News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
Very short skirts are worn.

Very short skirts are worn.
Al shades of brown are fashionable.
Few short drapcries are seen on frocks.
Goth stiff aud flexible bracelets are
worn.
The newest corsages are longer all
around.
Gloves for street wear are shorter in
the wrist.
Angora wool is a novel and effective
trimming.
Hoops and balls arc the stylish earrings
of the day.
New polonaiscs are very long, and are
not looped.
Turbaas of all kinds are restored to
fashionable favor.
Bodiccs have plain plastrons covered
with pasSementeric.
Mantles are very short in the back, but
have long tab-like fronts.
Very large fur buttons and bands of
fur are used on suits of plain cloth.
Rraiding will be in favor for dresses
and will be in every variety of design.
The late Mrs. Ann S. Stephens was
the first woman to send a message by
cable.
Felt hats, with the brim faced with a
contrasting color in felt, are new this
season.
Pepper and salt cheviots with plain
stripes, aud serge with frise plush stripes,
are novelties.
Lustrous alpaca is used in combinl-
ton with surah. The alpaca is made Of
the finest moh tir.
little girls are given coats, outside
garments of check or plaids to be worn
over plain n-stuf frocks.
Young girls wear mantles as we'll as
jackets, haped very much like those OF
young lad e5 over eighteen.
There is a young married woman in
Washington who has three dozen pairs Of
stockings that cost all told $3.50.
Mrs. { uincy A. Shaw, of Boston, has
established twenty kindergartens and
seven day schools, which require yearly
expenditure of 100000.
A broad galloon, made of narrow
strips OF felt braided and looped, comes
ia colors to match the nav felts and is
much used for trimming.
The new, high crowned, close front
hoods or caps worn by little girls thi'
winter bid fair to take the lead of ali
head wear for small people.
Great big Brobdignagian butterflies
are embroidered on the front breadths
and sometimes on the trains of some Of
the handsomest evening dresses.
Few ladies hunt in America, but in
Europe every woman who can afford the
sport considers a hunting suit a necessary
addition to her wardrobe effects.
One of the most successful breeders OF
fine horses in Colorado is Mrs. Annie D.
Chopper. Her yearly sales are attended
by purchasers from all parts of the West.
Nine. Nilsson is very fond of blue, and
in many of the toilets in her wardrobe
this color predominates. AS she is the
faircst of blondes the color is very appro-
pirate.
Almost the same tournure was worn in
1885 as in 1886, the only difference seen
is that the skirts of 1885 fell in straight
lines. While to-day long draperies are
in style.
A Partisan dame, one Nine. Lafitta,
who is so bald that she has to wear a wig,
is in the hair producing business, and
advertisers that she has an infa!lible
specific.
The latest 'fad" among fashionable
ladies in New York City is to go coach
ing with their gentlemen friends on the
new Fifth avenue stages in the dusk of
early evening.
Bertha Wolf, German girl living in
Southwest Colorado, is announced in the
Western papers as the first discOverer of
gold in the San Juan mountains. She is
worth 100000.
Mrs. Langtry takes cold bath every
morning, and then goes back to bed for
half hours nap. She also practices
regularly with the foi,s every day to keep
in good form.
Rich watered goods are popular in
evening colors; also in black, brown,
olive and several dark shades. Regular
black silks are in very good standing. A
very few brocades are called for, but
plain faille and satin duchesse are in very
general request.
DIR. Anandibai Joshee, EIindoo lady
who has been studying medicine for three
years in this country, has returned to her
native land to accept an important posi-
ton at the solicitation of the local gov
ernmcnt of Koluapore in the Bombay
Presidency.
A London publisher has received
answers from / 600 school girls to the
question: "Who is your favorite author!'
Dickens received $50 votes; Scott, 22j;
Kingsley and C. NJ. Yongc, 81 each;
Shakespeare, 73; George Eliot, Al, and
other prominent authors less number.
Collars of dresses are becoming higher
and hi-her, and this winter will reach
their limit at the chin, recalling the col
lar formerly worn by retired military
Sometimes this collar IS
trimmed to resemble necklace, with
and drops of jet or old silver
Mss Archie Shaw, Of Lawrenceburg,
Ind, is likely to max fortune out of a
dustpan that she has patented. 1t IS IN
appearance Ike half pail; the fiat side
lies on the carp t; it can be easily moved
with broom or foot, and when lifted by
the bail, tips backward little to prevent
the dust falling out.
In the new coitfures there is in general
no pa ting; all the hair is turned up and
slightly pulled out as in the' Marie An.
toinette style. Then the hair is twisted
and arranged into a loop quite in front,
in the middle of the head, while all the |
rest of the hair is fastened into a rouleau
at the back, little to the left.
A firm Of Berlin jewelers. have made
a diamond diadem and necklace worth
s veral hundred thousand marks for the
IMPRESS of Japan. 1t has not hitherto
been the custom for japanese ladies to
wear diamonds, but the Empress in
the adoption of European
dress has also availed herself of the op-
portunity to introduce the use of dia,
mond ornaments and Jewels.