Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-06-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Wye.
Gold braid bonnets are extensively
worn.
Cloth-top boots are coming into fashion
again.
Feather fans take precedence of all
others.
Capes and pclerines are excessively
fashionable.
In Minnesota several girls are railroad |
station agents.
A woman is manager of State savings
bank in Sweden.
Small narrow cuffs are much worn with
tailor made dresses.
Velvet waistcoats are the correct veal
with ribbed jerseys.
Ribbed silk jerseys are the latest form
Of this popular jacket.
Grey, in a variety of shades, is more
used than any other color
The latest novelty in Paris fashion is
hat trimmed with artichokcs.
The poke of Oriental Lace is the bon
net to wear with muslin dresses.
Large flower designs appear on the
Ntcst importations OF linen lawns.
Crepe wells are coming into fashion,
and are becoming to the complexion.
Statistics show that quite as many men
as women break down from over study.
Mrs. General Sheridan's toilets are thI
most admired for richness and taste IN
Washington.
Four little girls under thirteen years OF
age turn out about 10, 600 paper torpedoes
in day in Boston.
The conductors of the horse cars of
Valparaiso are women. They arc reputed
to be honest and polite.
Heavy plain white Irish linen paper,
and French paper in cream and PINK are
in fashion, without lines.
Dotted net wells are not worn at all.
They have been superseded by the plain
ones made of colored tulle.
Mrs. Langtry loves our gold dollars so
we'll that she has had a set Of two dozen
dress buttons made of them.
Statistics show that the Protestant
churches of this country average two
women to one man among their members
Jersey gloves are very fashionable in
both silk and Isle thread. The silk
gloves are very long and fine and hand
some.
, The female chorus in the Philadelphia
musical festival takes the lead IN strength
+ and cult ure of any female chorus in tn
: country.
| There seems to be coming woman
S surgeon. She is Dr.. Grace Wolcott,
o graduate of the Woman's Medical Col
f lege of Philadelphia.
Turkey red petticoats trimmed witt
velvet ribbon are seen among the neN
underwear They have several steel
crossed at the top to make puff.
q Mrs. Plunl1ett, of Massachusetts, ha
written book called "Woman Doctor
and Plumbers" Mrs. Plunkett has bee
? close student of sanitary science.
J. Velvet round the throat and wrists, fa'
i tened with any good sized rocco buttons
is especially miniature, with diamond, cry
h tai or pearl setting, is coming in again.
n A printed cashmere, which has vel
e. large figures printed on cream grount
10 is much used for the trains and baC
1t breadths of short dresses Of eam-colorC
silk.
n The short dolmans trimmed with ch
mile fringe are very pretty and becomin
~ to most figures; but they have becon
P, common through everybody's wearir
~ ~ them.
81 DIR. Marie Haslep and DR.. Sarah Stoc
% ~ ton have been elected by the Marie
of County Qnd.) Medical society del
70 70 gates to the Indiana State Medical S
a Giety.
nd Only two women in the Washingtc
as departments have reached an ST.
he clerkship. Under the new civil-sc
as vice law women will have a bett
[ chance.
5y. All the different sorts of lace, Vale
ed ciennes, Malines and Alencon, are in
". tated in new web, from which brio
he costumes will be made this summer.
see is worn over white silk or white Inc
NY muslin.
'Pink dinners have now taken t
ou place of ''blue teasn in New York's fa$
ere ionable circles. Everything in the roc
eu is pink, and the favors include horn
vas ', plenty, to which tasty pink streamers
VS. attached.
ooSSt In Leigh Richmond's advice to
l"' daughter, he wrote: "Girls, be cheerf
but not gigglers; be serious, butnot dr
be communicative, but not forward
kind, but not servile. Beware of sill
Dc thoughtless speeches. "
'w- Mrs. Waddington, the wife of
en- French minister to England, is an Amt
ON can lady That will explain why she
aen both treasurer and secretary to her h
eral band. An American lady wouldn't G
'ro- cent to be merely her husbands sec
L VI tary.
by DIR. G. H. Won Klien has made the
~ servation that the cutaneous irritation
nod I frequently found upon the foreheads
,no. ,,T fashionable ladies is the result of
d. ounce seed mucilage used for the 7
oh+ M pose of arranging "bangs" and sim
Q II capillary ''vanities. "
Sor. Overskirts of Chantilly lace fioun
Nst- are now worn even in the daytime
adv Paris. They are sewed on a net foun
aid ton. are as long as the underskirt, {
NOS looped up in many different ways {
and the owner the privilege of varying
lget dress at Will WIN very li'1ie Uiouoie'
vine A pretty fashion, which has la
rard been adopted, is to pass black
II to scarf loosely around the neck, fasten
eing end under the left ear with dai
reg. spray of flowers, and the other at the
eter side of the waist with another sp
very Real flowers are occasionally seen at
,tric handles of parasols, secured with
fires of ribbon.