News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-19
FEMININE FANCIES.

FEMININE FANCIES.
MATTERS OF INTEREST FOR OUR
WOMEN READERS.
Short Bits of Gossip and Latest Notes
of Fashion.
Apropos of doctors the London
medical journals make mention of the
fact that several of the so-called weaker
sex have passed successful examina-
lions of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain and the English Apothe-
carries Hall, and are qualified dis
pensers. OF these graduates, Miss
Emeline Cook has been appointed dis
penser of the Children's Hospital at
Brighton; Miss Martha Moore is as
signed to take charge of DR.. Bar
nardo's East End Medical Mission,
and Miss Bowen is permanently es-
tablished at the Ear and Throat Hos
pital in Great Charles street. Surely
this is woman's age, and tho good
natured world is making room for her
at the head.
Every guest chamber is provided
with night lamp, or as fashion has
decreed, should be. Some of the de-
signs are exceedingly pretty and quite
inexpensive. The metal lamps, better
known as nursery lanterns, are tri-
faced land show all owl, a cats face
and the head of a water spaniel, with
mock jewels in the eyes through which
the light streams. There are classic
shapes with dragon faces, griffin hand
dies and high chimneys of colored
! glass, illustrative of the German rena-
issance, while the lanterns of black
! ened iron, with prism crystals, that
swing from slender rods are copied
after the sixteenth century lamps that
burnt in the lofty cathedrals before
| the entrance of some sacred tabernacle.
Women who are accustomed to
travelling now carry robes and blankets
on the cars precisely rs they do on the
steamships. They unstrap them and
use them during the daytime to throw
over their skirts whenever they feel
like putting their feet ON the seats in
front of them in the parlor and sleep
ing cars. Thus equipped it matters
not how far their skirts may work up
above their shoes-the blankets cover
them from the knees down. OF course
they explain that they carry the robes
to save themselves from colds. On
the other hand, the colored porters of
the same car keep the temperature at
80 degrees, and would consider them
selves incompetent if Whit of fresh
air should steal into a car in their
charge.
Mrs. Marcy Henderson of New York,
who is of the opinion that colored
table decorations have been overdone,
gave what she was pleased to term a
white dinner Wednesday evening.
The china was of the purest white
Royal Derby. White silver and cut
crystal candelabra, vases and violet
bowls held respectively white wax
candles with silver shades, snowy lilies
and silvery bonbons tied with MORE
ribbon, which also fastened the nap
kins. White violets foated in the finger
bowls and the bouquets for the ladies
and gentlemen were composed of white
orchids. White soups. fish and meats
preserved the unity of color; the vege-
tables and dark viands were smothered
i'll cream gravies and celery sauce; the |
white grapes and pale fruits were tied |
with white ribbons; the caramel and
chocolate buildings were sprinkled |
with preserved orange blossoms, and |
the sweet biscuits had snow-white |
frostings.
Miss Margaret Emma Ditto, whose
Gone Little Injun Boy made her
famous, and whose short stories have
house at Wellesley, Mass. The house,
which she planned, built and furnished
herself, is a gray stone cottage, one
and half stories high, with gable
roof and turret gallery, All the
floors are of hard wood, the rooms are
ventilated by large, open fireplaces,
and by means of sliding doors the par
lors, library and dining-room can be
thrown into great hall, One charm
of the pretty home is its abundance of
cushioned seats built In the corridors,
ingle hooks and window-sills. Miss
Ditto is woman of unusual height,
we'll proportional, excellent health and
fine bearing. Her brown hair, which
is Just tinged with gray, is worn parted
down the middle In the simple old
fashion and coiled in a knot at the
neck. She is gracious and cordial in
manner, her voice is extremely pleas
ant, and she has reached that degree
of success where she can write or
dream, according to the mood in which
she is in.
Mrs. Robert W. Chaplin, of New |
York, who has contributed $40, 900 as
an endowment fund for training
school for children's nurses, will in all
probability bring about revolution in
the nursery. The new enterprise is
TO be run in connection with the Babies
Hospital, and her friends have pledged
to supply whatever sum may be needed
to carry on the work. 1t is the inten-
ton of the founder to limit the num-
Der of pupils in order to secure SUI
perior grade of excellence, and before
graduation it will be necessary for the
student to possess some attainments or
efficiency other than that called for in
the course of study,
The young woman must show in
various ways her fitness and ability to
reach the child's heart. She must be
gentle in manner and pleasing in ap-
pearanee; she must understand the
ways and means of reaching the child
something of the spirit of the Frqebel
system-and she must be at once
song-book, story-book and compendium
of familiar science. When the course
of study has been completed and the
various boards of managers passed, the
young women will be provided with
places in private homes where, all
things being agreeable, their services
may be retained through fit of collie,
teething or the whole range of infantile
disorders.