The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
ABOUT WOMEN.

Spanish women are great S'nores.
Cornells Freshman class contains fifteen
ladies.
San Sranelsco has $50 unmarried female
teachers.
Miss Martlneau has nearly completed her
memories
1t isssid there are nearly s million mere
women than men in Germany.
Fore7ening dresses great deal OF white
muslin trimming is in vogue, on. pale silk
dresses.
Cnde-skirts are now made with. a belt In
front, end drawing string at the back, and
no placket.
The long gsuze wells worn during the
summer will be used on thefelt hats only
for travelling purposes
An American girl WOE the geld medal at
the recent examination at the College of
Brazil, Eio de Janerio-
It has been ascertsined by the ahthropolo-
gists that, as rule, women nowadays be-
come gray earlier than men.
The emperor of Japan has decided on he
erection of college for young girls who
wish TO devote themselves TO teaching.
English prints, in broken checks and dark
colors, are very fine this season, and, ere
sold at eighty cents per yard. They are one
yard wide.
Very broad braids which are Used upcn
jackets, -dewn the sides and across the front
of dresses, are expensive, costing from
three tofv-9 dollars per yard
The new travelling shawl haEG bordse
which consists of a broad band of lighter
shade of the colors of the shawl, which are
olive and myrtle greens, browns, acd dark
blues
The factory women Of England have in
augurated movement ia faEe- of the APP
pointmens of female overseers in factories,
and against legislative restriction uPen the
the labor o. women.
OF the new dress fabrics most to be worn
the coming winter, will be soft finished silks
in reversible and armure patterns, diago-
mails, cashmere serge, tartan cloth, merinoes
and English twilled fiannels.
Mount Holyolxe Seminary hiss supplied
lis wiveg for foreign missionaries, the last
two graduating classes furnishing IS. They
usually 60 abroad first as teachers and are
speedily markedly the missionaries.
The emperor and emperess of Russia wear
pretty good clothes. The latter has red
velvet mantle. lined with 22S sable skins,
and valued at about $780, 900. The emperor
has coat of blue fox skin, worth $4,000.
There is very little that is new in the form
OF Dod1ces, the culraSS and basque being
universally adopted; but in trimming the
back of a bodice there is an innovation. At
present it IL the fashion to make them as
fantastic possible.
L Japanese girl in school at Georgetown
DC. writes home: 'In a few things the
Japanese ought to change In the manufac-
ture ofsuch things as scissors the Americans
excel u.s." She has mastered the problems
of civilization already.
The house Of Mile. De Beaupre, the first
woman in France who had the courage to
go upon the stage, was recently destroyed.
The first appearance Of Mile. De Beaupre
was In the year 1675-feminine roles having
until that time been filed by men and boys.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculp
tress, is Ia st. Paul. She will soon have on
exhibition ard offer for sale there six or
eight pieces Of her etatusry. Citizens of
good taste and good fortune are invited by |
the local prints to step up and purchase.
A young lady in Minnesota boasts Of hav- |
ing ten grown-up brothers to watch over
her, but a Norristown girl prefers to have
only one brother to watch over her-pro- |