Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-05-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
Long polonaises are out of style.


luck.
Presbyterian blue is a new color IL
hosiery.
Wool crepe is only new name 70
nuns yelling.
Jackets are lined or faced with silk o
uniform color.
Embroidered surahs will be very popu
lar this summer.
All the pongees are perfectly covered
with embroidery.
Jackets are made short at the bach
and with loose fronts.
Folded surplice waists are seen OF
lace, surah and wool dresses alike.
Most of the tailor made costumes hav,
a finish of galloon or gilt braid set unde.
the edge.
American grenadines show velve
stripes of various widths on the arrow
like meshes.
Some of the new web laces which will
be so generally used in thin costumes ART
embroidered in color.
The Empress Ghyantoka, of Japan
who reigned in the eighth century, orig
mated printing.
White braid, interviewer with gilt OF
silver and white wool lace are used TO,
trimming serge dresses.
V-shaped bodices are worn with lac,
elbow sleeves by those who do not care
to have quite a low dress.
Gauze and China crepe are used al
we'll as tulle for skirts; they are plain
Droche or tufted with chenille.
The Swiss pattern dresses are marvel
ously cheap this season and can be made
most attractive if carefully managed.
In Switzerland women monopolize tn.
telephone business, and in Valparaiso
;hey are employed exclusively as street
,ar conductors.
1t is said to have been a rule with
Ninon de rEnclos, whose skin was tht
admiration of beholders, to use rain
water exclusively.
Some pretty white flannel costumes foi
summer wear in the country are heavily
braided on the waist and sleeves with
gilt or silver braid.
The English tailor suits have little
hat of the same material with rolling
brim. Gordon blue is the stylish cooI
for these imported costumes.
Scrim makes the foundation of grea'
deal of the darning stitch embroidery
for sofa cushions particularly does thii
make very desirable ground.
Black cashmere and Henrietta cloth
either quite plain or embroidered al
over with silk, are used for polonaises tt
be worn over skirts of watered silk.
A Mansfield Comm, lady, has par
rot which was brought from Mexico
thirty-three years ago, by Captain Henry
Allen, of New Haven. The bird ha
been shipwrecked three times
Among the prettiest goods shown are
the American figured woolens in al
shades. Combined with plain goods, tc
match either the ground color or the
figure, they make durable and stylish
costumes.
The richest trimming laces are the
genuine Chantilly and the Spanish hand
run, but there is very effective com
bination of the latter with an imitation
/ of Chantilly, very good and fine and OF
beautiful material, which is equal in ap
pearance to the real, and more durable
than all hand run Spanish, which draws
at every point of contact.
Among the prettiest and most artistic
of the new woolen costumes are those
which are embroidered in chenille shad
ed in several colors of the wool. The
preference seems to be for detached fig
ures, for leaf. shaped, egg.shaped or cir
cular designs, alternating with fiat band:
put on lengthwise, or as ornaments with
out the alternating bands.
Princesse dresses are shown again, an6
are given a new effect by the loose Span.
ish Jacket which is added to the front
while novel idea in Others is that Of
using wide stri pes for the front of plair
satin or more dresses, making these stripes
form panels in the skirt, and cutting
them off above the waist line to repre-
sent Swiss bodice; the upper part ..
the front is then of the plain materia
lsed for the back.
The little so-called dog collars, intro.
auced so long ago, are now almost uni
versally worn, so popular have they be,
come All sorts of fancies are indulged
in, from simple velvet ribbon knotted
around the neck, when the corsage is
not very high, to several rows of pearls,
A flexible chain-work of silver links,
repetitions of ancient coins linked to.
yether to form band, silver daisies
fastened to black velvet ribbon, in
short. whatever the imagination may
suggest is used for neck ornaments.
Mrs. Asa Ross, of Wabash, Ind, founu
one of her fine chickens apparently dying
from an affection of the throat OF
,raw. With a sharp knife she cut the
craw or food sack open, removed large
quantity of dry grass and undigested
corn which had become packed in the
,raw, and then, stitching up the cut
carefully, liberated the chicken, which
entirely recovered from its stupor,
eapered around and finally brought ur
IN nest, laying an egg within two
hours of the time Mrs. Ross performed