News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-15
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NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

House-robes are being made of moire.
Curled natural lamb is used for borders
upon short cloth jackets.
Bridal wells are secured to the coiffure
with wreath of orange blossoms.
Black and white continue to he a
fashionable mixture for evening bon
nets
Lillian Russell, the singer, drinks
! glycerine and beef tea to improve her
voice
The fashion of wearing lace very high
up about the throat with dressy COS
tunes is very popular.
Long, soft vests of silk gauze, have a
! frill Of lace at the left side, and many
dropping bows of brocaded ribbon.
Dove gray and cream white pilot cloth
fabrics will be very much used during
the summer for dressy afternoon gowns.
The most elegant dinners are served
| on glass and china, the handsome plate
being held in reserve for teas and at
| homes.
The down quilt, except it be used
over the feet, often makes much dis
comfort, and is not wholesome o. bed
| covering.
Cashmere is again to the fore and is
very much sought in the new shades of
reseda, cordova or gobelin, to be used
in new spring costumes.
Queen Victoria has a mania for get
ting her portrait taken. Her last fad in
this way was to have their Royal High
nesses taken in tableaux vivant.
Ferns form the prettiest possible din
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about the foot of the candle sticks or
large lamp base they are most effective.
Gilt and silver will be in great use in
! embFoideries, cords, galloOns, ornaments
in applique, and for pins, slides, and
metallic garnitures of every description.
Parasols of gingham and sateen now
come to match those as closely as more
costly fabrics, and are so cheap as to be
within reach of the most moderate purse.
Miss TORY, the expert cooking in
structor, says that her penalty for MAX
ing mistakes in cooking, is TO require the
mistake to be eaten by the person max
ing it.
The Boston women are nothing if not
progressive. Now they are going in,
| some of them, for chairs in the public
street where they can have their boots
blacked.
JERSEYS, of elegant finish, are well
! covered with an all-over design in gilt
or silver braid. The vermicelli pattern
being preferred for this braiding in law
| ish fashion.
The tea gown, next to the debutante's
! costume, is that which absorbs most of
! the attention of the mOdiste, and on this
she lavi,hes her ingenuity and fancy
without stint.
Hard pillows well stuffed with curled
hair or uncarded wool, are better for the
health than feathers if not so comforta-
be. Feather pillows, if soft, encourage
wrinkles it is said.
Biscuit shades, grays and blues, will
be the leading colors for street costumes
the coming sea on, and whenever it is
possible the braiding in color will be
seen as decoration.
Black wool dresses are, if possible, In
greater demand than ever before, not
Withstauding the many beauutut mover
ties in colored wool lapraS5 "HIon aIS
being constantly brought C6t:
The Baroness Burdett Coutts takes {
deep interest in the poor of London
and is at the head of a scheme prov d
ing workshops furnished with sewing
machines for needy sewing girls.
AMontgomery Station PENN farmer
recently sent $40 to the Commissioners
of Emigration in New York, requesting
them to find him wife who could hoe
and do farm work. The commission was
declined.
Old time lawns with impossible stripes
and more impossible flowers are fully re-
vived, and will be made up e ther with
flounces all over, or three tlounces at
back and very deep, much wrinkled
drapery in front.
There is an effort being made just now
to return to the old bow knot method OF
blessing the hair, such as one sees in
, pictures of the fashions of 1921. 1t Is
rather trying fashion, and only young,
fresh faces can stand 1t.
Chicago ladies used to eat so much ar
, senic to purify the complexion that drug
oists ordered it in quantities to amaze
, manufacturers, but the I" fashion" " has
changed, and now not an ounce IS solo
where pound used to go.
No fashionable city room is considered
sic box or harpsichord. Guitars, man
dolins, banjos and harps are counted in
as pretty lumber for the rooms that are
not Greek, Moorish, or oriental.
Two New Orleans young ladies who
find 1t suddenly necessary to work for a
living, have opened dairy and sell milk.
They have a little cart, and every morn
inc bright and early may be seen driving
down the avenue behind their bright tin
cans and pals.
Queen Victoria dislikes the electric
Iipht, and refuses to have it in her
palaces. She has at length permitted
one of the royal yachts to be fitted with
electric lamps, except her sleeping cabin
and saloon. 1t is said soft oil lamps best
suit the compilations Of elderly ladies.
Nothing is more out of place on baby
than iewelry. Use narrow ribbon instead
of the sleeve clasps, and put the neck
lace away until she is a'grown girl. Sub
stitute for the ring you intend giving
your god-child. dress of linen lawn,
nainsook, or dimity, daintily made, and
its mother will bless as we'll as thank you
The Pail Nal Gazette tells of a unique
kind of torture in London shops. In
certain large West End shops, the
! female assistants are all doomed to
uniform size in waists, varying from
eighteen to twenty inches. Tall girls
and stout girls, all must conform to
measure at least six inches below the
natural size.
Worth, the French milliner, lives in
the suburbs of Paris in apalace that COW
ers several acres and is gorgeously fur
nished. Gnce year it is thrown open
to his employees, and the fete lasts day
and a night On this day each of the
women employed by Worth is permitted
to select dress from his stock, and it is
made up according to her directions.
Mrs. Lovejoy, of Albany, Me, has gone
upon record as remarkable woman. Her
/ husband, who is Postmaster and Town
! Treasurer, was sick nine weeks recently
! ana she took the whole care of him. She
also ran the postot1ice and acted as
Treasurer, keeping all the books and
other work up all right and attending to
a large correspondence. Mrs. LoveJoy Is
seventy nine years old.
The Empress of Austria, alarmed at
her increasing embonpoint, has taken the
advice of her physicians to go IN Tor
plenty of exc Csc. Any day may be
witne sed mt the Lastle Godolo sight,
aweinspiring or comical, according to
the opinions of the spectators, OF stout,
elderly Empress fencing with demure
Young Archduchess, Marie Valerie by
name