The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


this summer
Parasols covered with whalebone fringe
in all colors are novel.
Printed Spanish lace with colored fig
ures is to be much used.
New silk stockings have a treble note
embroidered on the instep.
French lace is more used than any
other on the imported wraps and dresses.
Many of new children's dresses are
made of spotted net over colored sateen.
Lydia j. Caldwell, of Chicago, has
patented process for desiccating eggs.
They have Womans Agricultural
Fair association in bingham county,
Ill.
Mrs. Barrows, of the Christian Register,
is one of the most expert photographers
in America.
A bias fold of null or fine French lawn
is frequently worn on the neck instead of
the stiff linen collar.
Soft French nainsook, plain or en-
broidered, is the favorite material for
white summer dresses.
Parasols are covered with squares of
silk, and made highly ornate with en-
broidery lace and ribbon.
New silk stockings come in ribbed,
vertical striped and checked effects, in
colors that match the new goods,
One of the richest stuffs for wraps and
parts of costumes is silk grenadine bro
caded with frise (uncuD velvet figures
and flowers.
Society ladies in London, "without
very large fortunes" spend So, 900 to So,
600 year for their dresses and change
| their costumes three times in an even
ing.
A lilac ottoman foulard dress recently
seen had design of plums. 1t was
made with long pleated drapery opening
in front over anticipating of plain
! lilac satin.
The present unparalleled industrial
movement among women is making pro-
gress in the South. Five thousand girls
earn their own living in Atlanta, Ca, in
factories and elsewhere.
Mrs. Anna o. Cook, State librarian,
of Kentucky, recently died. The House
of Representatives passed resolutions OF
regret, and a committee of five were ap-
pointed to attend her funeral.
Miss Beatrice Parsons, of London,
was the winner of the highest honors OF
the recent Cambridge university exami-
nation, in which no less than three thou
sand bright British girls competed
A new dress material is called ring
cloth, because, like the India shawls de
sired by English danes, it can be drawn
through a ring. 1t is of black silk and
wool, and is forty-eight inches wide.
The lace curtain has disappeared ever
from Partisan drawing in which
it fingered so long. Silk and wooden are
the only materials used, even in bed
rooms, unless they are those of young
girls.
At the commencement of the Cincin
natl College of Pharmacy, one member
of the graduating class of twenty-foul
was woman, Mrs. Merrell. When thu
lady's name was called to receive her dl
ploma, her gallant fellow students in the
school gave her a hearty round of ap
plause.
One of the novelties in parasols arr
those of which the covers represent two
squares, only the corner of the unde
ones showing. One parasol of this styl'
had the under square of pink satin; thu
upper one of white embroidered in che
mile and pink satin roses. Both square
were bordered by deep Oriental lace.
A new imported mantle has from
falling to the bottom of the skirt, o
black jetted grenadine bordcred by
flower of French lace; the entire back i
of lace; there are no sleeves, but mas
of lace is gathered at the back, held b.
lace ornaments, and passes in folds owe
the shoulders, crossing in front and fall
ing in long tabs
Women are beginning to be employed
very successfully in the field of artist
decoration. 1t is their natural bent. The
show especial excellence in wall, pane
and upholstery designing and decoration
They have one fault however, an al
writer says. They are apt to sacritic
massiveness and harmony of design t
mere fussy prcttiness. 1t is the sam
fault they display in decorating their pei
son.
Among the costumes worn at the silvo
wedding of the Baroness Gustave d
Rothschild was dress of white satin
with tunic studded with double rings {
steel and silver, sewn on the satin, an
having the effect of brilliant spangle:
Habit bodice in white satin. with larg
pockets, each ornamented with five bu
tons in old paste. The hair was studde
with paste stars, buckles to match on til
shoes; stockings spangled with steel.
, In Paris navy blue has come back in
: thick, irregularly woven stuff, and
made up in suits with a blouse trimme
with velvet ribbon, outlining IA crosse
kerchief, and with skirts in large plat
the chemisette and cuffs being made {
coquelicot surah brocaded with blu
| dots. 1T is nothing, it is adorably c,
) quettish, and the beautiful Countess Po
, tocka wishes to make it fashionable
1 says the correspondent who tells the tai
= Ancient Dyeing.
\ Tho ,1Sa Of pOlnrS was certainly l,nou