The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Plaids are worn by children for sum
mer wear.
eros grain will be used more than any
silk material.
Pencils to wear on watch chains are
being revived.
The high military collar appears on
dresses for street wear.
The transparent bonnets will be com
Portable for summer wear.
Handsome black laces are used as trim
mings for silks and satins.
There are more than Q, 500 lady physi-
clans in the United States.
Edelweiss and Gala lilies are among
the novelties in bonnet trimmings.
The university of Michigan has 1, 1877
students, $50 of whom are women.
There are seventy eight women study
ing medicine at Paris, thirteen of whom
are Parisians.
A French milliner has invented bon
net trimmed with asses ears. The eff
feet is striking.
Silk marabout comes in black, white,
pink and blue, and is much more dnra-
BILE than feathers.
Yellow, crimson and brown are the
favorite colors of the ribbons used with
lice jabots and vests.
The old fashioned embroidered muslin
capes, trimmed with frills of lace, will
be worn this summer.
The recamier couture requires the use
Of a large old fashioned comb of tortoise
shell or jeweled metal.
There are 100, 1000, 900 women and
girls in China, nearly all of whom are
uneducated and ignorant.
China Grape and sailcoth canvas is an
admired, frequent combination in the
trimming of French hats.
The embroidered batistes that are so
stylish this season will be made over
surah skirts in the same shade.
Miss Cleveland, according to lady
correspondent, ''does up her short hail
in neat coil on the top of her head"
More and more marked grow the diff
ferences between street and indoor
frocks, morning, afternoon and evening
toilets.
Jacksonville, Fla, comes to the front
with lady who has been a wife, q
mother, a widow and wife again all in
one year.
Some very handsome new cloth pat
terms have border of braid lace, and
open designs in braid are introduced into
the fabric.
Wells of tulle and crepe lisse in every
imaginable shade of color and black, are
finely dotted with gold, silver, steel,
bronze or jet.
The most dainty petticoats of pale
colored surah, plain or quilted, with a
profusion of gathered lace, are now worn
under smart evening gowns.
Skirts of many dressy costumes are
made of shot silks, over which are worn
poonaises of rough surfaced etamine,
matching the tone of the silk.
Box-plaited and killed skirts of block
plaids will be worn with long basques
or jersey waists. The only draperv will
be broad sash the same color as the
jersey.
Queen Victoria always sleeps on a
wooden bedstead of particular shape,
and whenever she visits strange place
bedstead and bedding are sent thither
from Windsor for her use.
A woman in London police cour,
lately applied for an injunction against
her husband for hugging her so hard.
She said that it put her heart out of
place, and she could not stand il.
The queens wreath, sent by Victoria
to the funeral of President Garfield, has
been handsomely framed in a specially
carved oaken frame and presented to the
Western Reserve Horticultural society,
by which it will be kept.
Poionaises with bodices fastening from
left to right across the chest are seen
upon some of the latest models in over
dresses. They accompany admirably tn,
fashion of raising the skirt of the polo
nase high on one side. These bodces ne
cessitate sloping seam down the centre
! of the front 20 secure a pprfept fiji