Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-01-29
NEWS AND NOTES FOR wOMEN.
Tall girls are now the fashion.

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Children's hats still remain very large.
Utility hats are trimmed with bands
of fur.
The latest sailor shape has rather
high crown.
In millinery, yellow has lost none of
its popularity.
Nellie eastman is one of the best min.
ing experts in Arizona.
In passementeries the pearl-wrought
garniture takes the lead.
Two ladies were returned to Parlia-
ment in Edward III's reign.
Mousseline de sole is the proper ma
terial for debutante's gown.
A German countess is the cook in o
New York restaurant kitchen.
Grace M. Thomas is the only woman
real estate agent in Washington.
OF the 1859 florist firms in our coun.
try 312 are conducted by women.
Young women are not allowed to
graduate from German universities.
There are in the United States $500
women who possess medical diplomas.
Beavers and white Mongolian are the
fashionable furs for trimming children's
costumes.
Mime. de Lesseps is forty years younger
than her husband, the builder of the
Suez Canal.
Montana's Worlds Fair Commission
has set aside $4,000 of the States appro-
priation for the use of the women.
According to the charter of Demorest,
a small town IN Georgia, women are en-
titled to vote there and to hold Office.
Kate Field says that American women
spend $4,000 year for cosmetics,
most of which are poisonous compounds.
Miss Annie Corbin, OF New York, will
receive from her father, Austin Corbin,
on her wedding day, check for 81, ,000,-
600.
The chic little toques and saucy sailor
shapes are particularly becoming to young
faces, and are made of feather, felt, fur
and velvet.
Swedish women are taking advantage
of university education more than any
other nationality of women in proportion
to their numbers.
1t costs in the neighborhood of S25 a
year to keep live, wide.awake child in
stockings of the grade known in trade as
full regular fast die.
At prize drill in Petersboro, N. II. "a
few days ago, the young women sur
passed the young men both in marching
and in the manual of arms.
The French milliners use little fancy
pins in place of stitches wherever possible.
The trimming on some of the new hats
is entirely put on with pins.
Mrs. Mary Lowell, of New York, a
practical electrician, has invented con-
trivance by which she is enabled to light
her kitchen fire from the bedroom.
1t is believed that there are 1900 pro.
fessional women painters, sculptors aud
engravers in Paris, France, besides those
who live by painting menus, fans, etc.
Some of the gauzes and fancy nets are
so cheap, and yet effective, that bright
fresh gowns will be the rule rather than
the exception at the winter Cinderellas.
A marked characteristic of the hats
and bonnets of the season is the tilted
appearance they present, caused by the
setting of pointed wings at the extreme
back.
Among novel things in jewelry is a
ring composed of seven fine gold wires,
each incrusted with small diamonds,
rubies, sapphires or emeralds. The wires
are twisted together in band.
Suspeuder straps of velvet or bands Of
embroidered silk attached to peasant
bodice are worn over skirts of India silk !;
a contrasting color is the rule, the skirts
1g of lighter shade than the dress.
Madeline s. Bridges is one of the few
poets who is q good housekceper, a girl
who is fond of her home and a splendid
manager, as we'll as a genius. These
qualities are seldom found in combina-
ton.
An excellent method of cleaning a
black or dark-colored cashmere or Hen
rietta dress is with soap bark. Buy five
cents worth, put two quarts of cold
water on it, and boil it down to quart.
Strain this liquid and sponge the dress
with it after ripping it completely.