Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-02-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Rug-covered lounges are the right
thing.
Princess dresses are very much in
vogue.
High buttoned boots are still the
favorites.
Pale yellow Is one of the prettiest
shades for evening dresses.
Patti, the singer, says she has only
$500. 900 worth of diamonds.
Furs and feather trimmings play con-
spicious part in midwinter millinery.
Bodices are still much trimmed, only
q few perfectly plain ones being seen.
The princess dress appears in new
| shape exclusively for tea-gown models.
Sable has never been so universally
worn since the days of our grandm 9TH
| ers.
Fashion now equally favorE two styles,
the quite tight, and the half-ftting
jacket.
The Princess May is described as a mar.
vel of punctuality girl who is ex-
ceptionally neat and orderly.
The Sultan has prohibited Turkish
women from wearing French costumes
in the streets of Constantinople.
The turquoise and diamonds given to
Miss CORVALLIS West when she became
the Princess of Pless were the tinost ever
seen.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has purchased
130 handsomely bound Bibles, to go in
the students room at the Palo Alto
(Cal.) University.
Clara Barton, the Red Cross President,
is the only woman to whom the old Ger
man Emperor ever gaye the decoration
of the Iron Cross.
The catalogue of the new Leland STAN
ford, Jr., University, of California, con-
tains the names of 430 students, ninety
of whom are women.
The Vanderbilt ladies, OF New York
City, are said to possess $500, 600 worth
of laces. The Astors value their stock
of laces at $500, 900.
Dom Pedro's daughter fancies that
she has rights in Brazil almost as big as
the country. The right to keep out of
it will be the safest right she can exer.
else.
Mrs. Phoebe Durand died few DAYS
ago at the home of her daughter in
Irvington, N. j. She was 100 years old
on the 18th day November, and up
to that time she had never known what
it was to be prostrated with sickness.
Two German women of Orange, Mrs.
August Erdman and her step-daughter,
recently issued two editions of the Orange
Volksbote entirely alone, writing the
copy. setting type, reading proof, making
up the forms and working them off on
hand press.
At Civil Service dinner the Prince
of Wales made speech, at which he
said that he was "glad and proud to
think that the Duke of Clarence would
marry woman born in this country,
living IN this country and having the
feelings of an English woman"
Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, who
has been called the pioneer woman
preacher of America, lives life of great
retirement at Elizabeth, N. J. But dur.
ing the year she will make an appeal for
public recognition in the form OF book,
on which she is now at work concerning
the relations of religion and science.
The Birmingham England) School
Board have approved an arrangement
made by the Educational Committee
with the Council of the Birmingham
Athletic Society whereby athletic in
struction will be afforded to the female
pupil teachers on each of the five ordi-
nary school mornings in every week.
Albani, the prima donna, does not
stand alone in the proud possession of a
diamond stomacher. Mrs. Astor has one,
too. It is made of skeleton girdle of
silver wire, pointed back and front,
reaching from the corsage to the end of
the bodice and literally nailed with bril-
liants. The stones are individually
mounted and can be unfastened at will.
The last gown made for Eugenie, once
Queen of French fashions, typi6es the
change in her position in life. 1t is
dinner dress of plain black silk with
only slight trimming of jet on the cor
sage and skirt to relieve its somber
! severity. 1t is simplicity itself for an
Ex-Empress who once spent $50, 900
year on her costumes.
In Reykjavik, the capital of remote
Iceland, charitable lady has erected on
her own land high school for Iceland
girls. Needing more funds for teachers
salaries, books, etc., than her private
| income would cover she has sold her
family jewels, many of them heirlooms
700 years old, in order to obtain the
money for her enterprise.
Mile. Elsie st. Omer, a Frenchwoman,
is starting out at the age of sixty to
make tour of the world by way of the
southern hemisphere. She expects to
spend three years in collecting statistics
for the French Geographical Society, and
it is to be hoped she will not meet with
any of the mishaps that beset Mrs. French
Sheldon ON her journey into the Dark
Continent.