The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-10
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Pine cone fans are new.

wear,
Wells that are stylish are Of Russian
tulle.
1t is fashionable to show a great deal
of neck.
Fancy buckles are in demand for belts
and sashes.
Elegant simplicity is the watchword.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake is the best
looking of all female sutfragists.
Amber is replacing tortoise shells as an
ornament for the hair in England.
The Central Labor Union of New York
city has endorsed woman suffrage.
There are sixteen girls schools in Tur-
key with over 1900 young lady students.
The wash leather gauntlet gloves are
again to be seen with travelling costume
Feather boas, which are still worn,
are not as hot and uncomfortable as thew
look.
The Queen Dowager of Portugal re-
Gently bought 1000 pairs of shoes in
Paris.
Get the fruit of the loom and make il
up alone and without gather, plat or
crease.
Two ladies of Lewiston, Me-, take
mile walks before breakfast for their
health.
The Rev, Annie Shaw is said to be the
best among the women orators in this
country.
Tennis shoes are as much out of place
in the city as the pillow or lawn mower
would be-
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY,
has graduated 1857 women since its or.
ganization.
Sprigged and spotted net over shot
silk promises to rival in favor the black
lace dresses.
Russell shoes are worn to much larger
extent than ever before by both ladies
and gentlemen.
The stiff Oxford sash will be worn as
finish for the neglige waist so much ad-
mired just now.
Tennis players of both sexes are wear.
ing silk shirts. They are worn with
skirts of any material.
A young woman of the Harvard Col
lege Annex won the Sargent prize for a
translation from Horace.
1t is stated that Georgia's female
butcher can clean and cut up more hog:
than any man in her county.
Brown plaided surah over darker
shades OF brown surah, plain, makes q
nice dress for outdoor sports.
Short, curly locks are the style with
both elderly and young ladies. Tresses
are freely sacrificed nowadays.
Babies and very little girls still wear
The "granny" bonnet of shirred silk, lace
or null in pink, blue or white.
Butterfly wings of black and canary
colored crush velvet roses trim a small
black lace toque very effectively.
Gold dog-collars have taken the place
Of the massive porte bonheur bracelets,
SO popular for the past five years.
Yellow is in great favor this season.
A light bit of it on hat or gown bright
ems the toilet in remarkable degree.
One of the prettiest little dresses ex.
tant is of sky blue China silk trimmed
with rows of very narrow white vel
vet.
There are fully 500 women in Chicago
who ride bicycles. There is an average
of one woman rider to every twenty
men.
Now there is a fat woman's club in
New York city, and the members SIT
around and sip obesity tea aud ea
outs.
A lady in Apoka, Fla, has used tn,
same needle for seven years. She says
she would sooner lose dress than thu
needle.
Tennis blouses, silk shirts and f1anneI
waists ere laced. The cord has beer
abandoned and small pearl buttons sub
stituted.
Mile. Bilbisco, Roumanian lady, i
soon to be admitted to the Paris bar. Sh
will be the first woman to achieve tina
distinction.
Country dresses in striped flannel Of
polka-dot sateen, with white vest of In
dia silk, catch the eye in all the sub
urban resorts.
Hemstitching on some handkerchiefsi il
done in colored threads, but so delicately
as to give not more than faint suspicion
Of colored border.
Short wasted and fanciful bodices pre-
vail on most little girls dresses, ant
skirts are full and straight and eithe
gathered or pleated.
A lively Maine young woman has de
veloped much skill in sharing Main
song birds, and does quite business a
caging and selling them.
A well-known London lady of ranl
mas just had pair Of ten-button glove
made in which each button is dia
mond. The pair cost 5000.
A feature of little girls dress skirts is
that they are invariably long enough t.
touch the ankles, thus the wee MISE
look like tiny midget women.
Many new gowns have their mos
prominent features borrowed from oil
fashions, such as the position jacket
gauntleted sleeves and high, short waists
United States Minister to Austri
Grants pretty wife has a valuable Bull
garian girdle of carved and jeweled sill