Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Grenadines have designs embroidered
by hand in floss silk.
six mitts are shown with delicate de,
signs Of the finest work.
Parasols now correspond to the bon
net IN color and trimming.
Silk gloves have chenille figures in
bright colors embroidered on the arm.
Cashmere, camers hair, serge and
surah are used for travelling costumes.
Invisible net, point desprit and halines
gauze are used for wells with bonuets and
hats.
Mrs. Rosetta Scroggins, of GAINESVILLE,
Ca, claims to be the oldest woman in
that Stale. She is 1917.
The young Princesses of Wales are ex-
pet tricycle. riders, doing sometimes
forty or fifty miles day.
The Princess of Wales numbers among
her other attributes of royalty eighty
dogs of various breeds and sizes.
Panels, collars and cuffs of velvet are
used for camel's hair costumes, the gath.
cred plastron being of twiiled silk.
Collars with plastrons, epaulets and
cuffs to correspond are. made of cut
beads in jet, amber, garnet and opal.
Fashion has dccreed that a solitaire
pearl set in dark blue enamel ring is
the proper thing for an engagement ring.
"The Mrs. Cleveland Galaxinia, f" is the
name the gardener at the White House
has given a new flower at the conserva-
tory there.
Grenadines with plush stripes have
tapping shells. Others with wide meshes
have plush dots.
Grandma Jordan, the Oldest won an in
Iowa, died recently at the residence of
her eighty-year-old son at Viola. She
was Ill years old.
Chicago boasts fifty women lawyers,
800 women physicians, several women
ministers, Al, $50 women and $50 girls
employed in industrial pursuits.
Travelling dresses for young persons
are made with position bod ,ce, kilt
plated skirt, sh2rt apron drapery in
froat, and long straight drarery at the
back.
High colors with full pa tron are of
crepe and are ornamented with bows and
ends of ribbon i'll some harmonizing
color. Pale blue and pale pink are ia
vorite combication.
Low crowned sailor hats with wild
brims made Of speckled straw are simply
trimmed with broad band of dotted
foulard corresponding to the color of the
straw or in contrast.
Ludwig, the cratic King who drowned
| himself, had Il love affair, but fell out
with his sweetheart because a handker-
chief he happened to see her take from
her pocket was not eXquisitely neat.
Mrs. Buckingham, the richest woman
fruit farmer in California, has an orchard
mile long, with row alter row of pear,
cherry, peach and apricot trees. She
has been very sue cessful in the business
of fruit growing, and manages her bust
with good Judgment
OF Mrs. Cleveland a member of the
Diplomatic Corps is reported as saying
"She is a charming woman, beautiful
and commanding in appearance. All the
Diplomatic Corps are much pleased and
fascinated with her. But more than
that, the women are also Charmed with
her."
A young woman of Ashton, Oak, ha:
farm which she works all alone. She
has three horses AID last year she raised
1900 bu hels of grain, and now has sew.
enty five acres of wheat, fifteen of corn,
and is breaking up more land. She
averages about one offer of marriage 9
month.
Fans are in great variety and are equal
ly favored whether they be of heavy
looking feathers or of the lightest gauze
One recently noted was made of green
parrot feathers with white tulips made Of
feathers arranged on the concave side
The effect was not to be commended, as
it was rather heavy.
A Louisville lady says that milliner'
are the sharpest dealers on earth anG
suit their prices to their customers peck
etbooks. She knows, for, after irving
vainly to buy bonnet for less than thu
$25 asked, she went home and described
the bonnet to her servant, who went t.
the shop and bought it for SIP.
The most striking novelty of the yea,
in children's dresses is the new style o.
sleeves. This may be made either o.
different pattern and material from tn,
bodice, or the upper portion, like tht
bodice, comes to the elbow and the lowe
to the wrist; the latter matches tae trim
ming as in the case Of bouce striped
canvas of string co,or with full rec
satin vest and II red satin puff to thu
sleeve from the elbow.