Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-13
For the Ladies.

Wreaths have quite superseded caps
at English balls.
In Bombay cotton factory women
receive 81 per month and men IS.
A woman at La Sale, ILL.,, has been
detected stealing prayer-books from the
churches as regular calling.
Women. are liked as members of
school boards in Edinburgh, as several
of them have been reelected, they hay
ing been made members in 1873. En-
| gland, also, has women members on her
school boards.
Mrs. Margaret Vaux. OF Philadelphia,
mother of ex-Mayor Vaux, has visited
Long Branch annually for sixty years,
and is there again this season. She is
81 years old, but still enjoys life and its
pleasures.
There are two lady lawyers in Lon
don VINO have a large legal business
throug h the lawyers, and yet are not
allowed to plead in court. There is a
vigorous effort being made to allow
them all the privileges men lawyers are
entitled to.
In Rome efforts are being made to
form club for wOmen's advancement.
The American residents are active, and
the present Queen of Italy has long
been interested in educational matters,
and her attendance at the lectures
makes them fashionable.
Miss Minnie Cummings. of New
York, has at last become the manager
of an enterprise in which she deserves
the sympathy of all. She is at the head
of q movement to establish a series of
excursions from New York to Long
Branch for poor women and children.
A New York paper declares that
there are to be found at the fashiona-
BILE summer resorts gOrmandizers-
men, and worse than that, women who
eat with their knives, as though they
were laying IN stock for the next ten
months that must intervene before they
can line their ribs again."
A Paris magazine gives list of
French women who have obtained the
academic degrees. There are five doc
tors Of medicine, three icentiates of
science, two bachelors of science and
letters, six bachelors Of science, and
twenty bachelors of letters. These de-
grees have all been conferred since
1866.
A contemporary ASKS: GLOW shall
women carry their purses to Illustrate
the thieves" Why, carry them emp
ty. Nothing illustrates thief more
than to snatch woman's purse, after
following her half a mile, and then find
that 1t contains nothing but recipe for
spiced peaches and a faded photo
graph Of ner grandmother Nor1istowm
Herald.
The new lawn hats are peculiar.
They are made of some of the sweet
straw braids used for mattings; they
have high crowns and wide veranda
brims; they are very soft and pliable,
and may be twisted into any shape.
The fashionable way to trim them is to
work them in crewels, with wild flowers
or Japanese fan patterns, and they are
lined with q, color prominent in the en-
broidery.
The Clarissa Harlowe bonnets, which
are very fashionable, are always made
half of straw and half of satin, The
high crown is of satin, while the very
wide strings are of surah foulard of the
same shade as the crown. A gold or
silver cord outlines the contour of the
straw portion, and a tuft of feathers is
placed In front, but these are sometimes
replaced by flowers, and large gold or
silver tiiagree pins are used for fasten-
ing on the bonnet.
Young ladies don't dress at picnics
and when they go for walks as though
they were at dinner party or hop.
Bunting Or gingham dresses, short and
with jacket waist or blouse belted
down, with odd coquettish shade hats
trimmed with muslin scarfs or gay
handkerchiefs, or even scarfs of bunting.
Stout shoes and big parasol make the
mountain tramping suit or beach dress,
and they are infinitely prettier, because
more suitable than the MISUNDERSTANDING
dresses which it was formerly consid-
cred imperative to wear.