The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-19
FOR rHE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

DTacelets are u necessity WIFI tne
short and demi-long sleeves now worn.
Milliners say that bonnets this season
arc to be light in color, even for the
street.
Derby and jocky hats arc covered
with plaids and checks, to match cos
tunes.
Satin dresses with hand pailied fronts
are to be the rage in the fashionable
world this winter.
Gold threads are Introduced into some
of the prettiest laces, each figure being
outlined with gold chain stitch.
The fashionable coiffure is now low in
the nape of the neck, but short women
cling to the high hair dressing.
| Gold brocaded and plain gold ribbons
and gold cord braids and laces appear
among the new millinery goods.
Old-fashioned shirred sun 'onnets
made of sheer white cambria, trimmed
with fine lace, are worn by English
children.
The strings OF small bonnets are more
frequently tied in a bow in the back over
the chignon than under the chin ia
front.
Brocaded velvet will retain all its pop
ularity as rich trimming or portion OF
handsome street costumes and reception
| dresses.
Among the elegant novelties for the
autumn are walking-coats of brocaded
satin or silk; bronze green, shot with
gold, or old gold, with small black
brocades, are very effective.
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are becoming wider and wider. Some
are quite plain. others are closely plated
or shirred. With morning dresses they
are OF leather or morocco, but with
more dressy toilets of silk, satin, velvet
or plush.
Chinese and Hindoo designs are seen
upon many of the new dress materials.
Rushes, fans, palms, cranes, dragons and
fishes are among the quaint and brightly
sidered very fashionable. but they GER
tainly look very ugly.
News and Notes for Women.
Lady Chopper. one of the most beau
tiful ladies in London, was an American
girl from San Francisco. Her mother
was called the handsomest woman in
Ohio.
The Baroness Roger de Launay ven
tured to ascend the Righi of the Alps
without a guide. She Slipped over a
small precipice, and received injuries. of
which she expired two hours later.
The number of female students at the
Imperial academy OF painting, at St.
Petersburg, this season, is thirty-five, OF
whom only three vote their attention
exclusively to sculpture.
The Princess of Wales has dressed her
hair in the same style for the past ten
years. Knowing when style is becom-
ing to her, she is sensible enough to
continue it, despite the changing fash
ions.
Miss Hilda Montabla. the young Eng
lish artist, who is an especial friend of
the Princess Louise, and who recently
visited her at Ottawa, has just sold a
picture, u Venetian scene, for $500. This
is notable price for a young woman's
painting.
At Lille, France, the Princess Mar
garet, who died there in 1910, after all
these years is about to have a monu-
ment to commemorate her goodness.
A remarkable woman. Mrs. Mary Ann
Dean, died lately in St. Louis. She was
thirty-seven years old, and had been
married twenty years. She was the
mother OF twenty-one children, of whom
there were three pairs OF twins, two
sets OF trlplets, and fOur were born at
one birth. Ten OF her children are liv-
ing.
Female BARRIERS are gaining consider
able custom at Washington. All are
colored and the entire custom comes
from their own race.
Miss Rosa Bonheur, the painter, hav-
ing 70 further use for the lion and lion
ess which have served her as models at
her country residence, has presented
them TO the Jardin des Plantes.