The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-02-06
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Bows are still worn, but as rule are
made shorter.
Bouquets are no longer considered
fashionable for the ball room.
Vice President Morton's wife wears
the biggest diamonds in Washington.
Seven-eighths of the subscribers to
magazine literature are said to be women.
Even elderly ladies wear light and
delicate toned evening gowns this season.
Black is the sine qua non of all winter
bonnets. 1t appears in every direction.
Scotch stripes are to take the place Of
tartans or plaids in early spring woolens.
Couuettish little velvet hoods form the
headgear of many of the wee genera.
ton.
One of the highest novelties in furs is
the application of embroidery or astra-
khan and seal.
Wedding gowns are trimmed with
pearl passementerie in way that is OF
the olden time.
Maud Howe, the authorizes, advises
young ladies to make their engagements
as brief as possible.
While cloth is very popular, some Of
the handsomest Of the winter walking
gowns are entirely of velvet.
With heavy silk net of lined or dotted
pattern stuff muslin is used for founda.
ton quite as often as satin or silk.
A fashionable toque is of reddish
brown velvet, the crown of which is GOV.
cred with holly berries and leaves.
Some of the richest women are eco
nomical, and make trip abroad when in
need of clothes, to save expenses.
DR.. Alice Bennett has been elected to
the Presidency of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Medical Society in Pennsylvania.
Long mantles which entirely cover the
dress, with long loose sleeves, are feat
ure of outdoor dress as the season adj
vances.
The Innings of velvet sleeves are o.
chamois on street gowns, so that the fun
cape can be worn with such in all sorts
of weather.
1t is said that Henry Edwards, the
story writer, refers all the doubtful ques-
tions of dialect to his wife, who is quite
an authority.
Admirers of the conspicuous will be
charmed with the fad now prevalent OF
dressing from head to foot in the tint of
ones own hair.
The wife of Congressman S. S. Cox. is
said to be good business woman. She
owns considerable property in Washing
ton, and looks after it herself.
An improvement in cuffs, an inner
band buttoning tightly around the wrist
and preventing the cuff from slipping,
has been introduced in London.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the greatest
woman Psychologist writer, and at pres.
ent lecturing in this country, has made
fame for herself but very little money.
Anna Katherine Green, the novelist,
is described by an admirer who met her
at her home on the Hudson, as s'tall,
graceful, with face full of character. u
1t is intimated that hoops will again
become popular. In Paris and London
they are limited in rotundity as yet, but
promise to spread to extreme proper
tions.
Some very pretty underskirts are made
of fine white flannel, embroidered with
flax thread. Colored fannels, too, are
selected and finished with two or three
ruffles of inexpensive lace.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
given Susan B. Anthony $500 for the
benefit of the woman suffrage cause.
Five thousand pamphlets will be dis
| tributed in South Dakota.
A pension of 1865 has been granted
by the British Government to Emily
Faithful, the devoted English woman
who has spent her life in alleviating the
condition of her countrywomen.
The Queen of England has an ermine
cloak in which she encases herself when
she is travelling in cold weather. No one
has cloak like it, as is would not be
considered good form to copy it.
The Astors of New York possess for
tune in rich furs which are heirlooms in
the family, but Mrs. G. P. Huntington,
wife of the railroad magnate, owns the
finest set of Russian sacques in the
country.
Zouave jackets are the particular fashion
of the moment, and all the more costly
dresses would appear to be trimmed to
simulate them, handsome guipure and
laces being specially prepared to applique
on bodices.
The sleeve of high fashion for matrons
for church weddings and the reception
following, comes well down to the elbow,
where it is finished with cuff and deep
lace, falling over the long glove, which
reaches above the elbow.
Mrs. Custer, widow of the gallant
General, is said to be woman absolute
ly without fear. She used to accompany
her husband wherever he would allow her
to go during his campaigns, and her
fondness for out-of- door life has never
left her.
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