Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-05-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

One OI inc new suaueS OF green IL
called chaTtreuse.
Squares of frosted gold are linked to-
gether for bracelets.
Gold and wooden lates are much used
oh the new spring hats.
The favorite color of the Princess
Beatrice is pale heliotrope.
Women's names adorn more than half
the American sailing ships.
The old-fashioned knitted purse of our
grandmothers' time is revived.
Forty-eight English women have di-
plomas and are registered as physicians,
Bonnets and hats are quite handsome
for the spring, and show great variety
of shapes.
Velvet collars of any color preferable,
both standing and turned down, are very
becoming to all ages.
A dark green and gold embroidered
bonnet is ornamented with large clus-
ter of Marshal Neil roses.
A beautiful fabric called Limousine
comes in small plaids, and is especially
suited for children's dresses.
Waists grow longer, basques shorter,
collars higher, skirts fuller, hats and
coiffures higher, dress less artistic.
japanese girls are said to have small,
| plump hands, and to use their finger
nails as pens when writing love letters.
The prettiest slipper is still that made
of undressed kid, in the various mode
colors and gray. Yet the patent leather
slipper and low-cut shoe is much worn.
The wide metal braids which are used
for the trimming of high-crowned hats
are very effective. White wool braid is
used with quite good effect on dark, blue
and black straw.
Miss Addie Kurtz is the deputy sheriff
of Franklin county, Pa, and she re-
Gently escorted seven male prisoners
from the county jail to the penitentiary
at Philadelphia.
Lace-making is again favorite fancy
work among tho English and Russian la
dies, and for those whose eyes can stand
the trial it is charming and artistic
employment of leisure hours.
The tapestry stitch is being learned
by young ladies who have good eye.
| sight. Some very artistic designs may
be imported from England. The scheme
Of color is like that in old Gobelin tapes.
try.
Silk boiling cloth is used for sash
curtains. The embroidery which en-
bellishes these curtains is after the
Japanese, and is very much the same on
both sides. The effect is very charm,
ing.
Velvet or velveteen, in contrasting
color with the etamine, or cashmere, OF
wool stuff of the frock, is used to excess
for the cuffs, belts, collars and capes,
pockets and parements of children
garments.
The fashionable New York poodle
must be as tenderly shielded from the
dust as his devoted slave and owner,
and he, therefore, now wears a tissue
veil swathed around his head when
taken on Fifth avenue for his airing.
Chenille trimmings will remain fashion.
able, and we shall have chenille embroid,
cries, passementeries of chenille and silk,
chenille and velvet or beads, among
others beads cut with facets which glitter
brilliantly, and are of all tints and colors.
Plain gray cottons and gray-blue are
made up with red to look very pretty fol
country wear. The red sometimes forms
q frilling, over which the contrasting
color is cut out in points or she'll shapes,
while upon the bodice it forms tucked
vest.
The Russian hat has a high peaked
crown and wide, rolling brim cut open
at the front and back. The points thus
made are faced with velvet and hand,
some aigrette of flowers or feathers falls
gracefully over them at the front fol-
garniture.
Pretty overall aprons for little girls
are made of two wide breadths of main
sock or lawn tucked at the bottom and
shirred back and front of the half arm,
hole, which is finished by two wide
bands of the muslin tied into bow on
the top of the shoulder to retain the
apron in place. These aprons are closed
back and front
The trade of the hairdresser and cos.
metic maker prospers at present, says the
New York San. The couture is high
and elaborate, demanding the use oil
much additional hair, and frequently Of
the wig. With the high coiffures come
the profuse use of powder for the face
and hair mouches, or black patches or
the cheeks, lips, chin, forehead and
neck.
Miss Sarah q. Raymond has been fol
the past nine years the superintendent Of
the public schools of Bloomington, Ill.
She graduated at the Illinois Norma
University in 1866, and has been engaged
in schoolwork ever since. AS a teacher
she passed through all the grades of the
Bloomington schools from the Lowest
primary to the principal of the High
school.
In London they are having flower wed
dings, which means that the bridesmaids
are dressed in gowns made to represent
some flower. A dafTodil dress, fo
instance, is made of deep yellow. Thu
satin skirt is quilted like the outer lea
of dafrodil. The bodice and polonaisc
are of surah of a lemon color, like tn,
hearts of the daffodil. Yellow stocking,
and shoes and gloves of lemon hue arr
worn with this dress.