The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

nets.
Scrges are finer and softer than ever
before.
Combination suits are more fashiona-
| BILE than ever.
Green, no matter whether it prove be-
coming or not, is to be worn.
A new fancy of the fair is gold knit
ting needles tipped with pearls.
Artificial honey is made with ma
chine invented by Wisconsin woman.
New tissues for long scarf vests are of
fine silk threads woven in fsh-net pat
tern.
a full table service of pure gold makes
bright the board of Mrs. Catherine
Aston.
Braids of medium width, edged with
ponpons is used for trimming wooden
costumes.
The Woman's National Industrial
! league has decided that Chinese laun-
dries must 60.
Madras striped silk is used for panels,
vests and cuffs for costumes of dark silk
or Of fine wool.
Bonnets are more eccentric and ca
PRECIOUS than ever, in shape, size, mater
ials and trimmings.
Spite of many innovations in the Golf
furc, the close English style of hair.
dressing still prevails.
The fronts of basques have one or two
points, the back frequently has the sash
drapery attached to it.
Stripes of various colors, side by side,
are frequently seen in velvet or plush on
sober-toned wooden grounds.
The bulk of winter stuffs both wool
and silk, are striped horizontally as a
rule, but frequently vertically.
In Paris the passion is for stripes,
plain stripes, fancy stripes, Pekin stripes,
narrow stripes and broad stripes in every
possible combination of color and mate
rial.
Blush moonlight and blue steel beads
mixed with smaller quantity of bronze,
or grenat beads, form some of the most
beautiful trimmings that can be OBJ
tanned.
Miss Madeline GARNER, a niece of Joa-
quin Miller, is transating clerk in the
office of the first assistant postmaster
general. She speaks five languages, and
paints and writes well.
An authority on etiquette says that
woman can take mans hand, but must
not shake it; but there is nothing set
down in the rules which can prevent her
from shaking the man.
A lady at Carroll, Pa, who celebrated
the Fourth of July, 1884, by becoming
the mother of twin boys, celebrated the
National birthday this year by pre-
cisely similar performance.
In making up skirts be sure to have
the lower part so lined up that it is stiff
and firm; there should always be knit
ting or a plating quite at the edge to
throw it out, not necessarily to show.
Miss Mary Justin is clerk of the First
National bank of Bloomsburgh, Pa.
She has the privilege of signing her
name to bank notes "for President" the
latter officer having nearly lost his sight.
Derby hats for misses in brown and
gray felt, have no plume this year, sim
ply corded ribbon to match the color
of the hats. In shape they are higher
and with more of a Hat brim than last
years.
Mrs. Garfield, who has one of the finest
dwellings on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is
said to have grown old rapidly since her
great trial. She is frequently seen riding
out, and her turnout is one of the hand
soonest in the city.
Women dentists are gaining ground in
Germany. They are practicing in many
of the great cities; in Hamburg, Stras-
burg, Cologne, Wiesboden, and Frank
fort -on-the Main. They are very popu-
lar with the children.
Braid is still used in diagonal rows
and in points on the vest, collar and
sleeves, and as border on the lower
edge. Alaska sable, Persian lambskin,
and the light natural beaver will be the
popular furs for trimming cloth wraps.
Very few suits are made entirely of one
! fabric. OF all the fancies shown each
has its matching cloth, and tailor made
suits are of subducd stripe, plain or
check, in sombcr colors, with plain cloth
matching one or other Of the checks or
stripes.
Plush is restored to favor, and is
favorite material for small wraps, rivaling
velvet in popularity, and second only to
fur seal for very rich garments, and is
made into the scarf and cape like gar
ments that have only one seam in the
back and short shoulder seams.
The widow of Archduke Johann, of
Austria, has died. The archduke while
travelling through Aussee asked the post
master for a postchaise. No position,
however, could be found; SO the post
masters daughter donned the dress of
position and offered her services The
archduke was struck by her beauty, and
subsequently she became his wife and
was elevated to the rank of countess.
Five hundred years B. c., the Etrus-
can ladies fastened their coils and braids
with spearshaped pins, as beautiful as
they were useful. Some of them were
made of ivory and some of bronze and
silver. They were ornamented in various
ways, some with busts carved upon them,
and some with full-length reclining fig.
ures. Venus rising out of the sea and
stroling back her wet hair was a favorite
| design.