Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-03-18
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

luuld has lOTby WohiOh '~&oSeoASs
Stripes are all the ragefin Paris.
Italian women do not live to great
lge.
A bamboo room is D. new idea in deco
ration.
Wells are quite indispensable now to
street toilets.
Red gowns are trimmed \ with black
velvet accessories.
Belts of colored leather'are nailed with
steel, silver and jet heads.
Camphor wood chests are preferable
to cedar in packing away'winter clothes.
For a large hat large veil is required,
and it is wise in buying, one to get a full
yard.
Mrs. G. r. Noyes, of Boston, Mass,
owns one of the largest stock farms in
Maine.
An enterprising woman has recently
started out as professional glove
mender.
The Empress of China is reported to be
busily engaged in the study of lthe Eng
lish language.
Turkish women have been forbidden
by the Sultan to wear French costumes
on the streets of Constantinople.
Mrs. Susie Hall Wheeler, of Little
Rock, Ark, has invented device for
clearing the saws of cotton gins.
For an assistant mistress In school in
Wiltshire, England, for four months
there is offered salary of S1.25 week.
Mrs. Barriolhet, florist of San Mateo,
CAL, has a collection of chrysanthe.
NUNS, including $50 varieties and 49,
900 plants.
The prize for the design of seal for
the Board of Women Managers of the
Columbian Exposition has been awarded
to Miss Sara Bodtker.
Children's dresses are of quaint old
fashioned style, which has peculiar
grace of its own. Little girls wear frocks
coming down quite to the ankle.
Some of the finest heirlooms in New
York in the shape of wedding fnery are
fashioned of Valenciennes lace, remark
able for richness OF design and evenness
of tissue.
The higher education of women is
making great advances in Sweden, where
the number of female students in the
universities is large and constantly in
creasing.
The Prince of Wales once declared
that "one of the most noticeable marks
of lady is the careful treatment of the
nails---the way in which they are cut and
polished"
Mrs. Emily Kempin, LID, will not
return to the United States for some
time to come, and she has accepted
professorship in the university at Berne,
Switzerland.
Only one woman of the upper class in
Egypt is permitted to see men. She Is
the widowed Princess Nazal, for whom
the Sultan issued an order granting her
that privilege.
Female dentists are so popular in
Sweden that scholarship has been
founded for the purpose of rendering
assistance to women without means who
intend to study dentistry.
Miss Ume Isuda, Japanese lady, who
was sent at very early age with her
brother to be educated in America, is
teacher of natural science and English
in the Peeresses' school in Toxic.
The Princess Helene Sagonsko, who
recently died in Poland, unmarried, at
the age of fifty-seven, was famous
beauty in her youth, aud was said to
have refused the hand of Napoleon III.
Miss Mary A. Livermore is the first
and only woman student in the Grocer
Theological Seminary, where she expects
to take the full three years course in
order to fit herself for missionary
work.
Mrs. La Favre, the New York leader
of the vegetarians, subsists almost en-
tirely upon water and fruit which has
ripened in the sun. These, with the
cereals ard nuts, make up Mrs. La
Favre's daily menu.
The young Princess Victoria Kaiaul-
AMI, the heiress apparent to the Hawaiian
throne, is now studing in England, and
q report has been circulated about that
she will come to this country to finish
her education at Wellesley College.
The servant problem is being uniquely
solved by the wife of Sir George
Humphrey at Cambridge, England, who
trains little girls from twelve to fifteen
years of age for one year in her house
and then sends them out to other situa-
tions.
Queen Victoria must have a very
dreary time of it in private as we'll as
public life. Her maids-in- waiting fol-
low her about the castle like SO many
pet kittens, and not one of them has the
bravery to speak above whisper in her
august presence.
A new industry has arisen for women
upon the ruins of an old one. The old
fashioned "sontag" and the awkward
knitted cane have been superseded Inv n