News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-09
NEWS AND NOTES ON WOMEN.

Three million women work for money
in this country.
There are two women dentists in Lon
don. Both are meeting with success.
White lambs wool trims siIver-gray
suits prettily for young girls and chill
dren.
There is more trimming than actual
bonnet in the latest feminine style of
headgear
Hand-painted boiling cloth pillow
shams and bedspreads are a new kind OF
extravaganza.
Twenty-six new women suffrage So
cleties have been organized in Kansas
since October 1.
Bangles of silver threads are new, and
one is supposed to wear at least two
dozen on the arm.
Women's fashions for stormy days are
almost as effective and stylish as those
for sunshiny ones.
The late Mrs. John Jacob Astor's an
nual income was estimated at 500, 600
or over, and this entire sum was spent in
charity.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who is
in Florence, Italy, has received $8, 200
from an English magazine for her story,
Sara Creme"
Miss Julia Cook has been appointed
medical examiner to London insurance
company. Her duties are confined to
women applicants.
When passementerie is used upon
black dresses, apple green, cherry red, or
white silk is often inserted beneath the
gimp, with excellent effect.
Some new black jackets of English
manufacture have heavy cord epaulettes,
and show narrow waistcoat of red cloth,
bordered with gold buttons
When girl wears a flower garniture
to her party dress she uses the perfume
Of the flower that form the bouquets,
garlands, and parure or spray for the
hair
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the Mexican Presi-
dent, has established an extensive day
nursery in the City of Mexico to look
after children whose mothers are out
working.
Many petitions are being presented to
the Washington Territory legislature
asking the re-enactment of the woman
suffrage law, but exempting women from
Jury duty.
Novel boas are made of ice wool in
beige and gray, the former resembling
blue, pink, or cream, they are a pretty
and inexpensive wrap for the throat in
the evening.
In hats the three shapes most in Paris
ian favor are the high crowned with wide,
dropping brim cut narrow at the back !;
the wide fiat hat, with brim looped high
at one side, and the bell-crown, with
rolling brim.
For day gowns English women much
affect the Garibaldi waist-not the skirt
like concoction we know by the name,
but something with pointed yoke and
trim belt, sloping sharply to the hips
from a long back and a longer front.
The very newest garniture is the ten
end bow, male of watered ribbon with
en-pointed dropping ends and five or six
upright loops closely strapped. 1t is worn
at one side of the headgear. and offset by
a huge dahlia rosette on the other side,
to whose making in the height of style
six yards of ribbon are necessary.
A German author saying that women
in some departments of literature have
entirely supplanted men, gives as rea-
son that women are carried away with
the current of the day. SIN art, as well
as life, they always follow the latest
fashion, are realsts of to-day, always
sure to appeal to the taste of the mo-
ment.
The women of Paris have adopted for
the winter season waggle in their walk.
The art of waggling gracefully in furs is
being taught at the best dancing schools.
The correct waggle is described as short
step and an undulating sweep. 1t is
sa d to be much more graceful than the
mannish stride that prevailed during the
summer.
One of the latest novelties" says a
notion merchant, is lace made of steel.
1t is pronounced by milliners and dress
makers to be exquisitely beautiful as a
trimming, and they say it is also suitable
for ladies' underwear On ball room
costumes it will do well enough, but for
picnic dresses there would be danger in
a thunder-s storm"
Wool now outranks silk for street and
general wear, and this is due to the pres
tige impaired to it by fashion, which in
time will be reinforced by sense and eX-
perience, so that wooden materials,
healthful, diversified, durable, may also
be set down as a safe investment, sure
now they have come in such varied and
attractive as well as useful guise, to stay.
Mrs. George Gould (nee Edith King
dom of New York had handsome pres
ent. 1t was an ostrich feather fan. The
sticks were mother-of-pearl, inltid with
gold. On each was set tiny gold rose,
and in the heart of each rose sparkled a
diamond The ostrich feathers were
thick and heavy, each being chosen ex-
prcssly for its position. The whole made
the daintiest of toys, and cost 81, 900.
Word comes from Paris that women's
fashions are veering around to the Direc-
tory styles. As Olive Logan expresses
it: 1--WE shall have Kate Greenaway for
grown ups The waist under the arm
pits if universally accepted as beautiful,
will solve at once the terrible problem
of how to be stylish and yet avoid tight
lacing; that is, it should do so. No
waist being outlined no lacing is re-
quired."
Ribbons play great part in the even
ing dress of young girls this season and
add an important item to the cost. They
are used in cream, gold orsmall brocaded
stripes upon tulle, or alternating with
lace to form skirts which hang straight
and bodices which are narrowed in at the
waist with little fullness and widen at
the top. These lovely skirts are made
over others of net or tulle, and these over
an underskirt of silk with narrow plait.
ing and a deeper one of silk and net laid
in the interior.
A Soldiers RetOrt.