Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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snow.
Bronze slippers and royal cardinal silk
nose are popular for afternoon wear at
home.
Umbrellas now have natural wooden
handles, the quainter and more eccentric
The newer style.
Black, cardinal and blue are the lead
ng shades in hosiery, the stripes and
plaids being rarely seen.
A good novelty is ribbon for use on
mourning dresses, between Ottoman and
faillc, very durable, yet soft.
Choice sprays of shaded velvet flowers
appear upon some of the most elegant
little opera bonnes from Paris.
Worth. of Paris, will furnish bridal
outfit for a lady for 500, 900, but she
must expect everything will be very COM
mon.
The very newest overskirts are made
with very large plaits all around, and arc
shorter in front than at the side and
behind.
Jet and black ribbon arc the favorite
trimming for the very little wrIps worn
with wOolen suits, no matter what may
be their color.
Basqucs and tunics for elegant louse
wear are made of Gobelin serge with an
tique figures and rich dull colors, and
worn over skirts of velvet.
Small gold and silver pins, in novel
devices, both floral, fanciful and gro
tesqe, are thrust about in the laces Of
jabots and frils on drcssy corsages.
Worth's most stylish wraps have q
Jersey effect in the waist portion, and
the long skirts are draped to cling to
the figure and produce slender eff
feet.
A companion volume to "Men of the
Times is to be devoted to women of
mark, and comprises over 400 names we'll
known in art, literature, science, music
and the drama.
A new grape cloth has been brought
out for widows second mourning which
really wears well. 1t is all WOOL though
heretofore there has been q cotton warp
in such fabrics.
For all but deep mourning people are
wearing terry broche thrown on wool
ground, all black, and for 81 ght mourn
ing some charming speckled stuffs have
been brought out.
A brides cake, in London, for Sir
Watkins Williams Wynn's daughter,
weighed fifty pounds, and had statu-
cites on top representing literature, art,
science and music.
A pretty fancy for dancing is the
wearing of black silk stockings with jet
clocks, and slippers of black satin with
jet swallow perched on each instep,
the beak terminating at the toe.
Muffs and bonnets trimmed with ap-
plique bands in solid colorings, or in
the magnificent Persian effects in silk
cord, bead and chenille are worn with
wraps and redingotes similarly adorned.
A most charming toilet. recently i'm.
ported. is made of moonlight tulle,
studded all over with tiny silver loops
woven into the tissue, and through each
of which is passed the stem of wood
violet in velvet.
The styles in kid gloves show few
changes. The lengths remain about the
same, although in some brands are a
little wider in the arm and trihe mar
rover where they button, and this is a
decided improvement.
A charming evening dress is of white
tulle and white satin. The train of satin
is dotted with silver, and the front, COM
posed of plated tulle, is striped with
satin ribbon, the panels lengthwise, the
full front horizontally.
The taste for all kinds of bcadwork
this season is new idea in silk dress
goods. The beading is not confined to
white goods, but is used on satins and
velvets of all colors, the blacks being es.
pecially rich in effect when embroidered
with gold beads.
Many of the large white collars of
English embroidery have the pattern
outlined in gold thread, and are more
becoming and more elegant in conse-
quence. Sometimes the metal appears
only in the corners and at the border,
and sometimes it is employed on the
whole surface.
An English way of arranging ribbon
as a trimming on hat is to make very
large and complicated bow of it in front
of the crown, setting few ostrich tips
among the loops. The ends of the rib
bon are passed through slit in front of
the crown and reappear at its top in the
back, passing down to be tied in bow
on the brim.
The most beautiful of the European
royal women is said to be Queen Olga,
of Greece. She is tall and of perfect
shape, with exquisite feet and hands,
limpid and large dark eyes and long
curling lashes, very long dark hair, and
q complexion delicate as flower petal.
She is almost as fine an equestrienne as
the Empress of Austria. Her husband
adores her.
Action for breach of promise of mar
riage is based on a common law right,
and it dates back from an ancient Gus
tom of the Babylonians, which is said to
have originated in dispute that oc-
Cured concerning the sale of Atossa,
daughter of Belochos, in 1888. At
certain time in every year the marriage.
able females were assembled in the mar
ket-place and sold to the highest bidder.
Atossa was so disgusted with her pur-
chaser that she appealed to her father,
who vcntured to protect her, thereby
incurring the displeasure of the ruler OF
the Asian city, who ordered his execution
and the conliscation of his property to
the disappointed buyer. Since that time
things have altered considerably, and
money payment is allotted as solatium to
a Tilted afiianccd.
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