Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-02
Sailor hats are the fashionable craze. i.

The Chinese mother Is not educated.
Few of them can read.
There is more comfort than style in
the new blazers Tor women.
Women who really go yachting never
wear the yachting cap ashore.
Carriage bonnets made entirely OF
bows and loops of ribbon are new.
There never was time when such
great variety in foot wear was offered as
now.
The new English saddle for women
is fiat and straight, which Is an advan.
tage.
A woman twenty.one years of ago
has opened a printing Office in Boston,
Mass.
In riding habits the best form is to
have them of dark blue ''nade severely
plain"
Largo fans on tho edge or top of
which are tiny tulips are ''latcst from
Paris"
1t seems absurd to have cheapest ma
terials introduced into the "tailor-made
gown"
At least one celebrated Paris dress
maker has declared against trained skirts
for the street.
Usually the little woman In the jap
panese tea gown only makes au exhibit
tion of herself.
The new English serges are made up
into very handsome aud stylish travel
ing costumes.
Mrs. G. G. Candy, of Philadelphia,
recently descended Pixies Peak, Colo
rodo, on bicycle.
1t seems fashionable fad for the girl
of the period to see how many rings she
can get on one finger.
The new Mikado purse is made of
dark blue velvet on which are sewed in
odd designs all the smaller Japanese
coins.
The foundry and locomotive establish
ment at Dunkirk, N. Y, is conducted
by Mrs. Horatio Brooks, Maine
women.
Bows worn on the feminine head for
full dress occasions are as fashionable as
ever, and is wrinkle likely to last
long time.
Kus-kus fans from India, which emit
q not unpleasant perfume, are extensive
ly used in the wall decoration of couu-
try houses.
1t is an unwritten law that nobody
must sit in the gilt, silk upholstered
chair in the drawing room. 1t is not
intended for use.
The ex.Empress Carlotta of Mexico is
fifty-two. Her health has been very un-
satisfactory of late, and she has had one
or two serious fits.
The long dress skirts have received
the cut direct in fashionable London for
walking gowns. This is authoritative
and not to be ignored.
The Swiss National Council has ap-
propriated S24, 900 for an exhibit at the
Worlds Fair, which will include female
work in the manufacturing line.
The kind of blonde found in North
America more frequently than anywhere
else in the world is that having blush
gray eye, we'll developed chin and de-
cided air.
Any man once persuaded to go through
half days shopping with his wife has
a vivid realization of the extent to which
woman is capable of sacrificing herself
on the altar of duty.
News comes from Paris that diamonds
have had their day-for the present, at
least. II worn at all they are sewn TO
silk and velvet throat ribbons. Pearls
aud rubies are seen everywhere, aud are
the fashionable gems.
A fashionable pursuit among English
women just now Is bookbinding. Many
country houses have rooms especially
fitted for this purpose, where the women
of the family exercise their taste and in-
dustry in this direction.
Lincoln County (Washington) girls are
making money killing squirrels. many of
them having become experts in the use
of the gun. large proportion of the
scalp bounty money paid out In that
county has been paid to girls.
Parsian ladies take the centre seam of
their long skirts, raise 1t within few in-
ches of the waist, and secure II there
with fancy pin, producing thus ra-
tioual kind Of walking skirt, which
shows just the edge of tho dainty petit
coat below.
Miss Jeaa Ingelow, though in her six.
ties, pursues her amiable hobby of b..
tanical study aud flower cultivation, aud
keeps up her benevolent custom OF Civ
ing three times Il week dinners to twelve
poor persons freshly discharged from the
hospitals of London.
The Princess OF Wales wears complete
costumes OF cream color whea In Den-
mark, where the Empress OF Russia has
introduced this color as the National
mourning. IL is regarded as a wise in-
novaIion aud they hope to see II intro
dueed in London some day.
sldlle. Jeanne Chauvln has presented
herself before the faculty OF tho Uni.
versity OF Paris rs. candidate for the
degree OF doctor of laws. Her thesis
will treat OF the professions open TO
womea aud OF the historic evolution OF
the position OF women Ia society.
A clever girl has invented q new IN.
dustEy. She calls herself an accountant
aud auditor ior largo households. She
finds aa abundance ol etnnIag.nanl iu