Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Muffs and bOnnets must match.

NUNS and Donnets must match.
Some of the new fans have amber
handles.
Embroidered haudkerchiefs are no lon
ger fashionable.
In Siam it is the custom for husbands
to gamble away their wives.
Lace and hemstitching are the trim
mings for dressy handkerchiefs.
Underskirts are made very full in the
back, to supply the hustle effect.
Fans composed of ostrich feathers in
two colors are very pretty in effect.
Gold jewelry is gradually but surely
finding its way to popular favor again.
There are forty-eight women in Dako-
ia holding the position of bank cashiers.
An Indian girl, fourteen years of age,
is the "boss" breadmaker at Lewiston,
Idaho.
The latest French fashion is to notify
the guests at country houses whom they
are to meet.
Mrs. Mary L. Leonard has been adj
mitted to the bar as the first female law
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There are at present seventy women in
France who have received the distinc-
ton of the cross of the Legion of Honor.
A Jersey City girl is at work on
crazy quilt composed of small pieces
clipped from the silk Innings of her many
admirers overcoats.
Balls of hammered silver are used to
head the long pins thrust through the
crown of the bonnet, converting them
into articles OF luxury.
Tying the bonnet strings in the back
of the neck is the device adopted for the
sake of warmth by girls without fur col
lars or fur-trimmed garments.
There may be women who do not wish
to be married; but has there been a
woman who could take comfort in the
thought that she had never been asked
to mary2
Five hundred dollars for a pair of
shoes seems high price, but it has been
paid by one of the society bellies of New
York. They were of white satin, and
were embroidered with pearls.
English brides refuse to wear long
trained wedding robes, saying they do
not care to look like dowagers at their
own weddings, where they propose to
dance in demi- trained dancing dress.
1t is not fashionable to wear light
colors at a French wedding, unless one
is kinswoman of the bride A rich
visiting dress, with a very costly little
mantle, is what the most elegant women
wear.
Chenille, dotted and embroidered tullc
and tulle with designs in tinsel and floss,
are much used with evening dresses of
the delicate pongee and India silks and
for the draperies of satins and gros grain
silks.
The full, pulled sleeve, not nearly SC
pretty in itself as the French coat sleeve,
looks beautiful by comparison with the
jersey, with which, it is most often thrown
into contrast, and it conceals the arms tc
perfection.
1t is prophesied that mignonette green
will be the color most in favor for light
gowns next summer. 1t is so exquisitely
delicate in appearance that it always
seems especially appropriate for the
warm season, and if properly blended
with scarlet even brunettes can wear sit
AS for blondes, there is nothing more be
coming to the soft pinkness of thei
cheeks and to the gold of their hair
In Northern Siberia when o young
man thinks he wants to marry youn!
woman hesarranges to pay certain sun
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down and lives with the family of hi
lady love for year. If, at the end o
that time, he still wants her, he pays tn
other half of the sum agreed upon ant
gets her. If he doesn't want her he say
so and loses the installment which h
first paid.
At a golden wedding in New York tn
florist who decorated the rooms chose t.
use yellow blossoms, and produced
brilliant effect. The bay window wa
filed with ferns, butter-cup carnation
and sunset roses, and yellow chrysanthe
nuns and golden ferns were banke,
everywhere. Two hearts in pearl rose
were hung over one of the arched doors
ard the newell post was twincd with vel
low flowers.
The long, thick crepe veil is very in
furious to the complexion. The roug
crepe rubs the skin off and the posonou
matter is taken into the circulation i
that way, as we'll as carried into tn
} lungs in breathing. Such veil worn fc
two consecutive years seldom fails t
produce bad results. Similar goods abor
the neck, and black silk and black co
ton goods also produce bad effects. Par
has feather dyers' disease, produce
from the dye in which the black feather