Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-29
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due SeTBes hTo yiciuinB tHcir pop
ularity to black, brown, green and
red.
Shirring is coming into general use
again, and puffs are promised as part
of the autumn trimmings.
A number of Cherokee Indian girls
supplied the singing mt church ser
vice in New York on Sunday evening.
Old-fashioned null embroideries,
such as our grandmothcrs made their
caps of, are used this season for fichus.
A dainty boating dress is of blue
serge, with vest, wide lapels, and deep
cuffs of blue and white striped duck.
Women shoeblacks are numerous in
France. Some have been known to
catch wealthy customers in the matri-
monial net.
"Mercury wings" and compact
rosette trimmings are the decorations
now most used on yachting turbans
and sailor hats for wear on land or
sea.
Queen Victoria has fine collection
of caricatures from oil the comic
papers of the last half century, having
always caused tho best things to be
sent to her without regard to politics.
Speaking of white hose, to which, it
is said, Dame Fashion has committed
her wayward feet, one can buy white
silk Hosiery with lace fronts for the
modest sum of twenty-five dollars u
pair.
The temperature of a drawing-room
or boudoir may be sensibly lowered by
introducing an ice-block into the
room, placed in q suitable stand where
it may be surrounded by ferns and
MOSES.
Wiry cheviots of coarse quality are
preferred to the fannels formerly used
for bathing dresses. They are made
with the princesse garment, combin-
ing waist and knickerbockers, and a
short full skirt is belted on.
One of Mrs. Langtry's favorite cos
tunes is deep ecru muslin printed
with pale mauve flower sprays and
touched with pale mauve velvet. The
hat is of crocus mauve straw, trimmed
with mauve iris and grasses.
The Princess of Wales appears at
the opera dressed i'll black yelled with
Jet and embroidered chiffon. The fact
that all the royal ladies wear either
blnck or white insures these colors to
be the leading ones of fashion.
There arc now five schools of medi-
cine in England where women may
obtain admission-Oxford, the Uni
vcrsity of Glasgow, Queen Margaret's
College, the Edinburgh School of
Medicine and st. Andrews Surgeon
square School.
A new fancy for finger bowl decora-
tion is to place smaller bowls in larger
ones and fill the intervening space with
flowers. Sweet peas look well arranged
in this way. The effect of dainty
fingers dipping into fower-wreathed
bowl is charming.
Cosmetics have taken new lease of
popularity among the upper class in
London society, if the reports in
English papers are true. The lavish
use of makeup" was very apparent
of very young girls.
The latest thing for, underskirts is
the japanese material called ava cloth.
1t comes chiefly in white, almost COW
cred with dark blue figures. 1t has al
most no perceptible weight, washes
nicely--in fact, has everything to rec
ommend it except beauty.
The most fashionable capes are built
of black moire, trimmed with ecru
lace. They can be made of three SUI
perposed capes, or of one single peler-
inc reaching TO the waist, while over
the shoulders there is collar like ar
rangement of chiffon and lace
The wife of John r. Drexel, one of
the sons of the late AnthonyJ. Drexel,
of Philadelphia, is said to be the most
beautiful woman in the Quaker City.
She is tall, slender and exquisitely
graceful, with brunette brillancy of
coloring. Before her marriage she
was II Miss Troth.
Some five thousand women are en-
ployed in the Government departments
in Washington. The work is compar-
atively easy and the pay good. Con-
yressman Timothy Campbell dis
covered his charming wife by visit
through the Government Departments
where she was clerk.
The Seawanhaka Yacht Club, of New
York, has taken Il new departure and
opened its doors to women who are
yacht owners, giving them the privi-
lege of joining the club, subject to the
same rules of election as male mem
bers. Miss Breeze is famous as the
first lady unanimously voted permis-
sion 10 fly the clubs penant
A very famous and exclusive ladies'
club of London is the Alexandra,
called SO, of course, after the ever
popular Princess of Wales. In spite
If its aristoeratic assumptions, how
ever. il managed to get into disor-
lerly squabble, and from the split was
formed the London Ladies Club,
which claims to- be equally famous aud
equally exclusive, Neither organiza,
tion has any other object than the
purely social,
Mrs, Mary Frost Ormshy is one Of
the leading agltators of the peace
movement She advocates the aboli-
tion Of military schools, aud says that,
al the International Peace Congress