The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Tournoures grow smaller.

Tournoures grow smaller.
Bangs are coming in again.
Buttons are small and generally
round.
Spring velvcts are lovely in color and
texture.
English brides now wear moon stones
for luck.
In the English civil servicee there are
$3.50 women clerks.
Sixty-four women engravers earn their
livelihood in England.
The marchioness of Lorne is an invet-
crate cigarette smoker.
Bright purple thistles are seen on
many of the round straw hats.
Two nieces of President Cleveland
teach in the public schools of PEORIA
Ill.
Young ladies on the eve Of marriage,
in some regions, now give ''spinster
dinners"
From three to six dozen medium sized
buttons are used to decorate many of the
spring costumes.
The new and very gaudy silk hand
kerchiefs are utilized as vests for many
OF the spring gowns.
All repped silks are in high favor this
season, especially what is called gros
faiIle, with flattened reps.
Fine tapestry covered furniture is
again coming to the front, and the de-
mand for plush is decreasing.
Polonaises and basques divide popular
favor almost evenly, the latter displaying
an unusual variety in style and ornamen-
tation.
Embroidered surahs are seen in all
over patterns of a gay figure on a
quiet ground, which may be either light
or dark.
Miss Alice E. Freeman, the president
of Wellesley college, was graduated
there in 1876, and is only twenty eight
years old.
Widows of men who have died in the
railroad service in Austria are employed
at from $15 to $50 per month in the
railway offices.
The Turkish woman always carries on
her person a three -colored bit of leather,
which encloses the mystic phrase that is
potent to ward off the evil one.
The most approved back drapery is
so arranged as to fall high in a series of
puffs, and thence to sweep in straight,
heavy lines to the foot of the skirt.
One of the rich single women in New
/ York receives several offers of marriage
by post every week, and doubtless most
of the others arc honored in similar
manner.
/ 1t is estimated that the grand balls
given by the president of the French re-
public cost from $3.50 to $50, 600
each. About 5000 guests attend each
of these balls; of which two are given
every year.
A girl who is teaching in Colorado
writes home as follows: Il have forty
scholars of all ages, and teach almost
everything grammar, history, physi
ology, mathematics, manners, morals,
common sense, personal cleanliness,
fancy work, and general civilization.
Instead of severely plain bands or folds
for trimming skirts there are now van
dykes, escallops of leaf points on the up
per edge, while other folds have open
ings or sits cut at intervals, and through
these are drawn gilt or silver braid.
Tucks are more used than at any previ-
Gus season; and these are decorated with
braid, stitching or a piping on the lower
edge.
The little so-called dog collars, intro
duced so long since, are now more pop
ular than ever, and are almost univer-
sally worn. All sorts of fancies are in
dulged in, from simple velvet ribon
knotted around the neck, when the cor
sage is not very high, to several rows of
pearls. A flexible chain-work Of silver
misconceptions of ancient coins linked
together to form a band-silver daisies
fastened to black velvet ribbon.
Many slender young ladies wear sashes
in Oriental fashion, carried loosely around
the waist and knotted at one side, the
ends of unequal length: or, again, they
are draped as paniers, while another
method of arranging these scarfs is to
gather the ends of two lengths of silk
under the breach at the throat, let it fall
blouse style to the waist, where it should
be confined with a clasp of some de
scription. the remaining portions being
caught up as paniers over the hips.
A pretty way to make a walking skirt
of unpstterned goods in serge cheviot
or ottoman cloth, is to arrange the trim
ming in five fat plaits, separated by
broad panels, on which are placed five
rows of velvet ribbon, half an inch wide
and that distance apart. This forms the
front of the skirt, and the tunic, Dor
dered with a like number of velvet
bands, is draped above, the long, wide
ends forming waterfall back, which is
not trimmed, but simply hemmed at the
bottom.