Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-03-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

The Paris fashion writers assert that
shawls are again to be in vogue.
Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of deli
cate flowers and geometrical figures.
Young girl tramps are said to be be'
joining common in the mill districts oi
New England.
Waiting is going out of fashion In
England The Prince of Wales has re-
vived quadrilles.
New clasps, much used for cloaks and
dresses, exhibit heads in curiously carved
and stained wood.
The Kansas house of representatives
has four girls among its pages, and its
docket clerk is a woman.
Partisan ladies are having landscapes
and miniature portraits painted on their
finger nails by talented artists.
Buttons are very small, some forming
small. round, iewel-like objects, others
curious little men or antique heads.
A new brooch is composed of an enor-
nous hook and eye of gold, inlaid with
small but very brilliant diamonds.
Mixed bright metal braids are used on
waistcoats and cuffs of plain cloth of
some distinct shade from that which
composes the gown.
In Paris fashions latest freak is a fancy
ball, in which each lady is dressed as a
fower-violets, lilies, roses, bluebells
and marigolds. What lovely bouquet.
An Ind an princess has eloped from a
Cincinnati dime museum with a st.
Louis man. This appears to be a retro
grade movement whichever way you look
at it,
Broad heavy galloons ars very popular
trimmings. Plated skirts have often
one, two or even three rows of galloon,
sometimes three inches wide, around the
bottom a short distance apart.
'It is a belief of the Buddhists of Cey.
! lon that if woman behaves herself
properly she will eventually become a
man." And yet people say that women
never get their rights in this world.
Japanese Grape, brocaded with floral
patterns in silk or chenille, is the most
fashionable material of the season for
evening and ball dresses; it requires
silk dress under it. Lace is used in pro-
fusion for trimmings.
Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowel, the only
lady instructor in the University of Mich
loan, and author of several treatises on
microscopical subjects, has just been
elected member of the Royal Micro
scopical society of London, being the
third lady ever elected.
New teacups 'are fiat and shallow.
Breakfast coffee cups follow the same in
larger size, and after dinner cups are tall,
conical and tapenng in straight line
from the rim to the bottom, to CORE
spond with the tall shapes prevailing in
the after dinner coffee service in silver.
Asses ears are the latest bonnet orna,
ments in Paris, an extraordinary novelty
In trimmings which far distances such
modest curiosities as mice, mushroom:
and watercresses. A leading belle ap
peared in a gray felt bonnet adorned
with pair of real dried donkey!
ears.
A doctor who ought to know says tha
The practice of the wholesale use of smell
inc salts, which came in with the universe
fashion of carrying smelling bottles, i
!
tory nerves sooner or later, and rende
the victim unable to distinguish COLOGNE
! from asafntida More than all that, i
q causes headaches, sore throat, and reC
noses.
V Tall and slender young ladies thi
o Ieascn have a new and pretty way c
+ arranging a sash. A generous lengtl
9 Of surah is finished at both edges with
t plain, wide hem; the ends at the top ar
C then drawn through glittering jewee'
!. slides upon each shoulder brought dow
n to the belt in front, crossed and fastened
c with a jeweled buckle or clasp. Th
. ends are arranged from thence in panniers
@ or one is carried to the back and tn
It pther lightly looped, or left to ia
It straight.
II Gray, light brown and green cloths
e plain, or in alittle check or mixed corde
n stripe, are used for some of the ne'
:; walking suits intended for spring veal
h and show very little or no trimming. Th
|. skirt is closely box plated or trimme
l. with series Of wide folds or with par
c. els. The apron is draped to one sidt
d The bodice is plain, short on the hip
to with little position at the back and
Te short pointed front. The sleeves al
d. plain also, and rounded up naturally
of the top, without unnatural fulness, stut
ne ing or padding. The garment to wei
TX with this dress is small cutaway coat,
in fitted cape. The buttons used a
he small and shaded in horn or pearl
lg match the cloth.
ISL An expensive and exceedingly effecti'
Isl silk costume can be made of America
we silk and broche combined. The skirt
,ot dark green gros grain silk, with two bt
ng plated fiounces at the bottom. The ia
Iier reaching from the hips to the top
the hounce is composed of one wide
lante of white embroidered Moresq
Il. lace, over which fall pointed pann!ers
ie' the silk, looped under gracefully drap
OF back breadth of red and green sat
ms broche matching the color of the gre
he silk, but very lustrous, the Ted broc
tai flowers very vivid shade between SCI
a let and crimson. The bodice is of
ra broche, with triangular Modjeska p
VS. on the front defining square pomI
IN dour outline across the bust, the tra
lad gle bordered with Moresque lace,
it high collar and cuffs with the same. I
be sleeves are of greenish silk, slashed at
af, elbows, and in the arm hole with
lies broche. The entire cost of such DIR
the need not be more than $35 or $40,