Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-06-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Corn flower blue is new color.
Flowers continue to rule the toilet.
Pearls are prime favorites at present.
Turquoises were never more popular.
The hustle is coming into style again.
| Gauntlet gloves are only for daytime
wear.
Norway, Me-, has woman road sur
veyor.
A distinctive church dress for women
is proposed.
The Partisan hair-dressers have decreed
that bangs must go.
The stronghold of the blonde is the
North and Northwest.
The sticks for some fans cost $50 each,
and the paintings $400 more.
Pale blue, yellow and apricot are
favorite shades for tea gowns.
Loose fitting gray crowns seem to be
lad with many literary women.
| Heart-shape stones are the rage for
pins, earrings and finger rings.
There are 425 female students at the
University of Ann Arbor. Mich.
A good walk will redeem an Hide
| one.
Pretty maldens rival the butterfly in
their attire, and resemble walking flower
| beds.
The girl of the period thinks it is
"smart" to be ignorant of common
| things.
A London woman has class of 100
cooks, to whom she gives "entire dinner
| lessons"
IN Amsterdam now it is the fashion
to announce broken engagement Oh
marriage.
A pretty bride went to the altar in
white Swiss muslin gown and white
hilton veil.
Sonora Isidora Cousino, of Chill, is
handsome young widow with monthly
income of $S0,OOO.
DIR. Martha Robinson, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has Leen her fathers partner in
ucntlstfy lor SeVeral years.
Louise Michel has started school in
london, where she gives free instruction
to forty poor children.
One of the prettiest of Alabama's many
bellies is Miss Mary Leftwich, of Florence.
She is a small blonde of graceful figure.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
hes received the comfortable sum of
300, 900 for its Women's Medical School
fund.
A Kentucky paper relates that the
grandmother of the bride at a wedding
in Covington recently acted as the brides
maid.
1t is said that Miss Bedle,
daughter of Ex-Governor Bedle, is one of
the handsomest young women in New
Jersey.
Loose-ftting gloves are the latest. It
says so plainly, ''see how small my
hands are; can afford to wear lose
glove"
Hairpins of shell, with ornamental top
of twisted gold, valued at seventy.five
dollars each, are not uncommon in the
streets of New York.
A girl in Atchison, Kan, has pecu-
liar way of attracting attention to her.
self. She scallops her finger nails and
leaves them that way.
A woman is now considered old fash
ioned who does not care for women's
rights and lot of things it is supposed
she ought to care about.
A fad of the moment among some fad
affecting young women is to chew a
flower, or, to put it more elegantly, to
wear one between the lips.
Embroidery silks come from China,
Japan and Italy, but they are dyed and
prepared in England. Girls are en-
ployed in skelning and winding it.
There are constant demands for wo-
men who can charm snakes. The sup
ply is very small, and the wages are
S1O0 week, with all expenses paid.
1t is said that England has more wo-
men workers in proportion to her popu-
lation than any other country; twelve
per cent. of the industrial classes being
women.
Elaine Gurst and her sisters have
started novel undertaking in the form
of mushroom farm, the proceeds OF
which are for the support of boys
evening school.
The Superintendent of the Baltimore
Training School for Nurses, Miss Louisa
Paysons, studied her profession in Lon
don with Florence Nightingale, and was
a nurse with the Egyptian expedition.
Dresses may be rendered incombustible
by dipping them in solution of tung.
state of soda, one pound in two gallons
of water says the Sanitary Neaos. The
most delicate color will not be affected
by it.
Mrs. Annie Hyde, of Fishkil!, N. Y,
the oldest pensioner on the rolls of the
United States Government, has cele.
prated her one hundred and second birth.