The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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toilets.
The skirts of Empire gowns for bride
maids are now arranged to form shghs
demi-train..
Princess Victoria of Prussia will re-
ceive an allowance Of sac, 900 a year TO
live on in England,
Amelia Rives wrote her famous story,
"rhe Quick or the Dead, " in thirty days.
1t contains 40, 900 words.
All the childreus clothes arc tucked
whether the plaid is bingham, wooden
warp or from the silk loom.
Felix, the man milliuer of Paris, dis
likes small bonnets. He thinks bonnet
should frame the face more or less,
A new mohair has IN embroidered
scolloped border with gauzo insertions,
in what is called closed arabesque de.
signs.
Miss Alice Parker, of Lowell, Mass,
aged So years, has been admitted to the
Bar in the Middlcsex County Superior
Court.
The German Court ladies have adopted
the Marguerite style of wearing the hair
in long braids. The bang will be ban
ished also.
Miss Florence Firmstone, of England,
wrote 200 letters with her own hand
and raised in that way $4,000 to pay off a
church debt.
Miss Colenso, daughter of the late
Bishop Colenso of South Africa, will
shortly go to England in behalf of the
Zulu chiefs.
Black and white plaid in cloth or fan
mel will make a stunning as well as a ser
viceable dress if worn with a long ulster
of dull red cloth,
"Gondoler' is the name of the latest
novelty in hats; the shape is rather small
and close fitting, and is trimmed with
bands and loops of narrow ribbon velvet.
The Queen Regent of Spain now takes
personal care of her son, the infant King,
and dresses and attends to him and her
two other children with her own hands.
Miss Minerva Parker, of Philadelphia,
is the only female architect in the Quaker
City, and there are only two Others of her
sex in the same profession in the United
States.
The young lady who was in the box
with Mrs. Lincoln the night the President
was shot by Booth was killed some years
ago by the young man who accompanied
her that terrible night.
Many of the new tartans in Fife colors
are in stripes, and when of surah are
made up in combination with black vel
vet, and when of fine wool with black
Henrietta or cashmere.
Mrs. Reginald De Koven, Senator Far
wells daughter, is one of the pretty wo:
men of Chicago. She is a little above
medium height, slender and graceful.
She has considerable literary ability.
A famous New York beautifier claims
that wells keep the ladies' faces dirty.
Dust lodges in the meshes of dotted net,
and this is absorbed by the skin, settles
in the pores and form what is known as
black heads.
One of the novelties of the spring sea-
son is an all-wool Amazon costume,
trimmed about the foot of the skirt with
fold of silk plush, above which is a
band of embroidery in fine silk cord in
Empire design.
A piece of dress goods very distin-
guished in appearance was OF pale blue
twill with a four-inch border consisting
of India silk, canvas silk and the twill
itself, the three materials interlooped and
forming floral designs.
A pretty arrangement of the hair for
young Ladies is TO braid 1t all loosely in
one braid, then turn it upward, leaving
the braid to fall low on the neck, the end
being carried to the top of the head and
arranged in loose puifs.
Miss Pauncefortc, the eldest daughter
of Sir Julian Paunceforte, the English
Minister at Washington, is the leader of
the fashionable walking brigade. She is
tall and graceful, and can outwalk any
| two of her numerous admirers.
Miss Marie D. Parsons, of Fire Place,
Long Island, N. Y, has received silver
medal from the United States Govern
ment for having saved from drowning "a
man and his child in the summer of 1888,
when she was only ten years old.
A garment particularly desirable for
the street and for travelling, just now the
rage in England, is known as the polon-
aise Parisienne. 1t is long, tight.
fitting redingote, made OF checked cloth,
and trimmed with bands of ribbon
velvet.
The Countess Magri, better known as
Mrs Tom Thumb, is said to have fine
business ability, she plans the routes and
makes arrangements for her travelling
company. She is the possessor of $1,000
worth of jewery, which she wears at her
performances,
A new departure is made in the pro-
duction of serges with gobein effects.
An example, very fine in quality, was of
navy blue serge, with a woven border
consisting of white stripes, which close
ly follow the gobelin pattern. The effect
is very artistic.
The training school for female nurses
connected with the Post Graduate Medi-
cal School and Hospital in New York
city was started four years ago with five
nurses. 1t now has fifty pupils, all that
it can accommodate, and it has grown
| rapidly in the favor of the medical world.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde, Mrs. Alma Tadema,
and several titled ladies in London have
organized an association whose business
it is to supply tasteful and well-made
outfits for children and young girls, and
to furnish regular employment to gentle
women of narrow means, VINO do all the
needle-work.
A rather extraordinary dress material is
plain gray twill, with border produced
by means of feathers. Composite stripe:
of white, black and gray silk are inter
sected by the application of feather puffs
made of white elder down, forming
rosettes, from which fall small black
| feather lunches.