Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-02-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

laSulOnaDle COtOI5s
In the English civil service there are
3, 26O women clerks.
Sixty-four women engravers earn their
livelihood in England.
Jerseys will be in greater demand than
ever this coming spring.
There are fifty new shades of brown,
almost as many of green.
There are Z, 1862 women missionaries
and preachers in England.
Ten thousand five hundred women
bind English books and 2,302 assist in
printing them.
The newest crepe lisSe neck plaitings
are bordered with very small beads in
pearl, gold or crystal.
Gold jewelry set with small stones is
fashionable. These stones are usually
incrusted in rough surface.
There are SAT female blacksmiths in
England, all of whom actually swing
heavy hammers and do mems work.
A silver cream colored necklace, for
visiting toilet, has different animals
heads in raised filigree on its coin drops.
A number of New Haven women have
been selling their hair to raise money for
the necessaries of life. Their husbands
have none to sell.
Mrs. Harriet Smith, of Tuckertown,
Fla, has proved that women have a soul
above the fashions. She is making
money by running large sawmill.
The English clockmakers produce the
most accurate timekeepers, the French
the finest decorative clocks, and the
American manufacturers the best clocks
for moderate price.
Changeable brown agates, called tiger
eye, are much used for ladies' umbrella
handles. For gentlemen, buckhorn
mounted with silver, or silver chased
with hawthorn blossoms, is preferred.
A new jabot is of point d'Angleterre
and is combination of pale crepe shirred,
the lace forming Vandyked points and
embellished with pale pink satin bows
here and there. 1t is wider and squarer
than the jabot of last year.
1t is said that lady in New York has
dress of spun glass, trimmed with cut
crystal beads, the glass being in the
palest amber tone, in exact coloring of
the hair of the fair wearer, who is very
young and exceedingly beautiful.
An elegant headgear for matron is
of point de Venice lace caught into a
rosette at left side by a cluster of sunset
rosebuds, aud plain but deep band of
the rich lace forms the cap, which is
wired into diamond.pointed shape.
White satin foulard, brocaded with
gold -colored buds and leaves, is not a
bad substitute for white satin wrought
with gold, especially when made up
with panels and fan plaitings of gold
colored satin and ruffle of gold satin
around the entire skirt
At recent sale of fans in Madrid one
of ivory, painted by Vatican, which for
merly belonged to the Princess Adelaide
of Savoy, fetched $780, A fan painted
by Boucher sold for $3.50; and another,
painted by Lebrun for the Duchess OF
Medina Cell, brought $3.50.
Brown velvet is much favored by the
London dressmakers as trimming for
the yellow illusion evening gowns now
so fashionable. 1t makes hem more be-
coming, even to brunettes, and removes
the slight suspicion of gaudiness which
always clings about yellow dress.
A new, useful and unique style of
| jewelry has come into fashionable wear
called English Grape stone on account
of its having the light and wavy appear
ance of Grape. 1t is now the most popu-
lar, being largely worn by people in
mourning, in place of jet, as it is both
elegant and inexpensive.
Onion sociables are the latest fashion
able novelty in Wyoming Territory. Six
ladies take an onion with them into a
room, and one of them takes a bite out
of it. Then young gentleman is adj
mitted, and if, after kissing all he fails
to tell which of them bit the onion all
the girls are obliged to kiss him.
The colors for spring bonnets are six
shades of brown, from deep to light
Havana, three shades of ecru, several
shades of blush drabs, decided straw
yellow, Leghorn yellow; cardinal, cherry,
and coquelicot; new shade ofabsinthe,
said to be an exact imitation of the in
toxicating beverage when mixed with
water. The light pinks, blues and
staple shades of spring are included in
all assortments.
Miss Maud st. Pierre, who is known as
the Southern Coal Queen, is the happy
possessor of 100000 acres of mining
lands situated in Tennessee, Alabama and
Kentucky. She overloolls $4,000 acres
of mineral wealth from her mountain
home in Tennessee, superintends her
workmen in great degree, and still she
is not strong minded in the general
acceptation of the term. She merely
demonstrates woman's right to make
money-if she can.
In Sweden young girls place under
three separate cups ring, a coin and a
piece of black ribbon. If the ring is first
accidentally exposed she will be married
within year; if the money, she will get
a rich husband; if the ribbon, she will
die an old maid. 1t is favorite amuse
ment among the young girls in Russia to
conceal their finger-rings in small heaps
of corn on the floor. A hen is brought
in, which at once begins to peck at the
tiny heaps of grain. The owner of the
first ring exposed to view WILL accord,
ing to popular belief, be married before
her companions in the experiment.