Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-10-07
Stripes are in great favor.

One thousand American girls are study
ing art in Paris.
Fifty-four young women graduated
from Vassar this year.
Women physicians have at last been
admitted to membership in the British
Medical Association.
The corselet bodice is the most popu-
lar style of corsage at present, aud new
shapes are constantly appearing.
Black satin neckties, an inch wide,
tied in still bow, are worn by ladies,
with the linen collar now in vogue.
Another lady of the nobility has opened
millinery shop on Victoria street, Lon
don, next the army and navy stores.
Miss Dora Miller, teacher in New
Orleans, has patented blackboard eraser
for the right OF which she has had an
offer of $4,000.
In Paris corsets are shown made of un-
dressed kid. The manufacturer claims
for them an elasticity which no other
material can give.
A woman has invented an "emergency
dress" to be used In case of fire. 1t is
like divers costume in appearance, but
made of asbestos cloth.
Two gold medals given in the Nation.
al competition OF schools of art in Eng
land for life studies of the undraped
model we're both awarded to women.
One of the seasons novelties is the
sympathy bangle, slender band of
black enamel sent to the afflicted by a
friend and bearing the single word
Sympathy"
Boston has established cooperative
home for young women students. There
are accommodations for $50, and the
prices of board range from $1.50 to
So. so a week.
Queen Victoria pays at the rate of
81. 81 mile when sac travels by rail in
addition to first. class fares for all the
party, servants included. She has sa-
loon carriage that cost $50, 900.
The dantiest and most becoming bon.
nets worn in Portugal are seen on the
head of the Queen, who makes them
with her own royal hands and seems
proud that people should know it.
Mrs. Spurgeon is the daughter of a
city tradesmap, and before January s,
1856, bore the name of Susaunah Thomp-
son. Her husband was but twenty-five
when the marriage took place, and she
was about the same age.
Mrs. Todd, one of the very few wo.
men who were present at the battle OF
Waterloo, is sill living-but in great
poverty-at Spitalfelds. Her father was
killed in the battle and her mother ap-
pears to have died of broken heart.
In Brockton, Mass, there is woman
who can boast of having lived under the
Administration of every President of the
United States. She is Mrs. Hannah Har-
mon, aud she was born the day preced-
ing Washington's retirement from of.
fee.
Memphis, Tenu., Mrs. p. B. Coate,
while on her wedding journey climbed
to the top of Mount V ssuvius and looked
down into the crater. She is the sec
ond American woman who has per.
formed this feat.
There has been started in farm house
in England school of housewifery,
where girls of gentle breeding, not SER
wants, are systematically taught cooking,
housework, plain sewing, the manage
nent of the dairy, the laundry and the
kitchen and flower gardens.
Many rows of extremely narrow vel.
vet, dotted at intervals with full rosettes,
ha ~, ni
light wool and cotton fabrics. These
narrow velvets and ribbons are very in.
expensive, and are not great deal of
trouble to sew on. Quantities of baby
ribbon are also used.
The Vicereine Dowager of Egypt-ow-
ing to the late Tewfik's principles, there
is only one of them-is still beautiful
woman with lovely complexion, brown
eyes and hair of an auburn tint. She is
the daughter of daughter of former
viceroy of Egypt and inherits, through
her mother, the blood of the royal house
of Turkey.
An African beauty must have small
eyes, thick lips, large, fat nose, and a
skin beautifully black. In New Guinea
the nose is perforated and a large piece
of wood or bone inserted. On the
northwest coast of America an incision
more than two inches long is made in
the lower lip and then filled with a
wooden plug.
The ''stocking sachet" is the latest in
the list of scented toilet accessories. 1t
is quite large silk bag, lined with
quilted satin aud having the odorous
powder scattered with liberal hand be.
tween the lining and the silk. 1t is
hung in the wardrobe and receives the
stockings as they come up from the wash
and before they have gone to the
mender.
Mrs. s. L. Ballentinc, of Port Huron,
| Mich, has just received patent for a
| device to secure glass in the doors of
stoves and furnaces. The process of
baking in the oven can be watched
through the glass, and there is saving
| Of fuel, since frequent opening of the
doors will be needless, and the glass will
allow the heat to leave the ovens less
rapidly than iron.
One of the most interesting women in
Europe is Nine. Olga Novikotf, better
known, perhaps, as ''the Russian siren. !"
She is said 10 be the only woman who can
influence at one and the same time W..
| +. Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, Count Ig-