Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-09-18
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Hats are still large and bonnets small.
Ladder as well as gentlemen now wear
travelling caps.
There are 1s,G01 female students ir
Inc American colleges.
Medieval designs in gold are seen il
yauze scarfs for trimming hats.
Pendent trimmings of all descriptions
ire more aud more fashionable.
Ladies in Paris have just now craze
or adopting white rabbits as pets.
New bonnets for autumn are provided
With ribbon strings to tie under the chin
Wall lamps of all kinds and varieties
are very much in vogue for any sort of
oom.
Young ladies are writing with quill
since sealing wax and stamps came il
fashion
The most marked feature of the fal
1resses is the absence of the "bunchy'
side draperies.
Pretty dresses are made entirely of thu
piece wool laces, and are lined with su
rahs the color of the lace.
Decorated fans Of gauze, mounted OF
ebony or pearl sticks, are more fashion
able than the finest lace and feather fans
1t is fashionable in London to burr
Japanese pastlles after the fish course
to disguise the faint odor it leaves be
hind.
Miss Adelaide Randolph, niece
Mrs. Garfield, has ] cen made professo
of Latin in the State university
Kansas
Gauze draperies are carried from righ
to left and lose themselves in the draper
Of the skirt, or terminate in full plastron
or ichus.
There are q great many parasols JUS
now with the pattern of the black lac'
run in gold, the lace falling is festoon
beyond the parasol.
The Princess Beatrice has over tive
hundred pairs of walking shoes. Tht
princess should have married man ricl
enough to keep horse.
The New York Ledger declares tina
American girls of the present have more
beauty than the American girls of /
quarter of 4 century ago.
In the streets black toilets are NOR
frequently worn than ever; some haw
narrow plastrons of very finely PLATED
white cambria or percale.
Jenny June accuses English girls o
tight lacing, and says they carry it to /
much greater degree of absurdity tho
fashionable American girls do,
Gou,;orr c;lIy frropo1 ;noe ~ avail or,,,,,r
! designs, or with jet figures and profusel.
trimmed with lace, is the most gentce
gown lady who prefers black can wear
The widow of the Emperor Maximil
ian, of Mexico, is now forty-five years o
age. The doctors note an extraordinar!
improvement in her condition and an
ticipate complete recovery.
Moire is particularly in favor for brida
dresses. 1t is used with crepe de chine
and lace. The soft folds of the creu
fall naturally, and give graceful anG
elegant appearance to the whole toilet.
Cotton poplin is a fine material ribbed
in the length, and so like wool that is il
impossible to detect the difference til
neld in the hand; it is a serious rival O.
crepon for seaside and dainty country
toilets, being so supple, and therefore
lraping to perfection.
The first coffee ever raised in the Uni
ted States is credited to Mrs. Atzeroth
who successfully produced it at he
plantation near Manatee, Fla, in 1880
She has now twenty-five coffee trees anc
says that with proper cultivation COFFEE
;an flourish in that latitude.
A house made of beaten gold was 6
bridal gift in London recently. When
ever one touches a secret spring a doc
Of emeralds and diamonds would opel
and there could be seen within a fin,
portrait. Mile. De Bravura, who waf
married to Mr.. Stanhope, was the recip.
.ent of the gift.
Tulle wells are made very long and
quite envelop the figure. They are fas,
;ened on the head with fancy pins
Flowers are not as much worn in the haiI
, Dy brides at present; orange blossoms
are usually pinned about the corsage and
skirt. If the sleeves are quite short
gloves should reach them, and should bt
pure white or cream, according to the
lint of the dress.
A new and elegant evening dress ha:
simple foundation of black surah silk
cut princess, and made low in the neck
and without sleeves. Over this clouds
of black tulle are looped, and very full
:uching of tulle borders the foot of tn,
gown, with tiny punches of honeysucklc,
bright red in color, caught in the cente'
of each group of plait,. Large bunchei
of honeysuckle are caught among thu
araperies, and the shoulder straps SCENT
20 be made entirely of the pretty flower
continued in outline round the low.cU
neck.