Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Capes and pelerines are excessively
fashionable.
Glace silks are effectively trimmed
with velvet.
Flowers and feathers are again worn or
che same hat or bonnet.
Embroidered tussous and pongees viii
be much worn this season.
Laura ]. Gott, of La Grange Ohio.
has patented 1ire-escape.
Few walking OF visiting costumes are
composed of woolen stuff only.
Embroidered tulle holds its place among
light materials for party dresses.
Gold and silver gossamer like tissues
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'he female form divine this season.
Cords and tassels again form parts OF
the decorations of dressy costumes.
Women can be notaries public in New
York State. There are several such.
Slate gray and copper color combine
admirably in brocades and in milli-
uery.
A colored girl, Mile. Matthew, is study
ing medicine in Paris. She is attending
the hospital.
Ribbons are rarely seen on bonneA
made of fancy materials, but are used on
almost all made of straw.
The new plaids are very striking.
They will be popularity worn for travel
ing during the summer months.
Black Spanish lace is used as trans,
parent, over white surah as tits arranged
over any color with good effect.
A dispensary is about to be erected in
Bombay where women may receive treat
ment from doctors of their own sex.
Troy N. Y, owes not a little Of its
prosperity to industries which employ
women, notably its linen collar factories
The Texas State university admits
women on the same terms as men. There
are at present thirty young ladies in the
classes.
The number of women engaged in
money-earning occupations in Great
Britain has more than doubled in the last
zen years.
Professor Faraday said that Mrs.
Marcets conversations on Chemistry"
first opened his eyes to the wonders of
this science.
Mrs. Carr, of Los Angeles, CAL, has
! been very successful at Orange-raising.
| She is starting a school of horticulture
Cor women there.
There are now 1876, $40 pupils in at
tendance on the schools for girls in India.
| Only a few wears ago no women was al
,oWeu W ledrn W ISou.
A pretty bonnet is of Egyptian lace.
1t has long, wide strings and two agate
buttons on the crown. Notified velvet
,eaves supply the garniture.
A pretty wrap for little girl is mads
of French gray material, brocaded with
dark red in small pattern with gold
thread running through it.
An odd sunshade is made by laying
squares of two materials over the other
in such a way that the sides of each
square are bisected by the angles of the
other.
A woman's school of journalism is to
be opened in Detroit this summer The
girls are to be taught typesetting, short
hand, proof-reading and revision of
manuscript.
~ nunDeT VI Il IGuCH WOLuGH udNG NiIS>
tinguished themselves as architects and
house-decorators. The mayors house at
Passy displays some rare and artistic car
penter and cabinet work done by a
woman.
Queen Victoria selected Irish poplin AZ
che bridal dress for her granddaughter,
the Princess Victoria, of Hesse. The
terry poplin, now so much liked in
London, is Irish, and it is woven in every
hue and shade.
An imported wrap is made of bril-
liant shade of ruby velvet. 1t is trimmed
all around with heavy chenille drop
fringe with gold beads while large leaves
of gilt beads worked on the velvet are on
each side of the front and back.
A Southern paper notes that two youns
women, bookkeepers in New Orleans,
earn a combined salary of $48 month.
On this they have bought and are paying
for small cosy home, in which they
comfortably support their mother.
The Boston's Women's Educational and
Industrial union has protective depart
ment whose object is to recover wages
uniustly withheld from workingwomen.
Its labor is rapidly increasing in amount
0nd Importance. 1t is doing good.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw of Boston, daugh-
ter of Professor Agassiz, spends $50, 000
a year for kindergartens, nurseries and,
schools for the children of the poor She
not only gives her money, but her time,
, and sees personally that her good works
, ore carried out.
Pongees, like all other embroidered
, materials, are shown this year, not only
en- bands for trimming, but in breadths
Embroidered with sprays. 1t also APP
f pears in breadths worked in English en-
) broidery and intended for basques, made
, up over colored satin.
A very handsome set of bridesmaids
dresses worn in New York were of pale
blue satin, with train of Grape ornamented
with cowslips and leaves. They had
pointed bodices laced in front, with
Medcs collars of lace and elbow sleeves
gathered high on the shoulder.
General Spinner, ex-United States
treasurer, says that when he was III
doubt about the genuineness of note he
invariably took the judgment OF clerk
named Miss Grandin. He did not be-
lieve in clairvoyance, so he called hel
power to detect counterfeit money in.
stinct. And he found in general that
women were better at detecting counter
1 felt money than men.
: A New York letter to the Cincinnati
: Commercial Gazette says that a number Of
t girls earn from $40 to $50 week doing
: decorative work for the large stores, such