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

In Chicago, 1870 are owned by Chinese.
White serge waistcoats are worn will
dark wooden dresses, pique with sateen
A grandmother at the age of thirty Is
more familiar sight in China than al
old maid.
A twelve-year old girl has opened t.
shooting gallery in Nevada. She is al
expert shot
Six hundred and ninety women voted
at a recent election in Seattle, Washing
ton Territory.
A becoming finish is parted to
SHRED white null bonn .--.l, it'll
black velvet
Fashionable materials 4or mourning
are Henrietta cloth, camel's hair and al
batross cloth.
The fashion of wearing real fruit il
stead of artificial, or Of natural fowerS
has increased.
A peculiar costume seen recently wa
of white flannel, with small owl wing
stuck all over it.
Handkerchiefs with bright colored
border or embroidery are tucked in the
belt or button-hole.
The woman market is down now il
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring from
$50 to 1920 head.
Twelve cups of coffee every day is the
elixir which keeps Virginia lady ninety
nine years old happy and healthy.
The Wesleyan Female college, of
Georgia, created in 1888, was the first
college for women in this country.
l. 4 ,anlr OF
hat has poppy red Grape punched around
the crown, with number Of wings in
front, of the same color.
Hungarian women seem to have seized
upon their "rights" without disturbance
or controversy. They go to all public
meetings where men go.
Copper red is favorite color for the
crepe de chine and silk Jersey waists
that are worn with skirts of white wool
or of black lace over satin.
A favorite way of sewing on lace this
year is gathering the lace, then sewing it
on the wrong side, turning and catching
it down at intervals, making puff.
The empress of Austria, while at Hei.
delberg recently, lived at the most ex-
pensive hotel with suite of seventy
persons, including four fencing masters.
A morning dress of biscuit colored
twill is covered all over with square
cubes or cut and uncut velvet, the color
enhanced by, looped bows in a peculiar
tone.
Upon a small "capote" bonnet is q
large tuft of full blown peoples made of
velvet and intermingled with ears of
hoy op1 farpc fi.d tnuatbar wit N
grass.
Poplin is again in favor, Worth having
brought out many handsome costumes OF
this fabric, which is now seen in O
lighter and more drapable form than
formerly.
Embroidered bretelles, or, prettier still,
those made of lace and net, wide on the
shoulders and tapering to point at the
bet, front and back over the bodice, are
again in vogue.
The future queen of the Netherlands
will be the richest woman in Europe, be.
ing heiress to the 1000, 900 of her late
brother and the vast private possession:
of her father, the present king.
Addison, who wrote good deal about
female fashions in the Spectator, very
much ridiculed the hoop petticoat, which
was so large, about the year IVA, that a
women wearing one occupied the space
of six men.
On the subject of winning a husband
woman writes: 'Men love to be big
and great to their wives. That's thu
reason why helpless little woman cal
marry three times to a sensible, self-re
liant woman's none"
The bitterest words that were eve
written about women were by a womeI
Lady Jane Montague. She wrote: "
have one consolation in being women
that is, | can never be unfortunat,
enough to have to marry one"
Anne Boleyn was remarkably daint,
about her gloves. She had nail which
turned up at the sides, and it was the de
light of Queen Catharine to make he
play at cards without her gloves, in or
der that the deformity might DISCUS
King Henry VIII.
A lovely lace and surah costume is o
pale blue surah, with a plating at tn
foot, above this two Breton lace founce
and a pretty Breton net drapery, edged
with the lace, basque pointed back anC
front, covered with the net the draper
fastened with loops and ends of pail
blue satin ribbon.
1t is said to be satisfactorily demon
stated that every time wife scolds he
husband she adds wrinkle to her face
1t is thought the announcement of thi
fact will have the most salutary effect
especially as it is understood that ever
time wife smiles on her husband it vii
remove one of the old wrinkles.
There are number of women painter
in Madison Parish Louisiana. Mrs. NJ
A. Gibbs lives on the Hecla plantation
which she manages with great success
Miss Lu Lucas manages a large estate
and personally superintends larg
force, She spends most of her time i
the saddle, and looks after her hoes
plows, hoes, drains, levees, stock an
mill. Madame Ames owns tract @
1000 acres, and has 800 acres unde
cultivation thic VAR