Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-11-24
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There are eight women colonels OF
the German Army who receive salariea
as such. S
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the BonaTzH
millionaire, is said to have the biggest
sapphire in the world.
An odd an expensive hand screen is
formed with the wing of a raven at.
tached to an ivory handle inlaid with
gold.
According to the last English census
there are 5000 women gardeners in
that country, and six women looking
after town drainage.
Austria has recently allowed women
to practice medicine in Bosnia. In
other parts of the empire the profes-
sion is closed to them.
An exquisite lamp shade recently
imported from Paris was of pale green
tulle, on which tiny humming birds
were fastened at intervals.
Miss Alice Van Rensselaer,, of New
York, has one of the new fads of the
hour-a fan, in one corner of which is
an ivory miniature of herself,
Captain Magnus Anderson claims
that but for his wife the Viking would
not have been built and he would not
have sailed it across the Atlantic.
The Probate Court at New Bedford,
Mass, has authorized young lady to
change her name to Ella Rabbit.
Heretofore it has been Eta Rabbit.
It is no longer the fashion to use
marks of punctuation in your letter
"What pity, = said one cociety lady
the other day, "for l had just mas
tered the art.
Young women of Germany have a
superstition that if they bury drop
of their blood under rosebush it will
ever afterward insure the experiment
er pair of rosy cheeks,
Miss Helen Gould recently said in
answer to some inquiries about her
large expenditure on charities: 80
be wealthy and not to know how to
enjoy money is to be in q wretched
state.
The coming woman ought to know
something. 1t is stated by Mrs. Alice
Freeman Palmer that Sl1, 200, 900 has
been given in this country in the last
quarter of century to women's col
leges alone.
1t is intended to form girls cricket
club in connection with the South
London Polytechnic. Miss Helen
Smith, B. A., the lady superintend-
ent, maintains that the game is betre-
for girls than tennis, being much more
educational.
The inventor of the menu holder,
with mirror back was undoubtedly a
woman. She understood the value of
a sly look at hair flowers and com
plexion, 1t is such tonic to wit and
conversation to be assured one is slook-
ing her best.
How the bicycle interest has spread
among women is evidenced by a recent
announcement in the advertisement OF
n Brooklyn dry goods firm, that rack
is provided for bicycles and wheels
may be checked while ladies make their
purchases"
Mrs. 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 of Turkish Koordistan.
The three young women who passed
the entrance examination to Yale with
credit will have to get what satisfac
tion th sy can from this source. They
will not be allowed to pursue their
studies under the elms within the in
closu ,e sacred to the other sex.
Miss Mary Pulling took the first
honors in Mental and Moral Science,
English and French, at the recent
graduation exercises of the University
of London. On this occasion eighty
women took the B. 4. degree in n
class of 2i0 graduates of both sexes.
One of the consignors to the New
York Woman's Exchange supports her
self and family ON the sale of fruit
cake The loaf is made of uutmeal
and frosted with cream heavy with
white fruit--bits of canned peaches,
cherries, pineapple, pear, ounce and
shavings of eitrons, pistache and figs
The baker gets sl.s0 for every cake
sold.
In an article on "rhe Ethics of a
Dinner Party" Lady Magnus deplores
the practice of employing professional
entertainers to Hmuse guests, and
shows that hospitality of this sort is
vulgar and pretentious. Her ideal
dinner party is one constructed on
ethical principles which give equal
thought and attention 10 the dinner
and the party.
Rips in gloves should he stopped at
once. A small hole can he much more
neatly mended than largo one, But.
tons should b. sewed securely ia place
aud under no eireum,tanees should the
ever useful pin do duty in their stead
II collars or ruehings are worn, il
should lac remembered that line of
white at throat aud wrists, unless il is
immaculate, had much better be lett
on entirely,
young woman with thorough
musical education aud good business
ability proposes to make use of both
her talents IN new way, She has
opened musical studio ia large city
aud secured the agency of several ot
the best pianos IN the market The
merits Of the instruments she will
probably be able ~ make clear to