Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-15
FOR WOMEN FOLK.
News and Gossip from Far and
Near for the Fair Sex.


Near for the Fair Sex.
Dresses made entirely Of Grape an
worn only by widows.
To be fashionable your parasol shoult
match your dress.
Henrietta cloth is the material used
for the first mourning dress.
Warm weather fancy work should
not require tie use of needles.
The newest wrinkle in Paris is 1,
oolored gown with black sleeves.
Never any fashion in dress died 50
hard as the hustle, but it is almos'
gone.
There are fans and fans, but tn,
good old-fashioned palm leaf takes tn,
prize.
Blazers are closed with one button
at the throat, or three buttons placed
lower down.
The straight skirts which are now sc
fashionable measure four and hall
Yards around.
Woolen dresses of different weights
are the most appropriate fabrics fol
seaside costumes.
Roof gardens are not the fashion,
but it is right to pray that they may bs
in the near future.
Discount is known to be possible
even to a giIl with red cheeks and
dimple in her chin.
1t is said that an insurance company
conducted by women has been estab-
tished in New Orleans.
The woman who does not wear Q
corset has an advantage over the one
who does at this time of the year.
Miss Dahl has passed the pharma-
ceutical examination, and will be the
first woman pharmacist in Norway.
Crepe de chine is the prettiest fabric
In use that can be worn on dress occa-
sions during the period of mourning.
TO cover a parasol twenty inches
deep it requires two and one-quarter
yards of material that is twenty inches
wide.
Minton china is in high favor for
dinner services. Worcester for table
decorations and crown Derby for
vases.
The French style of mourning IL
more generally adopted in this country
than the English, because it is less
heavy.
The prettiest white dresses of the
season are made of China silk and silk
null, the null being used for the
sleeves.
White silk and lace parasols have an
air that is not truly rural, but which il
becoming to light and jaunty costumes
nevertheless.
Pundita Ramabai has named her
house for high caste Hindoo widows,
"Shsda Sadan," or "The House of
6reat Learning"
Miss juliet Corson, the well-known
teacher of cooking, is an invalid, and
writes with q portable desk fastened
sefore her. She Is confined to her bed
much of the time.
The Woman's Educational and In.
dustrisl Union of Buffalo, organized
ave years ago, has just paid the last Of
Its debts, and owns fine building well
adapted to its work.
White flannel gowns look cool; thei,
wearers do not, unless the day il
frigid.
Accordion-plested skirts are in high
favor in Paris, so their lease of life i,
likely to be extended here.
ysssar, Wellesley, Smith, Holyoke,
the Harvard Annex and Bryn MawI
have each had their commencement,
and their intelligent graduates are all
placed by the State among those who
are unfit to be trusted with political
rights; namely, children, idiots, luna
tics, and felons in the prisons.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford is
strong advocate of daily exercise for
girls. She does not care so much about
its nature, so long as it is taken regu-
larly. She believes that it is as much
the duty of parents to insist upon a
certain amount of exercise for their
girls, as to insist upon proper clothing.
General Neal Dow, has daughter
In Nashua, New Hampshire, who has
moi been able to move from her chair
for years, but has oeen an indefatiga-
bic student, and has mastered French,
German, Spanish, Russian and Greek.
She recently performed the feat of re-
peating a long passage from the Greek
Testament, rer6atim, from memory, q
month after she had read it. Miss
Dow loses sight of her misfortunes in
her love of study.