The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

You can buy yelling now with tinted
cheeks and chin,
Mrs Wayne Reid is writing life of
her husband, the novelist.
There are $4,000 girls who work in
Boston, not including the servant maids,
With tailor-made suits many ladies Of
good taste wear collars of printed per-
Gales.
A new bodice can be worn over differ
ent skirts and has the effect of lengthen-
ing the waist,
Mary Anderson, the actress, is of
Scotch and German descent. She was
born in California.
None but lustreless wooden fabrics with
crepe trimmings are allowed in fashion
ably deep mourning.
Some professional pianists and many
fashionable diners.out have their hands
made up by beauty artists.
President Carnot's wife last Christmas
Day gave each of 400 children savings
bank book with $40 deposit,
Cord and tinsel ornaments are cro-
cheted together to make bands or trim,
ming for cloth and silk costumes.
Ladies of fashion in Boston, one Of the
local papers relates, now wear at their
afternoon teas Egyptian costumes.
The German court ladies have adopted
the Marguerite style of wearing the hair
in long braids. The bang will be banished
also
Shoddy wants color and variety OF
style. Elegance demands neutral tints
and simplicity of cut that cannot be re-
produced.
The feather waistcoat is a rare novelty
and is made entirely of the fine breast
feathers of Trinidad birds. The trim.
ming is costly caprice.
The newest standing lamps have a
small shelf with an upturned edge placed
about three feet from the floor for hold.
ing flowers of what fancy chooses.
A large bow of plated crepe lisse,
consisting of two haring ends caught in
the middle with tight knot, if well
liked as garniture for toques and hats.
A clever Buffalo IN. W woman has
been to England, travelled all around
London, and saw everything worth see
ing, in two months trip, at cost of
$500.
The woman who first circumnavigated
the world belonged to Bougainvilles
famous expedition of 1716, which
occupied precisely two years and four
months.
A new combination of color of refined
taste is dove gray and yellow, the color
of gold. This combination is found in
all rich and heavy fabrics and also in
cheaper goods.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may be
mace easy by laying cloth wet in hot
water across where it pinches, changing
several times. The leather will shape it.
self to the foot.
Among the ultra who mourn no flowers,
no perfumes are allowed in the private
apartment save the odor Of violets and q
few punches of white flowers, fit emblems
of departed souls.
The Kentucky University, at Lexing-
ton, has just opened its doors to women,
owing to the efforts of the Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. 1t has now
twenty young women enrolled.
An excellent substitute for crinoline,
which gives the skirts the desired
''standoffishness," are layers OF cotton
batting sewed in between the lining and
facing, quilted and perfumed.
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. i,
Banks, who has left the stage and is acting
as her fathers Private Secretary in Wash.
ington, is a fine German scholar. She
speaks and writes German with perfect
ease.
Almost unanimously men dislike the
large grotesque and Rembrandtesque hats
coming into general use. Cunning little
evening bonnets, dainty capotes, coquet.
ish turbans and jaunty toques are com.
mended for the theatre wear.
A very dainty combination of corset
and shirt is of narrow striped mauve and
pink satin. The pink stripes are threaded
with tiny bouquets of forget-me-nots.
A deep founce of pink silk shaded with
black lace borders the petticoat.
Fond mothers have baby corner in
the family room. A canopy of blue silk
and portieres of lace form the inclosure
which, rugged with awhile bear or lamb
skin, is furnished with shell-shaped
cradle muff1ed in lace, and white chair.
An adept advises ladies to take care of
their own hands and not employ mani
cure. They can do it just as well, she
says, but they must give fifteen minutes
. day toit. That is about ninety hours
a year spent in polishing and trimming
the nails.
Miss Mary Garrett is probably the
wealthiest spinster in the United States,
but she has not been so generously ia
vored by nature as by fortune, and at the
age of thirty-seven still remains in
maiden meditation, heart whole and
fancy free.
Mrs. Tsul, wife Of the Chinese Minis