Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-04-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

A3ND EVR w YIN LIN
Chain bracelets are being revived.
Small Swiss watches are the craze.
Heirloom jewelry is again in vogue.
The sold Greek" coiffure is revived.
Jewelled pen-holders and fan-sticki
abound.
She shoppeth best who shoppeth befor,
IL A. M.
All millinary shown this season is ex.
treme in size.
Silver bead necklaces are so delicately
made as to closely resemble pearl.
Matrons of society are very generally
adopting black for evening toilets.
White Shanghai silks have large OF
small figures of light or dark color.
There are new designs in Chinese and
Japanese fans, some exceedingly pretty,
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, is fat
and waddling old dame of circus-like
girth.
A three -cornered coachman's red hat
for child looks well with the triple
capes.
Fine handkerchlefs, with wide hem.
stitched border and elaborate initial are
revived.
Mrs. William G. Whitney, wife of the
ex-Secretary of the Navy, has fondness
for fawn color.
Ex-Empress Eugene is said to have
rof, Co 80 10 I4r 1<xs~
for publication.
You can get your eyelashes trimmed
and your eyebrows brushed in New York
City for dime.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the
President, prefers rich dark shades Of
reds and crimsons.
Martha Washington's fan brought 5000
at the sale of Washington's relics at
Philadelphia, Penn.
Fillets for the hair, made of triple
band of ribbon or velvet, are seen in
public dining-rooms.
Mrs. Garfield still wears mourning as
deep as that which she put on when her
husband died ten years ago.
Black linen lawn handkerchiefs, en-
broidered In color, vie with those of en-
broided black crepe de Chine.
The London England) Board of Edu-
cation has appointed six women at q
salary of S400 each to visit schools.
In Chicago, Ill.,, the experiment of
teaching girls to be carpenters through
the Pedagogical Sloyd Institute has
started with enthusiasm and o number
of pupils.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of the gallant
Indian fighter, is a singularly youthful
looking, gracious-mannered woman of
middle height, with black hair and fresh,
rosy complexion.
Mrs. Astor, the leader of Gotham So
ciety, washes her hands in oatmeal water
twenty times day, and believes glycerine
is the best thing for keeping the skin of
the face fresh and blooming.
The late Mrs Mary G. Shaw, of Pitts
burg, Penn, has left the income of her
property, about $500, to Miss Alice B.
Fletcher for her lifetime, to aid her in
her researches in ethnology and arche.
oiogy among the Indians.
New waist-yokes are striped with vel
vet ribbon, and bands of tho same go
round the sleeve from wrist to elbow.
A Burmese girl has established news
paper at Mandelay, which proves that
woman journalism exists even in India.
Martha J. Lamb, of New York City,
is a member otstwenty five historical and
other literary societies here and abroad.
In woolen dress goods, jacquard
figures promise well, leading manufac-
turers having given much attention to
that class of designs.
The Princess of Wales has given orders
that nothing need be submitted for her
inspection, or that of her daughters, in
which birds are used as trimming.
A Washington Cd. c. widow is re-
ported to have doffed her weeds and
achieved second marriage in her we'd
ding dress before it went out of fas hioh.
Among the special students at Bryn
Mawr penn College is Miss Mine Tsuda,
japanese woman, who is the teacher
of English in the peeresses school at
Tokio