WOM AN'S WORLD.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 554, 10 August 1889, Page 4

WOM AN' S WORLD.

Fashion Notes, Social Gossip, Etc.

(Bt "Gladys.")

—Narrow border robes are most favoured in London for ordinary wear.

—A Jewess, said to be 106 years old, who resides in Spitalfields, regularly attends Synagogue.

—The Directoire plaid is almost self-coloured, but has the check in silk lines on the woollen ground, and is used with plain fabric to match.

— Few ladies consider that they^ carry some forty or fifty miles of hair on their head ; the fair-haired may even have to dress seventy miles of threads of gold every morning.

— Bare and costly brocades have never been more sought after than now at the Paris Exhibition, where the most beautiful patterns, showing blooms faithfully copied from nature, are everywhere in evidence.

— The British Women's Temperance Association now numbers nearly 28,000 members. Every one of its 377 affiliated societies is entirely officered and worked by women.

—It was recently stated that English women paid but little attention to petticoats, and contented themselves principally with the thick striped materials sold for the purpose ; but this is not quite the case, as the vendors of fashionable underclothing could testify. The elaborate tea gowns have their equally elaborate accessories in the way of petticoats, hose, and shoes, and considerable attention in given to the subject.

There is the germ of romance in the matrimonial union of two of the representatives of the two largest thread manufactories in the world. Young Mr Coats, of the famous Paisley thread works, last June espoused Miss Clark, a daughter of one of the firm of the equally renowned American thread works. For many years bitter rivalry existed between the two houses, and the Scotch firm sent out a young ambassador to harmonize matters. He was so successful that tuß tongue, as siiver sweet a3 that of Romeo, not only captivated the firm, but so won the heart of Miss Clark that she has become his bride.

— Many of the female parishioners of a venerable, white-haired clergyman in Philadelphia were anxious to receive from him locks of his frosted hair, and it tickled the old gentleman when he thought of their deep love tor him. Not long ago his wife received a note that put a different light on the subject. It ran as follows : "My dear Mrs X.— Won't you please ask your good husband to send me just a little lock of his hair? We have all been taking lessons in making hair flowers. So many of the other girls asked him and he sent it to them, but I thought I would rather ask you to get it for me. Now, won't you please do this for me, it is so hard to get white hair for lilies of the valley."