Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-12-09
Corduroy is again in favor.

The Puritan is quaint little bonnet.
Passementerie trimming are more than
ever in vogue.
There are 1000 men to every 7O6 wo.
men in Greece.
Queen Victoria's new dining room at
Osborne cost $1O0,O 900.
There are seven women in the phar-
macy department of the Kansas Univer-
sity.
Free drawing schools for girls were
first organized in France by Rosa Bon
heur.
The costliest dresses IN the world are
said to be worn by the women OF Su'
matra.
Miss Braddon, the English novelist,
has one hobby-the collection OF old
china.
Bret Harte's young daughter, Jessamy,
is taking after her father in the literary
calling.
Mrs. @. P. Huntington, of San Fran
cisco, CAL, has the costliest ruby in this
country.
At forty EIGHT, the Princess of Wales
is said to look like woman OF half
those years.
OF the public school teachers in the
United States more than sixty-ive per
cent. are women.
A beautiful bare foot is almost IN
known. We have to thank the fashion
able boot for this.
The women of to-day average two
inches more in height than they did
twenty-five years ago.
Some rich new silks are woven with
steel or other metals glittering through
out, and wonderfully effective.
Mrs. E.. Burd Grubb has been elected
ensign of her husbands old regiment,
the Twenty third New Jersey.
Miss Maude Stone, of Cincinnati, is to
be married. This is the young lady
after whom Maud s. was named.
The Car of Russia has granted $780,
| 600 for the establishment of medical
school fer women near st. Petersburg.
An American physician, Mrs. Darr, is
named as having "buit up large and
profitable practice" in Dresden, Germany.
The Western Michigan Diocese has
decided that hereafter, at all vestry
meetings, women may vote for vestry-
men.
! Miss Elizabeth Deering Hanscom was
among the first women to enter Yale's
open door. She is going to study for
the Phi. d. degree.
Miss Anna Haydn Webster, the advo-
cate of Greek art in modern dress and
manner, will go abroad this month to
spend year in Greece.
The legacies left by the late Mrs.
Emily t. Eckert, of Philadelphia, to
charitable and religious organizations Of
that city amount to $614, 900.
Rosc.colored wells are suggested as be-
coming for winter wear, adding one
more to the long list of colors permissi-
BILE nowadays in face coverings.
Women will do we'll to substitute some
other neckwear than feather boas to
wear in high winds. A strong breeze
makes them tmoult" disastrously.
Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke, is eighty.
two years of age, lives in her own villa
at Genoa, Italy, and still often does some
literary work with all her early enthusi-
asm.
Miss Harriet Monroe, the author oil
the Worlds Fair ode, emboldened by
the success of her first poetic venture, Is
going to write a whole volume OF
rhymes.
The most highly valued gift at the
Queen of Denmark's golden wedding
was a crown of golden wheat ears and
clover, bought with the pennies of 10,-
900 school children.
Mahala Buckwalter, Ella N. Dealing,
Clara NJ. Hicks, Sarah E. Pike and Gen.
evieve Bates were recently ordained
deaconessess of the Methodist Church at
Calvary Church, New York City.
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Brown Davis
is young Southern woman who has
won distinction at Washington as al
accomplished mathematician. She Is
reckoned among the first in this coun-
try.
The most novel, artistic and striking
effects are produced in the combination
upon handsome evening dresses of the
most delicate creamy laces or embroid
cred gauzes, with dark garnet, mulberry
old maroon, golden olive or black vel
vets.
The Brooklyn IN. " Hospital fol
Women and Children has board of sixt,
women managers and hospital staff o.
twenty-five women physicians. 1t is tn
only hospital in Brooklyn where womel
are permitted to practise. 1t has IN con
nection training school for nurses.
In honor of Queen Isabella appea
bats, wraps, slippers, and jewels ar.
ranged in antique patterns. and among
the most elegant of autumn bonnets o
black velvet are those called the queen
trimmed with the sofest aud most deli
cate of yellow Isabella roses and jet al.
grettes.
Miss Ruth Gentry, who won the fel
lowship in higher mathematics of tn
Associated Colleges, is pursuing he
chosen study at tho University of Berlin
which no German women has ever sue
ceeded in entering. Miss Gentry is
pretty Western girl, pale and quiet, AM
Of the most unassuming presence.
The French Minister of Public Instruc
ton has decided to preserve the home o.