Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Women's sphere broadens daily.
Colored mantles are very stylish.
Black with pale colors is regarded with
favor by milliners.
Chocolate goat button shoes are much
affected by young misses.
In perfumes just now Chinese scents
are said to be especially priced.
| Amber is replacing tortoise shell as an
ornament for the hair in England.
Venetian lace for summer toilets will
be largely used as an orn amentation.
Mrs. John A. Logan intends to found
a training school for female servants.
The Empress of Austria is known as
the best royal housekeeper in Europe.
Waterproofs now have two immense
envelope pockets, an idea welcomed BY
all.
Parasols are being made very large, to
relieve the immense dimensions of straw
| hats.
The garden hat of the moment delights
in garniture of freshly plucked bios
SONS.
The seven hundredth female physician
in Russia has just passed her exami-
nation.
Ouida, the novelist, uses on her hair
and eyebrows scent that costs $50 an
ounce.
Miss Catharine Bruce has given $20,-
600 to the New York Free Circulating
Library.
Miss Mary Howe, of Brattleboro, VT,
is spoken of by Boston journal as an
| other Gerster.
Plain toilets call for plaid parasol,
and so great many are now seen upon
the promenade.
A great many half-shoes of lilac Suede
kid are worn at pates, ,musicales and day
light.at- homes.
Bead embroidery and passamenterie
are again finding favor as trimming for
evening toilets.
Fine frillings of tulle and crepe arc
worn about the neck and sleeves of the
Henry II. gowns.
The tendency to close clinging skirts
becomes NOR, and more apparent as the
season advances.
A woman laid the corner stone for the
Monticello Seminary for girls, at God
frey, ILL.,. recently.
Mary Schenley, of Pittsburgh. Penn.
has given site for the Western Pennsyl-
vania Blind Asylum.
Mattillinc, new fabric of fine mat
ting, wears we'll and comes in pretty pat
terms. 1t is popular.
Ivory belts are the very newest whims
of fashion; they are both an expensive
and elegant ornament.
A young woman in San Francisco re-
Gently died of erysipelas superinduced by
the piercing of the ears.
Beautiful indeed are the newest para
soils. They are painted and represent
scenes and a variety of flowers.
The low-cut necks of last season will
not obtain this year. We have gone
back again to very high collars.
In the use of gilt and silver passemen-
teric medalions of embroidery are used
to finish the ends that hook or turn over
Miss Jennie Clarke, of Casey, Texas,
has Just received the first check in her
career. 1t was for 81 900, 900 left by an
uncle.
Steel brGiting and steel embroidery
are even more popular than gold or silver,
showing the popularity of gray shades in
everything.
A young Southern woman who is at
tanning some prominence as writer, is
Miss Louise Meyer, a daughter of General
Adolph Meyer.
A good plan to cure frowninG is to tie
a tight, smooth band or broad ribbon
about the forehead when writing, study
ing or sewing.
Combination gowns are to be seen in
tan and brown, green and gray, green
and pink, and gold and white. The
latter are dazzling.
When Mrs. Harrison is in evening
dress she arranges her hair in a very high
twist and powders it, which is wonder.
fully becoming to her.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, gave each of four hundred chill
dren savings bank book with $40 de-
posit on Christmas Day.
~ new IDEA in hose is to make them
wide at the toes instead of narrow. This
shape conforms to the natural foot and
gives ease and comfort.
The leg-of-mutton sleeves are la mode
with heavy materials. Gauzes, Grape and
spangled net are prettier puffed with bands
of pearl or ribbon between.
If you want dress bonnet buy a fillet
of velvet bands, two or three in number,
with bunch of flowers on top and
swarm of butterflies lowering over 1t.
The Princess Bismarck is described as
the model of practical, methodical
German matron, with an eye to every de-
tail of household management and econ
omy.
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