The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Mufls and bonnets must match.
Some Of the new fans have amber
handles
Embroidered handkerchiefs are no lon.
ger fashionable.
In Siam it is the custom for husbands
to gamble away their wives.
Lace and hcmstitching are the trim
mings for dressy handkerchiefs.
Underskirts are made very full in the
back, to supply the hustle effect.
Fans composed of ostrich feathers in
two colors are very pretty in effect.
Gold jewelry is gradually but surely
finding its way to popular favor again.
There are forty eight women in Dako-
ia holding the position of bank cashiers.
An Indian girl, fourteen years of age
is the "boss" breadmaker at Lewiston,
Idaho.
The latest French fashion is to notify
the guests at country houses whom they
are to meet.
Mrs Mary L. Leonard has been adj
mitted to the bar as the first female law
yer in Washington Territory.
There are at present seventy women in
France who have received the distinc-
ton of the cross of the Legion of Honor.
A Jersey City girl is at work on a
crazy quilt composed of small pieces
clipped from the silk Innings of her many
admirers overcoats.
Balls of hammered silver are used to
head the long pins thrust through the
crown of the bonnet, converting them
into articles OF luxury.
Tying the bonnet strings in the back
of the neck is the device adopted for the
sake of warmth by girls without fur col
lars or fur trimmed garments.
There may be women who do not wish
to be married; but has there been a
woman who could take comfort in the
thought that she had never been asked
TO marry.
Five hundred dollars for a pair of
shoes seems high price, but it has been
paid by one of the society bellies of New
York. They were of white satin, and
were embroidered with pearls.
English brides refuse to wear long
trained wedding robes, saying they dc
not care to look like dowagcrs at theil
own weddings, where they propose to
dance in a demi-traincd dancing dress.
1t is not fashionable to wear light
colors at French wedding, unless one
is a kinswoman of the bride. A rich
visiting dress, with a very costly little
mantle, is what the most elegant women
wear.
Chenille dotted and embroidered tulle
full wi in 81 ,,l
are much used with evening dresses OF
the delicate pongee and India silks and
for the draperics of satins and gros grair
silks.
The full pulled sleeve, not nearly sc
pretty in itself as the French coat sleeve,
looks beautiful by comparison with the
jersey, with which it is most often thrown
into contrast, and it conccals the arms to
perfection.
1t is prophesied that mi gnonctte green
will be the color most in favor for light
gowns next summer. 1t is so exquisitely
delicate in appearance that it always
seems especially appropriate for the
warm season, and if properly blended
with scarlet even bruncttes can wear Eit.
AS for blondes, there is nothing more be.
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checks and to the gold of their hair.
In Northern Siberia when a young
man thinks he wants to marry young
woman he arranges to pay certain sum
to her father. Half of this sum he paws
down and lives with the family of his
lady love for year, If, at the end OF
that time, he still wants her, he pays the
other half of the sum agreed upon and
gets her. If he doesn't want her he says
so and loses the inStallment which he
first paid.
At golden wedding in New York the
florist who decorated the rooms chose to
use yellow blossoms, and produced
brilliant effect. The bay window was
filled with ferns. butter-cup carnations
and sunset roses, and yellow chrysanthe-
nuns and golden ferns were banked
everywhere. Two hearts in pearl roses
were hung over one of the arched doors,
ard the newell post was twined with vel
low flowers.