Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-01
Heliotrope is the favorite perfume.

The faddish maiden is now making q
collection of belts.
Black lace scarfs are worn, tied with
long ends at the back.
Grecian women had longer feet than
the average man has now.
A Kentucky Episcopal church has
elected two women as "vestrymen."
A patent has been issued to woman
for an improved fastening fol- shirt but
tons.
Portraits of SIX American women hang
in the present exhibition of the Paris
Salon.
A summer school for female students
is to be established in the Eiffel Tower,
Paris.
This summer lace dresses will be worn
by many women, as they have been in
the past.
Fashion has set her foot upon the
graduating dress and kicked off every
article of lace.
The girl bachelors of New York are
mostly artists, writers, editors, doctors
and designers.
The square-toed shoes and slippers are
avoided by ladies who do not take kindly
to severe styles.
Lady Malet, the wife Of Sir Edward
Malet, has collection of 1000 pairs of
shoes of all kinds.
Satin will be worn by most brides, and
already the modistes have finished some
most exquisite gowns.
White alpaca as a material for DIR essy
gowns has been brought to the fore by
no less an authority than Worth.
Linen cuffs have been recalled into
the ranks of fashion, and will be worn
with link buttons with tailor gowns.
It looks very much as if our young
women college graduates of the near
future will wear the "mortar board"
A brown straw hat trimmed with blue
is about as pretty aud serviceable an any.
thing that can be selected for child.
The wooden and flannel blazers are to
the front again. They will be worn over
muslin or wash-silk skirt and leather
belt.
Two ladies only have obtained the de-
gree OF Mus. Doc, namely, the Princess
of Wales and Miss Aunie Patterson, of
Dublin.
The Punch of Melbo lrne, Australia,
is edited by a women, Miss Murphy,
who is said to be both brilliant aud
beautiful.
Black is still worn in preference to
colors in underwear by many American
women, and hosiery in black has the
largest sale.
Doucet, Worth, Felix and the rest of
the Partisan designers are using green in
light and tender shades in oil summer
gowns and bonnets.
Abram Gaaf, a wealthy manufacturer
of agricultural implements in Indiana,
gave his daughter check for 500, 900
on her wedding day.
pretty gown for light mourning re.
Gently seen was of white serge. A band
of wide black ribbon was on the bottom
of the skirt, and the jacket was trimmed
with black ribbon.
In a recent parlor lecture which she
delivered in Chicago, Mrs. Custer, widow
of the ill fated cavalry General, said that
she was the first woman in this country
to shoot buffalo.
Chiffon is so generally the covering for
parasols that some women who want to
| have pretty one, and who also have
skill, are covering their old parasols
themselves with the chiffon.
1t may interest the extravagant young
| woman of small means who sighs for
silk findings in her dress to know that
some of the very best customers of the
uptown modiste prefer cotton Innings for
their street suits.
For summer gcwus, the most fashion
able fabrics are clinging silk crepons
and stripped grenadines. They are to
be made W, very plainly with TRAININGS
Of embroidery, guipure or velvet aud
more especially with some light tiut
near the face.
Thirteen girl graduates from Mount
Auburn (ohio) Young Ladies Institute
banqueted defying in every possible way
the omens of evil. They walked under
ladder, broke mirror, raised umbrellas,
had thirteen walters aud caused the or
ehestra TO play thirteen pieces.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the poetress, Is
fifty.sevcn years old. She is tall, hand.
some woman, with dark face, dark eyes
and snow white hair. Appledore, Isle ot
Shoals, was her home when she was ten
years old, aud il has beea her summer
home ever since she was sixteen.
Christian Nilsson, the prlma donna, Is
q clever woman OF business. Mme. Mod,
leska, the Polish actress, plays Chopin
aud speaks a half dozen languages. Patti
Is very proud OF her neediewofk, espeei,
ally OF her darning. Albani, the singer,
eultiyates the domestic arts and writes
entertaining letters 90 her friends.
A great deal II lace will bo worn this
season, aad many are the devices res0rled
10 90 make new styles out OF the mulIi
lude Of old aad familiar lace dresses wilh
which We have 80 long been deiuged,
hut lace drosa is too comfortable and
convenient 10 be dispensed with, and the
feminine fails mast have them whether
of no.
Alice n. Bacon, Of New Haven. Coma,
has iof neaFly tea years taught without