Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-09-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Checks are very popular.
Braided skirts are worn this season.
Red is ever popular with brunette beau
ties.
Shot alpacas are deservedly fashion
able.
The newer checks are irregular or
broken.
Sashes are playing very important
part in the seasons fashions.
English women have better all-round
feet than their American cousins.
Blonds are said to be disappearing
both in England and in America.
Partisan ladies devote especial care on
the choice of their personal handles.
Entire bodices or waists of beads on a
foundation of net are something new.
It is to be remarked that the very long
stick sun shade is declining in favor.
The discovery has been made that no
two girls of the period have hats alike.
There are women who have not vet
adopted the blouse waist, but they are
very few.
The sleeves of checked dresses ARE
made in gigot style and ended with
small cuff.
Cosmetic artists and beautifiers claim
that the veil is detriment to a good
complexion.
Small buttons of cut steel are being
used on crepon dresses to hold the drap-
cries in place.
Fans of shingle wood, on which auto
graphs are to be inscribed, have come
once more into fashion.
Ginghams this season excel all pre-
vious offerings in finish and colorings.
They come in stripes, checks and plaids.
A women at Long sBranch IN. J.)
hotel appeared in the dining room the
other day wearing $50, 900 worth of jew
clry.
Mrs. Ada Bittenbender, of Osceola,
Neb., has tried many cases before the
Supreme Court of Nebraska and has not
lost one.
Mrs. Houghton, resident of Spokane
Falls, Washington, is said to have made
$3.50, 900 in real estate speculations in
four years.
Brass plates are put on the high heels
of low shoes, to keep them from declin-
ing. Even the fine suede feathers are
penny plated.
The Maori women of New Zealand are
killing themselves trying to wear corsets
since they have seen them on the mis-
sionary women.
Needlework scollops appear upon many
of the French vests, blouses and morning
dresses of China silk, sheer wool batiste
and camel's hair.
The Vassar girls have concluded to en-
dow chair of astronomy in that college
in honor of, and to be known after, the
late Maria Mitchell.
No meal is quite SO hard for the house.
wife to provide as breakfast. The
ordinary monotony of eating is never so
hard to overcome.
Partisan ladies at present indulge in
the delightful luxury of allowing their
skirts to trail, and sweep and stir up the
dust OF the streets.
An orchestra composed of good-look
ing young women from Boston is an at
traction at hotel on Mount McGregor,
near Saratoga, N. Y.
Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer has
charge of church in Providence, R. I.
She has the reputation of being one of
the best speakers in that city.
A novel charity in New York city pro-
vides excursions for little girls who are
obliged to take care of younger children
while their parents are at work
A wonderful wedding dress was re-
Gently made up in Russia for the daugh-
ter of a great Russian artist. 1t is OF
regulation white satin, but on the satin
are innumerable little pictures, chiefly al
legorical, painted by her fathers artist
friends. What may be its value in years
to comet