The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-03-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,

Women are becoming commercial trav.
elers in England.
The Paris fashion writers assert that
shawls are again'to be in vogue.
Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of deli.
cate flowers and geometrical figures.
Young girl tramps are said to be be
coming common in the mill districts OF
New England.
Waiting is going out of fashion in
England. The Prince of Wales has re-
vived quadriles
New clasps, much used for cloaks and
dresses, exhibit heads in curiously carved
and stained wood.
The Kansas house of representatives
has four girls among its pages, and its
docket clerk is n woman.
Partisan ladies are having landscapes
and miniature portraits painted on their
finger nails by talented artists.
Buttons are very small, some forming
small. round, iewel-like objects, others
curious little men or antique heads.
A new brooch is composed of an enor-
nous hook and eye of gold, inlaid with
small but very brilliant diamonds.
Mixed bright metal braids are used on
waistcoats and cuffs of plain cloth of
some distinct shade from that which
composes the gown.
In Paris fashions latest freak is fancy
ball, in which each lady is dressed as a
fower-violets, lilies, roses, bluebells
and marigolds. What a lovely bouquet.
An Indian princess has eloped from a
Cincinnati dime museum with st.
Louis man. This appears to be retro
grade movement whichever way you look
at it.
Broad heavy galloons ars very popular
trimmings. Plated skirts have often
one, two or even three rows of galloon,
sometimes three inches wide, around the
bottom short distance apart.
at is belief of the Buddhists of Cey-
lon that if woman behaves herself
properly she will eventually become a
man" And yet people say that women
never get their rights in this world.
japanese Grape, brocaded with floral
patterns in silk or chenille, is the most
fashionable material of the season for
evening and ball dresses; it requires a
silk dress under it. Lace is used in pro-
fusion for trimmings.
Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell, the only
lady instructor in the University of Mich
igan, and author of several treatiscs on
microscopical subjects, has just been
elected a member of the Royal Micro
scopical society of London, being the
third lady ever elected.
New teacups are fiat and shallow
Breakfast coffee cups follow the same in
larger size, and after dinner cups are tall,
conical and taperng in straight line
from the rim to the bottom, to CORE.
spond with the tail shapes prevailing in
the after dinner coffee service in silver.
Asses ears are the latest bonnet orna-
ments in Paris, an extraordinary novelty
in trimmings which far distances such
modest curiosities as mice, mushrooms
and watercresses. A leading belle APP
peared in a gray felt bonnet adorned
with a pair of real dried donkey
ears.
A doctor who ought to know says that
the practice of the wholesale use of SMELL
ing salts, which came in with the universal
fashion of carrying smelling bottles, is
sure to have its influence upon the olfac-
tory nerves sooner or later and render
the victim unable to distinguish cologne
from asafetida. More than all that, it
causes headaches, sore throat, and red
noses