The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


and inexpensive.
The wraps worn this summer are short,
dressy visites of lace.
Fringcs are made with pendenls simu.
lating various kinds of nuts.
Fine silk boiling cloth is one of the
latest freaks as a dress material.
Black is much worn, frightened by
dashes of yellow, red or violet.
Velvet is popular material for facing
hat brims and should be of some color
becoming to the wearer.
The fashionable corsase bouquet is Of
natural tlowers with long stems, tied
with ribbon to match the dress.
Classed under round pins are gold
knots showing three, four and sometimes
more rings studded with gems.
The beaded lace gauze and grenadne
of this season is made to wear; the beads
do not rub off, as those of last summer.
The great banking house of the Roths-
childs, at London, employ many women,
claiming that they are more reliable and
accurate in their work than men.
silk and satin are no longer correctly
worn on the street, the tailor made cloth
or novelty wool frock having completely
superseded everything else for walking.
handsome silk, satin, crepe, or wide
ribbon sashes painted in water colors and
signed by well known artists, are the
latest extravaganza of fashionable Paris
ians.
A popular design for bracelets is that
of a whip, the braided lash OF which en-
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jeweled handle, forming the top of the
ornament
A Miss Helen Taylor has consented to
stand for North Cambcrwell, England,
at the next election, there being no law
against woman sitting and voting in
the house of commons.
There are no plain skirts this season.
Even the polonaise has the skirt plated
or gathered to the edge OF the waist,
which may be round or bodice shaped,
as ones form viii admit
A few of the newest tailor dresses
have large fan.shaped plat inserted in
the front of the skirt. 1t is narrowest
at the waist and broadens in width as it
goes toward the end of the skirt.
LOVELY WOMEN.
Her voices music has been sung
By poets not few.
But if there's music in her tongue
There's often discord, too
boston Courier.
Little square pins arranged to fasten
with Il short pin and catch, for ladies'
use, have followed close in the wake of
neck buckles, ana are designed to wear
on a neck ribbon, bonnet tie or else
where, as the wcaler may prefer,
A style for summer flannel dress for a
girl from eight to fifteen years old has
its lower skirt made in series of folds
four inches in width. Plain overskirt
with three rows Of stitching as finish !;
blouse waist, with belt Of the same.
The correspondent of Western paper
claims tnat in thousand New York
working girls there are to be observed
as many beautiful faces of the Lady Clara
We're dc We're type as in the same num-
Der of young ladies attending the fash.
iorabic Fifth avenue churches.
The Duchess Of Edinburgh is most
curious eater. Her appetite is simply
ravenous. and when she dimes out she
eats SO much more than everyone else that
she is always the last, only that people
pretend to go on and humbug with the
food on their plates till she is done.
Dust cloaks arc made in brocaded
canvas lined with thin silk; these are
long enough TO reach to the hem of the
dress, are full at the back
and shaped, and have either sling sleeves
or short ones, forming part of the man
tie; the back sleeves are outlined with
trimming.
A wealthy widower of Green Valley,
Sonoma county, between seventy and
eighty years OF aye. recently offered a
neighbor $500 if he would find him a
wife. The bargain was concluded, a
Young lady was brought out from the
East and was married to the aged wild
over and all hands seemed satisfied.
Frau Emile IIrsch the target queen
of Germany is dead at the age of thirty
four years. She carried oil a first prize
at n grand shooting festival held at Vi
emma in 1880, and thereafter was so uni.
formly successful that not few societies
paid her the honor, unprecedented in the
case OF a woman, OF excluding her from
their competitions.
When a couple are engaged in Russia
n bctrotnal feast is held and the bride
elect has lock of hair cut off in the
presence of witnesses and given to the
Bridegroom, who, in return, presents a
silver ring set with turquoise, an almond
cake, and gift of bread and salt.
Among poor people who cannot afford
silver and turquoise, tin and bit Of
bluestone are substituted.
A fashion writer in leading society
journal, of London, states that velvet
ribbon is used to excess as a garniture
for dresses hats and bonnets; the deep
or the vivid shades of red, green, blue or
brown for day wear, and upon delicate,
rich fabrics for full-dress occasions vel