The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

and all around the table,
Mrs, "Stonewell" jackson is writing
her husbands biography,
In London the women are beginning
to wear the single eyeglass.
Steel knives have come into fashion
again for use in certain courses.
The craze for antique oak and white
aud gold furniture is on the increase,
Brown, tan, gray, and black gloves are
the correct wear with all out-of-door
toilets.
All waists have SUPPLIES, bretelles,
plastrons, waistcoats or revers OF one kind
or another,
The new Duchess OF Marlborough is
making reputation in England by rails
ing fine dogs,
Embroideries are not used on the
choicest underwear Lace trimmed goods
are first choice.
A discussion has been started lately as
TO the advisability of having at least
seven pockets in dress.
flangings Of willow bamboo are used
for country bedroom windows, They
can be Topped back or left hanging,
Entire dresses of crochcted wool are
worn by English children, especially
delicate ones, IN cold, damp weather.
AT the sale OF the Duke OF Brunswick's
effects in London, Mrs. Mackey purchased
pair of diamond ear, rings for $400, 900.
The Carrick cape, with fiat boa or
stole ending in square tabs at the knees
or higher, is a fashionable London wrap.
A handkerchief in the possession of
the Empress of Russia is said to have
cost $4,000. 1t took seven years to make
it.
In the manicure world filbert finger
nails are cultivated and the moons
brought out with touch of cherry lip
rouge,
A piano once owned by the wife of
President John Quincy Adams is now in
the possession OF Miss Cordelia Meyers, of
MELVILLE, Penn,
1t is said the milliner who makes the
bonnets for the Princess of Wales and
her daughters has no other customers and
does not hang out sign.
The exquisite ''fnish" which is put
upon all dresses and NANTES, and which
is the distinguishing feature of the times,
is m outcome of the tailor gown.
Some one who has made a study Of
the chemical properties of veal urges
women who desire to become beautiful to
sleep with slices oft on their faces.
Mrs. Harrison has now in the White
House several quaint and genuine pieces
Of antique furniture which she picked up
during her summers visit to Nantucket
The mother of the famous Guernse,
sisters performed the remarkable feat al
the age of seventy of learning Hebrew
enough to read the Psalms in their orig
inal tongue.
An old friend has come to the fore
again this season in the shape of ladies
cloth. This fabric appears with borde
/ effects, which are novelty. 1t is likely
to be exceedingly popular.
The richest woman in Wisconsin i,
Mrs, Alexander Mitchell, whose husband
left her an estate worth many millions
She is the widow of the late President O.
the Milwaukee and st. Paul road.
Queen Maria Pia, Of Portugal, who
has been spoken of frequently as the
best-dressed woman in Europe, is said tx
enjoy occasional flights to Austria, Bel
gium or Germany on sympathetic mis-
sions.
The general rule for street toilets is te
have IA plain long rendigote of plail
stuff, word over skirt of striped tartan
: brocaded, figured, or bordered material
and this rule is followed for silk suits a
well as for wooden.
Three Austrian ladies, sisters-th
Miles Welt--have passed the examina
ton on the honor list for the doctor
degree at the University of Vienna
Women doctors are not, however, per
lnitted to practice in the Empire, and tw
: Of the sisers have sailed for America.
: Dove or Quaker gray is the most fash
ionable and also the most becomin
shade OF this most trying color, 1t con
bines well with Eiffel, pale rose, blue
. water green, canary yellow, flaming
red, and other shades of bright and posi-
tive color, with cream, pure white, black
!, silver and gold, copper and steel.
n It is to be feared that the very sma
a bonnets which even elderly women seei
so fond of will bring about an invasio
of hair. 'Too much hair and lit
enough hat form combination that hi
been fashionable before. Can we ev,
forget the day of big chignons and lit
!, tip-tilted saucer-shaped hats2 Is not Il
very thought of a return to these terrif:
a ing'
. Ringoal is new English out-of doc
" game for ladies. Ii is played with gra,
!. hoops and sticks and two nets eight fe
high and ten feet wide. 1t is propose
r to make it rival and rule out tennis,
v possible, as it exercises both arms, bo1
i shoulders, both hands, and the who
n body in the running and turning nece
o sary to catch the hoops before The
, reach the goals or nets.
lie Oriental ideas prevail in costume:
is Persian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Servian an
Arabian embroideries are all the rag
and are used on gowns of pure whit
:. and cream serge, on velvets and silk an
II wooden, and silk and wool mixtures
* all colors and shades, converting the ga