The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Plaids are the rage of the season.

Piaids are the rage OF the season.
Baby ribbon is much in use this sea-
son,
Victoria taught her daughters to bake
bread,
Thin taffeta silk is used for lining nice
dresses.
Silver galloon is much used on gray
bonne.s.
Torreador yellow is used to enliven
black toilets.
Soft caps are worn ON sea voyages in.
stead of toques.
Lace, tinsel aud silk muslin butterflies
appear everywhere,
Knot rings are still much admired by
school and society girls.
White crepe parasols have vandyke
of gold braid on each gore,
Wash surahs in bingham effects arc
for blouses and children's suits.
Satin.back velvet ribbon is rage"
for large rosettes called chou.
Castor shads of gloves are worn with
the fashionable striped cheviot,
Straw lace is fragile and costly, but
striking on black silk costumes,
"Frosted" surahs are in fancy PLAID,
with sheen-like frosting over them.
The garment Miss Fair, Of California,
wore at her wedding cost over 500, 900.
Toques of straw braid sewed on u
frame are more stylish than those of solid
straw.
There are fifty-eight schools for women
in Toxic, Japan, attended by 1926
pupils.
No first class modistc will fit dress
over a corset.cover and warrant il to give
satisfaction.
Belva Lockwood is said to make at least
$4,000 year from her practice of law in
Washington.
Indoors many satin slips are seen with
long princess of lace, net or crepe open
10 the waist.
The silk blazer is an exceedingly CO.
luettish and comfortable neglige to wear
over gauze or lace bodice.
A young woman carried off the highest
honors at the June examinations at Cam
bridge England University.
The Alexandra orchid is the favorite
dover of the Princess of Wales. Queen
Victoria likes best Neapolitan violets.
A dry goods concern down in Birm.
'ngham, Ala, offers Its lady patrons free
street car tickets to return to their homes.
America boasts of the only woman traf'
ic manager In the person of Mrs. Charlie;
Haines, recently appointed on the Medina
Valley On. Y, Road.
The Episcopal Convention of Ohio has
decided to remove all restrictions upon
women voting at parish meetings and
holding office in the church.
Some of the Partisan night robes are
decorated with colored trimmings, thin
bands being used for collar, cuffs and a
straight strip down the front.
A very handy sash has just been intro.
luced, which combines sash and belt.
1t adjusts the blouse securely aud at the
'ame time supports the skirt.
One of the incongruities of fashion is
4. lace or silk -gauze dress with high
.ollarette of seal, sable or monkey fur
lightly buttoned about the neck.
Streamers O. ribbon velvet are now
ised to tie up bouquets. Green is IA
1orite and the loops are often run up
.mong the roses, daisies and pconies.
The gauntlet cuff has reappeared on
:raveling and sporting gloves. 1t is
made of wash leather which does no.
'hrink by contact with soap and water.
The tea gown of the Oriental beauty
las been adopted by the Gotham belle.
Fhe material used is a crinkle cloth woven
With gold threads aud worn with silk
,etticoat.
Miss Juliet Corson is now the professor
If cooking and household economy in
Rutgers Female College, New York, and
Ter lectures are said to be very popular
,mong the students.
Mrs. John G. Curtis, of New York,
las organized au orchestra from member:
If poor families. They have had good
instructors and now play for public
:harity entertainments.
Ladies' Inverness coats are to be hac
II almost as many colors and designs as
The dress material. These garments are
made of double-face macintosh cloth,
Ind can be worn either side out
1t is best to make a wash dress with {
hort waist gathered at the belt. Ex-
,erience proves that an iron in the HAND
If spry laundress will deform basque
beyond recognition or redemption.
A Philadelphia paper publishes a list o
fifteen American girls who have hired ii
led foreigners to marry them within thu
asst ten years, and shows that only TIVE
ire now living with their husbands.
Mrs. Adolph Dahlgren, of Nashville
Tenn, who is considered one of the
orettiest women in the South, is blond,
With gray eyes aud lovely golden hair
Her figure is tall and slight, but yer.
graceful.
Kate A. Baldwin, graduate in thu
lass of 1890 from the Wonan's Medica
College of Pennsylvania, has been elected
resident physician OF the Polytechnic hos
oital, and is the first woman who ha
ever occupied this position.
Queen Victoria's lameness has now be
come so pronounced that she has give!
lp her habit of standing after dinner i,
The gallery at Windsor, and as soon a
she gets into the drawing room chair i
brought and she sits down.
White summer gowns are made VI
with white draperies shot with balls o
chenille or pearl. The white China silks
:hickly dotted with petit pois spots ant
trimmed with Venetian point lace, make
dress that an Empress might wear i
State.
Miss Ida E. Bowser, who has jus
graduated from the department of musi
IN the University Of Pennsylvania, Phila
1elphia, is the first colored female gradu
ate of that department. She is an &C
complisl,ed violinist and has compose
some excellent music.