The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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Clusters of flowers will be employed
for summer bonnets.
There 113, 995 English school teachers,
nearly all of whom are spinsters.
The new spring hats are very high in
the crown and narrow in the brim.
There are 452 women editors in Eng
land and 1900 female photographers.
Chantilly lace, or its imitation, known
generally as French lace, will be much
used.
1t is said that the spring hats and bon
nets will be in holder and higher shapes
than ever.
All the materials, designs and coors
for scarfs for handkerchiefs are repeated
in ribbons.
Very narrow vests are preferred when
velvet is used, especially if it is Of con-
trssting color.
Ten thousand five hundred women
bind English books and 2,405 assist in
printing them.
Moyenage designs and moyenage col
ors are the new features brought out in
spring millinery.
One quarter of the women in Germany
are laborers, and do about th1ee-quarters
Of the work, too.
Polka basques for the house are very
similar in shape to the jacket used over
them for the street.
Green twilled woolens make up well
with a vest of ecru cloth, trimmed with
many rows of braid.
Tam O'Shanter caps are now made of
straw in imitation Of those made of cloth
worn with tailor suits.
The short plain basque Of bisc y, serge,
or of camel's hair is inlaid with velvet
in front and back alike.
Satin is not seen except as a back
ground for vclvcts, or in stripes or flow
ers on gauze or etamine.
Gold and silver braid and all sorts of
gold decorative objects trim many hats
and bonnets for spring wear.
A strip of tarred paper such as roofers
use, placed under the edge of a carpet,
is sure preventive for moths.
Round hats of straw are made with
high square crowns and narrow brims,
similar to those now worn in felt.
For morning and daylight wear the
favorite colors are browns, dark Llucs,
Bordeaux wines, greens and fawns.
The wool laces introduced last year are
imported in a single color or else in
wrought with gilt or silver threads.
Ginghams are to be had in great va
ricty in all the new shades, in medium
and small checks and in shaded eff
fects.
Lawns have roscbuds, sprays Of deli
cate flowers and geometrical figures.
Some with white grounds have bright
blue designs.
Even elderly ladies wear hats, for all
the bonnet shapes are very small, cccen-
trio, and suitable only for evening wear
or for very young faces.
Black silk tulle over black China
silk, with pale yellow roses at the belt
or upon the bodice, is very pretty and
effective for evening wear.
The newest and most fashionable
evening coors are "houri," a golden
yellow; 'amo, - light flesh Color and
" carande, a pinkish lavender.
Many black cashmere suits for spring
wear nave pain stun skirts, made IN
plain, simple styles, kills preferred, over
which is worn tastefully Topped polo
naise of cashmere broche.
Bright jeweled pins are worn through
the knot of the hair Ostrich tips and
aigrettes are used in full-dress coitlures,
while with the low Grecian knot hand
some back combs set with precious stones
are in great favor.
Fine grades of seersuckers are to be
had at this season in checks and plaids.
The latter have fine lines of crimson,
quite a novelty. The brown, blue and
black stripes, with which all are famil-
lar, are still shown.
Punishments of women in the East,
and especially in Persia, are very uncom-
mon. There is no womcn's side to the
jails in Persia; and during the last twen-
ty years there have not been six eXecu-
lions of women, probably.