The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

NEWS AM INVITES rVh WOMEN.
Stripes appear again in spring fabrics.
Queen Victoria's will was made In
1875.
Plated overskirts are a feature OF
spring gowns.
Women walters are increasing in the
Paris restaurants.
Gray is favored by both young and
middle-aged ladies.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison is said not to
fond of Wagner's music.
Dresses of black Chantilly lace will be
worn again this summer.
Patti says plenty of sleep Is the secret
of preserving ones beauty.
Mrs. Gladstone has just celebrated her
seventy'seventh birthday.
Loud and striking colors are giving
way to pale and delicate hues.
Queen Victoria's household expenses
amount to over $780, 900 year.
Cornell University has 1176 students,
1872 of whom are young women.
Countess MARTINEZ sells stamps at a
postoffice window in Philadelphia.
Easter gowns and bonnets appear in
very gorgeous series of bright reds.
Changeable or slot silks are again
sent out to us from the looms of France.
Kamabal, the Hindoo woman reformer,
is lecturing in Japan to large audi
ences.
A Buffalo IN. W woman has been
made Deaconess Of the Episcopal
Church.
The hustle has diminished until there
is reason to expect that it will disappear
entirely.
The high coronet of wide braids Of
hair comes up from among other styles
of couture.
The newest or most stylish trimmings
for bonnets are large rosettes of very mar
row ribbon.
Pretty head mantles, or fascinators,
are made of strong white or black or
colored net.
Among the daintiest of India silks are
those having gray grounds with darker
gray figures,
New black serges have glossy mohair
borders, showing blocks, stripes or
floral designs.
Smith College has received gift of
$4,000 toward a gymnasium. The donor
was a woman.
Striped washing silks in soft dull colors
will be used for blouses and entire
gowns as we'll.
The walking hat is still with us, but
will not be worn to anything like the
extent now seen.
Pale primrose and the bright golden
"daisy heart" will be the fashionable
shades of yellow.
Sashes fringed with all the colors OF
the gown now come with the new box
empire dress patterns.
Rough straw will be much used for
bonnets, especially the new braid that
has line of tinsel inwove.
A necklace of pendent turquoise stars
is warranted to awaken the covetousness
of any we'll regulated woman.
Pinked.out and frayed-out ruches
around the bottom of the skirts are
coming into high favor again.
A lady barber, who is said to have had
fourteen years. experience at the trade,
has opend a shop in Fresno, Cal.
A competition in the Tonic Sofia Re.
porter has resulted in the discovery of
700 women composers of music.
Pretty cloth gowns combine either two
colors or else supplement the cloth with
skirt and accessories of rich silk.
An article in Scri5ner tells "Why
Women Get Short of Breath" An i'm.
pertinent person asks: ''Do they9"
The big sleeve has come to stay, and
even threatens eclipse to the coat sleeve
we had grown to believe an immortel ,s
Gold is much used in Partisan millin.
cry, but so toned and shaded as not to
seem in the least obtrusive Or glaring.
The quaintest brooch of the season is
a diamond kitten playing with big
pearl that does duty for ball of cotton
Fancy pins for holding on trimmings
have very delicate heads of bird CT bee
or blossom, and are used in lavish array.
Crepe lisse wrought in flowers with
silk floss is the stuff used for some Of
the daintiest bonnets Paris has yet sent
out.
"The slinksy girl" is the term used te
describe the girls who have discarded
the hustle and go in for long, clinging
drapery.
Mrs. Belva Ann Lockwood has beer
appointed representative of the Univer
sal Peace Society Of America at tn,
Paris Exposition.
1t is said that during the last few
months 2l:} clubs of women have beer
organized for the purpose Of studying
political economy.
Queen Maria Pia, of Portugal, has q
set of gold buttons upon one of her new
garment they adorn.
Small dinner parties and teas ON Sun
day are very popular in Washington
The custom was introduced 10y tho Soutl
American diplomats.
Miss Nellie O'Donnell has been elected
superintendent VI uOlAC NCuOOlS II
Shelby County, Tennessee. She is only
twenty-five years old.
The largest owner of real estate il
Pittsburg is Mrs. D. p. scheuley. sh
has fortune of S., 900, 900, and spend
most of her time abroad.
A fashionable New York select schoo
drills its pupils in the art of getting il
and out of carriages, as well as how tt
eat asparagus, oranges and grapes,
A Maine girl, fifteen years old, is sale
to make twenty-five coats week, tax,
music lesson, practice two hours a day
and saw all the wood for two fires.
The finest single sapphire in this coun
try is owned by Mrs. William hstor, O
New York, and her necklace Of emerald
and diamonds is among the costlies
jewels in America.
Boas are as fashionable as ever, but th
preference is given to those which ar
made fiat around the neck like . cola
and gradually assume round shape q
they taper to the ends.