The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
sashes are worn in endless variety.

Soft caps are worn on sea voyages in.
stead of toques.
Pearls appear in the most popular
dress embroideries.
Fine English serges are appearing in
summer riding habits.
Zouave jacket effects are all but uni,
versal in misses styles.
Tho favoritc confection OF the Ameri.
can woman is chocolate.
The styles grow more and more
piqlant in detail and outline.
Black velvet ribbon is the favorite
style OF trimming for lace dresses,
The Rev. Anna Shaw is said to b, one
Of the best women orators in America.
Deep yellow and brown, in simple
geometric design, is famous for dado.
Diamond orchids-beautifu and costly
are the latest and most artistic things
IN jewelry.
The white sunsha 10 is novel and
pretty, but hard to wear aad very try ing
on the eyes.
The choicest thing yet, in its way, is a
parasol of white silk covered entirely in
real point lace
A Japanese Princess is in Berlin study
ing the management of hospitals and
charitable institutions.
Thrifty women who like to utilize half
worn gowns take kindly to the revival of
material combinations.
The India cottons and English cre-
tonne are used for summer dresses by
women of art-loving textures.
Navy blue or brown flannel in short
plated skirts and plain blouse are the
thing for camping out in the woods.
Blue, black, gray aud violet are the
colors most in vogue. Dress skirts con.
tinue plain and almost close-fitting in
front.
Ouida, the novelist, has earned more
money than any woman of the century
with the exception Of Nine. Patti, the
opera singer.
The visite form of wrap, long ban
ished from the catalogue of cold weather
outdoor garments, appears among the
summer wrappings.
A wcll-known London lady of rank
has just had pair of ten-buttoa gloves
made in which each button is diamond.
The pair cost $500.
White lilac, white violet, white hya-
cinth and orris are some OF the delicious
scents that ultra fashionable coiffeurs
sprinkle in the hair after it is dressed.
Handouts of flowers for bridesmaids
is the latest caprice abroad, the pretty
creatures being yoked together, the one
to the other, with a garland of flowers.
A feature of the present style OF dress
making is the almost seamless bodice
which closes on one side invislbly. All
the skirts trail in the back few inches.
Pauline Maria Elizabeth Wedde, a
Thuringian giantess, is good looking and
of handsome, well proportional figure.
She measures about eight feet four inches
in height.
A Chinese bride when putting on he,
wedding garments stands in round,
shallow basket. This is supposed to in
sure placid, well-rounded life in her
new home.
Butterfly bows OF ribbon lace and
gauzy stuffs are perched on the brim of
large hats Immediately over the face.
They are cute now but sure to be CON-
mon presently.
Many of the lighter summer dresses for
seaside and country wear show broad
silken sashes in brilliant colors and some
times in black, which greatly enhance
their effectiveness.
Miss Alice MCGEE has been admitted
to the bar at Warren, Penn. She is only
twenty. one years and passed better ex-
animation than any Of the young men
who were candidates.
One of the married women judges at
the Fenton CMich) fair entered several
articles in her maiden name in the class
of which she was judge and then
awarded them the first prize.
Fifty-dollar dressmakers have adopted
the French way of fitting bodice-that
is, without cutting dart in the mate
rial. The side cores are cut on the bias
and the waist fits like original sin.
Many of the Paris dressmakers are re.
versing the late rule of business round the
feet, and contrive instead to give skirts
semi-peg-top outline by looking narrower
round the feet than at the upper part.
/ The coming season bids fair, from all
reports, to be the greatest lace curtain
season this country has ever known. The
manufacturers abroad are making great
preparations to meet the demands Of the
American market.
The Duchess of Aosta, wife of the
late brother of the King OF Italy, is one
of the richest young widows in Europe.
She has $3.50, 600 in bank, 5000, 900
worth of plate, pictures, ETC., and an an
nual State income (pension) of $50, 900.
If you are going to do much walking
in the country. either on the mountain
or in the woods, you will add greatly to
your comfort by your selection of shoes.
Oxfords, with over-gaiters, and tourist
Tuxedos, are excellent, stylish and CON-
Portable.
A pretty incident accompanied the
shower of rice at a recent wedding. As
the departing couple were showered
with rice, flock of city sparrows
swooped down and covered the pave
ment, and before they few away not a
grain of rice was left.
The Queen of Roumania in recent
address said: 81 shall always maintain
that the active life of woman ought not
to go beyond the sacred interior of her
home, and that the voice of woman
sounds nowhere SO sweetly musical as on
her own hearthstone in the midst of her