Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-09-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

An odd conception for cuff links is a
gold barrel with platinum hoops.
Paris has produced special coiffure
for the waltz known as the .'Ondulee." "
The ex-Empress Eugene of France is
travelling in Norway under an assumed
name.
Colored linen embroidered in seaweed
pattern is being used for covering sofa
pillows.
Even the dresses of toddlers uncertain
raise the dust.
At home red Russia leather ties with
hosiery and dress to match are striking
and enlivening.
Mrs. w. w. Astor is erecting a sani-
tarium at Bath Beach, Long Island, N.
", for poor children.
Young girls are wearing this season to
an extent greater than ever before white
embroidered muslin dresses.
The universal mender is the individual
much needed in the realm of women
workers at the present time.
Silver bangles are more fashionable
than ever. The girl of the period can
not have too many on her arms.
Mrs. Gladstone always attends meet
ings of Parliament when either her hus-
band or her son Herbert IS to speak.
Sashes are wider and handsomer than
ever. The girl of the period seem to be
spending fortune in them this year.
Hollyhocks and ferns make popular
table decoration, and other old.fashioned
flowers have been taken into fashionable
favor.
The wedding veil of the Princess OF
Victoria of Prussia is being made at tho
lace schools of the Hirschberger Thai, in
Silesia.
Billowy sleeves Of silk embroidery,
gauze and fiowered net are being used in
fine muslin dresses. The effect is verv
Frenchy.
Joan of Arcs home at Domrcmy will
be restored by the French Government
to represent as nearly as possible its ori-
ginal condition.
In fashionable stationery the faintest
shade of pink is the latest, there being a
water mark of Cupid with his suggestive
bow and arrow.
Bismarcks wife is expert with tn,
needle and is famous rs cook. She is
also remarkable for her simple piety and
for her charities.
Mrc rCboodoro Irv;,o +lo fo,uI1 e
the original "Order of the Kings Daugh-
ters," is the widow of nephew Of
Washington Irving.
Gold is in favor. There is a rage fol
gold lace, gold braid, gold passementerie
and gold ribbons. Gold dollars have
lost none of their worshipers.
A painstaking person estimates that
the average head of hair worn by wo-
man, if placed end to end would
measure fifty miles in length.
By her will, Mrs. Emily Pfeiffer, the
English poetess, who died recently,
leaves S315, 600 to charitable and edu-
cational establishments for women.
The travelling bag that fashion carries
to the seashore or mountain is dark
brown alligator skin with trimmings of
French gilt warranted not to tarnish.
Mrs. Lydia Patterson founded the
first women's trade union in London.
That was sixteen years ago. Now there
are about dozen such organizations.
Mrs. Marie Antoinette Nathalia Pol
lard, widow of the late Il. A. Pollard, q
Southern historian of some note, is run
ming brokers' Office for ladies in New
York.
At the wedding of Miss Theresa Fair
In San Francisco the rooms were hung
with draperies of white silk muslin,
while the ices were served in cases OF
brocade silk
Black nainsooks, plain and barred, and
all thin black materials, have now hosts
of adopters. Black embroidered lawns
and Swisses are come, we hear, and black
with rainbow side borders.
Some elegant round hats laden with
ostrich plumes have just made their ap.
pearance among the importers of Partisan
millinery. Hats thus trimmed have been
worn at some fashionable weddings.
Spanish ladies suffer considerably from
irritation of the throat caused not by the
habit of smoking themselves, but by the
constant fumes of tobacco which is in.
dulged in SO freely by their male rela.
tives.
The Korean women of the Legation at
Washington, as they have attended re-
ceptions during the past winter, have
been the subjects of envy because of their
loose silk gowns with turned-in neck and
loose sleeve.
The inhabitants of the little town OF
Kniazeff, in Russia, have elected woman,
Alexandra llvne, to the post of Mayor,
on the ground that she was the individual
most fitted to be trusted with the inter-
ests OF the community.
The colored leather shoe appears to
have come to stay as permanent addi.
tion to summer shoes. Its admirers say
it is not affected by dust, sand, or salt
air. 1t is also easy to the foot, hence
comfortable in hot weather