Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-08-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Ladies as well as gentlemen now wear
travelling caps.
Cleopatra had blue eyes, according to
q German professor.
Lace elbow sleeves are worn with V.
shaped velvet bodices.
There are eight times as many bow
legged men as women.
Gilt buttons were first made by Taylor,
of Birmingham, England, in 1868.
Gauze and China Grape are used for
skirts in preference to tulle by many.
Beatrice was the first princess in Eng
land to be married in parish church,
In Paris no mantle is worn out OF
doors, or very rarely, except by quite
young girls.
One of the latest fashionable freaks is
the use of fine silk boiling cloth as .
dress material
Lace founces are worn on grenadins
dresses, the trimmings of the corsage be
ing also of lace.
The prettiest and most economical
summer bonnets are of white lace, piece
and border lace.
Cotton dresses appear to be most FIRE
quently trimmed with embroidered
frilling of their own.
In Austria three thousand women arc
employed in the railroad service, getting
from SIS to $50 a month.
Black canvas over orange silk, stripeo
with tilleul color, makes dressy walk.
ing costume for early fall.
The Scottish token of good luck is a
spray of white heather, now put into the
bouquets of fashionable brides.
The imagination of the modiste is the
only law that governs hats and bonnets
and their trimmings this season.
The first Napoleon slept in hollands
for sheets, the Bourbons in cambria, and
Napoleon III. in ordinary linen.
1t is now the fashion to give pieces Of
furniture, such as sideboards. cabinets,
writing tables and pianos, for wedding
presents.
Pongee remains popular for travelling
wraps as well as dresses. Long loose
shapes, partly redingote and partly
ulster, are most worn.
Brocaded MORE antique is again a
fashionable fabric for elegant tolettes
In white these superb materials are much
used for bridal dresses.
In London it is the custom for guests
to remain late at the dancing parties,
which terminate about A. NJ, supper
heinU Sarvp0 at I o'clock
Prints and the pretty d-fashioned
chintzes are making Roadway again in
Paris, and quaint and sweet they look
when worn by neat and young figures.
Miss Cleveland's book was written on
Irish linen paper. She is the first lady
of the White House to write, or rather
to publish, any continued literary work.
White mohairs, figured with small de-
signs in colors, are among the pretty in
expensive dress fabrics that make up
tastefully with trimmings and combina,
tions of velveteon OF the color Of the
patterns.
In wooden stuffs Partisan modistes are
fond of finding a colored selvedge and
allowing it to show, so that it forms a
trimming. Striped stuffs are draped at
the back so that half arc perpendicular
and the other half horizontal.
Black silk or satin bodices covered
with lead bead embroidery are made low
with strap for the shoulder, and with
a corsage of this style, skirt of satin or
silk, with beaded lace tablier, or lace
skirt decked with lead bead pendants, is
worn.
A Chinese belle has arrived in San
Francisco. She is the first genuine ex.
hibit of her kind on the Pacific coast.
She is tall and handsome, and her feet
possess the requisite deformity so thor
oughly that whenever she walks ser.
want supports her at each SIDE
Generally the decorations of dress at
the throat are in character with the bod
ice trimmings, but in other instances the
finish at the neck is distinctive and ex-
elusive, having no connection with the
garnishing in other parts of the dress, as
for instance, when dog collars, fancy
necklaces and throatlets are worn.
The most distingue neck finishings
consist of double folds of crepe lisse,
etamine, silk gauze, and gold and silver
tulle, canvas or muslin. These folds are
made in white and cream, gold and sill
yer, or gold with red, pink, blue or ma
room silk gauze arranged with it in alter
mating folds. Even velvet bands of
black or dark colors are used, so that no
white, or very little, can show around
the neck.
Servants are plentiful in Mexico, ana
you are pretty sure to have several de.
scendants of the Aztec kings about the
house if you hire enc, for it is the rule
that the whole family accompany the
father or mother who goes out to service.
Your cook brings her husband, her chill
dren, and pretty nearly all her relatives,
and they are fed from your table and
sleep under your roof. The husband may
be a shoemaker, or saloon keeper, or a
hackman, but he lives where his wife
works. There are usually rooms enough
in the house for them all, and the only
food they want is plenty of beans and
what is left from your table.