The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

great.
Broad trimming laces are again used to
edge hat brims.
A multiplicity Of seams Is the rule fora
modish oorsage.
Mrs, L. $. Grants weakness Is her
great fonduess for candy.
Mrs. Evans Gordon is winning great
praise in India as tiger-slayer,
The success OF costume depends Just
Of present on the hang Of the skirt,
And now there is black ice-cream,
Turkish prunos being used for the color.
ing.
Louise Abbcma, French painter,
wears male attire aud is very much of
dandy,
Gowns OF black canvas grcnadine, COM
bined with dark plaid silk, arc likely to
be very popular all during the summer.
The Princess Beatrice is an accom-
plished pianist and the Princess OF Wales
has taken the degree OF Doctor of Music.
Philadelphia has within her limits
probably from twenty to twenty-five
women who are worth million or
more.
A cloak That Miss Letter, OF Washing
ton, wears is valued at $500. 1t is of
white silk, and covers her from throat to
dress hem.
Lace is used in great abundance TO
kkstp ss,ht OIL nd nith
matches the main color running through
the fabric or is black.
Enameled furniture with landscapes
"painted by an acknowledged artist" is
seen, and, we are assured, is "just the
thing for the country house"
The polonaisc continues to grow in
popular favor. IL is made OF camers
aair or some fine wool goods, and worn
over separate skirt of silk.
The present London season surpasses
It's predecessors in the number OF beauti-
iul women English and AmeTicsn--snd
in extravaganza in dress and functions.
The Rev. Anna Shaw is one of the best
speakers in the service of the Woman's
Temperance Union. She was for time
pastor Of church on Cape Cod, Mass.
Roman sashes, which every few years
zone Into fashion again, are revived for
The coming summer. The genuine sash,
"just from Rome, is not a cheap article.
Mrs. Robert Goalet, of New York city,
not yet thirty years of age. She has a
cottage in Newport worth $3.50, 900 and
IN income Of Sls2, 500 year, or $500
lay.
Large picturesque collars accompany
many of the new handsome demi.toilets
md tea gowns, which term now definitely
includes a particular style of dinner
dress.
Pale mouse-gray and a bright shade of
golden brown, that is almost terra cot
"a, are combined in carriage and visiting
costumes OF India cashmere and royal
irmuTe.
Pauline Marie Elizabeth Wedde, a
rhuringian giautrcss, is good looking and
If handsome, well -proportioned figure.
She measures about eight feet four inches
IN height.
Something new in japanese fans is in
The shape of square box, which bangles
from the wrist by silk cord. Push a
pring and the whole affair opens and
iorms fan.
Many of the stylish wool gowns have
| Dose waists of folded silk, belted and
xove with Kendall coats that have open
fronts, cut without darts, and jersey fit.
ing backs.
Miss Belle Smith, recently appointed
'csident physician at the woman's prison
IL Sherborn, Mass, is but twenty-three
1ears old. She has been practising nedi.
inc for two years.
Tae experiment of ladies' choir, TIE
members OF which were arrayed in violet
urrplices AMI trencler-caps, at the Mel
bourne (Australia} pro-cathedral, has
proved a disastrous failure.
The two wealthicst women in Phila-
]elphia, both widows, are said to be
Mrs. Thomas II. Powers and Mrs.
Thomas A. Scott. They are worth be-
tween SO, 100000 and 5000, 900 each.
Mrs. Mary Miller, the wealthiest
,olored woman in Western Pennsylvania,
is dead. Her income was $500 a day.
Four years ago all she owned was a
barren piece OF ground. But there was
| oil beneath it,
A unique Tuscan straw is toquc with
brim of fine large "basket work" leaves
pointing toward the front, the points of
| the side too standing forward and up
like wings. Striped lisse bows form the
trimming.
A rather effective street mantle tor day
wear has a perfectly tight-ftting cloth
Jacket underneath, while from each
shoulder hang pleated folds of cloth, not
meeting in front or behind, but allowing
the figure to be seen through.
A servant Of the Queen of the Belgian&
was lately stricken with apoplexy. The
first aid that some queens would have
thought of would have been an aide
camp to fetch doctor, but she turned
in and doctored the servant herself.
Time was when fashion for beauty wore
her court plaster cut heart shape ant
glued to her cheek or temple. Now L.
Mode scissors circular disk, which i:
placed between her lower lip and chin "a
near the center as it is possible to locat'
it.
Though eightynine years Of age, Mis-
Aurora Eusor, of Withycombe, Devon
England, continues to take class twic'
every Sunday. She began teaching wheI
only fourteen and can hardly remembe
missing Sunday since. the school ha
opened.
A large proportion of the plumes worl
by the ladies who attend the Queen
drawing rooms in London, are hired iron
shop which makes a business of rent
ing out plumes. The feathers are wortl
from 81 to $40, and the rent Of them