
session of some great college Of won
en.-New York World. :.
The Chatelaine Bag.
| They say that the feminine touris'
hailing from America and wandering
over Europe is spotted by her chate
laine bag. She has other ear marks
but this is the most imposing one. O.
late the chatelaine bag has become {