Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-11-18
(hit-Chat for the Ladies.

FASHION NOTES.
Petticoats made in every kind OF mate
rial are very much worn, some with
aounces and others with several narrow
folds cut on cross>way.
Satin petticoats will be wadded and
quilted ia diamonds. Over any of these
petticoats you can loop most any dress.
Ladies who have loose jackets by them,
can alter the style by putting band round
the waist and a full short sash behind,
with the loops fthe sash hanging down.
For winter wear broad velvet sashes are
b andsome, cut either on the crossway or
straight.
Flounces on pettiooats or dresses are
worn, cut ometimes on the crossway and
sometimes on the straight, but plaids or
stripes are always cut crossway.
As the cold weather is coming ladies
will find great comfort n the use of wad-
ding, both for themselves and their chill
dren.
The great pleasure in the use of waddipg
is, that you have warmth combined with
lightness.
Use good white .wadding, and hold it
with care distance from the fire before
using it, the wadding will swell out, and
may easily be separated.
Little girls muffs and tippets can be
made in merino, or in black silk lined with
wadding, and they look very well. The
material need not be new, and ifthe muff
or tippet is quilted outside, it has pretty
appearance.
Nantes and jackets, and every garment
for outdoor wear this winter, will be worn
fastened round the waist. A few are fas.
tened emily behind, but either for young or
0faS hanas and abort white snshes bshindy
composed of several bows and ends, will be
the usual styles
Bodies of dresses are worn open in front,
coming down to point to the waistband,
with pleating of lace tackled inside.
Dinner bells are going out of fashion,
sweet-toned gongs being substituted.
The few gentlemen who still wear white
hats should know that the last gun fred
for the same nearly six weeks ago.
The military jacket is quito popular
with the ladies. 1t is close fitting, with
short skirt and vest front, with pockets
below the belt. Over this vest is another
front sloping from the neck at the shout
der seam, and rounding way, joins the
back at the side seam.
A fashionable New York promenade
dress is of pearl gray faille. or black silk,
uuderskirt half long trained at the bottem
chicory. The double skirt is raised at the
sides by q long bow, made of either silk or
chicory. Sleeves rather wide, with pip
ings placed at the bottom as cheYors. Pa
letots are still worn, and the Empress
Basquine.' The Fanchon and Fra Diavolo
hats are the favorites.
RECORD OF JUST WHEN AND WHERE WOMEN
ASSUMED THEIR pJGHrs
The Agitator, a Chicago woman's suffrage
paper, furnishes the following interesting
briefs in regard to women's voting:
In Manchester, England, eight women,
whose name were by accident left ON the
registry, voted at the last election. Eight
others, freeholders,- voted in southeast
Lancashire. In Ashford, East Kent, fifteen
out of thirtysfive who were registered re-.
corded their votes. In Finsbury the same
number also went to the polls. In Dublin
one woman, and in London three women,
voted.
In Canada, as in several of our own
States, women are allowed to vote for and
serve as school trustees.
In Pitcairn's Island, which is inhabited
by 4nutineers of the Bounty, the govern.
ment, which is based on written constitu-
ton, is shared on equal terms by men and
women alike.
Ladies of title formerly occupied seats in
the House of Lords, where they were enti-
tlsd, as peeresses in their own right, or
when, Their lords were dead and the heirs
were in their homage. They also held the
Office of high sheriff, which must be held by
one possessed of the electoral qualifications
and other indignities.
It has also been stated that the late invess
tigations tend to show that the P arliaments
were originally founded on the idea of unis
versal suffrage, the manifestations of which
was the showing of hands. Ia
In the British Australasian colony of
Australia, women universally assumed the
found that the law had, probably, inadyer
tently, been SO framed as to permit them.
II works admirably, according to all res
ports.
In Sweden, chiefly through the exertions
of Frederika Bremen, an indirect right OF
voting was, in 1862, granted to all women
possessing specified property qualifications.
BY the Italian code, widow or wife
separated from her husband, who pays
taxes, is allowed to vote through such
child or other relative as she may desig
nate.
In Holland, widows and single women,
possessed of property, are allowed to vote
on all questions of taxation, &C., likely to
affect its value.
In 1857 Moravia granted the franchise to
all widows who pay taxes.
In many towngin France women possess
the right to vote in municipal affairs, and
In one Of them it is said that the council
was recently composed wholly of women.
In Austria women can vote as mobiles, in
their corporate capacity, as nuns and tax
payersA
In Hungary, up to 1871, widows and sin
gle women who were landed proprietors
possessed the right to vote. They were de-
prived OF 1t by the revolutionary govern.
ment, and they are now petitioning; in
large numbers, for the restoration Of this
ripht.