Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-12-04
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Ivory white MORE is Immensely pop.
ular.
Stylish hats are still in plateau
shape.
The bell skirt still maintains its
vogue.
Hard times have notably affected the
attendance at Vassar College.
Epaulettes appear to be quite as
much feature OF fashion as ever.
Lady Isabel Morgesson has devised
woman's pocket that, she says, can
not be picked.
The English Queens Scoth jour
neys cost her $25, 900 year for trav-
cling expenses.
Five men and woman recently ran
foot race of 200 yards in Henderson
County, North Carolina. The woman
won easily.
Edward Terry, an English musical
editor, says that women compose some
of the finest dance music and some OF
the best songs.
The number of unmarried women in
England and Wales exceeds the num-
ber of unmarried men by the majority
of nearly 200, 900.
At Ferncliffe, Mrs. John Jacob As
tors place at Rhinebeck, N. Y, the
fair chatelaine is often seen riding
about her grounds on tricycle..
When Queen Elizabeth of Austria
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged
after her train seventy feet in length.
It was borne by thirtyfve pages.
1t was after Miss Martha Lumpkin,
now Mrs. Campton, that Atlanta, Ga,
was first named 'Marthasville, in
1S43. Her father was Governor of the
State.
Velvet is to be much used as trim
ming for hats. Black jetted wings will
also be popular. In combination with
black, sapphire and peacock blue will
be seen.
Queen Victoria is a skilful and in
| defatigable knitter. She and her
ladies in waiting have knitted many
quilts for the use of soldiers in the
hospitals.
The new winter coats are thirty
three inches long, made with very
tight waist, and tremendous sleeves.
Nearly all have cape effects about the
collar and shoulders.
The most beautiful silk which has
appeared to tempt womankind this
season is of heavy satin, with Baya-
dere stripe in velvet. The combina-
tions of colors are simply exquisite.
Soft, rich tartans of all wool, finished
with corded silk blouse-waist, com
pleted by bretelles, sleeve-puffs, and
collar of velvet, are among the pretty
dresses designed for misses best wear.
The autumn tints in dress take their
hues from the dying woods. Browns,
reds and yellows, with notifications of
sea greens, are the tints of fall. Such
are seen in the gowns, such in the
hats.
An old-time- looking dress has the
skirt finished with seven ruf1les, the
lower one about five inches deep, and
each one growing narrower, the upper
very slightly overlapping the lower
ones.
George Pullman's daughters give
the names to the palace cars which
their father has built-very pretty
names they are, too-and the very
pretty little sum of $100 is the fee for
the name.
Nine. Scalchi, the operatic singer,
has n collection of eleven parrots in
her home at Turin, Italy. The par.
rots are accomplished birds, and among
them speak all the languages of mod
ern Europe.
The Albanian girl puts all her for
tune into gold and silver coins and
mounts these on her high cap, that
not only the groom but all the assem-
bled company can discern her value
at a glance.
A pretty example of the gray hats is
turban with gimp crown. Gray vel
vet is folded loosely around the crown
to form brim and falls at each side in
an ear. White applique lace drapes
the velvet and the hat is completed by
steel ornaments.
Several men fred at cougar which
had been treed near Five Mile Lake in
Washington the other day, but failed
20 hit it. Finally Mrs. Glover asked
to be allowed to take n shot at the
beast, and she brought it down dead at
the first discharge.
Black Hercules and other braids are