Passaic City record., 1892-07-09
The rage for vests is at its height.


Ribbons in which mauve, lemon and
ivory have an equal share are startling,
but new.
Children's dresses show lace berthas
on lace yokes applied over surah.
Sashes are again worn.
An American girl who refused to
marry foreigner has been left fortune
of 50, 600, 900 by his will.
1t is now the style with the best class
of Hindoo women to discard the nose
ring, and wear flower there instead.
Sashes have returned to favor for little
girls, and are usually of tint darker
than the material of the dress, but Of
the came color.
Epaulets of lace and other fancy
materials are much worn, and ere most
usefu! when dresses require alteration or
renovation.
Very pretty eEameled buckles for wear
ing with cotton gowrs match the rib
bon used for tie belt in color, and are
finished with silver.
Beatrice vilan, Chicago girl of
French parentage, has just achieved no.
table triumph as singer of the Royal
Court Theatre in Stockholm.
Many gowns tor day wear are accom-
panied by a useful little cape coming
only to the waist and having a hood at
the back, trimmed throughout with
lace.
Miss Catherine Annie Hoppin, of Ober-
lin, Ohio, was the one woman in the
graduating class of twenty at the late
commencement of the Oberlln Theologi-
cal Seminary.
Miss Isabella Tod, of Belfast, Ireland,
was recently presented with an illumi-
mated address and check for $4,000, as
an acknowledgement of her services in
the cause Of social reform.
Six hospitals have been founded for
women by women physicians in Phila-
delphia, Boston, Chicago, San Fran
cisco, Minneapolis and New York City,
and all of them are successful.
A woman is the inventor of the ssCos-
ton Signals system of signaling with
colored lights, which is used on land and
sea all over the world. She is Mrs. Mar
tha J. Coston, of Washington.
1t was Dean Swift who once proposed
to tax female loveliness, and to have
each woman rate her own charms, saying:
s.The tax would be cheerfully paid, and
would prove very productive.
The dull, rich oranges should be Sc
lected by bruuettes, while the blonde or
red headed woman should match her
hair as nearly as possible if she wants to
be delight to the artistic eye.
Gay Russian blouses, for wearing with
blazers and skirts, come in stripes of
three colors, four inches wide, joined
with black crewel cross stitches, and en-
broidered in a cross stitch pattern.
Dotted Swiss muslin, with floral print
ings, are among the summer novelties,
and are made up over colored SILICA or
Chinese silk Innings, while lace and MORE
ribbon are the trimmings most used.
Miss Mittie Haley, OF Virginia, one of
the nine recent graduates of the Pennsyl-
vania College of Dental Surgery, has
been appointed resident dentist at the
Williamson School, Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Pctter-Palmer says that what sur
prised her most in France was the dis
covery that no charitable or educational
institution is carried on exclusively by
women. Such organizations frequently
contain women, to be sure, but invariably
with men as fellow-members.
The fashionable Partisan baby--the
one who is in the swim, in other words
takes the morning bath in novel tub.
It is shaped precisely like small rub
Der boat supported upon silver legs. On
the outside of the boat there are pockets
for the wash cloth, soap and brush.
Minnehaha, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of Sitting Bull, is to be
honored with a life-size statue in the
South Dakota women's exhibit at the
Columbian Exhibition. It is related
| that she died of a broken heart after
having loved hopel.ssly an army officer
at Fort Sully.
A peep at the new materials reveals
| the fact that grenadine has once again
enchained our tickle fancy. 1t is con-
| siderably idealized by modern art, and
not all like the wiry atrocities which were
worn some years ago. Black grenadines
are mostly in favor, interviewer with
| lines of colored satin.
| One of the expert money handlers in
| the Treasury department in Washington
is woman, who has the remarkable
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