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

.Toquets are much worn.
| Refers are to be worn this winter.
Calico night gowns are fashionable.
Teal velvet is prominent in millinery.
French striped cretonnes are fashion,
able.
The two-heeled Piccadilly shoe,is very
peculiar.
White gowns will be worn all winter
by young girls.
London smoke and old-rose colors
combine prettily.
Gobelin cretonnes come in patterns for
covering furniture.
Nine. Juliette Adam is about to start
penny paper in Paris.
Large and small hats and bonnets are
about equal in popularity.
Piano tuning is a business undertaken
by young Canadian girl.
Nine. Alexandra Elyne has been elect
ed Mayor of Kniazeff, Russia.
The milliners are praying that the rage
for caps Will die out speedily.
To be in style have your sealskin made
only with large high collar.
Java portieres share favor with the
ahenilles fringed top and bottom.
Wraps vary in length, those of medium
and short calibre predominating.
Owls heads are going to be a favorite
decoration for women bonnets this win
ter.
Sleeves are still worn high and full
at the top, but coat shaped below the
elbow.
1t costs S2500 year to dress the group
Of royal ladies at Nine. Tussand's, the
English Eden Musee.
Long cheviot outer garments in stripes,
plaids and mixtures, both loose and
tight fitting, are popular.
A head of blonde hair is not so muck
coveted this season by the fashionables.
Dark brown hair is in style.
Queen Victoria has large hand and
takes = glove. She wears about two
dozen pairs during the year.
italian and French women have small,
fat feet, and can wear small boots with
out suffering any Inconvenience.
One of the many extravagencies at
tributed to Mrs. Langtry, the actress, is
the possession of silver bathtub.
Rich, rather quiet and very restful col
ors mostly prevail in upholsteries, art blue
and old rose claiming, the preference.
The deaconesses of Northern Germany
have started home for spinsters, or, as
they call it, for standing alone ladies"
Miniature portraits, trimmed with jew
els and hung around the neck. are go.
ing to be popular with women this win
ter.
A society has been started in New
York city by certain women for the ad-
vancement of propriety and frugality in
dress.
An association of housewives in Phila.
delphia is to abolish kitchens and esr
tablish a cooperative central cooking
house.
The Alumni of Vassar College have al
ready secured 500, 900 OF the $40, 900
required for the endowment by them of
an Astronomical Chair in honor of Maria
Mitchell.
Mrs. Reagan, wife of the Senator from
Texas, is her husbands private secrc-
tary, which entities her to all the priv
ileges of the floor of the Senate upon all
occasions.
Queen Margherita, OF Italy, has pas.
sion for pearls. She wears strings upon
strings of them around her neck. Mali
cious tongues whisper that she wears
theE. to hide goitre.
A traveller has discovered that bru-
nettes are not the rule in Spain. Many
Spanish women are fair, with blue eyes,
especially in Cadiz, while even the Basque
women often have auburn hair.
Miss Lou Cochrane, compositor at
Oregon City, successfully manipulates an
engine that runs the presses, and thor
oughly understands the workings of the
machinery to the minutest detail.
Miss Ticknor, of Boston, has done
more to encourage home study than any
woman in New England. She founded
a Home Society seventeen years ago,
which has membership of 524o.