Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR W02GN.

Velvet skirts will be worn again this
summer
The "venctian," a new waist, has
thirteen seams.
Immense and diminutive collars are
alike fashionable.
There are eleven States in which women
vote for school directors.
The wife of Chamberlain, S. c., street
car driver is worth $500, goo.
A woman started the first daily paper
in the world in 1902 in London.
Waists of jersey webbing to be worn
over a waistcoat of velvet are out.
An Albanian belle paints her face pro-
fusely, and her taste runs to cherry lips
and cheeks.
Forty lady students are studying in the
Paris hospitals, the majority of whom
are Russians.
Poplin is now favored material and
bids fair to be quite as popular as it was
some years ago.
Sleeves and the new French shoulder
capes have still decided tendency to
fulnoss at the top.
Short skirts of smoke gray velvet are
much worn with Louis XIV. polonaises of
dove gray brocade for elegant carriage
dress.
New walking jackets are short, with
trimmings of braid. The collar is high
and straight, the buttons small and the
sleeves full at the top.
Three American ladies were conspicu-
Gus at the recent hospital bazaar in Lon
don-Ladies Vaudeville and Randolp phi
Churchill and Mrs. Ronalds.
Miss Eva Mackay, daughter of the
bonanza king, is at the head of society
of young ladies who go about doing
what good they can among the poor of
Paris.
In Dakota married women retain their
own real and personal property, and may
make contracts, sue and be sued, as If
single. Neither husband nor wife has
any interest in the property Of the other.
The daughter of Rev. L. P. Roe, the
novelist, gives promise of being a novel
ist, too. She is only seventeen years old,
but she has already written an accepta-
BILE story called "Quits" for the Chicago
Current.
Stockings match the dress or are of
black, which is stylish with anything.
The latest advices from abroad say that
white stockings are again the height of
fashion, but here, as yet, they are only
in demand in silk.
Women are employed in considerable
number in mechanical drawing in Great
Britain. They make drawings of ma
chinery, steam boilers, etc., and give
excellent satisfaction. They have been
tried chiefly in shipbuilding and engin-
eering offices.
More examinations have been thrown
open to women at Oxford, England.
Hereafter tbs regular university examin-
atoms in mathematics, modern history
and natural science will be free to them
Higher education for women is steadily
gaining ground.
Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody, of Boston,
now nearing her eighticth year, was the
first to introduce the Kindergarten system
in this country, and for more than a halt
century has been prominent in works of
philanthrophy and sympathetic with the
American progress in art and literature.
Are English girls trying to become too
muscular z Is the physical development
produced by excessive indulgence in the
horizontal bars the trapezc, and other
graceful forms of exercise, good for
them This is question asked by a
medical man in the columns of London
newspaper
Mrs. Armytage defines the attire of a
perfectly dressed woman as original with
out eccentricity; personal to herself, yet
following the latest fashion; attractive,
yet undemonstrative developing to the
utmost her peculiar charms. There are
two classes of women who fail to dress in
accordance with Mrs. Armytage's admir-
able definition of perfect attire-the one
does not select apparel in keeping with
the complexion, figure and character; the
other, having selected becoming style
of dress does not know when and where
to wear it. TO these classes the advice
of trustworthy modiste is invaluable.