Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-02-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Tight sleeves cause red hands.
A bow-knot is rage in jewelry.
Gloves and stockings correspond.
New handkerchiefs have no hens.
Lorgnettes are made with shorter ham
dies.
More founces in the near future, says
the modistes.
There is rage for colored leather belts
holding watch.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, has just at
tained her fortieth birthday.
Russian ur-trimmed cloaks are the fad
among the women of fashion in Paris.
Canoes are very much in vogue and
are displacing diamonds as head orna-
ments.
There never was tim when women
dressed with better taste than they do
to-day.
There are over one hundred regions in
the world where women enjoy the right
of suffrage.
Between the years 1890 and 1850 no
less than 3400 women were burned in
Scotland for witchcraft.
Mrs. J. G. Aver has given her hand
some residence in Lowell, Mass, to be
used as home for young women.
Marion Crawford, the novelist, says
that there is only one thing that a wo-
man really hates, and that is being
bored.
Margaret Fuller's pin cushion was ex-
hibited and regarded reverently at the
Woman Suifragists' Fair in Boston,
Mass.
The good people of the town of Dud-
ley have presented the new Lady Dudley
with beautiful diamond crescent valued
at $500.
A company of women is running two
canning and preserving factories in Mich
igan. Not man is allowed to work in
either place.
The faculty of Wesleyon University at
Middletown, Conn, have removed their
restrictions upon gentlemen callers. The
ladies assert that they are old enough to
behave properly unhampered by rules.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is pretty
brunette who, though the mother of a
son now of age, looks rs attractive as
when she was bride, twenty-three
years ago. She takes great pains to re-
tain her good looks.
For the girl who affects tan colors
there are, among other novelties, collar
cites made of monkey, mink and fox
tails, purses and card-cases bound in pig
skin and brown umbrellas and fans with
almond-wood sticks.
Princess de Sagan, leader of fashions
and frivolities in Paris, who has contri-
buted more than any other woman to the
fortune of Worth, the man milliner, has
villa at Trouville that reproduces even
to details the residence of q Persian
millionaire.
A remarkable family of eight old
women is living in the same house at
Texio, Sweden. Three are widows and
five are old maids. Their ages aggre-
gate within year or two of 700 years,
each of the women being nearly ninety
years of age.
Small bonnets have small ribbon poufs
and rosettes in delicate shades that bunch
up prettily in rosette forms, such as let
tuce green, apricot, Venus, pink, sky
blue, maize, etc. Two or three shades
may be used, but harmony is always re-
garded in the grouping.
In Cassel, Germany, turning has been
made compulsory in all the girls schools.
The Gossler school reform bill, which
will he I'm aoain for discussion in the
Prussian Landtag, proposes that turning
shall be compulsory in every girls school
in Prussia, as it is in Eerlin.
n woman got Mr.. Tennyson's auto
graph by writing him that she couldn't
understand the meaning of one of his
poems. The Laureate Immediately re-
piled: "Dear Madame: merely supply
poetry to the English people, not brains.
Yours obediently, Alfred TennYson.