Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-12-31
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,

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Poplin is revived. 1t is used for dra.
peries over velvet skirts.
White dresses for children are OF
camePs hair or cashmere.
Mrs. Mary Peasants (colored), of San
Francisco, is worth $3.50, 900.
Passementerie and plush ribbon are ac-
cessories for tulle evening dresses.
Suede or white cloth vests are used in
red, heliotrope or green cloth gowns.
Mrs. Cleveland is an active member OF
/ the Horsewoman's Club of Washington
At the Unworthy of Zurich, Switzer-
land, ten per cent. of the students are
! ladies.
Crosswise draperies are the distiu-
gushing feature of the new French cos
tunes.
Mary Hooper, Cleveland servant girl,
has inherited $3.50, 900 from relative in
Philadelphia
Frocks of plain material have cuffs and
epaulets of plaid, and the overskirt is
lined with plaid.
1t is announced that Empress Augusta
of Germany will visit Queen Victoria in
the coming spring.
Queen Nictoria's dessert service of old
Sevres-the finest IN the worlds
valued at $25o,O 900.
Chinchilla, silver fox and badger fur
and grcbe skins are employed for trim.
ming evening dresses.
Low bodices have no sleeves, but sim
ply strap or epaulet. embellished with
flowers or bows of ribbon.
Lace is driving out frilling in Eng
land, and Honiton factories are turning
out all they can, while more is wanted
Sleeves are placed very high upon the
bodice, and have only enough fulness to
adapt them to the shape of the shoulder
High velvet bands or short loops of
ribbon are taking the place of soft tuck
ers and Fittings for the throat and
wrists.
Collars of dresses are sometimes
trimmed to resemble a necklace. with
embroidery aud drops of jet or old
silver.
Small fir cones, pierced and finished
with bead at each end, are, it is said.
to be used as a finish for the brims of
hats aud bOnnets.
Swans down is used for trimming the
collars and cuffs of chiIdren's white
frocks. Velvet of bright tint is also used
for the same purpose.
Polonaiscs of graceful and simple
shapes will be made of cloth, and worn
over plaid or blocked velvet or plush
skirts of contrasting color.
French milliners are using tulle upon
winter bonnets, in combination with
velvet and plush. White lace is also
much used for like purposes.
Tul.e Russo, new yelling net, is a
square meshed, very open lace, having
dots very nearly square in shape. 1t is
shown in all the popular coors.
Skirts this season show but little full
ness over the hips, the small paniers seen
on the French dresses being cut true to
the figure, in no way charging it.
Some of the new hats make the wearer
appear as if she were going to market
with fat bird on her head, after the
manner of the West Indian negroes.
Vests, plastrons, separate waistcoats.
plated shoulders, the surplice front
Tapped to the left side and revers of all
kinds are seen on the newest French
dresses.
Some of the new muffs have an entire
bird of large size for ornament. The eff
feet is not pleasant; it is as if the wearer
were engaged in a struggle to keep the
creature from getting away. Usually the
hat corresponds, and the bird thereon
seems as if ready to swoop down and
take part in the fray.
The Prussan State railways have for
some tin past employed women as
guards at crossings. The work consists
chiefly of the closing and opening of the
bars and the lighting and sweeping of
crossings, and the women in most cases
are either the wives or widows of guards.
Their pay is from twelve to twenty cents
per day.
The latest importation of bonnets are
combinations of velvet with fur of like
shade, the fur being used upon the brim,
and the velvet for the oddly shaped
crown. Marie Stuart brims, much modi-
fed in shape, are shown in some of
these, and the whole bonnet is much
smaller than the comfortable ones worn
a year ago.