The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-09-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

wives, it is said.
Bead necklaces are the fashion Of the
moment in Paris,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is in her
seventy fourth year
The city editor of the Muncie Qnd.)
Ereaing Herald is a.woman.
Srimati Hardevi, a Puujabee lady, is the
first woman editor in India,
There are number of women who are
notaries public in Chicago.
Fine Suede kid shoes with vamps Of
patent leather continue to find patrons.
The New England Women's Press As
ISOLATION numbers almost 100 men,
bers.
A Berlin professor says that constant
piano practice will ruin the health of any
girl.
The real name of the author who signs
herself ''The Duchess" is Mrs. Hunger
ford.
The newest driving cloaks are less vol
luminous than they were several months
ago.
An insurance company conducted by
women has been established in New
Orleans.
Mr.. Gladstone never drinks tea except
what is specially made for him by Mrs.
! Gladstone.
Full bishop sleeves are seen on wraps
and gowns, though coat sleeves continue
| to be worn.
| Very pretty rustic stands of pottery
simulate stumps and gnarls Of wood in
form and color.
Nearly one-haf of the AIS medical
students graduated at the Boston Uni
versity are women.
The black ribbon collars now seen on
light dresses are fastened with small
Rhine stone buckles.
Women are said to have the bumps OF
order and cleanliness more highly de-
veloped than the men.
Twenty three young ladies will make
urayhe list of fashionable debutantes in
Philadelphia next winter.
Pongee silk corsets are exceedingly
cool ans comfortable, and consequently
in demand at the present time.
Sarah Arabela Mackie, of London, has
been granted patent for improvements
in the manufacture of artificial fuel,
The Woman's Educational and In
lustrial Union, of Buffalo, n. Y, owns
a fine building, adapted to its work.
1t is rumored that long wasted cor.
sages will be made to extend over the
hips in medieval fashion, next winter.
The latest thing in women's sailor hats
is startling combination of red brim and
} white crown, or blue crown and white
brim.
A London firm of diamond dealers has
an order to supply the stones for neck
lace for Lady Guinness, which is to cost
$125,000
When white gloves are used for driving
they are stitched on the back with three
rows of black, each row a quarter of an
inch wide.
With the Recamier wrapper, which is
simple short wasted gown, is worn
: turned over collar of embroidery, with
cuffs to match.
The Princess Sophia takes daily les
sons in Greek that she may be able to
converse with her future husband, the
Duke of Sparta.
, Book-covers that fit over any novel and
are of correct shade to match the read
er's costume, are favorites with this sum
mers seaside girl.
New tulle gowns are some of them
made up with succession of skirts.
Each skirt has deep hem and falls
straight all around.
Lady Forester sends to the factory girls
of London every week upward of 200O
: punches of flowers gathered by the SER
. wants on the estate.
, Mrs. Napier Higgins, the author, is
! the first lady Fellow of the English
e Royal Society of Literature since the
: days Of Hannah More.
Silk Innings have not been used as ex-
n tensively as last year. The waist Inning
: and foundation skirt for cotton dresses
: are made of white lawn.
t Birdie May Wilson, of New York, has
e been granted patent in Great Britain
: for device for plucking hair, to be used
T in the dressing of skins.
The City Council of. Chicago has
- authorized the appointment OF five
women to inspect the sanitary condition
!, of factories and tenements.
y It is said that the japanese women who
- m Inf1uaUna
h in moral questions hardly inferior to the
English and American women.
l. All the lovely tints of lilac, mauve and
:, heliotrope are suddenly restored to their
! old-time popularity, some of the new
10 dyes shading exquisitely into faint tints
s. of old rose.
', The cook problem-in New Orleans
. possibly the most unsolvable problem OF
L all-is about to be worked out in Lon
l. don, where IA, 900 girls are now attend
u ing the cooking schools.
This has been a great season for the
~ sslady guide" one of the latest develop
4 ments of women of education who have
:, to earn something The Worlds Fair at
= Paris has helped them wonderfully.
"a Black laces and white laces are beauti-
fully combined in some of the new Cor.
IN day and Marie Antoinette tichus, and
tie capes and gowns formed of this magpie
e. mixture are among some of the most ele-
is CANT dresses of the season.
E. Five dozen pairs were the number Of
to gloves in recent bridal trousseau.
be There were a dozen and half in white
IS suede, stitched with pale pink; dozer
mt and a half stitched with white, and two
ch dozen of pale grays stitched with black
The Society of Industrial Art fol
re Women, of New York city, nominate'
el- the principal of its school, Florence
k, Elizabeth Cory, 'the first practica
de woman designer in the world" for ap
sh pointment on the permanent World
e, Fair Committee.
20 ~ The American girl is rapidly enterins
IN toto hor ,nhar,tap,a tho Garth Mis-