News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

| leacnerS seven marry every year.
The fashionable tea gowns are dis
respectfully called ''Oolong wrappers"
In spite of all predictions to the con
trary, helictrope is still popular color.
The daughter of Rev. Edward Everett
Hale is a portrait painter of marked
ability.
Mauve yelling and white MORE is a
stylish as well as favorite summer com
biuation.
A realistic raspberry in bright gar
nets is shown among the heads for new
bonnet pins.
Anything Chinese or Japanese, from
a silk gown to a small tea set, is now
fashionable.
The Alexandria, a woman's club in
London, is but four years old, yet has
600 members.
Women of quiet tastes and refinement
are not in the least enthusiastic over the
new sun-shades.
Ashes of roses is revived among the
new gray tints, and takes the name OF
Malmaison gray.
Round hats are worn on almost every
occasion, and are very sensible and at,
| tractlve IN shape.
The women of Eenver, Col, voted
very generally upon school questions at
the recent election.
Miss Amelie Rives received $1OOC
from the Lippincotts for her novel, "The
| Quick and the Dead"
Lace is more used in millinery and
| dress decoration than ever, and all kinds
of laces are in vogue.
The latest fad among New York girls
| is getting up a collection of dummy cats
| for house decoration.
There are many shades of Gobelin
blue, ranging from Sevres to gray blues
of various gradations.
The Indiana women's prison and re
formatory, near Indianapolis, is managed
exclusively by women.
Black ribbon over a color slightly
broader is the preferred sash for wear
with black lace gowns.
Ribbons for bonnet strings are per
| ceptibly wider and have plain edges, the
picot being hopelessly passe
Women's hats become bigger and
| bigger, and it is rather a curious thing
| that no two are exactly alike.
1LIee score OnrlStlan women OF Han.
nibal, Mo-, have formed an association
| for the purpose of enforcing the Sunday
law.
Miss Mary A. Rice, of Atchison, is the
first woman graduate of the Kansas
! State University's Department of Phar
i macy.
A circular fan into which sweet
scented grass is bound by tiny ribbons
watts perfumed breezes upon beauty's
cheek
In Japan every unmarried woman
wears scarlet skirt. This she discards
and stains her teeth black when she
marries.
A close observer has discovered why
ladies always cross their feet when
riding in street car. 1t makes the feet
look smaller.
A petition seven yards in length and
bearing the signatures of 500 prominent
people was recently presented to the New
Haven Comm Board of Education re
questing the establishment of, cooking as
part of the regular curriculum.
The long veil attached to hats for driv
ing and other occasions makes a very
dressy addition to the head gear in the
directoire style.
Mrs. John Sherwood repudiates the
etiquette which demands that u lady
should bow to a gentleman before he car
presume to bow.
Many of the rewest hats seem to ain
at the flower garden effect, so many,
various and wonder-stirring are the
blossoms they carry.
Straw round hats are most incon
gruously garnished with much point
d'esprit, net and aigrettes and garlands
of leaves and flowers.
A young woman at Beloit, Kan, was
recently paid the bounty on the scalps
of nine young wolves which she captured
while herding cattle.
An Allentown PENN tailoring firm
employs young woman to collect from
the swell customers who are inclined to
shirk paying honest debts.
Striped nuns yelling is a novelty in
white fabrics this season and makes de
cidedly stylish costumes for afternoon
wear 1t is very appropriate for hall
mourning.
Three of the six fellowships at Cornell
University open to competition among
the students have been won by women
this year. The fellowships carry with
them an income of $400 each.
A French writer classes all women by
the size of their thumbs. Those with
large thumbs are said to be more likely
to possess native intelligence, while the
small thumbs indicate feeling.
There are actual landscapes on some
of the French brocades imported foI
evening dress, and girl condemned to
play wallfower may pass away the time
by looking at the picture on her frock.
A Kentucky woman has patented
ouid- holder for gum -chewers, and wo.
men and girls will no longer be obliged
to stick their guilds on door castings and
window shutters when their jaws demand
a rest.
A large ranch near Carbondale, Col,
is owned and personally managed by
Mrs. Gregory, whose pluck is the admi.
ration of her neighbors. She is making
the ranch pay and bids fair to become
wealthy.
Anent fashions in flowers, thirty years
ago thousands of camelia flowers were
retailed in the holiday seasons for $
each. while rosebuds would not bring a
dime. Now many of the fancy roseG
sell at 81 each, while camelia flowers go
begging.
Bugs and beetles, as is natural, are
found where the flower trimmings
abound, and are seen on the blossoms of
all sorts which abound in an unwonted
luxuriance this season. They are either
the real creature dried and vanished,
or metal counterfeit.
A letter has reached the Chicago post
Office addressed to "A young lady that
wants to marry" 1t is from Tyler,
Texas, and the writer's sole condition is
that the recipient must be 21 years old
and at work for herseIl--in which case
she may consider himself and 500 acres
of land at her disposal.
In natty summer fashions a host of
details are borrowed from gentlemens
dress. There are narrow and flowing
clavats, both plain and colored; pleated
shirt fronts, and jewe!ed studs, scarf
pins, and linked buttons for throat and
sleeves, with a coarse, high corsage. A
lace frill very closely gathered is worn,
this conied from the masculine toilet Of