Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-07-28
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Carrots are said to be excellent for
the complexion.
Women may now be seen driving
cabs in New York.
Mary Anderson Navarro is engaged
on her stage "reminiscences.
Mrs. Meissonier gets $346, 900 from
the sale of her husbands remaining
pictures.
The latest designs in tortoiseshell
combs show pair of wings as the
ornament.
A laundry in England owned by wo-
men and employing only women earned
$25, 900 last year.
Books, flowers, sweets and music,
these are the four things youth may
present to his "ladye faire"
There are now women writer's on the
London morning and evening paper,
as well as on the strictly society jour
nails.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid has an exquisite
fan made of white silk, embroidered in
colors and ornamented with small
pearls.
The Infanta Eulalia has her maid
spray the flowers of her hats with the
perfume of the flower with which they
are adorned.
The Queen Consort of Siam has a
lotus-shaped thimble of gold studded
with diamonds, which spell her name
and dates of birth and marriage.
At Mrs. Austin Corbin's country
place, Babylon, Long Island, one Of
the avenues through the grounds is a
mile long and as wide as Fifth avenue.
Street car conductors in Atchison,
Kan, are said to stop the cars going
in opposite directions to allow the fe-
male passengers to greet one another
and gossip.
Mrs. John Mackay, wife of the Bon
anza millionaire, has superb neck
lace of oak leaves and acorns; the for
mer are diamonds, the latter, pigeon
blood rubies.
Queen Victoria has not attained her
green old age by practicing the ''Poor
Richard" rule of early to bed. In spite
of her seventy-four years she seldom
retires before midnight.
Governor Jones, of Alabama, has
appointed Miss PEBBLES, of West End,
Birmingham, notary public. 1t is
the first appointment of n woman to
that Office in the State.
Queen Amelie, of Portugal, is n
comparatively early riser. 1t is
seldom that o'clock finds her in bed
of a morning. She always takes a
cold plunge bath on rising.
The Empress of Austria for the first
time i'll many years is taking part in
the court ceremonies in Vienna, hav-
ing returned from her chosen home at
Corfu in the Mediterranean.
Mrs. French-Sheldon, the African
explorer, is petite woman, with fair
complexion, light brown hair and
beautiful figure. Her expedition in
to the Dark Continent cost her over
$100,0 900.
Mrs. Hicks Lord, of New York City,
is quoted ms saying that no young
San American girl over that age, +" she
says, "can always take care of and
chaperon herself" F."
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, wife of the
President, has recently received a
beautiful piece of Russian embroidery.
The gift is i'll token of the gratitude
of the Nation to the Americans for their
sending relief in time of famine
Both Hindoo and Musselman women
wear glass bangles and in the north
west provinces they are regarded as
sacred objects. If glass bangle be
accidentally broken its pieces must be
gathered together and kissed three
times.
The strict rules of German nobility
require that the mother must be her
husbands equal in rank, in order to
place the children in the full possession
of the fathers rights The rule has
been observed in many German
families.
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts,
appointed woman, Mrs Ella G. John
son, to represent the Old Bay State at
the National Prison Congress which
met in Chicago June 7. Mrs. johnson
is Superintendent of the Reformatory
at Sherman, Mass.
Miss Cornelie X. Hood, Miss Kate
Hogan and Miss Stanlietta Titus were
the three women who graduated from
the University of New York this year
as full-fedged lawyers, taking the
regular course of study and examina-
tion with the men.
Miss Isabella Bird Bishop, the we'll
known traveller and writer of books
of travel, is the first woman to deliver
an address before the British House of
Commons. She was summoned there
to tell what she had seen of the Chris
tians in Turkish Koordistan.
st. James Palace is ready for the
Duke of York and his bride. The re-
ception room is paneled with white
wool and silk woven i'll England; the
drawing room is in white and yellow I;
the Princess Mays boudoir was furn-
ished under her own direction.
At fashionable dinner given not
long ago, beside each woman's place
was IA Dresden china candlc-stick and
candle which was lighted when the
guests sat down. The one whose can
die lasted the longest was supposed to
have manifold good luck i'll store