The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

admired on hats.
Silk gloves are more worn than plain
or undres ,ed kid.
Mrs. John w. Mackey's diamonds arc
valued at 81, 900, 900.
The sailor hat, trimmed with white
null and white wings, is still popular.
High collars are worn by ladies, fas-
tened by small diamond collar button.
One of the sights of Atlanta, Ca, was
twenty-five women working in the chain
gang.
Red is becoming so fashionable that
even riding habits are made of red ladies
cloth.
Fan scabbards are novelties. They
are made of brocade and suspended by
ribbon.
Buttons of Brazilian pebbles mounted
IN silver are popular on dark velvet
dresses.
Bodices of velvet or silk of any dark
color are very much worn with light
dresses.
Very high peaked bonnets, devoid Of
strings and advancing far over the face,
are worn.
A female custom house official is very
expert at detecting smugglers along the
Detroit river.
The woman market is down now in
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring $40 to
| $500 a head.
Narrow satin ribbons are worn tied
closely around the neck and in bow on
the left side.
Satin sash ribbons, either pink or blue,
brocaded with velvet rosebuds, are worn
by little girls.
The square parasols have not been as
fashionable as predicted; they are pretty,
but awkward.
Jackets that are new are of brown cloth
made in the cutaway form over pleated
vest of surah
The newest earrings are copies of the
swamp cowslip, made of bright, Etrus-
can yellow gold.
Shoulder knots of white satin ribbon,
fastened by rose, are worn with Mother
Hubbard dresses.
The handsomest dog collars are of
black velvet studded with rubies, emer.
aids or sapphires.
Mrs. Joseph R. Hawley, wife of the
Connecticut Senator, was an effective
hospital nurse during the war.
English brides wear white satin shoes
with pointed toes, embroidered in che.
mile and pearls, with bows to match
Belts of white Ottoman silk are worn
with white flannel frocks, and to fasten
these a silver buckle is an absolute neces.
sity.
Lace bordered handkerchiefs are so
arranged up the front of high bod
ice as to form simulated waist
coat.
Porcelain finger rings in different
colors are worn by New York ladies,
who declare them to be the latest Paris
fashion.
a few years ago the women of India
were not allowed to learn to read. Now
there are 126, 348 girls attending schools
established Tor them.
Black lace dresses are admissible in
light mourning. They are made of net
lace over surah, with many rows of lace
cdging in Chantily or Spanish, hand
run.
Small pink and white or blue and
white ginghams, with white yoke and
sleeves, blouse waist, rufiled skirt and
sash are worn by young ladies of all
ages.
Since the publication of the fact that
Queen Victoria has fondness for fried
hominy, the London hotels have begun
to print on their bills of fare: Fried
hominy, her majesty's style"
Wooden velvet stuffs, with uncut vel
vet flowers and figures on prunella
twilled grounds, are to be worn as skirts
of suits that will have polonaises or red
ingotcs or jackets of plain, twilled, OF
jersey web cloth.
Ladies who use the tricycle. in England
wear dress made of dark blue Serge,
the skirt killed or tucked, with jersey
waist and pantaloons as for riding hab-
its. This dress obviates the necessity of
many under garments and will not catch
the dust. Compactness is the aim of
these dresses.
The sashes worn with autumn dresses
by young girls are very broad, made of
silk or surah, not ribbon and arranged
IN pleats which pass around the waist,
tying on one side, with the ends falling
the full width almost to the bottom of
the skirt Red surah is the favorite
stuff of these sashes.
1t is no longer fashionable to wear
jewelry in the street or in calling; moth
ing but the simplest of round headed
silver or gold pins are used at the throat,
and if earrings they must be of the most
modest description. The collar stud
should be of hammered gold Or silver,
with or without Rhine stone.
Women" says Miss Howe in her
new novel, "are neither angels who
stand UNNECESSARILY above men, nor in
ferior beings whose place is at their feet:
but human like themselves. full of good
and faulty instincts, and, with all their
imperfections, the God given helpmates
of man. Thus justly should they be
Judged and if q little mercy DE claimed