The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
All hats have very high crowns.


High coiffures and high collars are the
rage.
Gold braid bonnets are extensively
worn.
Cloth-top boots are coming into fashion
again.
Feather fans take precedence of all
others.
Capes and pelerines are excessively
fashionable
In Minnesota several girls are railroad
station agents.
A woman is manager of State savings
bank in Sweden.
Small narrow cuffs are much worn with
tailor made dresses.
Velvet waistcoats are the correct wear
with ribbed jerseys.
Ribbed silk jerseys are the latest form
OF this popular jacket.
Grey, in variety of shades, is more
used than any other color.
The latest novelty in Paris fashion is
hat trimmed with artichokes.
The poke of Oriental lace is the bon
net to wear with muslin dresses.
Large flower designs appear on the
latest importations of linen lawns.
Crepe wells are coming into fashion,
and are becoming to the complexion.
Statistics show that quite as many men
as women break down from overstudy.
Mrs General Sheridan's toilets are the
most admired for richness and taste in
Washington.
-Four little girls under thirteen years Of
age turn out about -, 900 paper torpedocs
in day in Boston.
The conductors of the horse cars Of
Valparaiso are women. They are reputed
to be honest and polite.
Heavy plain white Irish linen paper,
and French paper IN cream and pink are
in fashion, without lines.
Dotted net wells are not worn at all.
They have been superseded by the plain
ones made of colored tulle.
Mrs. Langtry loves our gold dollars so
we'll that she has had set of two dozen
dress buttons made of them.
Statistics show that the Protestant
churches of this country average two
women to one man among their members.
Jersey gloves are very fashionable in
both silk and Isle thread. The silk
gloves are very long and fine and hand
some.
The female chorus in the Philadelphia
musical festival takes the lead in strength
and cult ure of any female chorus in the
country.
There seems to be a coming woman
surgeon. She is Dr.. Grace Wolcott, a
graduate of the Woman's Medical Col
lege of Philadelphia.
Turkey-red petticoats trimmed with
velvet ribbon are seen among the new
underwear. They have several steels
crossed at the top to make puff.
Mrs. Plunkett, of Massachusetts, has
written book called "Woman Doctors
and Plumbers" Mrs. Plunkett has been
a close student of sanitary science.
Velvet round the throat and wrists, fas-
tened with any good sized rocco buttons,
especially miniature, with diamond, crys-
tai or pearl setting, is coming in again.
A printed cashmere, which has very
large figures printed on cream ground,
is much used for the trains and back
breadlhs of short dresses of cream-colored
silk.
The short dolmans trimmed with che
mile fringe are very pretty and becoming
common through evcrybody's wearing
them.
Dr. Marie Haslep and Dr. Sarah Stock
ton have been elected by the Marion
County Qnd.) Medical society dele
gates to the Indiana State Medical So
ciety.
Only two women in the Washington
departments have reached an $500
clerkship. Under the new civil-ser-
vice law women will have a better
chance.
All the different sorts of lace, Valen,
ciennes, Malines and Alencon, are imi-
tated in a new web, from which bridal
costumes will be made this summer. II
is worn over white silk or white India
muslin.
"Pink dinners" have now taken the
place Of "blue teas" in New York's fash
ionable circles. Everything in the room
is pink, and the favors include a horn oil
plenty, to which tasty pink streamers are
attached.
In Leigh Richmond's advice to his
daughter, he wrote: Girls be cheerful,
but not gigglers; be serious, but not dull
be communicative, but not forward; be
kind, but not servile. Beware Of silly,
thoughtless speeches."
Mrs. Waddington, the wife of the
French minister to England, is an Ameri
can lady. That will explain why she is
both treasurer and secretary to her hus-
band. An American lady wouldn't give
cent to be merely her husbands secre-
tary.
DR.. c. II. Won Klien has made the OBJ
servation that the cutaneous irritation sc
frequently found upon the foreheads Of
fashionable ladies is the result of the
ounce seed mucilage used for the pur
pose of arranging bangs and similar
capillary 'vanities."