Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

over 0Oii OOU WIDOWS nave applleu AOi
pensions.
Vests are quite as much worn as dur
ing the summer, but the loose boutfant
fronts are fast disappearing.
Necklets of velvet, satin, metal and |
sorts of material are worn by women,
young girls, and children.
All fashionable wraps, long or short
are held in at the waist line in the back
by straps of ribbon or elastic.
Children's garments retain the pulled,
Moliere front, and a bunch of shir-
ring in the back is added this winter.
Bangle bracelets are in style, the most
fashionable design being that of chain
and paddock, with tiny key attached.
The fastenings of mantles and cloaks
of seal are carved antique heads in wood
or stained ivory or fine passementerie.
Scarlet flannel will probably be fash
ionable this season in Europe, if not
here, as it is said to be preventive of
cholera.
Cashmere suits are, many of them,
trimmed with silk corduroy, which is
durable and at the same time less expen-
sive than velvet.
Overdresses are very bouffant around
the hips, but they are disposed in folds
or plaits, as loopings and pulfs have al
most disappeared.
A bonnet with dark green velvet crown
has steel lace brim and bow schrimp
pink terry ribbon, with an aigrette
fastened high in front.
Bengaline, printed in floral designs
in buds, single blossoms and sprays, is a
pretty material for dinner or dancing
costumes for young girls.
A new way of accentuating leaf and
other floral designs or brocades is to out
line them by hand with an embroidery
of gold or pearl beads and chenille.
Capotes and Fanchons without strings
are worn, but, for all that, a stringess
bonnet is not in good taste. If one OBJ
jects to strings she should wear hat.
Fichus of velvet, silk, satin, and lace
Manons" they are called in Paris and
London-are much in favor, being worn
with either low or high necked dresses,
Mrs. Cagley, the wife of an English
life-guardsman, is said to be the coming
London beauty. She was Miss Camp
bell and the daughter of a music dealer.
One mode of trimming toque hats
which have quite high crowns is to put
loops of velvet ribbon on the crown, be-
ginning in the centre and dropping to
the brim.
One hundred and fifty pounds of pure
gold and a basketful of rubies were
among the valuables of the dowager
Queen of Burmah before she was re-
moved from power.
Evening gloves reach little beyond
the elbow and are left slightly wrinkled
about the wrist Some of them are held
by bands of velvet tied in a dainty fly
bow on the outside.
Dresses are worn much tighter than
they have been for some years, and was
pish waists are quite in vogue, to which
the immense tournures seem to lend an
exaggerated slenderness.
Plain worsted goods have often sin
gle narrow plating at the bottom of the
skirt and full round skirt above, with
tucks two or three inches wide and
about the same distance apart.
The best shot in Dakota is said to be u
woman, Mrs. Lowner, wife of Colonel
Lowner, of Fort Totten. She has killed
ia prairie chickens this fall and the
first deer ever brought down from Moose
river
Black lace over dark orange forms q
neat bonnet for q middle,aged lady.
Black feathers and an aigrette of golden
oats compose the ornament at the top,
while the crown is slightly embroidered
in gold thread.
On dressy bodice of black satin are
folds of lace, red rosettes and small tufts
of chenille, and a ball dress of black
gauze is worked with red and yellow
chenille. 1t is gracefully draped over
black satin and is trimmed with large
crimson rosettes.
The last census reveals the fact that of
the $40 kinds of work done in England
women participate in seventy. In three
professions, medicine, education and the
drama, there are more women than men
in the case of medicine nurses are includ-
ed in the profession.
Groups of small birds, sometimes as
many as seven nestled together on one
hat, are seen among the fall importa-
tons. These have their little bills
gilded and are arranged as if, after much
sorrow and torture, their lives at last
had fallen in pleasant places.
A letter to the New York Graphic
from Washington Territory says: 81
have been serving on jury, three ladies
serving at the same time, and l do not
hesitate to say that they were more than
competent, exceedingly bright, and gave
their decisions and reasons with force
that would have done great credit to
any of the lords OF creation"
Women as a general thing live longer
than men, as the statistics of various
countries show. They seem to be en-
dowed with larger share of that con-
stitutional vitality which conduces to
longevity. The members of the "weaker
sex" cannot do as much muscular work
as lordly men, but they are formed to
last longer. They work at lower pres
sure, but have more endurance.
The fashionable buttons for dresses
are either bullet shape or coin shape.
They are made in dull vegetable ivory
to match any shade, and in compost
ton which resembles pebble. The coin
buttons are in plain gold, steel and sill
yer, sometimee inlaid, engraved or inter
mixed with steel. Horn inlaid with
metal are among the more expensive
kinds. Then there are the netted and
crochet buttons, which are always fash.
ionable. Gold ball filagree buttons are
in favor.