Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — FOR THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE FAIR SEX.

INTERESTING NOTESANDMAT. TERS OF MOMENT. Not Doctors--Trained Nurses. Gardening for Women. Paper Shell Rice Cases. Princesses who Angle Etc., Etc. NOT DOCTORS —TRAINED NURSES. The number of female doctors in New York has not been increasing so rapidly of late as seemed probable ten years ago, but, on the other hand, in every branch of hospital service women are not only numerous, but efficient, and the standard of knowledge and skill among trained nurses has been heightened each year.—[New York Journal. GARDENING FOR WOMEN. Gardening for women is engaging attention in Germany, and a horticultural school for girls and women is about to be opened at Berlin, Germany. The principal is Fraulein Elvira Castner, who first mooted the idea in a paper read before the Berlin society, Frauenwohi. It is proposed to teach all branches of gardening, and to devote special attention to the production of fruit.—[Scientific American. PAPER SHELL RICE CASES. It is an ancient custom that of throwing showers of rice after the departing bride. Formerly the rice was just thrown in its crude state, but now everything must be “up to date,” and so some ingenious New Orleans girl has devised little paper shell cases or sachets of various colors and pretty make, and these are filled with rice and thrown after the swell bride. Some of these little paper shells are very pretty, and* look quite good enough to eat, filled with the dainty grains of rice.—[New Orleans Picayune.

PRINCESSES WHO ANGLE. Numerous ladies now annually visit Scotland and other parts for the salmon and trout fishing, and frequently capture large fish. The Duchess of Fife is a lover of the river, and a very successful salmon angler. During a visit to Mar Lodge she once landed forty salmon to her own rod on the Dee. The Princess of Wales and her two daughters— Princesses Victoria and Maude—also occasionally handle the fly rod, and when the royal fishing parties are given at Virginia Water, they try their fortune among the perch, and the roach, and the carp and the tench. The Princess of Wales still has a very handsome rod in her possession. It was a present to Her Royal Highness, and cost something like S2OO to “build.” The rod has six joints, is mounted in gold, and is fitted with carved ivory stoppers, on which are designed the Prince of Wales’ feathers. The Princess Louise has also proved herself an adept with the rod, and op the Restigouche River, in Canada, one of the pools is called “Princess Pool,” after her. Here Princess Louise once encountered some exciting sport, killing four saJmon weighing twenty-two pounds, twenty-four pounds, twenty-six pounds and twenty-seven pounds respectively, and an old angler who was in attendance upon the Princess states that “few anglers could handle a fish with her.” On the occasion mentioned she was using a heavy English eigh teen-foot rod. —[New York Telegram.

FASHION NOTES. White gloves of every kind are worn. Feather fans have solid mounts of tortoise shell. Black quills will flourish extensively in hats. Chiffon and satin match for evening costumes. Celery dishes are low and flat and are of cut glass. Ostrich feather boas a yard long still continue popular. Oriental designs on colored satins are made up in blouses. Bordered silken draperies are used for curtains, cushions, etc. Rough plaid capes, half long, are suitable for ocean traveling. English turban and other small round hats are appearing in nearly all the new colors. Magenta umbrellas are new. Their brightness commends them for gloomy, stormy days. Military capes and cloaks are to have a great run this winter. The new styles and trimming are very handsome. The evening dress bodice is not to be any higher. Some alarmists are saying it is to be cut even lower than heretofore. Girls who walk straight and gracefully are the exception. It must be said that the fashionable locomotion is wretched. Crepon and rough effects in wool are the leading cloths for the season’s wear. Some cost as much as $4.75 per yard. When women are seen congratulating each other in the street it is believed to be on account of the decline of the shirt waist. Tiny jeweled side combs are the fashionable girl’s latest fad, Some awfully pretty French conceits are being shown in pearls and brilliants. Three-cornered Napoleon hats of felt with poupon at the side are new. They will look best when on the head of pretty girls. Considerable of the fur trimming this season will be from the objectionable animal whose name is never heard in polite society. Salad bowls either match the service or are of cut or silver rimmed Bohemian glass. Canada offers big inducements to Norwegian colonists to settle in the northwest • The Government of Victoria owna •nd operates the railroads in the colony.