Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-09-04
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
News and Notes for Women.


services.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the American
sculptress, so long resident at Rome, is in
her iifticth year. She was born in Water
town. Mass.
Mile. Grevy, daughter of the president
of the French republic, is an excellent
shot, and habitually accompanies her
father in his shooting excursions.
Mary Hall was made a commissioner
of the Superior Court of New Haven by
the appointment ofJudge Beardslcy. 1t
is the first of the kind in the State.
Scantily- gathered ilounccs, finished
with needlcwork or with Breton lace,
are worn on white dresses; but tucks
also find place on many of these cool
gowns
Spanish and Italian ladies waltz and
dance beautifully, but they are anything
but graceful walkers. American and
English women appear best as pcdes-
trians.
A disconsolate wife tells the Detroit
Post HAT she does not believe that there
is "A woman in the whole United States
that lever got credit for raising a step
child"
Fifteen years before the Revolution the
wife of Washington kept sixteen spin
ming wheels running, and saw the fabrics
made in her own house, under her own
direction.
Mrs. Gladstone has opened "homo
for business girls in London. The Cs-
tablishment will accommodate twenty
five young women, who will be expected
to pay according to their means.
Linens of pale colors trimmed with
white Breton lace are preferred to Pom
padour patterns by women of quiet
taste. Bows of velvet or ribbons are
used To fasten them UP in graceful folds.
Maryland. Delaware, Virginia and
Louisiana are the only States now left in
which the male teachers outnumbcr the
female. In New Hampshire there are
five women teachers TO one man. and in
Massachusetts eight to one.
\ dcputation representing the young
maidcns of Great Britain rccentlyeTaited
upon the Duchess of Connaught, nj Buck
ingham Palace, to present to- her "A hand
somely illuminated Bible n gift Of the
maidens of Great Britain.
Croquet has never become popular in
France, it seems, and the reasons given
are that French girls wear high -heclcd
boots even in the country, and that. as
thirty or forty families live in one house,
and that house has nothing but "A stone
paved courtyard, ii l. difficult to find the
required lawn accommodations
The Paris Gazette DIS FcmE,cS gives a
list of French women who have OBJ
tanned the academic degrees. There are
five doctors of medicine. three licentiatcs
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
The Pacific coast has just had it, first
wedding where the marriage ceremony
was performed by n woman. Rev. Ada
&. Bowlcs of the First Univcraali-t
church mt San Francisco was the oflicia-
ting clergyman, DIR. Jennie Bcarby. Of
Oakland, was one Of the high contracting
parties. no mention being made Of the
man in the case.
Several young ladies. among them
Miss Lulu Wickham, daughter Of the
eN-mayor, and the daughter of William
f.. Dodge. Jr., have lately been giving
gratuitous lessons To the elder girls OF
the New York Five Points House Of
Industry in housekeeping, and recently
the first exhibition Of tho proficiency Of
the pupils was given. Sixteen girls
We're seated at a@able, and in turn they
practically illustrated various phases Of
household work.
Miss +. a. Fazakcrley is n well-known
lady in London society. and she las her
own steam yacht. the Violet She pre-
fers the society of her sex. and Just now
is cruising in the Baltic with three lady
companions. She intends in this indie
pendent fashion To visit st. Petersburg.
and subsequently Christiana and Bergen.
She will then do the coast of Norway.
avoiding, of course, with instructive
st.,ss, II.
the maelstrom.
Louise. Victoria ana Maud. the young
daughters of the Prince of Wales, rarely
appear in public in any but the simplest
of dresses. They are sometimes seen
with their mother at the theatcr in plain
white linen or cotton sailor dresses, with
n little red trimming. and they are often
met riding and driving in neat sailor
dresses Of dark blue wooden. They went
with their father and mother to the re-
cent French fair in gowns of plain pink
Cambric. with sashes of crimson har-
monizing with the pink
The last English census gives the follow
ing figures with regard to the women en-
plOyed in the metal trade: Pattern de-
signers, 1877; surgical instrument makers,
230 gun finish 3. 366; percussion cap
makers. 66O; cartridge makers, l,4y7; /;
machines maker, 2i3; file makers, ,02I !;
cutters, 537 scissors makers. 376 needles,
e.1lO; pins. 4O3 steel pens, l.577; Thin
bes, IA; goldsmiths' and jewelers.
trades. 3.022; plated wares. 70I; copper
manufacture I60; tin trade. 932. tin
plate workers, l.Ss3; brass trades. |. .ss7 I;
wire workers, 4g7; lacquerers. COS; bur-
nishers, $40; iron manufactures. ., ,Og3 I:
backsmiths. 436; nail makers, l0,s6i /;
anchor makers, 0I0; press workers. $50 /;
screw cutters. I47g
Paris Millinery.
Directed to tho fourth story by the con-
cierge, ascended and found myself in
regal apartments, sparkling in gilt, mir
rors. frescocs and laces. An infnity of
confections were upon exhibition. and.