The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-15
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Mushroom and leather shades lead in
neutral tints.
Connecticut has but one woman law
yer, Miss Mary Hall.
A novel favor is Brazil nut in bsQue
for holding perfume.
Toques are so small they fit the head
almost like jockey cap.
The newest gold embroideries are sup.
posed to come from Cairo.
Victor Hugo's only daughter is an old
woman in lunatic asylum.
Suede gloves in old rose shades arc
worn upon dressy occasions.
Some of Philadelphia's fashionable girls
are expert with boxing gloves.
Over 40, 900 girls attended the cook
ing classes in England last year.
Plaid percales, sateens and challies
appear among other tartan stufis.
Julia Ward Howe is the best Greek
scholar of her sex in the country.
PLAIN and brocaded mohars are cffec-
lively combined in some new gowns.
The high front trimming on capotes is
preferred, and it is the most becoming.
Bonnets are almost covered with
wreaths and sprays of flowers this sea-
son.
Black satin bids fair to be the mate
rial generally preferred for summer petit
coats.
Handsome buckles and clasps are in
order with the belts Of every description
now so much worn.
The light, soft wool goods worn by
gentlemen in the summer make pretty
skirts for little boys.
Ribbon velvets are, ifpossible, used in
greater profusion than ever. Some of
the newest show plaided effects.
A useful bodice to wear with skirts of
black satin, silk or lace, is of black Chan
lilly lace and pink ribbon velvet.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman gives away
$4,000 every year to various charitable
institutions in and about Chicago.
New modes. for fashionable house
toilets show brocadc in Louis XVI. de.
sign combined with silk or velvet
Upon cloth toques the fur trimming
may be either light or dark, but is
usually selected with view to contrast.
Pretty shoulder capes of white cloth
are laid in side plaits on the back and
shoulders with double breasted revers
fronts. .trr
The Medici collar and some of the dis
tinctive features Of the styles of the
Louis XVI. and XIV. periods are now in
vogue.
The Queen Regent of Spain is an early
riser, and takes cold water bath winter
aud summer. She is very fond of games
of chance.
Rosa Bonheur, the best known living
female artist, claims that she has painted
her best pictures since she passed the age
of fifty years.
Miss Flora Woodward Tibbits, of Ann
Arbor. is the first woman in Michigan to
apply for admission to tho bar of the
Supreme Court.
A pretty wrap consists of alternate
capes of gray and white cloth, with
pointed edges braided with gold, and
deep white collar.
The efforts being made to establish
hospital manned" by women, and for
the exclusive treatment of the sex, are
surprisingly successful.
Miss Henriette Markstein is young
lady in New York city who devotes her
talents and time to giving entertainments
for the benefit of the working classes.
A broad, low forehead is an attribute
Of beauty, according to the latest arbi-
tration, and front hair is cultivated to
grow down about the forehead and tenn
piles.
There are over 900 widows on the
pension roll of the Exempt Firemen's AS
ISOLATION of New York city, each of
whom draws $50 year. There is $3.50, 900
in the fund.
Casimlr is new dress material, show
ing fine diagonal weave, like Indian
cashmere, but without the heavy surface.
| 1t comes in double width, and is moder-
ate in price.
Abby Burgess, now Mrs. Grant, has
had charge of the Mstinous light north
of the Penobscot River for twenty-eight
vears-at first as assistant, but was given
full charge in 1865.
Hcliotropa appears to be no more popu-
LAT than any shade of mauve OF lilac, and
it is more generally becoming. Mixtures
of dark helio.rope with the palcst tints
OF that color are lovely.
Miss f. p. Otis. the newest of New
York's women editors, is described as
being beautiful five feet four inches tall,
with light hair and pretty figure. She
is about twenty -four years old.
Graceful princess dresses OF English
gray arn.ure silk with Grecian drapings
of soft gray crepe de chine and garni.
lures Of gray silk-cord passementerie are
favoritc gowns with wealthy dowagers.
The Chinese Minister has consented to
allow his wife to minge with Washing
ton society, but as she speaks no Eng
fish and society speaks no Chinese, the
benefit to either party will be small.
1t has become the fashion in Chicago
for men to buy their wives's boauets.
The milliners like the change, and say
that as general rule a man displays bet
ter taste than woman in these matters.
"Carmen SYLVIA" the Roumanian
Queen, is said to be al illustrious cpl
cure. She has invented number OF
palatab!e culinary compositions and oc-
casionally cooks dish for the King with
her own hands.
The last new smelling tottle is di-
rect copy of one in use during the first
Empire, at which time it was called the
rosebud. 1t is made of gold, cnameled
in colors, with tiny central rose worked
out in small pearls.
A Philadelphia journal says Mrs. Fer.
nando Yznaga's failure to make sensa-
ton as beauty in London is due to the
fact that she is a blonde, and the blonde
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