The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-18
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

A japanese woman dresses her hair
once in four days.
Square bags filled with horse hair arc
the favorite hustle.
Walking dresses continue the same
length as last season.
Not a woman or girl works in the coal
mines in this country.
Darning needles are popular ornaments
on the summer hats.
New cotton prints for dresses show the
fine India silk designs of last year.
Slippers, CATERS, boots and shoes Of
all kinds are still pointed at the toe.
The newest jerseys arc fitted to the
figure with darts, side and back seams.
Mrs. John Adams was the first lady
ever presented at the British court as an
American minister's wife. 1t was in the
time of George III.
Velveteen dresses are fashionable, and
when suitably worn nothing can be more
becoming, even at the present season,
when chilly winds still prevail even on
bright days.
Velvet will continue the favorite trim
,
longer, and velvet cut from the piece
will be preferred to velvet ribbon which,
however, is still used.
Readers will remember the astonishing
chilu poems Of the Goodalc sisters, few
years ago. The elder of the sisters,
Elaine, is now a teacher in the Indian
school at Hampton, Va.
The highest prize attainablc to English
musical students, the Mcndelssohn schol-
arship, has been won this year by a
woman, Miss Mary Wurm. One of her chief
teachers in piano music was woman,
too-Clara Schumann.
A strip of figured Oriental lace, three
quarters of a yard long and half yard
wide, may be trimmed around with an
| cdging of the same lace and then gath
cred in ut the throat the width of one
inch, and left to hang loosely below the
basque.
She was a sweet girl-graduate Of a fe-
male seminary. She had just been mar.
ried and was preparing to keep house.
| Some one recommended her to buy some
spring mattresses. YES" said she,
swectly, "if they are in season we'd bet
! ter have some."
Most of the long wraps are open at
| the seams so as to disclose the dress be
meath, and although they look well
| enough when the wearer stands before
! her mirror at home, the smallest breeze
! that blows transforms her very disagree
ably, and gives her the appearance OF an
awkward bird with tapping wings.
Among the favorite combinations of
color in millinery are pale pink, with
! ruby, salmon-pnk, with black or dark
| green and old gold, or Grange wit beads,
these being generally in the same color
as the material which they adorn. Black
jet, of course, is as largely patronizel a,
of late. 1t is becoming, and brightcns
| up black hats, dresses and mantles
A great business has been built up in
the town of Lubbock, Germany, by Mad
ame Charlotte Erasmia, widow with six
children, who a dozen years ago opened
shop for the sale of canned fruits and
preserved meats and vegetables. and has
Now a branch house in London, and a
large trade in New York. She has edu-
Gated her children in the best schools OF
Europe.
Some of the haDdsomcst skirts have
the front either covered with founces,
one above the other, or else the front
breadth is formed of solid embroidery OF
of alternate bands of tuc&s and EN-.
broidery, or tucks and lace. These
skirts are for wear with thin wrappers,
or with tea gowns, which fall open be
low the belt to show the petticoat under.
meath, after the fashion Of half 4 century
ago.
Electrical jcwclry is worn in Paris
The ornaments consist of glass cut and
colored to initiate rubics, diamonds and
other stones and fitted in an envelope sur
rounding small incandesccnt lamp of low
resistance. The light shines through the
pieces of glass only and gives them all
the appearance of the stones they are in,
tended to initiate. The lamp is fed from
a small battery which is carried about
the person.