The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-22
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMgN,
Bodices ar0 made full.
Panicrs have appeared in Paris.

Ginghams come in beautiful cheeks
and quality.
Women are now permitted to practice
medicine in Canada.
Plaid silks are used to make up with
black grenadines silks, etc,
There are said to be more widows in
France than in any other country.
A new woman's club in London, the
Somerville, has already 500 members.
Alpacas, moaairs and sergcs are very
popular for travelling gowns and general
service.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the Bos.
ton poetess, thinks nothing OF walking
twenty miles.
The widow of the late General Crook
has determined to make her permanent
residence at Oakland, Nd
With the exception Of Nine. Patti,
Ou!da, the authoress, has earned more
money than any woman of the century.
Mrs. John A, Logan is an accom-
plished carpenter, aud fills her house
with skilful conveniences of her own
continuing.
1t is not every dainty little curl nestled
at the nape of the fashionable womaa's
neck that is part of heg scalp, albeit
she owns it.
Skirts continue to have a straight plain
appearance, though in the thin summer
goods more draping IS allowable than in
heavier materials.
The ex-Queea OF Naples is in the
horse-raciag business. Sac has stables at
the Champs Elysees and at Chantilly un-
der an assumed name.
Misc r. +. Wilkinson is said to be ths
only female landscape gardener in Lon.
don. She is very successful, and ranks
high in her profession.
Sunshade handles arc the most won-
derful ever seen, and the sticks are grad
ually approaching the length of the
center pole in circus tent.
Five graduates OF the Bellevue Train
ing School for Nurses in New York city,
have become practlcing physicians; 9TH
ers are matrons or head nurses.
At least $4,000 of the 250,OOO self.
supporting women of New York are
yearly reached by the Young Women's
Christian Association of that city.
Nine. Patti says: 81 have dressed my
hair the same way for ten years; not be-
cause the coiffure was the style, but be-
cause it is becoming to my style"
Some of the newest sateens nave deep
borders representing white lace for the
fronts, plain sateen Of the ground shade
serving for the rest of the costume.
Mock rubies, amethysists and topazes
mark the points of Intersections on those
pretty bonnet shapes of gold araoesqueso
popular for evening wear this month.
In every fashionable audience, congre-
CATION or company there is seen larger
quantity of blue than any other one
color. So blue is coming up in favor.
Tennis fannels are of the most delicate
colors, and having a good deal of cot
ton in them and being woven through,
wash as well as a piece of white muslin.
The toque to match the suit in mate
rial is the feature in fashions. The plaid
toquo matched to the costume and
trimmed with an aigrette of feathers is
chic.
Red tulle bonnets are likely to be over
done and run into the ground. In Paris
they were introduced for receptions or
the carriage only, never for the prone
made.
There are said to be three or four Ia
dies well known in London society who
are determined to appear at the next
meet of the Coaching Club on horseback,
astride.
The leading onameled flower pin at
the moment is the orchid in all its multi
form varieties. In the heart Of each
flower solitaire of ore or another kind
is buried.
Hortense Bertrand, daughter Of Count
Bertrand, the most faithful of Napoleon S
generals,-is still living in Paris. She ac-
companied her father and mother to st.
Helena in 1915.
The CLEAN of gold on white gowns is
not confined to evening wear. White
cloth gowns braided with gold will be
worn in the afternoon, and in the street,
st that, as well.
Colored shoes are much worn at we'd
lings in London. A pair of heliotrops
morocco were recently made for an Eng
;ish belle to wear at wedding with a
heliotrope gown.
The big black gauze- winged butterfly,
feckel with gold, silver or spangles,
scars triumphant over large numbers OF
black lace and black tulle toques, tar
bans, hats and capotes.
This will long be remembered as the
big buckle season. They fasten the sur
plices and sash belts of nearly every
swagger gown that walks along the fash
ionable thoroughfares.
Miss Nellie Hunt, daughter of the late
William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, eX-Min-
lister to Russia and member of Gar.
fields Cabinet, has been chosen Private
Secretary to Mrs. Levi p. Morton.
Mrs. Florence Finch Kelly, the we'll
known Boston journalist, has Just com.
pleted her second novel. 1t is called
"on the inside" and gives complete
picture of Bohemian life of the higher
class in New York.
Miss Susan Rhoda Cutter, who has ac.
cspted a professorship in Biddle College,
Charlotte, N. c., took all the honors-
Latin poem, Grafton and valedictory-
and then studied modern languages for
two years III Europe.
The lace owned by the feminine mem
bers of the Astor family is said to bt
worth at least 100000. That which
the late Mrs. Aston bequeathed to thu
Metropolitan Museum of Art was valued
at from $40, 900 to $50, 900.
Christian Reid, enc OF the most popu
lar of Southern novelists, is the 6aughte
of Colonel Fisher, of North Carolina
after whom Fort Fisher was named. HI
was one OF the first Confederate officer
killed during the Civil War.