The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

without touching the ground.
Fur bonnets, caps and gloves vary
but little from last seasons styles.
The fur set of the season is mulf, bon.
net and cape in sable or less expensive
fur.
Fancy rings to wear on the little
finger, are much affected now by young
ladies'.
The "creche'' or day nursery in Buff
falo often cares for as many as forty ba
bies day.
Ladies' collar buttons are quite small
the preferred cuff button is a single one
with link.
Bamboo tripods, the baskets filled
with artificial smilaX, are something new
in household ornaments.
White cream colored and pale tinted
tulle dresses are fashionable for debu.
tants and very young aides.
Manicures soak the hands of their Gus.
toners in tepid water few minutes be.
fore filing the nails into oval shape.
The president of the New Orleans Wo.
mans Club is Mrs. Marie Jefferson
Swayze, a niece of Thomas Jefferson.
Japan has a society for reforming the
style of dressing the hair of women.
The association has over 1000 mem.
bers.
Female society correspondents are to
be admitted to all public entertainments
at the White House, by order of Miss
1 Cleveland.
The low Catogln loops are coming in
again. and those who have recently re.
turned from Paris are dressing the hair
in this style.
The National Grange of the Patrons OF
| Husbandry, at its annual meeting at
! Boston, passed a resolution favoring wo-
man suffrage.
Ladies must not be found with more
than from five to seven pounds of cloth.
ing, exclusive of boots on, who propose
to Join the Rational Dress society.
The new feather trimming comes in all
the desirable shades. such as black, wine
color, two shades Of olive, two of green,
| two blue in dark shades, with browns
aud light evening shades of light blue
and rose. with white.
The Infauta Eulalia, whose marriage
! has been sub ect of discussion in Spain,
has for one of her ladies in waiting Nine
Calderon, an American lazy, the aunt of
Calderon Carlisle, of Wash ngton. With
Nine. Caderon, Eulalia speaks and
studies English.
The New York Sun says that the
homespun suits of this season, both for
men and women, are made of real. rough
WOODEN cottage and cabin woven home
spuns, and crude in appearance and want
of finish as the "butternut' homespuns
worn by the rebels during 1.-THE war"
English homespuns Irish friezes and
blarney cloths, kerseys and Scotch
chevots, are used almost to the exclusion
Of all other wooden stuffs for street
utility and informal visiting suits, and
with such suits jacket of the same or
of heavy cloaking cloth is the proper
wrap.
China Grape is usually chosen for the
wedding dress, and there are lengths Of
embroidered Grape to be used for the
front ot the skirt. \ Canton Grape shawl
was lately utilized in this way for the
gathered tall across the entire front and
sides of the dress, also for the reyers and
plastron on the waist. The fringes were
cut Off, and the clever bride worked
heavy scallops in buttonho,e stitches
along the edges.
At the wedding in Troy, n. y, re-
Gently, of Joseph 4, Powers, general
manager of the Troy electric light com
pany, ana Miss Emma j. Tibbits, there
were present Mrs. Martha Waters, aged
ninety-six. grandma, her of the bride,
and Mrs Deborah Powers, aged ninety
five, grandmother of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Deborah Powers is the head of the
banking firm of ID. Powers e Son, and is
the oldest woman banker in America.
DR.. Alvarez, a Paris hompopathist,
brought suit against the Princess OF
Medina CWli for 600, 900 francs for med
ical services, stating that he was enti-
tied to more than the usual compensa-
ton on account of the great wealth of
his patient. The court awarded him
81, 900 francs, he to pay the costs. Most
physicians would consider Sl7, 900 q
handsome fee, but this doctor was much
chagrined over the result. A few days
before he had refused a much larger
sum to compromise the matter.
At recent fancy dress party cos
tune, might and Day." was unique
and complete in every detail, One half
of the dress was of gold tissue with del
lcate scarls OF pale PINK anu hhauVe
tulle coming from the right side. The
other half was of dark blue tulle, with q
scarf of b ack tulle starred with silver,
and looped on the left hip with large
paste crescent. The bodice correspond
ed. One glove was of dark blue silk
with silver stars over it and the other
pale pink with a bracelet of flowers
One shoe was of silver, the Other of gold
one-half of the hair was studded with
silver stars, and the other dressed with
flowers and sprinkled with diamond
dust. One earring was a silver star, and
the other gold one, and the fan was
half black and silver and half pale pink