Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Wells have come in again, and will BE-
popular.
Bright colors are pot so much worn
this season as last.
Bee keeping Is said to be the coming
Industry of the Southern woman.
The new jackets are shorter in the
back and longer in the front, sloping
gradually to point.
The newest beads are gold drops en-
closed in crystal, and are used with jet
beads with excellent effect.
According to the Medical World every
farmer wears out, on the average, two
wives and half in his lifetime.
The new conceit, marabout boa, an
swers the purpose of protection cool
nights when one goes for drive.
The president of the New Orleans
Woman's club is Mrs. Maria Jefferson
Swayze, a niece of Thomas jefferson.
Painting the lower panes of windows
in oil colors is an amusement now fash
ionable with English girls who are Gar
tistic."
Tinsel, or ''stincelle," as it is called in
Paris, is a prominent feature in all ia
brics prepared for bonnets, whether it
be net, plush or wooden.
The rubyis now considered the rarest
of colored gems. Fine rubies are scarce.
They will be clustered with white and
tinted pearls, sapphires, opal and other
stones.
The variety of bead trimming excels
that of any former season, as flat, square,
round, large and small beads are used
with blocks nearly an inch square and
spikes two inches long.
There are host of striped pushes.
One example is in dark green, a half-inch
wide stripe of plush, alternating with
one of cashmere of the same color, the
latter being studded with boucle spots
of red.
Pointed bonnet brims are still to be
worn, and the crown are of all shapes,
as the back hair is now worn in many
different ways; velvet or plush strings
are added to render the bonnets warmer
and more comfortable looking.
A foreign authority says hats do not
differ much from those of the summer,
and yet some very extreme styles are
shown One, a NEST stylish Rubens,
was trimmed with wide band of velvet
and tinsel, with cluster of ostrich
feathers.
The Sachsenspiegel, a German code Of
the thirteenth century, says of the wife
that ''she must live after the will of her
husband, and be subject and obedient
! for she is not competent of herself with
out her husband, whether to do or to
leave undone."
A Chinaman who has resided in this
country and Europe for many years says
! his countrywomen walk just as we'll as
other people. They even run upon their
little feet, and go out walking or in
their palanouin without even veil to
hide them from indiscreet gazers.
To clean and darken hair switch,
wash it with soapsuds until the oil is
removed. Put teaspoonful of green
tea in sufficient boiling water to cover
the switch, to which add piece of cop
peras the size Of pea. Simmer for an
hour, stir often, keep in until dark
enough. Rinse in clear water.
Wooden dresses being in such favor,
and the fashion of wearing bonnets tC
match the costume still obtaining, anum
Der of wooden fabrics have been manu-
featured especially for millinery. There
are wooden laces in the piece embroidered
with chenille, metal and beads, cloth
with boucle loops, and even Astrachar
cloth-all now used for bonnets.
Bonnets are more capricous than ever
They are of large, medium and small di
mensions, sometimes bent in the brim,
sometimes straight and again the brin
is so close to the head as not to admit o
any variations. They are of velvet o
plush, or both, and are trimmed will
an endless variety of ribbons, feathers
flowers and ornaments. In most case
the bonnet must match in some name
the costume, either in color or in ma
terial.