Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-09-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

time.
Flannel dresses are the most worn by
young girls.
Women are eligible to school Offices in
sixteen States.
Jenny Lind's grave is covered with
fresh flowers every day.
Princess Mary of Teck is one of the
prettiest girls in England.
Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
| Queen Victoria, of England, is in favor
of Sunday music for the people.
Nearly 15) women are buying and sell.
ing real estate in Superior, Wis.
The Archduchess Valerie's wedding
dress had train fourteen feet long.
The ladies of Chicago will receive and
Clubs in 1882.
The Misses Emily and Georgiana Hill
have started school of journalism in
London, England.
| Clara Morris, the emotional actress, is
great lover of birds, and has q regular
aviary at her home.
The very English girls along the
Hudson and about the bay wear white
duck yachting suits.
i Rosa Bonheur claims that she has
painted her best pictures since she at
tanned the age of fifty.
Deep girdles, we'll boned after the
peasant bodice, are put on the new toll
cts of white and figured silk.
Sweet-pea blossoms, white ana col
ored, real and artificial, are the popular
decorative flowers of the moment.
Gold bracelets made of satin gold and
fastened with small padlocks are very
fashionable and equally expensive.
One of the prettiest dress patterns for
all round wear is black India silk
lowered with pink and green posies.
The "robe" dress is shown in hand
worked trimmings and hand painted
velvet for the cuffs, collar and brelettes.
Mrs. Theodore Irving, the founder of
the order of Kings Daughters, is the
widow of nephew of Washington Irv-
ing.
A new impetus is given the cape,
which appears in all styles of creamy lace
and net, and also in ermine and lambs
fur.
The favorite flower of the Princess of
Wales is the Alexandra orchid, which
was named for her soon after she went to
England.
Miss Juliet Corson is'obliged to sit in
an invalid chair while she directs and IL
lustrates her methods of cooking before
her classes.
Sarah Bernhardt, the great French
tragedienne, is the owner of 120 birds,
and has for other pets large black cat
and half dozen dogs.
The most stylish sleeve is the full
bishop, made with loose slip wristlet
one inch wide and banded just above the
elbow with two-inch ribbon.
A young woman in Florida has just
died in untold agony from the results of
bite of an insect which Was concealed
in bunch of flowers she wore at her
neck.
Beautiful white toilets for receptions
and dinners are made of the finest and
richest of China and India silk scattered
over with tiny white silk buds, leaves or
rose SPRAYS.
A fancy is shown for velvet bands on
white null and flannel dresses. Generally
q Grecian or scroll pattern is worked on
the black ribbon velvet with metal or
white cord.
A bill making women eligible to the
office of notary public has passed the
Dakota Legislature, and Mrs. c. s.
Thorp, of Britton, has received the first
commission.
The board of education in Columbus,
Ohio, has decided that hereafter there
shall be no difference in the salaries paid
to men and women who are teachers in
public schools.
Fine Irish point lace, in pure white
an pale beige tints, is made use of for
bonnets, for evening drives, and is also
much used on sailor and garden-party
hats of Ncapolitan braid.
AS many as three or five rows OF tiny
buttons are seen on bodices, and they
are also plentifully on cuffs, collars and
coat tails. These coat-tail basques will
be the thing for all AL suits.
The first colored graduate from th'
Department of Music of the University
of Pennsylvania is Miss Ida e. Power
She is an accomplished violinist and has
written several short sonatas.
The ex-Empress Frederick, of Ger.
many, and her daughters have laid aside
their weeds and drive about Windsor
England, dressed in monks brown, with
hats, gloves and shoes to match.
Mrs. Millais, wife of the famous Eng
lish artist, is said to be the happies
woman in Europe, though it is hard tt
reconcile this statement with the fac
that she keeps fifteen servants.
A charming toilet recently worn at I
fashionable garden fete was of white