Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-10-14
GRAY is the dignified color.

Sleeves are larger and fuller than ever.
The craze for short hair has sp ent it
self.
Green is to be more fashionable than
usual.
There a-e 300, 900 women engaged in
Industrial pursuits in Ms sachusetts.
The very latest trains for elegant even
ing wear are square-cut and not pointed.
Miss Lawson, a young sculptor OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, has sold her statue,
"The Mermaid" for $4,000.
It is estimated that there is daily
display of SIS, 900, 900 worth Of diamonds
at Saratoga during the season.
Lady Ponsonby may be said to be the
most interesting and clever woman con-
nected with Queen Victoria's court.
London furriers announce the furs for
the coming season to be unplucked otter,
the three kinds of fox, sealskin, and
Russian sable.
The new imperial crown of Queen
Victoria has its entire surface completely
covered with jewels, several of which
are famous in history.
A bed quilt with 5000 pieces in it,
and upon which Coopersburg Penn.)
woman had labored for years, was sold
at her death for Sl25.
Coat basques cut off at the waist aud
prolonged in coat tails at the back are
being made up in heavy and serviceable
material for street wear
Would you have dark lashes and brows
and yet keep all pasty cosmetics at arms
lengtha Try walnut juice, applying it
with fine camel's hair brush.
1t is said that Queen Victoria cher
ishes large numoer of dolls, chiefly
wooden and of Dutch make, which she
herself dressed when she was a girl.
Olive Thorne Miller, the authoress,
knows as much about ornithology as a
professor. She devotes six months of
every year to the study of birds aud bird
life.
Mrs. Julia Stark Evans, of Hampton,
Iowa, though the wife of al active law
yer and the mother of five children, is
studying for graduation at the State
University.
The waists of some of the new dresses
seem to be made entirely of trimming.
They are piecemeals of garniture, and
many of them are quite too fussy and
patchy to be either pretty are becoming.
It is said by those in authority that
the fashionable coat of the future will
be the long redingote, cut double
breasted, with wide Directoire reveres.
big buttons, and double or triple
cape.
Much of the mouey which Mrs. Gus
ter, widow OF the General, realizai by
her seyenty-two readings last winter has
gone toward educating young girl
whose father died on the same field with
her husband.
One of the old insurance companies in
Philadelphia makes speciality of insur-
ing women's lives on several plans, AMI
has women ply ysiciaus, Drs. Anna
Broomall and Clara Marshall, to act as
women examiners.
Women with oval faces, and, unfortu-
nately, many with less classical contour,
have adopted the fashion of rolling the
hair close to the head and twisting a
ribbon in and out of the coils to tie in
two pointed ends on top.
The pretty fashion of fower-hung
necklaces which has been carried out
with euamellel blossoms hung en- a
slender gold chain, is gorgeously re-
produced now by Partisan jewelers. in
diamonds and precious stones.
Mrs. L. L. Polk, widow of the late
President of the National Alliance, con-
tinues the publication of the Progressive
Farmer at Raleigh, N. c., in her own
name. The Farmer is published in the
interests of the Peoples Party.
Emilia Bazan, the Spanish authoress,
runs monthly review to which she is
the only contributor. Each edition coa-
tains disquisition on the principal
topics of the day, a review of the most
notable books of the month, and story.
The bell-skirt remains, but it is short,
just clearing the ground, and is either
plain or trimmed, according to taste.
But however plain the skirt may be, the
waist fully makes up for any lack of gar
niture on the lower portion of the Co.'S
tune.
In one consignment recently feather
dealer in London received 5000 birds of
paradise, $50, 900 birds OF various kinds
from the East Indies, and 400, 900 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported $50, 1898 birds from the
East Indies.
The accordion plated blouse is a new
and popular factor in the field. There
i. no lining except in the little round
yoke, from which the plated fulness
falls longer than the waist line, and is
caught up beneath folded belt finished
with a rosette on one side.
A pretty and popular way of making
up China silks in Pompadour patterns is
in Louis Quinze style, with long, slen-
der coat back and full blouse font that
reaches just below the waist line, where
the folds are held by a girdle or soft sash
run through a pointed buckle.
The jingling, nerve destroying chate-
laine is to be worn again this year. Quite
little medicine case or surgeons equip
ment is now appended to the silver or
cold how There is n hook whose leave,