Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-05-19
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Girdles are not yet obsolete.
6ashes are going to be worn.
Chile has female car conductors.
The girl phrenologist has appeared.
Louisville (Ky.) boasts Of lady sex
ton.
Violet perfume is first favorite just
now.
Purple Is very much the fashionable
color.
There is not much enthusiasm over
the impending revival of hoopskirts.
Kid gloves with gauntlets Of the finest
lace now ''obtain" among girls of the
period.
The almost forgotten year of 1880 is
now held responsible for many absurd
| fashions.
It was predicted that cats fur would
be used for trimming, aud the same is in
evidence.
In bonnets, those with the Prince of
Wales feathers sticking up on top are
very fashionable.
Among the newer things is the Egyp-
tian bangle of silver, from which miuia-
ture mummies hang.
According to literary man Of some
prominence, ''the italian girl never
breaks an engagement"
| There is just at present, according to
newly arrived tourists, almost crazs in
London over dark colors.
What is called "white wool grena.
! dine" is a new material that has ap-
peared for evening dresses.
An Italian Duchess has sold her jewels
for 5000, 900, and is using the money to
build children's hospital at Milan.
| Miss Mary Conant, school teacher at
Turk Hill, near Rochester, N. Y, made
S400 last year from q two-acre asparagus
bed.
The new Secretary of Agriculture has
a most charming wife. He was married
when he was sixteen aud she was four
teen.
When the Empress of Austria travels
about incognito she usually calls herself
either "MadaVe Nicholson" or plain
"Miss Simpson"
| auluudd otCWotCt OCWChs tuO otciot,
was the daughter of an Adirondack inu-
keeper. Her surprising talent was dis
covered by summer tourists.
Sixty .one women are now serving on
School Boards in the State of New
Hampshire, where wo men have had
school suffrage for many years.
Mrs. Phe ,e Hearst, widow or Senator
Hearst, of California, proposes to estab-
lish home for destitute boys on farm
OF 450 acres near San Francisco.
Nine. Camille Collett, the well-kuown
advocate of the emancipation of women
in Norway, recently celebrated the
eightieth anniversary of her birth.
Many of the new pocket-books are
made large enough to hold handker-
chief. as we'll as few cards and money,
as few dresses are made with pockets.
The wives of the noblemen of Sian
wear knickerbockers aud cut their hair
so that it stands up straight all over their
heads in ends about an inch aud half
long.
entire establishment aud delesa re.
spousibility to no one. Tue whole place
breathes of comfort, luxury and cheer.
. fulness.
The Ladies' Humane Society, of St.
Louis, NO., believe in practical denon-
stration Of their ideas, aud propose to
prosecute all persons guilty OF docking
their horses tails.
In the Department of Herault, France,
it Is estimated that eight hundred
pounds OF small birds are annually
trapped and killed, to furnish gay
feathers for bonuets.
A pretty evening gown for blonde
with dark gray eyes would be one of
pink cloth. made after the empire
fashion, and having high puffed sleeves
and sash of pink satin.
Women In Finland ,mpete with men
| as clerks, mana ,ars of limited compan-
les, doctors, dentists, house builders
and bank cashiers, in which capacity
they are found more houest than men.
There are made some exceedingly
dainty bodices for evening wear whcn
are most becoming aud useful when the
high bodice of the silk dress Is removed
for the purpose Of making u smartening
change.
Lucy Booth, the youngest daughter OF
General Booth, Is now In India, at the
head of the salvation Army WORK among
the women there. She goes about among
the native women clad IN garments hike
their own, aud lives as they do.
Smoked herring, cranberries, skif
boats and towels are the popular things
In wedding presents on Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. Four chickens, two
geese aud pig were among the gifts
received by drundy County (Mis'ouriJ
bride.
Mrs. Frank Glass, OF Morristown
| (known better as Miss Jsnnis smith,, Il
the champion wing shot OF New Jersey.
She Is twenty-five years old, five feet
two inches high aud weighs i35 pounds
She handles gun gracefully as well -
skiilfully.
A woman In New Hampshire is street
railway magnate, good housekeeper
aud cook, tine shot with revolver. .
first class swimmer, an excellent business
womaa aud worker In tbs church. She
is unmsrried, but her postoffice address