The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

dresses only.
Short and long waists are equally
fashionable.
Stripes must be horizontal, not vertical,
in fashionable frock.
There are a great number of novelty
wool cloths in the market.
Banker Drexels three daughters will
inherit about So, 900, 600 each.
Striped materials have secured a
prominence in fashionable fabrics.
Some of the new silver jewelry receives
its decoration in applied brass work.
"Homespun" is the name of a popular
all wool dress fabric of rough surface.
Plush abroad is more in use for Innings
to wraps than for outside CONNECTIONS.
There is literally no end to the forms
assumed by vests, plastrons and jackets.
Wool ball fringe is used on cloth
mautlcs, and leather covered frnges arc
new.
Some princesse dresses lately seen
opened in front over an elaborate petit
coat.
White wooden vests are still worn
with fannelette and cloth tailor made
costumes.
A drum corps of twenty girls from
South Dakota attended a militia encamp-
ment at Fargo.
Lulu Hurst has made $50, 900 out of
her magnetism. Magnetism pays better
than "mashing."
To soften the hands, wash always in
tepid water with fine, pure soap, and
rub while wet, well with oatmeal.
Princess Beatrice is a great walker, and
it is thought she will make Battenberg
step around livciicr than professional
pedestrian.
Miss Blanche Williams, of Brantford,
Canada, is the first colored girl ever adj
mtted to the privileges of the university
Of Toronto.
Among novelties in gloves are styles
in tan color with fancy black stitching
on the backs and wrists, and Others in
black with stitching of tan.
Norway is paradise for female trav-
clers. An American travelling there wi h
his wife found that his better half could
ride for half-fare, as children do here.
Black and white are combined not
only for dresses and hats, but for wraps,
parasols, fans and hosiery, in the last
named of which there are some very
novel designs.
Sashes and sash effects are so fashion
able that this might be called an epoch
of sashes, and no one is considered either
too young or too old to wear sash of
some description.
Women have new occupation in Lon
don, that of floral adorner. Experts in
the art of floral decoration receive a fee
of guinea for adjoining Il table or
decorating a room.
Russian girls are learning trades in or
der to earn their own living. Bookbind-
ing, typesetting, bookkeeping and shoe
making are the trades receiving the lar
gcst number of recruits.
There are no decided departures this
season from the leading styles of last au-
tumn. There are only differences of de-
tail which require to be studied, these
making considerable change in the gen.
eral effect.
A wealthy New York lady's will pro-
vides that her numerous dogs, cats and
birds shall be crcmated and that their
ashes shall be scattered upon her grave.
The neighbors are eager for the provis-
ions OF her will to be carried out at once.
The overskirts of many cloth dresses
are made long front and back, Topped
very high on one side and slashed TO the
waist line on the other, showing the rich
bordered, boucle, Byzantine figured
plush, Astrakhan striped or braided I'M
derskirt.
OF all tissues the most beautiful and
most stylish is undoubtedly silk lace in
the piece, trimmed with silk guipure.
1t can be worn over black silk for the
DAYTIME and over colored silk for the
evening, or on occasions when more
dressy toilet is required.
An admired millinery combination
this season is dark green with plomb or
lead color the hat or bonnet being of
dark green velvet, the trimmings of
plomb head embroideres and ornaments,
the strings of plomb or lead colored rib
bon with pearl picot edges.
The mode adopted by celebrate"
beauties, to increase the length and
strength of their eyelashes is to have lAe
ends clipped once month with pair
of scissors. The eyes are closed idrng
the process of clipping, which olght to
be done by some one with steady hand.
The bodices of all dressy suits are
made rather short, and are much trimmed,
there being even a fancy for trimming
the back down the seams from the neck.
Collars are high and straight, and sleeves
are more trimmed than formerly, but not
in such way as to destroy the close,
smooth fit.
One of the best colored BARRIERS in
Philadelphia is said to be a colored
woman who works in her husbands shop.
She is an octoroon, with large black eyes,
and she has pleasant smile for all her
customers. She keeps her razors in the
very best condition and has many regu-
lar customers.
Miss Sarah Landreau, who was once
the reigning belle of Savannah, Ga, has
for thirty-dve years lived hermit life in
a log cabin near Fayetteville, Ga, be-
cause of a disappointment in love. She