Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
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Mink cOllarettes are to be worn az
much as usual this winter
Two fifteen-year-old girls have passed
the entrance examination to Yale Col.
lege.
Before long women will be admitted
to German universities on an equal
footing.
A German lady of wealth and posi-.
tion has founded school of garden.
ing for women.
The Duchess of Fife recently landed
in one day seven salmon, weighing from
six to ten pounds.
That phenomenal young sculptor,
Theo Alice Ruggles, is now the wife of
Henry Kitsou, himself worker in the
plastic art.
Persian lamb, astrachan, mink, bear,
monkey, lynx, marten and beaver are
all popular furs for trimming use or
for whole garments.
Hereafter the junior fellowship of
Dublin ureland) University will be
open to female and mule students on
There are 600 women journalists,
editors and authors in England and
Wales, according to the British census
reports just published.
The new medical school of Tufts Col
lege, College Hill, Mass, open to both
sexes, has been formally opened in
Boston with class of sixty assured.
Mrs. Hermann Oehlrichs, a rich
New York lady, is a member of the
''Needlework Guild" which makes
garments for the poor and the desti-
tute.
Black silks, especially the thick,
soft-finished silks, are coming into
competition with satin-duchesse for
combinations for velvets, black or col
ored.
Narrow elongated half-moons in dia-
mOnds make pretty brooches, and these
pinned into the hair at the top of
coil have all the appearance of dia-
mOnd comb.
A decided novelty in Dresden china
is fruit knife stand In shape it
somewhat resembles a little bottleless
caster with receptacles for knives in
the upper band.
Swedish women often work as farm
laborers. Those who have babies carry
them on their backs i'll leather bag.
as squaws carry their young. This
plan permits the mother to use both
hands at her farm work.
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ploying n houseful of seamstresses,
makes nearly all the clothing for her
youngest children, and also takes their
new hats to pieces and trims them ac-
cording to her own taste.
The Empress of Austria has to give
written receipt for the State Jewels
every time she wears them, and her
majesty, rs n result, usually contents
herself with her private collection,
which is worth 81, 500, 900.
A novel feature introduced at we'd
ding recently was that all of the house
guests inscribed their names on roll
of vellum, which was afterwards in
serted in filigree silver tube, which
was presented to the bride.
Mrs. r. f. Willard is an enterpris-
ing Chicago woman. She is the pro-
prietor of a barber shop which boasts
six chairs, each one Ill charge of wo-
man barber. Each of the assistants
makes $12 week and half of all they
take in over S23.
The very newest fashion among the
ladies of st. Petersburg, Russia, is to
arm themselves with long canes when
they go abroad Some of these canes
measure six to seven feet i'll length.
and as the ladies stalk along they seem
at distance stalwart amazons who
have supplied themselves with small
scaffolding poles or plucked mp young
trees.
The so-called gold bonnets, with
crowns of bullion embroidery, are very
effective with pleated brims of brown
velvet trimmed with parrots wings
standing out from choux of white chif-
fon edged, with gold picot loops.
White satin ribbon strings two inches
wide start from the back, and are tied
under the chin ina stiff bow.
The death is announced of Miss f.
E. j. Crop, the first woman who
crossed the Atlantic from England in
steamer. On April 8, 1888, she
sailed from Bristol in the Great Wes-
tern, under the command of Captain
Hosken, Royal Navy, who obtained
special commission to command
merchant vessel. The voyage was ac-
complished in fifteen days. She was
the only female passenger on board.
Amateur skirt dancing has been
ousted in Australia by the skipping
parties, which are all the craze lust
now in fashionable circles. Mrs Ru-
pert Clarke is responsible for intro
ducing this fascinating form of enter
tainment to Melbourne society. Tour
naments are held on to the asphalt
tennis courts, and valuable prizes are
offered by many hostesses for the lady
who skips most gracefully and most
successfully.
Miss Cleveland, of South Pasadena,
CAL, n cousin of President Cleveland.
has started charity Of her own in
that city. She is fitting mp house
she owns as It home for children whose
parents are too poor To provide for
them. Miss Cleveland ~ II bright,
active woman of seventy. She does
her own housekeeping work, and de
votes several hours day 20 teaching