The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-31
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,

A ''safety bicycle" for women has been
invented.
Faced cloth or camels hair are the ia,
vorlte stufrs.
Bonnets are chosen to match the cloak,
not the dress.
White, green and rose are the fashion,
able evening colors.
Mrs. August Belmont favorite pet il
silver skye terrier.
Magnolia and japonica are the newes,
shades in cream white.
London's very latest oddity is the use
of ostrich feathers for sleeves.
Innings are of satin, quilted and
matching the velvet in color.
In fashionable circles diamonds are NOT
rs generally worn as formerly.
The Presbyterians have decided to
have an Order of Deaconesses.
Serviccable wraps are English long
coats of rough'surface Irish frieze.
The Empire gown not merely allows
but demands blossoms in profusion.
Luxurious cloaks are made of black
brocade in the round peasant shapes.
Mrs. Harrison will be the thirty third
lady to preside over the White House.
House and visiting gowns are slightly
trained, but street costumes are sensibly
short.
Among the newest new reds are Vero.
nese, sultane, Mephisto, and English
cherry,
Queen Victoria's household expenses
during the past year amounted to the
sum Of $425, 600.
In Italy there are eight American. born
Princesses, seven Warehouses;, twelve
Countesses and a Baroness.
Combs for holding the hair in place
are small but fanciful. Gold, she'll and
amber are favored materials.
A thorough knowledge of hygenic
cookery will prove the most useful &C
complishment to any women.
When velvet is used for cloaks, the
trimmings are rich fur and silk cord
passementeries without beads.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr, who is going
on the stage, has fine contralto voice
and is an accomplished pianiste.
Patti, the cantatrice, uses coca wine
and glycerine mixed for her voice, and
physicians approve the mixture.
Some dainty tea gowns are Grecian in
style. They have clinging draperies and
there are silken girdles at the waist.
Coats for outdoor wear appear in sew
eral styles. One, long and close fitting,
has silk sash folded about the waist.
Mrs. Cleveland has started new fash
ion in cloaks. 1t is tight fitting terra
Gotta garment with short double capes.
Fancy needlework is employed in
making flower pincushions with loose
petals done in embroidered or pinked
silk.
A shepherds crook of Roman gold is
favorite hatpin, and gold and silver
boathooks are much admired as hair
pins.
Fur and embroidery are noted ON bon
nets, as well as on wraps, and even pas
sementerie now figures as bonnet gar
niture.
The reports of the Patent Office show
that at least two of the patents granted
during every week are issued to women
inventors.
The full, round peasant circular is a
favorite shape for party cloaks, as it COW
ers the entire costume, and is easily put
on or taken off.
Elderly ladies wear deep mantles of
Persian lambskin, which are made with
large sleeves that are gathered smaller
about the wrists.
Pink rose petals are made into pretty
bands and edge the half-low or "
shaped necks of evening dresses worn
by young ladies.
Sashes of watered ribbon, or Of thick
gros grain ribbon with heavy corded
edges, are almost invariably worn with
tulle ball costumes.
The "Oolong wave" is not new
wrinkle in doing up the hair. It is the
latest designation in Washington for
the greatly abused afternoon tea.
Philanthropic women in Hartford,
Conn.,, have organized classes in dress
making and commercial arithmetic to
aid young women in earning living.
A little girl of Poulan, Ca, raised
enough peanuts and sugar cane to pay
for five and a half acres Of land, and she
had enough money left to fence it with.
A new role for women in London is
that of serving writs. A pretty young
women there is said to find doors open
to her, which to nearly every other
sheriff's officer are shut fast.
Fashion in France ordains that hence
forth armorial crests and such things are
to be banished from such places as letter
paper. etc., but are to be embossed on
women's dresses in colors over the heart.
Pretty afternoon dresses are made of
fawn, gray, tan colored dark blue, or
golden olive French cancels hair. These
toilets are graceful and artistic and are
cut in princesse fashion with slight
trains.
The industrial department of the
Woman's Educational and Industrial
Union Of Syracuse, N. Y, sent out fifty
seven graduates during the year just
closed. This is said to be an unusually
large class.
A Woman's League has been formed
in New Orleans. One of its objects is to
look in a large and practical way after
the interests of women-as to how they
are treated in asylums, prisons, stores,
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