The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-27
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Green gloves are in vogue in Paris.

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this year,
Braid leads as the most fashionable
trimming.
Colorado is said to have 1000 women
stock growers.
Only 1000 women voted at the Detroit
school election.
Bengaline dresses are in favor for after
noon receptions.
The Queen of England makes her own
tea when travelling.
Black and colored tulle bonnets are
made for midsummer wear.
Maids of honor at weddings carry
baskets of lilies of the valley.
Many New York ladies undergo a
special diet to make them stout.
Big classic loopes, styled "creole-ear-
rings" are oil the rage in Paris.
Very large ladies should wear plain
fabrics without figures or stripes.
Bonnets for youthful matrons have
strings that come from the back.
Silver lorgnettes are shade more ele-
giant than those of the tortoise shell.
The loose, flowing sleeves of evening
gowns are edged with chenille fringe,
A Louisville couple have just been
married after courtship Of fifty years.
The princess gown, either short or
trained, is the robe of the day in Paris.
Embroidered collars and cuffs should
be made separate from summer dresses.
switch stitch" is the newest craze of
the crewel-and-silk-floss young woman.
Mrs. Garfeld's total estate amounts to
about $3.50, 900 in money well invested.
Round waist and belts are gradually
displacing pointed bodices and basques.
Shocked gingham will make some of
the favorite morning dresses for the sum-
mer.
In trimming dresses, wraps and bon
nets, both wide and narrow braids are
used
The most stylish of the new silk gowns
are made up in two shades of the same
color.
A woman weighing 304 pounds lives
in Buffalo, N. Y. She is very heavy
sleeper.
The per cent. of insanity among farm.
ers' wives is greater than among any
other class.
Simplicity and quaintness are the
marks of style upon your thin midsum-
mer gowns.
A girl in Dorr, Mich, raised $50 BUSH
els Of onions this year and traded them
for an organ.
Whole tea sets of silver are again good
form, and those fluted all over are espe-
cially stylish.
English worsted in light cool gray will
be largely worn for summer business and
morning suits.
Umbrellas of more than all the colors
of the rainbow are among the threats of
the near future.
A fashionable bootmaker of Chicago
says the average outfit of fashionable
bride costs $100
Two hundred and seventy -fve ladies
are clergymen in the United States and
occupy pulpits as such.
The most fashionable long wraps AZ.
the Connemara cloak, the long pelisse,
and the bonnie femme mantle.
Mrs. Tanner, wife of Corporal Tanner,
Commissioner of Pensions, is an enthusi-
est on the subject of woman suffrage.
Paris sends cut parasols of half silk,
half velvet, together with others made of
alternate strips of watered silk and black
lace.
A housewife at Gridley, CAL, while
dressing chicken for dinner, found in
its crop diamond, which was sold for
$1S5.
The rich schools of Baltimore have
abolished public commensurate exercises,
and the sweet girl graduates are in the
dumps.
French milliners are trying hard to
bring in face trimming, either bow or
bunch of flowers under the edge of the
bonnet brim.
Parasol handles are longer than for
years. AS an offset, many of them fold
In the middle after the fashion of our
grandmother.
Crepe de chine Directoire coats in
plain, harmonizing colors are worn with
skirts composed Of embroidered crepe de
chine founcing.
A weeping woman will never do any,
thing desperate, but when she is in
trouble and keeps her eyes dry, look out
for an explosion.
The Directoire coat, as now worn by
Parisiennes, is said to be copy of that
pictured on Charles Surface in "The
School for Scandal"
It has been decided in Russia that
women may be physicians; but they must
confine their services to children and
adults of their own sex.
The Utah women are organizing to re.
gain the suffrage which they had for
eighteen years, and which they were de-
prived of by the Edmunds law.
The remarkably pleasing patterns which
adorn the cashmere shawls from the foot
of the Himalaya Mountains are copied
from the leaves of the begonia.
The cheapest pretty and durable silk
gowns are made Of American woven foul
ards, which come in plain self colors, il
printed figures, and in bars and plaids.
Four hundred Silesian lacemakers have
been at work for five weeksaon msgnif-
cent veil for the sister of the German
Empress, who is about to marry Prince
Leopold of Prussia.
The new sashes are very long, very
wide, very elegant and very expensive.
Five yards is often used when the weare,
is tall and elects for Louis Quinze sash,
the ends of which reach quite to the foot
of the skirt.
Mrs Welsh, mother of Mrs. Thomas
Wanamaker, is of Philadelphia's bluest
blood, and is said to be greatly pitied by
her circle, because of the financial straits
that have induced her to "keep house fol-
John Wanamaker."
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