Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-08
FEMININE FANC1ES.
MATTERS OF INTEREST FOR OUR
WOMEN READERS.
Short Bits of Gossip and Latest Notes
Of Fashion.

Short Bits of Gossip and Latest Notes
Of Fashion.
Arropos Of doctors the London
medical Journals make mention of the
fact that several of the so-called weaker
sex lave passed successful examina-
tons of the Pharmaceutical society of
Great Britain and the English Apothe-
carries Hall, and are qualified dis
pensers. OF these graduates, Miss
Emeline Cook has been appointed dis
penscr of the Children's Hospital at
Brighton; Miss Martha Moore is as
signed TO take charge of DR.. Bar
uardo's East End Medical Mission,
and Miss Bowen Is permanently es-
tablished at the Ear and Throat Hos
pital in Great Charles street. Surely
this is woman's age, and tho good
oatured world Is making room for her
u tho head.
Every guest chamber Is provided
with a night lamp, or as fashion has
decreed, should be. Some of the de-
signs are exceedingly pretty and quite
inexpensive. The metal lamps, better
known as nursery lanterns, are tri-
faced land show an owl, a cats face
and the head of water spaniel, with
mock jewels In the eyes through which
the light streams. There are classic
shapes with dragon faces, griffin hand
dies and high chimncys of colored
glass, Illustrative of the German rena-
issance, while the lanterns of black.
ened iron, with prism crystals, thai
swing from slender rods are copied
after the sixteenth century lamps that
burnt In the lofty cathedrals before
he entrance Of some sacred tabernacle.
Women who are accustomed to
travelling now carry robes and blankets
on the cars precisely as they do on the
steamships. They unstrap them and
use them during the daytime to throw
over their skirts whenever they feel
like putting their feet on the seats in
front of them in the parlor and sleep
Ing cars. Thus equipped it matters
not how far their ski:ts may work up
above their shoes-the blankets cover
them from the knees down. OF course
they explain that they carry the robes
TO save themselves from colds. On
the other hand, the colored porters of
the same car keep the temperature at
DO degrees, and would consider them
selves incompetent if Whit of fresh
air should steal into q car In their
barge.
Irs. Marcy Henderson of New York,
who is of the opinion that colored
table decorations have been overdone,
gave what she was pleased to term a
white dinner Wednesday evening.
The china was of the purest white
Royal Derby. White silver and cut
crystal camllclabra, vases and violet
bowls held respectively white wax
candles with silver shades, snowy lilies
and silvery Lonbons tied with moire
ribbon, which also fastened the nap /
kins. White viOlcts iloated in the finger
bowls and the GOuqucfs for the ladies
and gentlemen were composed of white
orchids. White soups, hsh and meats
preserved the unity of color; the vege-
tables and dark viands were smothereu .
hI cream gruvics and celery sauce; the
white grapes aud pale fruits were tied
with white ribbons; tle caramel and
chocolate buildings were sprinkled
with preserved orange blossoms, and
The sweet biscuits had snow-white
rostings-
Miss Margaret Emma Ditto, whose
kOne Little lmjun Boy" made her
famous, and whose short stories have
made her wealthy, lives in charming
house at Wellesley, Mass. The house,
which she planned, built and furnished
herself, is a gray stone cottage, one
md half stories high, with a gable
roof and turret gallery. All the
doors are of hard wood, the rooms are
ventilated by large, open flreplaces,
and by means of sliding doors the par
prs, library and dining-room can be
thrown into u great hall. One charm
,f the pretty home is its abundance Of
seats built in the corridors,
Lngle hooks and window-sills. Miss
Ditto is u wom9n of unusual height,
Well proportioned, excellent health and
Inc bearing. Her brown hair, which
8 just tinged with gray, is worn parted
town the middle in the simple old
fashion and coiled in q knot at the |
heck. She is gracious and cordial In
manner, her voice IL extremely pleas
INT, and she has reached that degree J
II succcss where she can write or {
lream. according to the mood in which 9
he IL in. L
Mrs. Robert W. Chaplin, Of New y
FORK, who has contributed S4o,0 900 as
n endowment fund for q training ,
chool for children's nurses, will in all y
bring about a revolution In Il
be nursery. The new enterprise IL I
0 be run in connection with the Babies
hospital, and her friends have pledged
supply whatever sum may be needed
carry on the work. 1t is tho inten- 4
lon of the founder TO limit the num-
er of pupils In order to secure a SUI
erior grade of excellence, and before
radiation It will be necessary for the
ludent TO possess some attainments or "
other than that called for in 4
se course of study. u
The young woman must show In D.
arious ways her fitness and ability to Il
bach the clIild's heart. She must be x
emile In manner and Pleasing In ap- q
sarancc; she must understand the u
'ays and means of reaching the child u
of the spirit of the Frosbel y
she must be at once q u
story-book and compendium u
familiar science. When the course
study has been completed and the
,rious boards of managers passed, the n
'ung wor,en will be provided with
aces in private homes where, all
Iings being .-grecable, their services
av be rc iincd through a fit of collie