The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The newest bonnets and hats are less
large and less fiat than of late.
MEETINGS Of beads or silk cords are
used as garnitures in many ways.
This is furry season, and even the
skunk has been levied on for his coat.
Low shoes the color of the gown, with
hose to match, are worn for full dress.
A shoemaker says that most girls buy
shoes to fit their heads instead of their
feet.
Palpably painted cheeks and black
dotted wells continue to belle American
taste.
Black and colored velvet gowns for
evening wear are oftenest made in Direc-
toire STYLE
Black, after long retirement, is
again popular in woolens for house and
street wear.
Kate Field says that women are
absolutely unfit for the management of
public affairs.
The German Empress has ordered
several apartments in her palace to be
furnished in Turkish style.
Medicis scarfs of lace have a fine wire
to fasten them about the neck, and do
not require to be tied or pinned.
Mrs. Shaw, the famous whistler, has
had photograph taken of herself in
London which is over nine feet high.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, is so
affected by grief that she hates the sight
of human beings and prays for death.
Walking sticks are the thing among
London women of fashion, simply be-
cause the Queen has of necessity to use
one.
Miss Nellie Gould, the eldest daughter
of the millionaire, is brown of eye, deli
cate of look, serious of mind and demure
of manner.
The oldest daughter of Senator Allen,
of the new State of Washington, fif-
-year-old girl, acts as private secre-
tary for her father.
A stylish and becoming use for fur is
as bands upon the sweeping trains and
hanging sleeves of dressy gowns of light
colored and bright brocades.
Pure golden yellow, and tdawn," an
exquisite golden rose tint, are highly ia
vored colors in the rich brocades used for
dinner and reception gowns.
Of late years the number of women en-
tering the professions of painting and
sculpture has enormously increased in
France, Germany and Russia
A pretty accessory to an evening cloak
is a lace cape, with a hood for wearing
over the hair, and long scarfs in front,
which hang to the foot of the cloak
A Japanese nun is novelty in a Cath
Ole convent. However, young Japa-
nese lady belonging to high family will
soon take the veil to enter Bavarian
nunnery.
Flowers are likely to be the preferred
garniture for coming festal occasions, and
garlands for various uses are shown,
graded from buds to full blown blossoms,
with the appropriate foliage.
The edison mantle" is the newest
thing in the way of wraps in London.
1t is named for the American inven-
tor, and is said to ''recall the robe of
some Venetian dame of medieval times"
Augusta Evans, the famous story
writer Of generation ago, has lived for
a number of years in Mobile, Ala She
is native of Georgia and is fifty-three
years old. She has made fortune from
her novels.
London ladies are wearing sailor hat
made of waterproof cashmere. 1t is easily
made and should be popular-in fact,
any halter or milliner can make one.
Properly and plainly trimmed, they
should be all but indestructible.
Every Christmas Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt, of New York, sends 100 dolls to
the mission schools patronized by the
Church of St. Bartholomew. She has
them dressed at her own home by num-
Der of poor needlewomen hired by the
day.
New Oriental laces have mitred edges,
with open ring patterns. They are
accordion plated, crimped or futed, and
worn around the neck and sleeves in
wide frills. Very good limitations of
round point laces are used in the same
way.
The sash is confirmed popular feature
of house dresses, of whatever style.
There is no prescribed rule fop its arrange
ment, but it may be placed wherever
most effective, and knotted, looped or
arranged in a single careless tie at frore.,
back or side.
Julia Ward Howe has gone on an ex-
tensive pleasure tour through California,
and incidentally will appear on the lee
ture platform on the coast. Her Boston
home will be occupied during her
absence by her daughter, Mrs. Maud
Howe Elliott.
Mrs. Mulligan, who is in charge of the
Pension Agency at Chicago, has paid out
over $28, 900, 900 to pensioners during
the four years of her incumbency of the
Office. She is the widow of Colonel
James A. Mulligan, one of the gallant
soldiers of Illinois.
The Kings Daughters" will be inter
ested in the news from st. Louis that
Roman Catholic women of that city, with
the approval of their pastors, have started
society of Daughters of the Queen"
Its chief work will be to shelter homes
less girls, find work for girls out of EN-.
ployment, and establish a training and
industrial school.
Mrs. Kate Chase has almost dropped
out of notice during the last few years.
She is still as brilliant in conversation, as
charming in manners and exquisitely
cultivated as in the old days when she
was the proud daughter of the Chief
Justice of the United States, the unri-
vailed queen of Washington society, whose
good word was the passport to social
recognition.
A Ietterkenny, Penn, farmer, who
lives near the mountain, says he can al
ways tell when hard storm is coming,
rs the crows then f1v tn the better nro