Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-31
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Fancy plAids are used.

Philadelphia has $4,000 more women
than men.
The acceptable shape Of bonnet and
hat is poke.
Cherry seems 20 be a prevailing color
for debutantes.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas female politi-
clan, has short hair.
Girls over twelve can make valid
wills under the laws of Scotland.
The prevalence OF shot fabrics-nir-
ror effects as they are cslled-strikes the
eye at once.
In packing gowns they will be found
TO crease very little il paper is placed be.
tween the folds.
Street gowns call for hsrmonizing
hats and bonnets, and here again radical
change will be noted.
Nine. de Stael always carried bit OF
stick in her hand and played with it as
an aid &c conversation.
Wyoming is the only State in which
women enjoy the right of suffrage on
an exact equality with men.
One of the large New York wholesale
houses is experimenting with the novelty
Of sending two lady drummers on the
road,
A new stationery, designed expressly
for out .of-town life, has a ragged edge
with the name OF the country place en-
graved In rustic letters.
The wife OF Mark Twain is hand.
some demi blonde with wavy brown
hair. She Is forty years old, but she
doesn't look it. She inherited fortune.
A lady who enjoys the unique distinc.
ton Of being the only feminine President
Of a National bank in the United States
Is Mrs. Annie Moores, OF Mount Pleasant,
Texas.
One Of Queen Victoria's daughters is
Princess Louise will send an exhibit Of
her own work In water color to the
Worlds Fair.
A louisiana girl was locked in room
for three days By her mother for resur-
recting an old hoopskirt and wearing it
on the street. She wanted to anticipate
the coming crinoline.
Doctor Sarah E. Sherman, OF Sale n,
was elected President of the Massachu.
sets Surgical and physiological Society
at its recent annual meeting. All the
other officers are men.
The class OF '9i, Law Department, OF
New York University, has just organized
by electing Florence II. Dau lerGeld as
President, the frat time woman has
been given that honor.
Either your gown must be drapel in
front and all outline OF the figure about
the waist line aud between that line and
the bust concealed, or you must particu-
larly emphasize those lines.
There is considerable demand for
heavy cottons, which may be made into
smart morning gowns for country wear,
in simple tailor fashion, with no trim
ming except large pearl buttons.
The amateur dressmaker is advised
that the long bow is usually made with
| velvet doubled ION the straight" aud
that one end is sewed on each side the
waist, and it is tied when put on.
Miss Eta Van Teck, of Hartford,
Conn.,, is earning considerable fame from
the fact that she dresses her pet dog in
J diamond necklace worth $40, 900 and
does not wear one single jewel herself.
Miss Sally Hewitt, daughter of the ex.
Mayor of New York, is roadmaster in
Ringwood, n. j., where her fathers
country place is. She has greatly i'm
proved the road in the neighboraood.
Ladies clue, in London grow in
number and increase in size. Tne Som
erville, which is one OF the largest,
numbering upward of 600 members, re-
Gently gave a large entertainment, to
which men were invited.
The wonen's department Of the Uni,
versity Of Chicago, under the general
oversight of Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer,
is remarkably successful, and nearly one
third of the entire number of students at
| tue university are WoUtu.
Evening gloves vary from four Il
twenty buttons and come in ffty-fvs
shades of color. The street gloves have
one to four buttons aud match the cloths
and wooden stuffs that merchant talon
and dry goods firms carry.
Linen collars and cuffs are again iu
high favor, but worn with a difference.
The cuffs are no longer a mere strip oil
white below the sleeve, but protrude for
an inch or two, like a mans wristbands.
This would seem another saucy attempt
to seize upon the masculine belongings.
Mrs. Cleveland's Private Secretary a
the White House will be Mrs. Tuomey
of Washington, who was employed by
the late Mrs. Whitney during the frs
Cleveland administration. For $4,000
year Mrs. Tuomey will attend to the vas
social correspondence of the Whit
House.
Mrs. Rachel Lloyd, Professor oil
Analytical Chemistry in the University
OF Nebraska, has been elected one Of the
directors of the Lincoln (Neb.) Saving;
Bank and Safe Deposit Company. Since
the banks reorganization about two
months, its deposits have increased
nearly S25, 900.
At the court reception in Berlin re
Gently the Empress wore in her hair the
famous jeweed hat buckle of Napoleon
l., which fell into the hands OF the Prus
sian cavalry at Waterloo. The stones il
it, though not large, are magnificent. Il
was originally made for the coronation
ceremony in Notre Dame in 1904.
All bonnets and not few hats hav:
lace curtains in the back. Many of thu