Connecticut western news., 1886-03-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Elbow sleeves are much worn.

Elbow sleeves are much worn.
 Fans are of all sizes and descriptions.
 Fleece-lined merino hose are in de- mand.
 Parisian women wear tiny lace muffs in bathrooms.
 Picot and pearl edged ribbons are re- vived in spring millinery.
 Mrs. o. J. Hines has set up in business in Buffalo as professional duster.
 Broad faces are in demand for collars, cuffs, borders and revers of dressy frocks
 Bangs are to go, that is, if those to whom they are becoming will allow them.
 A Belgian gun drummer says that all the guns sent out from Liege are made by women:
 When evening gloves are not cream or light color they harmonize in color with the toilet.
 Combinations of silk and velvet form the bulk of the toilets imported for early spring wear.
 At recent wedding the dresses of both the bride and bridesmaids were trimmed with fur.
 Wicker-work tables are more popular than ever, and are much improved when ornamented with colored ribbons.
 During the busy season Worth employs over thousand assistants, who eat in his establishment, but lodge elsewhere.
 Pearls are very popular, and many women possessed of specimens append them to their solitaire diamond ear rings.
 The New York dressmakers are said to be waging war on the tailor-made suits ladies.
 A young lady of Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., has been made totally blind from the sting of bee upon her finger.
 Women's rights have been recognized in New Brunswick, lady having been appointed to the registrarship of Gloucester county.
 The Drouers' Journal notes that sin gle London dealer last year sold nearly 500, 900 tropical birds of gay plumage for the trimming of hats and costumes.
 A sort of nuns yelling of striped goods on cream ground, with a hood and burnous ends, is very odd, but is not so youthful as other styles for young girls.
 Jeweled or Rhinestone side combs and hair pins are stuck about capriciously in the coiffure, and fancy-headed hair pins are shown in marvellous variety and au- dacious designs.
 The fair Vassar students are going in for physical culture, and the Alumn@ have raised fund of $20, 900, which is to be devoted to the organization of an ath- letic department.
 Mrs. L. M. Wilson, superintendent of public schools at Des Moines, Iowa, has under her charge eight buildings, eighty teachers, and about 1000 pupils. Her salary is $1, 800 year.
 Mrs. McClelland and other artists, all women, have carried out the entire decor ation of some of the dining-cars on the Great Northern Railway, running be- tween Leeds, London, Manchester, etc.
 Coifures with full toilets follow the contour of the head closely, and may be in coils of one or of two figure eights in shape, or else they may be half low in braided coil of the hair in very small pla1CS or three CreSSeS.
 Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is get ting reputation for bon mots; such as th1s: A Western visitor remarking, in his free-and-easy way, "You hail from Buffalo, I believe?" she replied, "Yes, we haH from Buffalo, but we reign here!"
 An exceptionally pretty novelty of the season is bonnet made of suede kid, dyed the exact color of autumn leaves rich golden brown. It is bordered with brown velvet, in which nestles three tiny seagulls; the huff to match is trimmed with velvet and similar birds. There is straight velvet collar to com plete the set, attached to vest of the leather.
 A very pretty indoor dress is of gray ~oolen, trimmed with passementerie and rosary beads The silk underskirt is bordered with narrow kilting; the overdress is plaited and ornamented with pointed tabs edged with beads; the ttunic, which is plaited in front, is draped high at the side, the. ends terminating plastron.
 Maude Long, of Independence, Mo-, who recently walked three miles after midnight on bitter cold night to rescue two children who had been left by madman to die in the snow, has been presented by the citizens of Kansas City with handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, diamond ring and $500 in money. Her heroism certainly deserved recognition.
 It was once the custom for the bride at her wedding to wear her hair unbraided and hanging over her shoulders. At the celebration of her marriage with. the palatine Elizabeth Stuart wore ''her hair disheveled and hanging down her shoul- ders." It has been suggested that the brides veil, which of late years has be- come one of the most conspicuous fea- lures of her costume, may be nothing more than milliner's substitute, which in old times, concealed not few of the brides personal attractions, and covered her face when she knelt at the altar.