The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The divided OF bifurcated skirt is ex-
periencing great popularity.
The Japanese style OF wearing the hair
with jeweled pins has not yet died out.
The medical profession is said to yield
larger income to women than any
other
Queen Amelia, of Portugal is said to
have a placid and very sweet face, like
the Madonna.
A fashionable toque is of reddish
brown velvet, the crown covered with
holly berries and leaves.
Some OF the novelties in fans show
tinted feathers arranged as orchids, tulips
and in other flower effects,
A very pretty bonnet for demi-dress
can be fashioned with black lace and jet,
with strings and pompon of amber,
Jennie June, the noted newspaper
writer and correspondent, is sixty years
old, although she looks much younger.
In Bengal, India, at the last primary
scholarship examinations, eight out Of
twenty scholarships were awarded to
girls.
The Princess of Wales has pet dog
whose collar bears the inscription,
"Johnny belongs to the Princess Of
Wales"
At Kalamazoo, Mich, the Rev. Carrie
j. Bartlett celebrated New Years Day by
marrying her first couple. The Rev.
Carrie is Unitarian,
The Minitter of Public Instruction in
Italy has given an express order that all
the doors of the art schools in that coun-
try shall be open to women.
Plain, straight skirts are waning. An
other moon will see full draperies and
good material dragging through the mud
and dust of the public streets
Anna Franklin in 1882, aided by her
two daughters, edited the first newspaper
issued in Rhode Island. The woman
servant in the family usually worked the
press.
The sudden popularity of the tartan
garments arose from the Fife marriage.
They appear in gowns and cloaks, both
in wool for day time and in silk or purple
for evening
1t is quite the thing to have decol,
lete bodice of dark material untrimmed
at the neck-a pretty neck. In the
light shades of evening gowns trim
ming is used.
Clara Barton, the famous philanthro-
pist, is good shot with either rifle or
shotgun. She has been seen to bring
down two prairie chickens from the first
flush of the covey
The light-colored kinds of artificial
hair come from Germany, except the drab
and ash shades, which are furnished by
Sweden. Nearly all the various shades
of dark hair are imported from France.
A late redingote has broad box
plat on either side of the front extend
! ing from the shoulders to the edge of the
skirt widening from the waist down,
and similar plaits on each side of the
] back.
! In the linen chest Of lady there is not
| a single starched article. Stiff collars
and cuffs are considered mannish, and
skirts, night robes and undergarments
are Numbered rs soft as the cambria hand
kerchicf.
/ Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt, the elder,
spends but $1,000 year on dress; Miss
Nellie Gould but $500 Mrs. William
Aston expends about $40, 600 yearly, and
the younger generations of Vanderbilt
/ women even more.
A fashionable mantle recently seen in
! Paris is composed of an extraordinary
| patchwork of brilliant colors, with appli-
cations of leather and bright fringes, in
imitation OF cowboy habiliments, and is
called LA Robe Buffalo"
The Figaro" jacket, intended for the
theatre or concert toilet, is not unlike the
old zouave in cut, but fits as tight as the
bodice, 1t is made entirely of steel, sill
yer or gilt passamenterie, with high Ca
Diet collar and a military buckle at the
| belt.
The town of Plymouth, Penn, has
novel society in its midst. 1t is known
as the Young Ladies' Protective Associa-
ton, and its primary object is the pro
lection of the matrimonial interests of
the young women of the place. Girls
between the ages of seventeen and thirty
are eligible. No woman can be admitted
over the age of thirty.
The most popular types of embroidery
now employed in the decoration of
dresses are the empire and renaissance,
which are both expressed in floral de-
signs, but differ in that the former is
limited to certain leaves and small flow
ers arranged in straight rows, while in
the latter the blossoms and foliage are
very much conventionalized, comprising
sweeping scrolls and arabesques.