Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-08-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Promenade costumes are severely plain

Stripes are to be the highest thing in
favor this Fall.
Light toilets of bayade-e striped mate
rial have overskirt and sleeves of figured
material.
Linen duck is used for tailor-made
dress scs and is made up in the same man
ner as woollen material.
Gold crochet hooks and knitting
needles tipped with pearls, for the hair,
are novelties of the day.
In Paris it is now the practice at fash
ionable weddings to display the brides
new gowns on dummy figures.
Philadelphia has eight women praotic-
ing medicine who make $40, COO each an
nually and twenty. two who make So, 900.
1t is said that of the 657 members
elected to the New English Parliament
337 are openly in favor of woman suf
frage.
The first female clerk employed by the
government was Miss Jennie Douglass,
appointed to the Treasury Department
by Spinner in 1862.
Queen @Morgherita, of Italy, has
woman physician, Signora Margherta
Farne, who was one of the first Italian
women to study medicine.
Connecticut has female notaries public.
Miss Aleine Rowland, who has just been
sworn in, is the youngest in the State.
She has just passed her twenty first year.
The wonderful jeweled costumes of
late importation are spangied with vari-
Gus colored beads such as pearl bron e,
steel and gold, and have quite regal
etTect.
1t IS said that the reason white cotton
crepe dresses are so popular this season
is because they do not muss up" One
can see other beauties in them, if well
made up
Figured French linen lawns are worn
with underskirts of French sateen of the
tint of some one of the designs. In
dresses of this sort the bodice is lined
with the sateen.
Charming effects are produced by the
addition of tiny bows of velvet ribbon in
the trimming of tatiste dress. A most
admired costume from Paris had this
pretty d ,coration.
Dresses for country wear, of striped
material, have the stripes for the skirts
arranged horizontally, the bodice and
draperies being made with the stripes
running diagonally.
Dresses of surah have the draped skirt
opening over front breadth of lace laid
in broad box plaits. The bodice has
plastron and cults of velvet of darker
shade than the surah.
The Indian Princess, Sarah Winnie
mucca, can speak five tongues-three
Indian dialects, English and Spanish.
She is now school-teacher and urges
her people to educate their children.
Red hair of a new and extraordinary
shade is the latest whim of Partisan
bellies. 1t is not the old-fashioncd au-
burn hair, but peculiarly brilliant shade,
which is obtained by decoction of sen a
leaves.
The latest London craze is to make %
bed cover out of the backs of discarded
kid g'oves. The point is to use no other
gloves than your own, and the lady who
does this is regarded with awe. We
should say so.
The names of Miss Francis E. Willard
and Mrs Hannah Whitell Smith, OF this
country, have been placed on the Execu-
tive Committee of the international Con-
gress of the Social Pur tan Federation
that met recently in London.
The live machette bug, a Brazilian
beetle, has been introduced in Boston as
an article of personal adornment. The
bugs 81 own in a jewelers. window there
are harnessed in gold bands, aud sall for
$S a bug, harness and chain included.
The Duchess of Cambridge, who has
lately celeb ated her eighty-ninth birth
day anniversary, is sti in good health
and possession of her faculties. She is
the mother o! the Duke of Cambridge,
and by marriage an aunt of Queen Vic
toria
London Queen says: A white wedding
is the latest idea. The bride wears white
bengaline with velvet brocaded bodice
and train; the bridesmaids, white wells
and aiglettes and white muslin gowns
with broad valenciennes lace ranels-the
transparent sleeves made of the same.
A Partisan fancy in white dresses is to
| ns.kc Jnem up Oh ALTERNATE SITlpeS OIL
muslin and embroide y or lace. Lace
also alternates with silk or satin, or two
designs in lace form alternate STRIP
With these dresses bonnet and parasol
must be in the same style, and gloves of
white suede kid are worn.
Dresses combined of figured and plain
material, have the full skirt of the first
mentioned, willie the bodice and over
dress are of the plain fabric and are trim
med with the figured material. The lat
ter is usually arranged as a wide border
q. on the overdress inserted in the outer
part of the sleeves, or rs short apron
drapery or forming V-shaped plastron.
For dresses of this description, hat and
parasol must correspond.
Nearly all-white toilets for young
ladies' wear ale made with bodice shrred
to point in front, or with the simple
round waist In the latter case the bod
ice is trimmed in surplice fashion, is un-
lined, and shows an under bodice cut
square or round and trimmed with lace
and insertion. Sometimes the white
dress is made up over blue, pink ol
mauve taffetas or batiste, and trimmed
! with ribbon to correspond, but the per
fectly white toilet with white moire or
satin sash and ribbon trimmings il con
dercd in more perfect taste, even to the
wearing of white flowers with this dress