The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


gether for bracelets.
Some of the most famous women in the
world were old maids.
Crossed scarf draperies are still much
used for grenadine dresses.
The prettiest sunshades this summer
are made of canvas over colored silk or
satin.
A novelty of the season is the pretty
Jacket. bodice of white or buff etamine,
trimmed with insertion and lace to
match and very pretty to wear with
any colored skirt.
Cut-crystal balls, silver plated ovals
and plain, FURNISHED silver, profile
heads and horseshoes, with a snake
gracefully coiled about, drc the latest
notions IN parasol handles.
Roman sashes make very gay round
waists, with which young ladies brighten
up and give variety to their toilets by
having this extra bodice to change with
the lace basque that belongs TO the
skirts.
81 In bonnets, the large capote, very
much in the shape OF n Norman cap,
with mass Of flowers heaped up on the
top, is the last nouveaute, while hats are
higher and more extravagant than ever
in shape and trimming.
A Chicago lady who made purchases
of bric-a brac in Paris to the amount of
81 600 got home to discover that every
single article was on sale at within half
a mile of her home, and at much lower
prices than she had paid.
Gainsborough hats of immense size,
trimmed with large bouquets of any
thing wild flowers for choice and tied
with a ribbon of any loud color, are all
the rage in Paris for the country or sea-
side. The more dishevelled the effect
the better the hat is liked.
Seven hundred women are employed
at the central telegraph Office in London
and about three hundred and fifty more
at the different telegraph and postal
branch offices of the metropolis. At
Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and
other provincial centers a considerable
number earn their living in this way, be-
side nine hundred similarly employed
outside the civil service.
Mr.. Young, the couture of the Princess
of Wales, begins dressing hair at z
o'clock in the morning of the drawing
room day. So great is the anxiety to re-
ceive his services that he is engaged, not
days, but weeks, beforehand. Woe to
the lady who comes first on the liss. She
must be in a state of worry the whole of
the morning, lest Il careless movement
should disarrange the couture before the
hour approached for displaying it to the
world.
White or cream colored flannel is the
fashionable fancy for seaside and noun
tain house toilets. Braid is the usual
garnituIe for these, either plain, cream
colorcd, or white Hercules braid, or the
more dressy gilt braid, which is
warranted not to tarnish. Such suits are
also prettily trimmed with velvet, the
vest, with collar, cuffs and skirt panel,
being of velvet. When velvet trim.
mings are used the buttons should be of
the same.
Very wide sashes are worn, both with
washing and silk gowns and also for
evening, and the loops are so arranged
that they form back drapery of them
selves. A white lace dress with variety
of these sashes, may be made to do a
good deal of hard work for morning or
evening wear. A velvet bodice in the
evening with lace skirt is always drcssy,
and the same skirt with lace bodice
will do for afternoon wear. Valenci-
icnnes is the Lest lace for this style Of
toilet.
Five years ago a remarkably bright
and pretty girl of seventeen worked in a
San Francisco laundry. The son Of
wealthy parents fell in love with her.
She returned his passion, but said that
she would not marry him, as he wished,
because she was uneducated and coarse.
Then he offered to send her away to
school. She accepted this offer. During
the ensuing four years she was in Mon
trcal convent, very apt and studiOus.
The training wrought all the change
that was desirable, and the wedding took
place, with a long tour in Europe after
ward. The couple returned to San Fran
cisco lately. TO show that she had nei-
ther forgotten nor was ashamed of her
former employment, the bride gave a
grand supper to those of her old com
panions who could be brought together.