The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Brown furs of all kinds are in fashion.

Brown furs of all kinds are in fashion.
Red squirrel skins are in favor for
cloak Innings.
Fur waistcoats appear in some of the
cloth jackets.
In silver tea sets the preference is given
to low, fiat shapes.
Reee birds nests and eggs are used as
trimming in millinery.
A young lady in Gaddistown has hair
nearly six feet in length.
Dress skirts are trimmed with rows Of
braid in graduated widths.
Fur and ostrich feathers have taken
the place of marabout trimming.
Olive and pale blue constitute a favor
lite combination for fair haired girls.
The head clerk in Western record
er's office is beautiful girl of seventeen.
A sort of recording angel, as it were.
All the women of Ceylon wear an in
ordinate amount of jewelry. They have
rings in their noses aud silver plates on
their toes.
Lamps are more ornamental than ever,
and are much used for centre table
with wax candles burning in handsome
brass candlesticks on the mantel.
There are in Chicago not less than
from $1,000 to So 900 women, girls
and children who perform varies grades
/ of labor which were formerly in mans
| province.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to have
beau until she can bake bread and knit
stockings. The bread and the stockings
| IL
make are indispensable.
Six gathered ruflles of satin, set in
groups of three, facing each other be
/ tween velvet facings, all of them coming
to point at the waist, is pretty sub
stitute for the waistcoat
Whenever farmer gets labor saving
implement for himself, let him think II
something to save his wife from kitchen
labor cannot also be secured. If so, he
might postpone the day of his widow
hood.
| A French bonnet has a crown of EN-
broidercd camel's hair cashmere and a
/ pulled brim of nut brown velvet, trimmed
with birds wings, monture of nodding
ostrich tips and strings of narrow velvet
ribbon.
A stylish capote OF black velvet is en-
broidered in a design of begonia leaves
in fancy colors the brim smothcred by
a rutile of black chenille lace set with
leaves of jet and gold beads, finished
with lace strings.
An evening dress of velvet brocade and
ottoman satin in fresh-rose color has the
, skirt embroidered in crescent designs of
/ al 1,ool1 nn1 ho Il rnr horI arn1
with elegant fringed passementerie of
pearl beads in rose color.
Mrs. Warren, of Powhattan, Ohio,
owns farm. A railroad desires to cross
her land. After she had chased one of
the surveyors about four miles with
shot gun, the company took into consid-
Grafton the proposition to cross the next
lot
A Washington lady says it is mock
modesty that prevents the women from
riding the tricycle.. They object on the
ground that a woman would appear un-
dignitied, but the female expert main
tains that woman on horseback is much
more undigniiied.
An imported carriage dress of black
silk siclenne has the drapery trimmed
with rich jet fringe with netted heading
supplemented by a polonase of plain
black velvet, with reverse fronts set with
triplets Of jet beads opening on a
pointed vest trimmed with jet garniture.
A correspondent writes to a London
paper to say that there is a female firm
of architects doing hourishing business
in that city, founded and superintendent
by a daughter of that gifted family
which numbers among its members Mrs
DIR. Garrett-Andcrson and the wife of
the postmaster general.
Over 100, 900 women and girls. it is
said, make living in the streets of
| Paris. They are licensed by the govern
ment, and sell different articles. Thirty
/ five thousand of them are under eigh
teen, seventeen thousand under fifteen,
and five thousand of them little girls
under thirteen years of age.
Nictoria's wedding gift to the Ameri-
can belle, Miss Ida Therese Foote, of
diamond bracelet and a gold breakfast
service is fairly extraordinary, since the
/ queens usual present on such occasions,
even to daughters of mobiles, is one of the
camel's hair shawls sent to her by the
bale every year from whoever may be
viceroy of India.
| Long draperies for skirts remain in ia
vor, partly because they are economical
and not heavy. A facing of the dress
material, with or without band of vel
/ vet, is all that is needed on the under
skirt, and two breadths will make the
draperics, one forming the apron and the
other the pufIs and plaits in the back.
Sometimes the overskirt opens both in
front and behind, to show a band of
plain velvet, which is ornamented with
braiding or frogs in front, so as to look
as if the overskirt was fastened over it.