The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Long polonaises are out of style.

English brides wear moonstones for
luck.
Presbyterian blue is a new color in
hosiery.
Wool crepe is only new name for
nuns yelling.
Jackets are lined or faced with silk of
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 back
and with loose fronts.
Folded surplice waists are seen on
lace, surah and wool dresses alike.
Most of the tailor made costumes have
finish of GALLON or gilt braid set under
the edge.
American grena dimes show velvet
stripes of various widths on the arrow
like meshes.
Some Of the new web laces which will
/ be so generally used in thin costumes are
embroidered in color.
The Empress Ghyantoka, of Japan,
who reigned in the eighth century, orig.
mated printing.
White braid, interviewer with gilt or
silver and white wool lace are used for
trimming serge dresses.
/ V.shaped bodices are worn with lace
elbow sleeves by those who do not care
to have quite low dress.
Gauze and China crepe are used as
well as tulle for skirts; they are plain,
broche 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 the
telephone business, and in Valparaiso
they are employed exclusively as street.
car conductors.
1t is said to have been rule with
Ninon de rEnclos, whose skin was the
admiration of beholders, to use rain
water exclusively.
Some pretty white flannel costumes for
summer wear in the county 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 color
for these imported costumes.
Scrim makes the foundation of a great
deal of the darning stitch embroidery
for sofa cushions particularly does this
make very desirable ground.
Black cashmere and Henrietta cloth,
either quite plain or embroidered all
over with silk, are used for polonaises to
be worn over skirts of watered silk.
A Mansfield Conn., lady, has a par
rot which was brought from Mexico
thirty-thrce years ago, by Captain Henry
Allen, of Nc'v Haven. The bird has
been shipwrecked three times.
Among the prettiest goods shown are
the American figured woolens in all
shades. Combined with plain goods, to
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 wooden 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 bands
put on lengthwise, or as ornaments with
out the alternating bands.
Princesse dresses are shown again, and
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 stripes for the front of plain
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 81
the front is then of the plain material
used for the back.
The little so-called dog collars, intro
duced so long ago, are now almost uni
versally worn, so popular have they be-
come. All sorts of fancies are INDUCED
in, from simple velvet ribbon knotted
around the neck, when the corsage is
not very nlSn, TO several rows OF pearls.
A flexible chain work of silver links,
repetitiOns of ancient coins linked to-
gether to form a 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, found
one of her fine chickens apparently dying
from an affection of the throat OF
craw. With 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
craw, and then, stitching up the cut
carefully, liberated the chicken, which
entirely recovered from its stupor,
capered around and finally brought up
on a nest, laying an egg within two
hours of the time Mrs. Ross performed