The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Laces of all widths, and almost all
kinds, are in style.
Pale brown and gray are the fashiona-
BILE co!ors for dresses.
Colored pique and percale collars are
worn with travelling dresses.
The lace plastron waistcoat is as fash
ionable on the other side as here.
Tailor made corduroy jackets have
been introduced for ladies' wear
Small figures and unobtrusive designs
are noticeable in all the new carpets.
Bonnets covered with steel scales are
very effective under sun or gas light
Spencers of black banded lace are worn
with black silk or colored silk skirts.
Blue and gray are the most fashion
able combination colors for street wear
The present styles render the hustle or
tournurc necessary to most ladies' toilets.
Cuffs are very narrow. They are worn
with small stud buttons of hammered sill
yer.
Low-crowned hats are worn only in
the country, either by ladies or gentle
men.
Lace falls all around dressy, broad.
brimmcd carriage hats are again in
vogue.
Black lace over gray satin is favorite
combination as is indeed black lace over
any color.
Silk gloves in pretty tan shades are
worn to the exclusion of kid and undressed
kid gloves.
Dresses of black and white silk used
in the composition of the costume are in
high favor.
Children's stockings are dark or black,
even when white or the palest-tinteG
dresses are worn.
Chalk-white Valenciennes is the latest
lace craze for trimming black silk dresses
and black parasols.
Glace or changeable silks are furnished
to make up in combination with bro
caded and other silks.
Mushroom and gray shades in all the
variations possible are the rival colors for
dresses for street wear.
Velveteen and poplin combine well for
severely simple walking suits, but admit
no shirrings or puftings.
Bookcase made of mahogany or dark
oak stand low, are finished quite plainly,
with beveled glass doors.
Some of the newest bonnets for every
day wear have strings of white null,
which are fastened beneath the chin in o
bow.
In San Francisco all of the day district
telegraph work is done by women. They
are paid from forty to sixty dollars
month.
Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, of the
chronological Journal, has been in the
editorial and publishing business forty
four years.
Tinted linen shades are preferred to
white Holland ones for windows; these
shades are finished with fringe across
the lover end.
White ceilings are out of date; when
not decorated they are painted in light
shade of the prevailing color of the room
and its furnishings.
A housekeeper asks: "What is the
simplest way to keep jelly from molding
on top" "Shut a small boy up in the
pantry for few minutes
DR.. Mary Putnam jacob lately read
paper before the New York Academy of
Medicine. She is the first woman who
ever addressed the society.
Carpets woven all in one piece and
finished with a border, or carpets made
up rug fashion, are in demand even in
grain carpets are woven in one piece.
The Pulsifer family of Auburn, NY,
father, four sons and one daughter, Alice.
are all stenographers. Miss Alice earns
as much money as any of the others.
England's initial woman suffrage So
riety was formed in London in 1866.
Three years later women householders
were allowed to vote for local govern
ment officers.
The hair is now never seen coiled in
knot at the back of the head. 1t is
brushed up and carelessly knotted on the
top of the head, and is worn without Or
oament of any kind.
Miss Emma Fleming is sexton of the
Presbyterian church in Mississippi. She
keeps it in beautiful order. She does
everything with her own hands, even to
ringing the church bell.
The laundress of the House of Repre-
sentatives has not had long associations
with Congress for nothing. She takes
the washing work on contract, subjects it
at 81 week, and gets $500 a month
profit.
Over 90, 600 women work at the watch
making trade in Switzerland. They do
much of the finest, most delicate work.
There are two sisters who carry on a
matchmaking and jewelry establishment
of their own.
At dinner recently given by Mrs.
Mackey, the California bonanza mans
wife, in Paris, the table was covered
with veritable grassy lawn in minia-
ture; the center.piece was replaced by
a small pond of water, in which fishes
leaped about. Rare flowers took the
place of trees.
Muslins for mourning are revived in
gray and black. and show some lovely