The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Wells have come in again, and will be
popular.
Bright colors are not so much worn
this season as last.
Bee keeping ls said to be the coming
industry of the Southern woman.
The new jackets are shorter in the
back and longer in the front, sloping
gradually to point.
The newest beads arc gold drops en-
closed in crystal. and are used with jet
beads with excellent effect.
According to the Hsijcal World every
farmer wears out, on the average, two
wives and a half in his lifetime.
The new conceit, marabout boa, an
swers the purpose of protection cool
nights when one goes for drive.
The president of the New Orleans
Woman's club is Mrs. Maria jefferson
Swayze, a niece Of Thomas Jefferson.
Painting the lower panes of windows
in oil colors is an amusement now fash
ionable with English girls who are Ear
tistic."
Tinsel, or 'stincclle, " as it is called in
Paris, is prominent feature in ali fa-
brics prepared for bonnets, whether it
be net, plush or wooden.
The rubyis now considered the rarcst
of colored gems. Fine rubies are scarce.
They will be clustered with white and
tinted pearls, sapphires. opal and other
stones.
The variety of bead trimming cxccls
that of any former season, us fiat, square,
round. large and small beads are used
with blocks nearly an inch square and
spikes two inches long.
There are host OF striped pushes.
One example is in dark green half-inch
wide stripe of plush, alternating with
one Of cashmere of the same color, the
latter being studded with bouclc spots
of red
Pointed bonnet brims are still 10 be
worn, and the crown are Of all shapes,
as the back hair Is now worn in many
different ways; velvet or plush strings
are added to render the bonnets warmer
and more comfortable looking.
A foreign authority says hats do not
| differ much from those of the summer,
and yet some very extreme styles are
shown. One, a most stylish Rubens,
| was u lllllIiCb Win a NlhC bssuN' VI 'Oi' ~
and tinsel with cluster of ostrich
feathers.
The Sachsenspiegel, a German code of
the thirteenth century, says OF the wife
that "shc must live after the will Of her
| husband, and be subject and obedient,
for she is not competent Of herself with
out her husband, whether to do or to
leave undone."
Wooden dresses being in such favor,
and the fashion of wearing hornets to
match the costume still obtaining, mum.
Der of wooden fabrics have been manu-
featured especially for millinery. There
arc wooden laces in the piece embroidered
with chenille, metal and beads, cloth
with bouclc loops, and even Astrachan
cloth-all now used for bonnets.
The modern belle never battles her face
in cold water; it roughens the skin. The
most perfect beautitier, in her opinion,
is a piece Of fine white flannel dipped in
warm water and wiped over tie face
morning and night. Then dry gently
with a soft towel, pressing the face in.
stead of rubbing it. This keeps the face
soft The flannel used before retiring
removes the cosmetics that may have
been applied during the day.
Bonnets are more capricous than ever
They are of large, medium and small di
mensions, sometimes bent in the brim,
sometimes straight and again the brin
is 50 close TO the head rs not 10 admit o
any variations. They are of velvet O.
plush, or both, and are trimmed with
an endless variety of ribbons, feathers
flowers and ornaments. In most case
the bonnet must match in some manne
the costume, either in color or in ma
terial