The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Oriental designs continue TO be popu-
lar in dress decorations.
Figured goods and combinations ara
used in great variety in black costumes
now.
The empire and "Directoire" styles
have passed the zenith of their pros
perity.
Fur trimmings upon cloth toques may
be light or dark, the aim being to con-
trast.
The "sling" sleeve is now worn with
inner sleeves in bell or coat shape to pro-
tect the arms.
A combination of two kinds of fur on
one shoulder cape is fashionable feat
ure of the season,
A girl of seventeen has just assembled
Mount Ararat, and the feat seems to be
thought remarkable.
The reign of black hose is ended and
new stockings appear in an endless va
riety of brilliant effects.
Striped cloths are gaining favor for
combinations, the stripes being rather
wide and set some distance apart.
New Paris bonnets present starting
combinations of color, and are fashioned
in very odd and picturesque shapes.
The Queen of Roumania wrote drama
called "Ulvanda,' and composed song
while undergoing the massage cure.
DR.. Amelia B. Edwards, who is lee
turing in this country, says America will
furnish the noted women of the future.
The height of. bonnets has diminished
very perceptibly but they are still raised
above the forehead and lowered at the
back.
Belts of every description are now
worn entirely encircling the waist or ex-
tending from the side seams across the
front.
Miss Lillian Lewis, colored, of the
Boston Herald has been elected men,
Der of the New England Woman's Press
Association.
Mrs. Campbell, wife of the new Gov
ernor of Ohio, is Vassar graduate, hay
ing entered the college in 1865, the year
it was opened.
A novelty in fringed trimmings Is the
passementerie sash, which may be had in
various widths and colors, and has deep
sewing silk fringes.
A beautiful new dinner gown has a
bodice and train of short blue and rose
velvet opening over draped petticoat of
creamy Brussels lace
Small bonnets arc being covered
smoothly with velvet and have close set
garniturc and narrow "mado" strings
fastened with fancy pins.
Russian sable is not only popular now
as collars and borders upon velvet and
cloth dresses, but also upon evening
gowns of velvet, satin or tulle.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison's favorite des-
sert is dish of pie made with a single
crust, filled with pumpkin custard and
finished with two-inch dressing of
whipped cream.
Mrs. Clemens (wife of Mark Twain) is
a sweet, lovely, refined woman, but
serious drawback to her husbands hap
piness is the fact that she cannot appre-
ciate his jokes.
Miss Caroline Fitzgerald of Litchfeld,
Conn, who married Lord Edmond Fitz-
maurice, is not quite two and twenty,
yet she has written book of poems and
got it published.
Evening bonnets are finished with
forty-inch strings of narrow black or very
dark colored velvet attached to the back
ofthe frame and brought around the neck
to tie under the left ear.
Madame dc Valsayn, the foremost
champion of woman's rights in France,
has retired from the league because it
was resolved that men should be ex-
Guided from its assemblies.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the French
| President, is now the acknowledged
leader of the fashion in Paris, and has
wardrobe that would make Queen
Elizabeth green with envy.
The Empress Frederick, of Germany,
has ordered a present of money to be
made to each of the women and girls
who were employed in making her daugh-
ter, Princess Sophies trousseau.
To Mrs. Captain Paget, daughter of
Mrs. Paran Stevens, of New York, credit
is due for introducing in America the
black tarpaulin hat over which fashiona-
bles under fifty have become so frantic.
There has not been a winter for many
year when it was possible to have skirts
so light and yet fashionable, but the
tailors persist in making them heavy by
facing the uuderskirt unnecessarily high
The ex-Empress of Brazil, Theresa, is
sixty-seven years old. She is daughter
of the late King Francis L., of the Two
Sicilies. She is said to be a woman Of
gentle manners and simple domestic
tastes.
Many of the fashionable "plaited''
skirts are not plated at all, but strips OF
folds are laid, overlapping each other on
the skirt, so as to afford opportunities for
the introduction of contrasting material
in simple way.
An organization of devout ladies, call
ing themselves Sisters Of the People, is
laboring in London, under the direction of
the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, to bring the
much neglected upper classes to series
of special services.
A dish washing machine has been in
vented by an Indiana housewife, who has
spent ten years trying to obviate the me-
cessity of feminine labor in washing
up" Her invention will scald, wash,
rinse and dry from five to twenty dozen
dishes in two minutes, according to the
size OF the machine.
Tied the Child to the Door Bell.
A fiye-year-old younoster living or