Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-29
The race for vests is at its height.

The rage for vests is at its height.
No color seems to be too bright for
street wear.
Rainbow effects in millinery are much
sought after.
Linen cuffs are again fashionable, and
are worn with link buttons and tailor
gowns.
Ribbons in which mauve, lemon and
ivory have an equal share are startling,
but new.
A small round hat has a square crown,
with fan trimming of velvet and clusters
of blossoms.
Children's dresses show lace berthas
on lace yokes applied over surah.
Sashes are again worn.
The jauntIest head coverings for ten
mis-, bicycling, and country walks, are
the straw "officers' caps"
An American girl who refused to
marry foreigner has been left fortune
of So, 900, 900 by his will.
1t is now the style with the best class
of Hindoo women to discard the nose
ring, and wear flower there instead.
The new hats have given opportunity
for wearing quantity of head jewelry
in the form of combs, pins and orna-
ments.
Sashes have returned to favor for little
girls, and are usually of tint darker
than the material of the dress, but of
the same color.
Epaulets of lace aud other fancy
materials are much worn, and are most
useful when dresses require alteration or
renovation.
Very pretty enameled buckles for wear
ing with cotton gowns match the rib
bon used for the belt in color, and are
finished with silver.
Beatrice Vinan, Chicago girl of
French patentage, has just achieved no.
table triumph rs a singer of the Royal
Court Theatre in Stockholm.
Miss Stowell, of Melbourne, Australia,
and Miss Abbott, of England, have car
ried off the highest honors in the Cam
bridge (England) examinations.
Many gowns ter day wear are accom-
panied by useful little cape coming
only to the waist and having hood at
the back, trimmed throughout with
lace.
Miss Catherine Annie Hoppin, of Ober-
lin, Ohio, was the one woman in the
graduating class of twenty at the late
commencement of the OberlIn Theologi-
cal Seminary.
Miss Isabella Tod, of Belfast, Ireland,
was recently presented with an illumi-
mated address and check for $3000 as
an acknowledgement of her services in
the cause Of social reform.
Six hospitals have been founded for
women by women physicians in Phila-
delphia, Boston, Chicago, San Fran
cisco, Minneapolis and New York City,
and all of them are successful.
A woman is the inventor of the "Cos-
ton Signals"-a system of signaling with
colored lights, which is used on land and
sea all over the world. She is Mrs. Mar
tina j. Coston, of Washington.
1t was Dean Swift who once proposed
to tax female lovelness, aud to have
each woman rate her own charms, saying:
"The tax would be cheerfully paid, aud
would prove very productive"
The dull, rich oranges should be Sc
lected by brunettes, while the bloude or
red headed woman should match her
hair as nearly as possible if she wants to
be delight to the artistic eye.
Gay Russian blouses, for wearing with
blazers and skirts, come in stripes OF
three colors, four inches wide, joined
with black crewel cross stitches, aud en-
broidered in cross stitch pattern.
Dotted Swiss muslin, with floral print.
ings, are among the summer novelties,
and are made up over colored SILICA OF
Chinese silk Innings, while lace and moiIe
ribbon are the trimmings most used.
Miss Mittic Haley, OF Virginia, one of
the nine recent graduates of the Pennsyl-
vania College of Dental Surgery, has
been appointed resident dentist at the
Williamson School, Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Pctter-Palmer says that what sur
prised her most in France was the dis
covery that no charitable or educational
institution is carried on exclusively by
women. Such organizations frequently
contain women, to be sure, but invariably
with men as fellow members.
The fashionable Parisian baby--the
one who is in the swim, in other word,
takes the morning bath in novel tub.
1t il shaped precisely like small rub
ber boat supported upon silver legs. OI
the outside of the boat there are pockets
for Iha Wash cloth snan nnl hrnsh