Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

The orchid is favoritc medal for fine
enamel jewelry.
There is fancy this year for neck
laces of colored stones.
The ladies who skate in Paris are all
wearing astrakhan jackets.
Never have dress fabrics been so magni-
ficent as they are this year.
Gauntlet gloves are very much worn
with the tight sleeves that now prevail.
The ages between which most women
marry are from twenty to twenty-five
years.
Beautiful flower vases are those of rain
bow-tinted glass in devices of fanciful
character.
The Turkish fez, in enamel, with gold
tassel, constitutes the latest in queen
chain pendants.
Gentlemen's oval loclzets Of gold are
sought after with either upright or dag
onal lines of diamonds.
"The color of sun, gold and corn," as
a great critic has christened yellow is
most conspicuous in dinner toilets this
year.
Lady Alexandra Leveson Cover, only
daughter of the Duke of Sutherland, is
studying to be nurse at the London Hos
pital.
Fashions are nothing this season if not
furry and feathery, and the point de re-
sistance in every gown is Its enormous
sleeves.
Strings of mock gems are now employed
as epaulets, necklets and waist bands,
the stones being usually in simulated un-
cut state.
In the Postoficc Savings Bank in Lon
don women are doing exactly the same
work as men, and are doing it with few
er mistakes.
One of the largest land owners in the
world is Mrs. Emma E. Forsyth, who has
plantation of $4,000 acres on an ISL
and near New Guinea.
Hiss A. B. Cleghorn, a Hawaiian
Princess, and in the line of succession to
the throne of Honolulu, is shortly to wed
well-known Englishman.
Lady Anne Blunt, Lord Byron's grand
daughter, is living with her husband and
young daughter in tent on the border
of the Egyptian desert, near Cairo.
Queen Victoria's favorite daughter-in-
law is the Princess of Wales. The Queen s
affection for her is the natural result of
the great tact and amiability of the Prin-
cess.
Mrs. Custer, wife of the great Indian
fighter, who since the death of her hus-
band has received a pension of $500 a
year, has asked to have it made $1,000 a
year.
The ex-Empress Eugenic is a daily Wis
itcr to the graves of her husband and
son. To say mass in the chapel of the
mausoleum she employs six priests and
four monks.
Mrs. Miles, the wife of the General
who is booked ON as the nations best
Indian fighter, is niece of General and
Senator Sherman and sister of Senator
Cameron's wife.
The latest thing in necklaces is a chain
of pearls wound once or twice around the
throat, the pearls strung upon scarlet
thread and the thread strung In little
bow at the back.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the statesman g
daughter, is Vicc-President of Sedgwick
Hall, Cambridge. She IS noted for her
originality as we'll as her eccentricity of
manner, and Is utterly regardless of
dress.
Black silk gowns are economical as
well as stylish made with yoke and
sleeves of some colored cloth, such as
heliotrope or bottle green, or of a soft
plaid combining white and heliotrope or
green.
The daughters of the Princess of
Wales are excellent pedestrians. For a
number of years they have been put
through vigorous course of physical
training, and they think nothing of a
ten-mile walk.
Aprons are coming in again, but to be
quite of the approved mode they must be
in black Chantilly lace adorned with tiny
velvet bows. White ones are rarely
used, and are of Valenciennes lace and
lnScrtlOH over SILK.
Some ladies of high social position in
New York are said to have started a So
ciety tfor the advancement of propriety
and frugality in dress" Among the
things to be avoided are decollete dresses
and sleeveless bodices.
Nine. de Stael turbans in plaid silk
stuck with jcweled pins arc quite the
rage now. A pretty young girl inaugu-
rated the mode at o'clock tea by
wearing on her dark hair yellow silk
turban stabbed with diamond arrow.
A new trimming which promises to
become immensely popular with society
girls is the tulle suzette, coarse meshed
black net having narrow border in
black and colors upon one or both edges.
This, plated very full, is extrmeoly
pretty.