Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-10-28
Crepons are very popular.

Mackintoshes with capes and no sleeves
promise we'll.
Grasshopper green is new tint at
the milliner's.
The main feature of the new winter
wraps is additional length.
The empire gown is gradually making
its graceful way to us again.
Fashion advices from Paris are to the
effect that yellow is to be worn great
deal.
The ostrich feather and cocks plume
boa will be as popular as ever this
season.
[ For the tiny winter maid eiderdown
coats. reaching almost to her heels, are
being prepared.
Two women have been elected to the
vestry of st. Paul's Episcopal Church at
Hickman, Ky.
Frenchwomen are much affecting red
in gowns, bonnets and even hosiery,
shoes and gloves.
Mrs. Nancy s. Foster has given $780,
900 to build hall for women at the
Chicago University.
A modified Tam O. Shanter cap is
shown in velvet for this seasons wear
for very young girls.
The chatelaine watch is again worn
with gold knot, or small bow of fancy
ribbon fastening it to the corsage.
Biarritz pique are the most fashionable
| gloves for this season, and will be for
many long winter day to come.
| The late Mrs. Nilsteth, of Philadel-
| phia, bequeathed very fine collection
of paintings, valued at $3.50, 900, to the
| city.
Young ladies busy themselves knitting
and crochetting pretty silk sheathes for
sun umbrellas, in both black aud gay
colors.
In Russia, by way of acknowledging
her inferiority, the bride pulls off her
husbands boots in the presence of the
wedding guests.
Little golden slippers, brocaded with
enameed flowers and stuffed with COL
ored velvet, are among the latest novel
ties for the dressing table.
Goodby to muddy skirts in hot
weather. A rubber length outside and
inside, one-third the width of the skirt,
is both neat and economical.
New gloves for long-sleeve1 gowns
come in dogskin and in one-button
lengths. The favorite colors are Eng
lish box, tapestry blue and mahogany.
Some of the new shades in blue are far
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up and trimmed than they are as they lie
in the piece on the store counter or shelf.
Hiss Adeline E. Knapp is stock re-
porter for the Saa Francisco Call. and is
said to resemble the late Miss Mildly Nor
gan, of the New York Times, IN her
methods of work.
Mrs. F. E. Mapp, of Milledgeville,
Ga, is reported to have received
diploma and gold medal from the In
ventive Society of Paris, for a bread
raiser she has invented.
The little mink head and tail for the
neck have already made their appear.
ance. But they do not seem to be etfec.
tual in removing the feather boa. That,
evidently, has come to say.
The lady doctors have achieved nota-
BILE victory. In spite of determined
opposition, the British Medical Associa-
tion has finally decided by an overwhelm-
ing majority to admit them as members.
Mrs. Hannibal Hamlin, wife of the
late Vice-President Hamlin, lives in the
old Hamin homestead in Bangor, Me.
She is surrounded by hosts of friends
and entertains at every season of the
year.
Dressmakers give all sorts of names
to skirts nowadays, but they all are
evolvements of the "bell" skirt, the
principal change being additional width,
which fulness is disposed of in deeper
pleats.
Italian silk slumber robes come in
stripes and various colors, and are very
pretty and useful. They make gay
and light covering for the bed, or are
great addition to the divan if thrown
care!essly over it.
Miss Bulkley, who has been offered
and has accepted the position of dean of
the new Chicago University, has for
years been principal of the High School
of Plain6eld, N. J. She is about forty
years of age and native of Danbury,
Conn.
Nine. Berthe de Colonne is the young
and beautiful wife of an architect in
Europe. She is both blind and deaf,
but is quite famous as poet and author.
The Queen of Roumania has written
preface to the book of Nine. de Colonies
collected verses.
At a recent fashionable wedding the
bridegroom presented each of the brides
maids with gold bangle, depending
from which were heart, paddock and
key set with diamonds, the whole be-
ing illustrative of the old axiom: Glove
laughs at locksmiths."
Marie Corelli, the writer of scientific
novels, receives an income from her works
second only to that of Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. For one years rights in her
novel, "The Soul of Lilith," she real
ICES an income of $4,000, and her royal.
ties on her work amounts to $4,000 more.
The Emperor of Austria has honored
with special medal Nine. Rose Holub,
who shared the dangerous experience of
her husbands expedition to Central !
Africa. Her bravery and efficiency were |
rOnepicuous durin., tb, e,,ff of tho |