Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-07-10
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

okirts arc growing longer.
Brown was never more popular.
Indiana has women notaries public.
Fur capes will be worn all summer.
Finger rings remain as popular as
ever.
Ginghams with lace design can be
bought.
The streets of New York are filled with
white-gloved women.
Minnie Hauk, the singer, was born in
New Orleans in 1853.
Lovers knots of ribbon give the latest
touch to lace founce.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, of New York,
pays taxes on So, 100000.
Diamond asps are worn as brooches
and as ornaments in the hair.
The bracelet par excellence is a gold
bangle with an Egyptian inscription.
Thirteen more women than men voted
at the municipal election in Cawker City,
Kan.
A new brooch initiates in gold little
shoe, the rosette of which is formed of
pearls.
Young women employed at the British
Museum receive two cents per folio for
copying.
A new veil, called fill de Verge, is of
thread studded with pearls or electric
blue stones.
The latest fiat is that simplicity shall
prevail in the street though magniticence
runs riot everywhere else.
The first trades union of women in
Belgium is an organization of women to-
bacco workers in Antwerp.
In the fashionable New York boarding
schools manicure calls twice a week to
treat the hands of the pupils.
A fat figure can be reduced in appear
ance by trimming the darts with braid
one-sixteenth of an inch wide.
The Montreal (Canada) General Hos
pital refuses to admit female students to
the privileges of the Institution.
Enamelled snakes are demanded in the
jewelry trade and tinsel snakes from the
milliner and dealer N fancy goods.
A new brooch likely to please very
young ladies consists of pearl key
thrust through heart shaped paddock.
The best dressed woman in the world
is said to be Queen Margherita, of Italy.
She seldom wears dress more thas
once.
Ninety per cent. of all the applica-
tions of adoption received at the New
York Founding Asylum call for girl
babies.
New York is said to employ an army
of cash girls 30, 900 strong, many of
whom are nearer twelve than fourteen
years of age.
The Empress of Austria is as busy as
school girl with her linguistic studies,
and as interested as land reformer in
her agricultural projects.
The Duchess of st. Albaus has recently
had one of her gowns encircled with a
set of family buttons made of cats eyes
and diamonds set in gold.
Printed crepe-de Chine in bow-knots,
floral and dotted designs, is made into
very charming gowns for summer we'd
dings, dinners, and water parties.
A London tradesman recently received
an order for slxty-four pairs of shoes for
the daughter of the Grand Duke Paul,
of Russia, a child less than year old.
A bride in Montreal appeared at the
altar with her pet canary fastened to her
shoulder by golden chain. The bird
enlivened the marriage ceremony with
song.
The Prince of Wales hsing asked on
one occasion who was the cleverest
woman he had ever met promptly ans.
wered: ''My sister, the Empress Fred
erick."
Senator Blackburn's daughters are ar
dent admirers of thoroughbred horses.
They are always to be seen at the Lex
ington (Ky.) races and are thoroughly
accomplished In equine lore.
Mrs. Jennie June Croly is little
woman of slender figure. Her hair is
brown, with few strands of white in it.
Mrs. Croly is pleasant talker and an
amiable and interesting woman.
Thousands of ready made skirt yokes
are sold in New York every day. They
fit the figure nicely and are invaluable to
fat women. They are, however, cut on
the bias, and require careful handling.
The Princess or Wales, who is very
pretty woman with figure of a girl of
nineteen, is the arbiter of the fashion,
able world. She is responsible for cling
ing skirts and high collars, small bon
nets, and other prominent features of
women's dress.
The art of crochet has been turned to
very profitable account; for gold and
silver laces are thus made, and many
handsome black silk trimmings and large
buttons are covered in the same fashion.
Gold and silver gauze ribbons are studded
all over with with silver, gold and jet
stars; and the graduated jet studs are
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