The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Pongees, either plain or embroidered,
wash beautifully.
Black lace capotes are worn as much !
by young ladies' as by matrons.
Flounces, when narrow and not too
full, sometimes cover the entire skirt.
Miss Dodson, a Philadelphia artist, has
two pictures in the Paris salon this year
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the writer
and editor, gets IS, 600 year. it is said.
Dove, steel, and mouse gray are the
fashionable shades of this popular color.
Whole front breadths are made of long
strips neatly lined and braided in and
out.
Twenty one of the twenty eight ward
school principals in indianapolis are
women.
White dotted Swiss, with gay colored
bouquets sprinkled over it, is new this
summer.
Flowers are placed in pompons or
round clusters in the same way as feather
tips on bonnets.
The woman market is down now in
Tunis Africa. Wives only bring from
$40 to $120 head.
Laura White, an American girl, has
been admitted to the special school Of
architecture in Paris.
Telephones in Switzerland are exclu-
sively in the hands of women, who are
paid $3.50 to $500 year,
japanese paper and silk and satin fans
are not entirely out of vogue, but feather
fans are the favorites.
Very small diamonds are now more
fashionable than those of larger size, but
their setting is a work of art
A material much used for summer
dresses is etamine, thread texture re-
sembling extremely fine canvas.
Fashionable and dressy parasols are
very gay, very large, and very much
trimmed with lace and flowers.
The jacket or casaque opening over
the waistcoat or gathered or plated plas-
tron is feature in early summer suits.
Changeable linens are among the sum.
mer dress goods. They are very be-
coming and, of course, wash perfectly.
The close short jacket with velvet
pockets is in favor for street wear, not
only in Jersey cloth but in English check.
Buttons, whether of passementerie,
smoked pearl, metal or enamel, are very
small and round and placed very close
together.
Venetian combination of color, with
no decided pattern, are seen in the
cheviots, which are also shown in stripes
and neat checks.
Some new stockings for evening wea
have vertical stripes on black ground
and few of the very finest quality are
embroidered on the instep.
A venerable sunshade may be fresh
ened by almost covering it with very
narrow velvet ribbon, and will pass FOL
one of the newest French fashions.
Some Of the new straws show mixed
effects, as in the cheviot cloths. Other:
are all of one color, and another style
has alternating braids of two colors.
, Light weight Ottoman and gros grain
silks are selected for walking suits, and
trimmed with gathered frills or paitings
of the same, with lace and jet galloon.
In Buffalo there is a Woman's Union
to advance the interests of the sex in gen
eral. There are classes for instruction,
in which women may learn pcnmanship,
typewriting and bookkeeping.
The day when an overskirt could be
made from a small scrap of material has
passed, and unless woman chooses to
weigh herself down with several pounds
of curl ID hair she must allow her dress
maker yards and yards of stuff for plait-
ing and putting.
DR.. Sarah l.. Weintraub, a graduate OF
Philadelphia medical college, is going
to practise her profession in the ancient
city of Damascus. Male physicians are
not allowed to enter the women's apart
ments there. DR.. Weiniraub will have
things all her own way.
With white toilets, brides still adhere
to very long white gloves, the choice be-
ing between undressed and finished kid,
each style having its adhcrents. White
slippers and hose are usually chosen, but
another innovation sanctioned by fashion
is the use of black slippers and black silk
hose.
The handles of this years parasols are
made from sticks of wood ending in
knots, but these knots are carved into the
heads of dogs and owls or ornamented
with scale work rather than left plain.
Some of the handles initiate a vine stem
tied in knot, and some are ebonized and
then cut away with a sharp tool, so as to
show the white wood beneath in spots,
making the leopard pattern reversed.
The choicest of all the parasols, those OF
figured satin bordered with row on row
of chenille fringe, have bamboo sticks
with handles and tips of finely woven
strands of bamboo
In paper read before the Edinburgh
Health society DR.. Almond referred to
the custom of having the head covered
out of doors and uncovered within doors