Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The back drapery on all dresses is very
bouffant.
Adjustable trains are made for even
ing wear. So
Pencils are being worn on watch
chains again.
Handkerchief are showing broader
mems and boarders.
Grenadine or lace overdresses are worn
with satin and silk skirts.
Checked materials are made mp in as
ISOLATION with plain goods.
There are more than 2, 500 lady physi.
clans in the United States.
Striped wool velvets and Roman vel.
vet stripes on sicillienne are used fol
plain skirts.
The "blouse" bodices are revived, but
should only be worn by those having
slight figures.
Camel's-hair grenadine is a new trav.
cling suit fabric, and resembles a glossy
English mohair.
There are $50, 900, 900 women and girls
in China, nearly all of whom are unedu.
Gated and Ignorant.
Carmelite serge is enc of the hand
soonest and most serviceable materials
for travelling dresses.
Handsome bows to ornament dresses
are made of three and even four kinds
and shades of ribbon.
Black braid is used to trim all cloth
dresses irrespective of their color. The
buttons also are black.
Mile. Corlin, who won the prize at the
late beauty show in Paris, is twenty years
Of age and native of that city.
Queen Marguerite of Italy converses
Auently in the language OF almost every
stranger who visits the Italian court.
Black straw bonnets are trimmed with
black velvet and gold lace; the folds are
soft knots run through with slender gold
! pins.
A Louisville gentleman has had the
first tooth of his grandchild beautifed,
and is now wearing it as pin for his
shirt front.
Mrs. Livermore was the first woman to
ever speak before Harvard college as
sembly. She addressed one at Sanders
Theatre recently.
Jay Gould has appointed woman as
freight agent at Castleton, Ind, on the
Detroit and indianapolis division Jf the
Wabash railroad.
Presents for tin weddings are holder,
for flowers. Roses tied on to a dustpan,
tulips blooming from graters and arbutus
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Women constitute over a quarter OF
Germany's agricultural laborers. OF 4, =
695, 348 persons engaged in agricultural
work in the last census, 1888, $50 were
females.
The best dowry to advance the marriage
of young lady is when she has in her
countenance mildness, in her speech wis.
dom, in her behavior modesty, and in
her life virtues.
Many of the new flowers are made
with petals of shaded velvet, material
which more closely resembles nature
than the muslin which was once the
only weave of artificial blossoms.
The Queen chain in black onyx ana
gold is out this season in a diversity OF
pleasing patterns. This style is pre-
ferred by many middle-aged ladies and
others just out of mourning to tie all.
gold chains.
Some women can keep a secret. The
Rebekeh degree of Odd Fellowship is
the best kept secret in the order. Men
have been expelled from the order fol
divulging the secret work, but there is
no instance on record of woman proving
recreant to her trust.
The height to which hats and bonnets
have attained is astounding. Every
week new shapes are brought out, and
Excelsior seems to be the motto of the
manufacturers and milliners; for, nc
matter how high the crowns, the trim
mings tower still higher.
The new way of putting lace in
sleeves is to have two frills, each con-
tanning seven-eighths of yard of lace
not quite three inches deep; these are
gathered to lap, the upper frill nearly
covering the lower, and most of the
fullness being massed at the outside
seam of the sleeve.
The pouf at the back of the skirt il
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retained on dressy silk and etamine cos
tunes, but for light, and especially
wash fabrics, it is discarded entirely
the skirts of such frocks being simply
gathered or pleated round the waist and
falling loose over the steel and wired
tournure.
Helen of Troy was over forty wher
that famous elopement took place. Ter
years after, when the fortunes of wa
restored her to Menelaus, he received he
with love and gratitude. Cleopatra wal
past thirty when she made the conques
of Antony, and Diane de Poictiers al
thirty six, and for many years afterward
was considered the most beautiful woman
at the court of Henry II. of France. Nj
non de rEncols received declaration o.
love on her eightieth birthday,