The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Sacque dresses are in style for little
girls.
Blouse bodiccs are revived for slight
figures.
Ribbons are used in profusion on many
dresses.
Watcred ribbons and silks are revived
in Paris.
Ladies wear the hair arranged high on
the head.
Coachman's drab is a ~favorite color for
travelling dresses.
Muslins n lawns are trimmed with
velvet collars, cuffs and bows.
The old-fashioned knitted purse of
our grandmother's time is revived.
Summer silks are trimmed with bands
of velvet ribbon laid in straight rows.
De,icatcly fine canvas trimming bands
are wrought with moyenage designs and
colors.
Clara Louise Kellogg has a penchant
for wild flowers, particularly violets and
colored grasses.
Lace or embroidery, or both, must
adorn every dressy toilet this summer, is
the decree Of fashion.
Gray and brown choviots or Angola
plalds are the correct stuffs for small
boys every day suits.
The last British census shows that
there are 500, 900 more women than men
in England and Wales.
Changeable silks are as fashionable
as ever in Paris, but they are not
worn here to any extent.
Stripes of al kinds are very popular,
and form a Part or the whole of many
dressy street and house frocks.
American silks are becoming more
liked the better they are known. Their
wearing qualities are excellent.
In Chicago the majority of the law re-
porters are women. There are forty en-
ploycd in the city court house, and they
earn from So to SIS a week.
The only lady who was ever made an
orderly sergeant during the war, says the
Cleveland ~PlaindeaIer, was Miss Theresa
Kelley, now a resident of that city.
The craze among young ladies for
military buttons has brought together
several collections, which include army
insignia from every nation in the world.
A beautiful all-black toilet was of
dull moire striped in wave-likc lines,
and trimmed with the new lead beaded
embroidery upon net and beautiful
lace.
The Jewellers Circular says that never
in the history of jewelry in this country
have colored stones, both gems and
semi precious stones, been more in re-
quest han now.
The Spanish jacket is very stylish and
becoming to little girls. 1t is made for
them of white or pale ecru cloth, en-
b oidered with India braid in which are
gold threads, or with real Japanese gold
thread.
Fol hats and bonnets a lovely pink
''roses de la RENE are much used this
year, and a graceful fashion prevails of
yelling the flower trimmings with folds
of tuile or net. Gathered ~areophane is
also much seen in bonncts, and pearl
embroideries, strung together with gold,
form the crowns.
Rich are the tints Of the jacaueminots,
Lovely are roses all,
But give to me the sweet wild rose
That blooms by the old stone wall;
So the city belle can meier compare,
If her charms to art are owing,
With the rustic maid whose beauties rare
Are natures own bestowing.
Boston Courier.
Gold is introduced not only into trim
mings, but the fabrics of which dresses,
and the straws and braids of which bon.
nets are composed. Gold straws, gold
gauze, golden wheat, golden thistles,
golden leaves made of transparent net
and mounted as aigrettes; gold braids
and gold buckles; gold threads in lace;
gold embroidery upon lace; gold lace it
self-all enter into the composition of
summer toilets.