Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-01

fashionable for evening dresses.
Marie Roze believes that singers should
abstain from pastry, pickles and pota,
tions.
The first woman to pass an examina-
tion as lawyer in Connecticut is Miss
Mary Hull.
They say that nothing is better for the
complexion than to eat oranges, and
plenty of them.
The Empress of China is reported to
be making a determined effort to learn
the English language.
A woman suffrage petition with 10, 600
signatures has been sent in to the Parlia-
ment of New Zealand.
The almost exclusive use of hooks and
eyes has thrown hundreds of button-hole
workers out of employment.
There are $4,000 female landowners
in England and Wales, 10000 of whom
farm on their own account.
The cloth gowns which were SO popu-
lar last year are again in vogue, in
medium, light and dark tints.
One of the latest DEGREES from Salvation
Army headquarters forbids the women
of the Army to wear earrings.
Wide sleeves and flounce of lace or
chiffon about the shoulders has the effect
of making the waist look small.
An audacious American woman in
Rome is said to have asked the Queen of
Italy where she got her bonnets.
Native Christian women in China have
formed society to discourage the GUS
tom of COMPRISING the feet in child
hood.
The favorite amusement of the ladies
of Lisbon, Portugal, is carriage driving,
but it is a rare sight to see q girl on
horseback.
Queen Victoria has completely
emerged from her former solitude, and
very frequently visits the neighbors of
her different estates.
Mime. Modjeska, the Polish actress, is
said to be proficient in half dozen
languages, including some of the. difficult
tongues of Eastern Europe.
Following the example of India and
Japan, the Siamese are about to establish
a school for native girls of high rank
under the management of English. ladies.
Crape-fnished China silk, in designs
of stripes of single color, or in contrast,
is an inexpensive fabric for charming
house dresses, teagowns and evening"
dresses.
Rhoda Broughton, the English novel;
ist, is at present profoundly interested in
her House of Rest for Horses, where she
sees to it that they receive the very best
treatment.
Miss Martha Morton, the playwright,
is under thirty years of age. She Is a
woman OF medium height, with an inter-
esting face and head covered with
dark brown hair.
Queen Natalie, of Servia, is very
handsome woman, with fine black eyes
and supurb complexion, hut tendency
to embonpoint makes her appear older
than she really is.
The first woman candidate 70 pass the
Alabama State medical examination
said to have been an unusually severe
written examination---is Mrs. Fl. Il. Dill
Ion, colored woman.
William Lloyd Garrison told the Mass
achusetts Woman's Suffrage Association
few days ago that he hoped that his
children might live to tsee woman
President of Harvard College.
Women do the business of the town Of
Lexington, Miss, to large extent. Miss
Dixie Cole is the express agent, Miss
Emily Wright the postmistress, and Miss
Mollie Hoskins the telegraph agent.
There is fashion now of wearing
band of satin ribbon round the throat
the color of the gown-fastened at the
back with small rosette and two long
ends that reset to the bottom of the
skirt.
In New York City, two smart young
dressmakers will come to your house and
make you dress out and out, complete
and beautifully fitting, in one day.
They charge $3.50 each and the price is
cheap.
In recent lecture in the British Mu-
scum, London, Miss Millington Lathbury
declared that the women of ancient
Greece were far inferior to the women
of the present day, both physically and
Intellectually.
A new industry for women is the man
ufacture of tissue paper flowers, roses,
pinks, sunfowers, and other varieties.
Twenty girls are employed in a Buffalo
IN. " tissue paper establishment owned
by two women.
Yeddo crepe is one of the lovliest
materials for the dainty little home
frocks the womanly woman loves SO
well. 1t comes in all the soft, tender
shades, is very reasonable in price,
drapes perfectly and does not crush.
The ladies of Winnsborough, s. c.,
have canning establishment which is
directed by one of their own number,
and operated by themselves in every de-
tail except tending the boiler. 1t is said
to be model factory, not only for the