The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Turbans are the correct hat for windy
days.
Belts to be fashionable must be very
wide.
The Princess of Wales has adopted al
paca.
Childrcn's frocks arc made with waists
again.
The tailor-made suit is the popular
fall frock.
Jackets with hoods are again coming
in fashion.
Olive and rescda shades of green are OK
tremely popular.
There is adisposition to restore dressed
kid gloves to favor.
Worth. the PA isian drcssmaker, loses
$40 900 year through bad debts.
Deep crimson and moss green are fro
quently combined in sash ribbons.
A woman who smiles at forty is more
attractive than one who frowns at twenty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Eaglcsford is the first
woman admitted to the bar in Indiana.
Forty women law reporters arc en-
ployed in the city court house in Chi
cago.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Is ono Of the
greatest travellers among women suilra
gists.
Long rcdingotes of dark wooden ma
terial are lined with bright colorcd silk
or satin.
Green in various subducd shades are
leading color in fall and carly winter
fashions.
Braid and fine fancy galloons are in
favor, and will probably continue 50 for
another season.
Curled mohair and Astrachan borders
appear on wood novelties for fall and
early winter wear.
Rusty flatirons may be greatly i'm
proved by rubbing over while hot, with
beeswax and lard.
False hair was worn ages ago. 1t was
preached against by the fathers of the
church, but to no purpose.
A new insurance company in Hungary
pays to its policy-holdcrs from 100 to 500
lorins if their wives elopc.
Black and white lace scarfs are again
in vogue for neck wear, and are tied
usually at the side or in the back.
1t has been said of England that her
three proudest rcigns were women's-
Elizabeth, Queen Anne, Victoria.
The japanese government proposes to
decorate ladies who have distinguished
themselves for the benefit Of the country.
Mrs. Isabella Law, an old lady Of
Pittsburg. says she cooked the dinner
for Lafayette when he visited that city in
1925.
Very wide collars of lace or cmbroid-
cry, worn over ribbon arranged high in
the neck, are among the features in fall
styles.
/ A woman made the first orange box
used in California, and she now runs a
factory which turns out 80, 600 of them
year
A brown canvas costume has the front
drapcd with canvas with red chenille
stripes; the sides are finished with rcvers
of the striped canvas
Miss Madeline \. GARNER. a niece Of
joaquin Millcr,is translating clerk in the
Office of the first assistant postmaster
general. She speaks five languages, paints
and writes well.
/ MISS lcOnd NdIl mas HIlcu Il bICch pIO-
fcssorship in the Iowa State university
so acceptably since her brothers death
that it is likely she will be formally
elected his successor.
Fancy ribbons of great width covered
with flowers, or having alternate stripes
of watcrcd silk and faillc and etamine,
interviewer with metallic thread, have
superseded MORE antique sashcs.
Leghorn hats are trimmed with wide
ctaminc ribbon with large bow in front,
and also with white muslin and apeline,
with ostrich tips and clusters of flowers.
The brim is usually without facing,
Women at the theatre in Paris use fan.
in the handle of which there arc. hole,
filled with small lenses of the finest crys
tai The wearer covers her eyes with
the fan, and uses the sticks as an opers
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