Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-01-30
NRWs AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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Some of the new evening dresses are
deluged with lace.
Jeweied nets will be much worn in the
way of draperies this season.
The teagown is becoming more ornate
as well as more popular every day.
A butterfly calendar of celluloid,
trimmed with ribbon, is very pretty.
Silk chair scarfs in all colors and
highly transparent show gold embroid.
cry.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M. D., Of
London, advises elderly ladies to play
ball.
Towel racks of celluloid rings and
ribbon are useful adjunct to every
home.
Miss Ellen Terry, the actress, has b.
come the President of the Ladies Cycline
Club in London.
Mrs. Langtry, as Cleopatra, the rob
she is now playing in London, is said 4
''look" her loveliest.
Postmistresses, hitherto prohibitee
from marrying in France, have now bea
granted this privilege.
For aesthetic women who go in foy
physical culture, pretty dumb-bells are
now made of cut glass.
The question of higher schools for
girls in London has recently been at
tracting much attention.
In New York City home weddings are
quite the fashion, as church ones are
voted so very common"
Some of the women of Paris are wear
Ing entire dresses for fur, which do not
require any cloaks or wraps.
Many of the new morning wraps are in
the new turquoise color. This is rather
trying for morning compilations.
Clever draughtswomen are in demand
by dry goods houses to make pen and ink
sketches of gowns, furs and the like.
There are now women students at the
Russian universities of st. Petersburg,
Moscow, Kiew, Charkow and Odessa.
Irish poplin is fabric--a most excel
lent and really beautiful one-which for
durability will outlast two silk gowns.
Women were admitted to the Oxford
England) examinations for the degree
Of bachelor of medicine by single vote.
Winter dresses for day wear are made
of wool rather than silk, though some-
times there Is a combination of the two.
The so-called bebe dresses, which have
been designed expressly for ladies in the
bloom of womanhood, are very popular.
The Queen of the Belgians is an ex-
cellent linguist and has just accomplished
the task of learning the Walloon lam
guage.
Some of the designs in passementerie
comprise five pieces-a collarette, up
right crescents for the shoulders and
deep cuffs for the wrists.
The fashionable young woman who
has dog and bangle orders collar
for her CANNES neck to match the bau-
BILE she wears on her arm.
Fashionable women are undecided
whether to employ the Russian samovar,
the English teapot or the Dutch kettle
ct their five o'clock teas.
The Duchess of Portland is endeavor-
ing to revive the wooden industry,
which is carried on in many cottage
homes about Langwell, England.
Pink velvet strings are said to be very
becoming feature of dress bonnets. They
always accompany hats which are orna
mented with Pink roses or other flowers.
Great clusters of soft pinks are worn ON
white bonnets.
The Silver Cross Circle of Kings
Daughters proposes soon to open house
in New York City where apartments of
one, two or three rooms will be rented at
the lowest possible rate to widows with
children to support.
Among the many varieties of hats for
young girls fashionable this season, it is
noted that the English "pork pie" has
returned in the original shape after an
absence of twenty years. Thus does
fashion history repeat itself, too.
A decorative bow showing two colors
of satin ribbon and covered with spider
web, whose realism is enhanced by the
presence of two spiders, and an autumn
leaf is one of the prettiest designs of the
season which no ingenuity can discoun.
tenance.
Mrs. Lynn Stevens, who was knowR
forty years ago by the name of YolandG
Marie Louise Duvernay, as one of the
greatest dancers in Europe, has betrayed
the entire expense of a $500, 900 Roma1
Catholic church on ground given princi
pally by the Duke of Norfolk at Cam
bridge, England,