Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-03-13

Old Greek is the proper style for the
hair nowadays.
The big fur hat trimmed with feathers
is becoming bigger.
Flowers make the daintiest garniture
for evening dresses.
Violets in natural color are embroid-
cred on table linen.
Hemstitched black surah silks of triple
warp are entirely new.
Velvet sleeves in silk or wool gowns
are still very fashionable.
The style of wearing flowers in the hat
has already become common.
The black sailor proof hats are
worn by exclusive society girls.
Gold lettering is more often used in
wedding invitations than silver.
Queen Victoria calls bouquet by the
old-fashioned name of nosegay.
Miss Annie Howard of New Orleans is
the richest woman in Louisiana.
Very young girls wear party gowns OF
white, pale blue or rosc-colored Grape OF
tule.
The English Queens daughters are
not only good needlewomen but good
cooks.
Lavender salts effectively and pleasant
ly perfume the air of sitting or reception
rooms.
1t costs SLIGO day to care for sick
baby according to the best hospital au-
thority.
The prettiest slipper of the season is
of black Suede kid embroidered with
gold beads.
Ecru India muslins, with inserted bor-
ders of lace Stimulating Irish point, make
lovely gowns.
Miss Emily Rowland has been elected
a director of the First National Bank of
Aurora, N. Y.
The rather ancient fashion of wearing
q chain of gold dollars at ones wrist is
being revived.
Lady Brooke, of England, distributes
every year, through her agency, over five
thousand garments.
A demand for miniature paintings has
raised the price of those pins and orna-
ments fifteen per cent.
Slight beading or embroidery may
adorn the toes of white slippers, but
bows are not allowable.
Colonial dresses look best on >ouns
girls, fact that cannot be too strongly
impressed upon stout women.
Think of paying $50 fora whisk broom
with a handle of embossed silver Yet
thousands are sold in New York in sea-
son.
The subscription by female clerks in
Washington for monument to General
Spinner is said to be making great head
way.
Delicately perfumed gloves along with
other sweet fancies for feminine wear
have found admission into the best So
cisky.
There is revival of the craze for whole
pearls, which precious stones have, of
course, been advanced in price because
of said craze.
There are thirty three women doctors
national association for supplying female
medical aid.
The Grange at Mendon, Mass, had a
nail driving contest the other day in
which lady won by driving twenty two
nails in two minutes.
Among the titled ladies of the court in
Rome are stated to be nine Americans, each
and every one noted for beauty and more
or less brilliant accomplishment.
Skirts of riding habits come just to
cover the feet and are made of materials
not 80 heavy as broadcloth. The modi-
fed high hat is preferred to the derby.
DR.. Clara Marshall, Dean of the Phila-
delphia Women's Medical College, is re-
ferred to by professional men as one of
the most earnest and able physicians in
America.
Miss Margaret L. Shepherd, the or
ganiaer of the ''LoYal Women of Ameri-
can Liberty" now numbering member
ship of 16, 900, is slight little woman,
with clear gray eyes, tinged with brown,
and short curly brown hair.
There are fifty eight butcher shops in
New York, either owned or managed by
women. These ''lady" butchers. as they
would be called ON the other side, are
for the most part widows or daughters
of men who established the business.
The Duchess of Connaught and her
husband gave the Princess Victoria of
Prussia five rows of pearls, each row hav-
ing pendant, the first diamonds, tho
second sapphires, the third moonstones,
the fourth emeralds and'the fifth rabies.