The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Visite mantelets are worn by ladies of
all ages.
Capes and pelerines are excessively
fashionable.
Glace silks are effectively trimmed
with velvet.
Flowers and feathers are again worn on
the same hat or bonnet.
Embroidered tussous and pongees will
be much worn this season.
Laura j. Colt, of La Grange, Ohio,
has patented a fire-escape.
Few walking or visiting costumes are
composed of wooden stuff only.
Embroidered tulle holds its place among
light materials for party dresses.
Gold and silver gossamer like tissues
appear among millinery materials.
Bustlcs as bigas small balloon deform
the 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 MILL
merry.
A colored girl, Mile. Matthew, is study
ing medicine in Paris. She is attending
the hospital.
Ribbons are rarely seen on bonnets
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 a 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 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
ten years.
Professor Faraday said that Mrs.
Marcet's 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 school of horticulture
for women there.
There are now 1876, 349 pupils in at
tendance on the schools for girls in India.
Only few years ago no women was al
lowed to learn to read.
A pretty bonnet is of Egyptian lace.
1t has long, wide strings and two agate
buttons on the crown. Notified velvet
leaves supply the garniture.
A pretty wrap for little girl is made
of French gray material, brocaded with
dark red in a small pattern with gold
thread running through it.
An odd sunshade is made by laying
squares of two materials over the other
in such 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 DE taught typesetting, short
hand, proofreading and revision Of
manuscript.
A number of French women have dis
tinguished themselves as architects and
use-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 as
the 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 a 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 young
women, bookkeepers in New Orleans,
earn comb ned salary of $4S month
On this they have bought and are paying
for small cosy home, in which they
comfortably support their mother.
! The Boston's Womcn's Educational and
Industrial union has protective depart
unjustly withheld from workingwOmen
Its labor is rapidly increasing in amount
and Importance. 1t is doing good.
Mrs, Quincy Shaw, of Boston, daugh-
ter of Professor Agassiz spends $50, 900
a year for kindergartens, nurseries and
schools for the children of the poor. She
net only gives her money, but her time,
and sees personally that her good works
are carried out.
Pongees, like all other embroidered
materials, are shown this year, not only
en- bands for trimming but in breadth'
Embroidered with sprays. 1t also ap
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 ornamenteC
with cowslips and leaves. They hal