Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-18
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

boIu LOT the reception OF lovers photo-
graphs.
The degrees list of the Victoria Uni
versity, England, is this year headed by
a woman.
Miss Agnes Longfellow, daughter of
the celebrated poet, is skilled photo.
grapher.
After deal of persuasion, Nine. Car
not, mother of the French President, has
assembled the Eiffel Tower.
Only one woman in France has this
year taken out license for shooting.
Last season there were ti-e.
Miss Jeanette Halford, daughter of
the Presidents private secretary, is an
expert player on the banjo.
Mrs. Fanny Vertun claims to hold title
deeds for the whole of Minneapolis, and
has begun suit for possession.
Cloth dresses are seldom made with
full sleeves, as they cannot be worn I'M
der cloth jacket or fitted coat.
Straight, full skirts should never have
the placket-hole opening in the front or
back, but always at the left side.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is one of the most
popular platform ladies" in England.
She is earnest, graceful and easy.
Amelia B. Edwards, the English nov
elist, will deliver sixty lectures in Amer.
lea selected from 300 applications.
Fifty carriage trucks are require to
transport Queen Victoria's stable and its
attendants from Osborne to Windsor.
Mrs. Harrison recently remarked that
if woman loves the society of her hus-
band she should never encourage him to
be public man.
Three American women received
medals from the jury of fine arts in the
Paris Exposition-Miss Elizabeth Gard
ner, Miss Klumpke and Miss Resin.
Edison green is an electric shade
copied from the electric lights thrown on
fountains, and is especially effective in
ostrich tips and other small feathers.
Women have often successfully hid
valuables IN their hair, and young
French lady recently found note equal
to 5000 in her deceased mothers CHG
non.
Exquisite trimmings for evening gowns
are made of white silver braid, with gold
cord edges, with few of the opal beads
known as CANCELS tears' outside the
cord.
The drowning of girl babies by their
parents has at last been made penal in
China. The punishment of sixty blows
OF the bamboo will be enforced every
time.
Gilt and steel and silver and steel are
set close together in fine soutache for
dress garnitures, the braid being set on
edge i'll solid crescent and pointed pat
terms.
Very handsome trimmings for cloth
dresses are made of open diamond shaped
bands of tan kid, which form a wide gal,
loon, on which are set squares of dark
velvet
The new industrial Home for Women
who have renowned polygamy has been
opened at Salt Lake City. Its support is
provided for by the United States Gov
eminent.
Black trimmings are still used on col
ored materials; and where other Colors
arc added black is used as a foundation,
either for one or several colors in com
bination.
Some very dainty walking gowns OF
striped zephyr ginghams are seen, made
with closetitting basque, over double
waistcoat effects of white over striped
bingham,
Among the recent addition to the
standard cloth shades are amarantb, rus.
set, with deep orange tinge, red gold,
peach color, the dahlia reds, oak heart
and linden green.
Long coats and polonaises are very
much worn, but basques and round
waists with straight skirts slightly draped
upon the foundation come in numbers
from the best houses.
EmbroideIies done in silk in the light
est colors, in vine, leaf and flower pat
terms, are shown and are intended to be
appliqued upon silks and velvets for
light evening toilets.
Beige-colored and mignonette- green
dresses of Veneton cashmere, bordered
with gold and silver galloons, are made
with double skirts, both equally long,
the upper one open up the left side to the
waist.
The favorite designs in the new passe-
menteries of all kinds are vandyke points
and Gothic arches, coming up slenderly
from straight edge, and all patterns are
open, instead of being closely massed as
heretofore
Mrs. Anna Hughes, of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
successfully carries on the business of a
dairy farm. She Ike Fps 100 head of cat
tie, has from six to eight men in her en-
ploy, and sells from 900 to 800 quarts of
milk day.
The Queen of Greece is blonde, with
brown hair, regular features and beau
tiful neck and shoulders. She dresses
very simply, except on State occasions,
and often goes about Athens without
even a maid to attend her
Very handsome wool gowns, thSse
with a crepe-like surface particularly, are
worn at autumn dipoOrs and tens, and
also soft carmelites in Empire style at
evening concerts. These appear in all the
| new art shades Of the season.
Dressy equestriennes now vary the
extreme simplicity of the riding habit
with white pique vests, which show at
the throat, where the basque is turned
away in tiny lapels, and also below the
waistlaine, where it is slightly cut away.
Corday and Marie Antonette fichus