Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-12-23
Brocades are fashionable.

Very rich, very wide velvet ribbon is
used as fat garniture.
Mauve is still good color, though the
fierce rage for it has passed,
The newest bright-colore. changeable
silks are called ''sunshines."
Among the Sierras there is a woman
stage driver, Mrs. H. J. Langdon.
A new hair pin for evening wear is an
orchid in enamel in natural colors.
The Empress of Austria has begun the
study of the modern Greek language and
literature.
The women employees of the Chicago
telephone companies have been attired
in black uniforms.
A chapter of the Young Women's
Fraternity, Pi Beta Phi, has been founded
at Swarthmore College.
Gold embroidered on velvet, felt,
cloth and other materials is much liked
by those who can afford it.
The Dowager Empress Frederick, of
Germany, owns a chain of thirty-two
pearls that is valued at $175, 900.
Vienna, Austria, has eight cooking
and housekeeping schools for girls and
ninety-three trade schools for girls.
Many women who wear an abundance
of rings like to remove the gloves while
shopping. The fur glove comes off aud
on very easily.
Mrs. Sunabbai Wadia, lady from the
Orient, as her name implies, is about to
reach out for fame on the London stage
as comedienne.
Arabella Mansfield, of Iowa, was the
first woman admitted to the bar in the
United States. She became a full
Hedged lawyer in 1859.
DIR. Margaret Whyte, lady graduate,
has been unanimously appointed to the
position of resident medical officer to
the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Aus
tralia.
In Finland, above all other countries,
do women enter into the business of life.
They are clerks, doctors, dentists, build
ers, managers of small companies and
bank cashiers.
Miss Lille Slower, only surviving
granddaughter of Andrew johnson, ha,
just died at Knoxville, Tenn. She was
buried beside the grave of the ex-Presi-
dent at Greenville.
Every waist seen in Paris is said to
have plastron of some kind of con-
trasting color and fabric. Grape caif-
fon, China silk, surah, bengaline, taffeta,
and brocade are all pressed into service
for this accessory.
The French percale shirt, tucked from
the neck to the bust, and then allowed
to fare, is liked by women who do not
care to assume stiff shirt; they can, of
course, be worn far into cold weather
with a cloth shirt and jacket.
Miss Chapman, the we'll known sculp.
tor, has been commissioned to model
the two Spanish bullocks Queen Vic
toria keeps in the park at Osborne. They
have enormous horns and are considered
remarkably beautiful creatures.
Mrs. Croly (Jennie June) has con-
sented to teach women the alphabet of
journalism in the chair recently estab-
lished for this branch in Rutgers Female
self veteran in newspaper work.
At the Normal School in Holmesburg,
Penn, the custom prevails of conferring
on the clergyman's daughter who attans
the highest rank in the graduating class
the honor of having her father deliver
the opening prayer at the commence.
ment exercises.
1t is said Of Julia Ward Howe that,
despite her great age, she can talk
fuently and interestingly on any topic
under the sun. Mrs. Howe is still study.
ing Greek, language she began to learn
only a few years ago, and has also taken
up Modern Greek, or Romaic.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe, who has
recently waged vigorous war on the vi
visectionists in England, is described as
an extremely jolly old lady, very stout,
with a round, rubicund face, and her
merry laugh is most infectious. She is
generally surrounded by an army of pet
dogs.
Somebody, who evidently has wearied
OF the conservative styles allotted to
brides, has attempted to start the fash
ion of making brides travelling dress
in SOME unique and hitherto unknown
style. 1t Is needless to say that the
average sensible bride doesn't care to
have her new relation ticketed on her
wardrobe.
Lean women who desire to accumu-
late plump covering on their bones are
advised to avoid worry, t, cultivate
calmness, to sleep eight hours every
day, to take moderate exercise, to eat
fattening foods, such as soup, butter,
cream, fat and juicy meats, olive oil aud
farinaceous articles, and to take warm
baths at night.
The home of the Roum anian Queen,
Carmen Sylvia, situate in the hears of
forest at tho foot of the Caramian Noun
tains, is beautifully decorated, accord
ing to the Queens own designs, the
feature of the house being music room
fitted up with beautifully painted
glass ceiling and walls frescoed with a
cycle of fairy tales of her arrangement.
Miss Lily e. Benn has for the past
three years lived In the East End OF
London, and has interested herself
greatly in the welfare of the children and
young girls in that quarter. Perhaps
her best work has been in her sewing
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