Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-11-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Brown furs of all kinds are in fashion

Fur waistcoats appear in some of the
cloth jackets.
In silver tea sets the preference is given
to low, flat shapes.
Reed 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 a Western record
er's office is a 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 and silver plates on
| their toes.
Lamps are more ornamental than ever,
and are much used for a centre table
with wax candles burning in handsome
| brass candlesticks on the mantel.
There are in Chicago not less than
from 40, 900 to $4,000 women, girls
and children, who perform varies grades
of labor which were formerly in mans
province.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to have
q beau until she can bake bread and knit
stockings The bread and the stockings
that fifteen-year old Norwegian girls can
make are indispensable.
Six gathered ruf1les # 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 a farmer gets a labor saving
implement for himself, let him think il
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-
broidered cancels 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-
broidored in design of begonia leaves
in fancy colors, the brim smothered by
rutfle 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
pearl beads, and the drapery bordered
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 a
shotgun, 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 thatssa woman would appear un-
dignifed but the female expert main
tains that woman on horseback is much
more undignifed.
An imported carriage dress of black
silk siclienne has the drapcry trimmed
with rich jet fringe with netted heading,
supplemented by a polonaise 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 tnat there is female firm
of architects doing fourishing business
in that city, founded and superintendent
by a daughter of that gifted family
which numbers among its members Mrs.
DR.. Garrett-Anderson and the wife of
The postmaster general.
Over 1OO 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
Inder thirteen years of age.
Victoria's wedding gift to the Ameri-
can belle, Miss Ida Therese Foote, of a
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
camers 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
draperies, one forming the apron and the
other the puffs and plaits in the back.
Sometimes the overskirt opens both in
front and behind, to show band of
plain velvet, which is ornamented with
braiding or frogs in front, so as to look
| Nc if the nvnrslrirt WIS fastened over il