The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

line at Abilene, Kan,
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has decided to re.
side permanently in Kansas.
Genuine antique Persian embroideries
are worn ON cloth and cashmere dresses.
Blanche Willis Howard, the novelist,
has patented music rack and a bath
shoe.
There are 10, 900 women enrolled ON
the books of the New York Exchange
for Women's Work.
Heliotrope and yellow are combined in
the evening toilets of silk crepe and
transparency cloths.
Mrs. Emerson and Miss Emerson, wife
and daughter of the dead philosopher,
live in Concord, Mass.
The University of Basic is the only
one in Switzerland which still refuses to
admit women to its medical teaching.
A woman in Illinois who broke her
wrist while trying to raise II window in
Il railroad car has just received $685.
damages.
Miss Maud Morgan, the harpist,
dresses most picturesquely for the stage.
The style is that of Kate Greenaway
grown up.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is very fond of
French literature, She spends great
deal of time in reading Partisan novelists
IN the original.
Sleeves of real tapestry cloth are put
in long wraps of velvet and brocade. The
contrast is novel, whatever may be said
about the taste.
Pretty and comfortable dressing jackets
for wintry mornings are made of flannel,
with large collars and turn back cuifs
of cream worsted lace.
Parlor maids have been forced into
white muslin dresses and Turkish slip
pers with tassels on the toes, but minus
so much as the spring heel.
The event of the season at Berlin was
the appearance of the Empress, hereto
fore wearing her hair on the top of the
head, with the double plat of Faust's
| Gretchen.
The wife of New York banker has
invented a machine for making wire
rope, the patent of which she has sold to
a San Francisco firm for $500 cash
and a royalty.
Striped cheviot is the best and most
serviceable stuff that can be had for
street wear. Brown is a good color, and
a few ornamental buttons are the only
decoration required.
Mrs. James Mckee, the Presidents
daughter, is never so pretty as at break
fast, when she appears in morning
dress of turquoise blue silk, made Wat
teau style, with bronzed slippers.
Mrs. Olga Neymann, a New York den
fist, hires female assistants, all of them
young, pretty and earnest, whose duty it
is to stand by the patient, and, if it is a
lady, stroke her hand alphabetically.
The belle at recent dog feast on an
jacket trimmed with teeth from $50 elks,
which she herself had slain. She is the
granddaughter of the chief of the tribe.
Ex-Speaker Randall's married daugh-
ter bears a striking resemblance to her
father. She can converse intelligently
on the most intricate political matters,
and has wide fund of general informa-
ton.
Dinner gowns for very young ladies
barely touch the floor in the back, but
those worn by their mothers and older
sisters have very long flowing trains,
round or oval, edged with cord or bias
fold
The prettiest hats for young children
are of white felt, with straight, round
brims turned up at one side, and fastened
under cluster of white ostrich tips,
a single long feather encircling the
crown.
The newest tulle gowns have their low
bodices cut with very sharp points below
the waist line, and either round or
pointed at the neck, the full sleeves be-
ing long enough to drape the arms al
most to the elbows.
Jackets with vests are quite in favor.
The regular jacket fronts may fail apart
over the pointed vest in the fashion of
gentleman coat, or they may be so ar
ranged as to close with one or more but
tons, or may button from top to bottom
according to fancy.
Eccentricities in furs are shown in the
way of combinations of two kinds. Very
little, however, can be said in favor of
this, the only excuse for its existence be-
ing the Unsuitable desire of caprlcious
ladies for something different from that
which already exists.
A bold and effective ornament for an
evening dress is a Russian sabre, eight or
ten inches in length. This is thrust
through the dress material, OF into
mass of lace or crepe folds, greater por-
ton of the blade being left in sight. The
hilt is covered with fine diamonds.
Petticoats of black MORE, lined with
red flannel, are very fashionable. They
are without trimming, all the fulness be-
ing massed at the back. They are also
to be had in dark red, navy blue, and in
light colors for evening wear, but the
black ones are generally preferred.
Mrs. James Brown Potter's daughter
Pauline is strange, bright-eyed child,
with queer, solitary ways, and but rarely
associates with the other children. She
is said to be studious in the extreme,
and, although but in her twelfth year,
she speaks French and Italian fuently.
How to Keep in Good Health.