Connecticut western news., 1885-12-30
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

but lltt,e from last seasons styles.
 The fur set of the season is huff, bon. net and cape in sable or less expensive fur
 Fancy rings to wear on the little finger, are much affected now by young ladies.
 The ''crcche" or day nursery in Buff falo often cares for as many as forty ba- bies day.
 Ladies' collar buttons are quite small !; the preferred cuff button is a single one with link.
 Bamboo tripods, the baskets filled with artificial smilax, are something new in household ornaments.
 - White, cream colored and psle-tinted tulle dresses are fashionable for debu- tants and very young ladies.
 Manicures soak the hands of their GUS toners in tepid water few minutes be- fore filing the nails into oval shape.
 The president of the New Orleans Wo- mans Club is Mrs. Marie Jefferson Swayze, niece of Thomas Jefferson.
 Japan has society for reforming the style of dressing the hair of women. The association has over 2,000 mem. bers.
 Female society correspondents are to be admitted 10 all public entertainments at the White House, by order of Miss Cleveland.
 The low Catogan loops are coming in again, and those who have recently re- turned from Paris are dressing the hair in this style.
 Ladies must not be found with moro than from five to seven pounds of cloth ing, exclusive of boots on, who propose to join the Rational Dress society.
 Fringes wrought in the goods like shawl fringcs come in some of the hand. some wool fabrics, and are used for borderings laid over plain goods.
 Three canes fastened to an oblong bot tomless waste batket and covered with bright hued ribbons, forms pretty cane or umbrella rack for the hallway.
 A girl of thirteen years, at Canton, Dak., is reported to have plowed eighty-two acres of land with a pair of horses and a common stubble blow.
 The old family heirlooms of real lace llOunLGo huh luIG EuhNlE LII " hN bAoA-h hN out now and aired. They appear in trim ming elegant costumes for evening wear.
 Miss Cleveland's favorite flowers are pond lilies and roses. A bouquet of pond lilies is taken to her room every morning and fresh basket placed on the table at breakfast.
 There are many opinions in regard to the restoration of erinoline to public favor, and when a few Parisian modistes have decided the matter satisfactorily to themselves we shall know what is to be.
 The new feather trimming comes in all the desirable shades. such as black, wine color, two shades of olive, two of green, two blue in dark shades, with browns and light evening shades of light blue and rose. with white.
 The Infauta Eulalia, whose marriage has been a subject of discussion in Spain, has for one of her ladies in waiting Mme Calderon, an American lacy, the aunt ol Calderon Carlisle, of Washington. With Mime. Calderon, Eulalia speaks and studies English.
 The New York Sun says that tho homespun suits of this season, both fol men and women, are made of real, rougf woolen cottage and cabin woven home spuus, and crude in appearance and wan of finish as the "butternut" hsmcspuni worn by the rebels during ''the war"
 English homespuns, Irish friezes and blarney cloths, kerseys and Scotch cheviots, are used almost to the exclusion of all other woolen stuffs for street utility and informal visiting suits, ana with such suits a jacket of the same ol of heavy cloaking cloth is the prope wrap.
 China crape is usually chosen for tho wedding dress, and there are lengths oI embroidered crape to be used for tho front ot the skirt. X Canton crape shaw was lately utilized in this way for the gathered fall across the entire front an5 sides of the dress, also for the revers ano plastron on the waist. The fringes were cut off, and the clever bride worked heavy scallops in buttonho,e stitches along the edges.
 At the wedding in Troy, N. r., re gently, of Joseph A. Powers, genera manager of the Troy electric light com pauy, and Miss Emma J. Tibbits, ther were present Mrs. Martha Waters, ageC ninety-six. grandmother of the bride and Mrs. Deborah Powers, aged ninety five, grandmother of the bridegroom Mrs. Deborah Powers is the head of tn | banking firm of D. Powers & Son, and the oldest woman banker in America. Dr. Alvarez, a Paris homeopathic brought suit against tho Princess o Medina Coli for 600, 900 francs for med ical services, stating that he was enti | tied to more than the usual compensa tion on account of the great wealth O his patient. The court awarded hin S4, 900 francs, he to pay the costs. Mos physicians would consider SI7, ,000 handsome fee, but this doctor was mucl chagrined over the result. A few day | before he had refused q much large sum to compromise the matter.
 At recent fancy dress party cos | tune, "Night and Day,h was uniqu and complete in every detail. One hal of the dress was of gold tissue with del icate scarfs of pale pink and mauv l tulle coming from the right side. Tn other half was of dark blue tulle, with | scarf of back tulle starred with silver and looped on the left hip with a larg paste crescent. The bodice correspond cd. One glove was of dark blue sill with silver stars over it and the othe pale pink with bracelet of flowers One shoe was of silver, the othe7 of gold one-half of the hair was studded wit silver stars, and the other dressed wit flowers and sprinkled with diamont dust One earring was silver star, am the other a gold one, and the fan wa half black and silver and half pale pinl and gold.
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