Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-09-08
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hand. She takes z. gloves.
Queen Ranavalona, of Madagascar,
is expert with the phonograph.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox divides her
time between dress reform and poetry.
To be beautiful is one of the most
useful things a woman can accom-
plish.
Queen Victoria brews her own tea,
and has decided fondness for orange
pekoe.
Mrs. Stephen G. Barnum, of New
York City, is President of the Ameri-
can Pet Dog Club.
Three thousand workers in the Girls
Friendly Society attended the recent
convention in st. Paul's, London.
An English peeress is training
corps of women gardeners to take the
place of a present staff of men on her
large Yorkshire estate.
Way out in the historical land of
Greece the King and Queen pdy a
woman astronomer named Nine.
Grethelm an enormous salary.
One of Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt's
new gowns is of pink satin, embroid
cred with lilies of the valley, very be-
coming to her blonde beauty.
Mrs Royal Phelps Carroll, New
York beauty, has hunted tigers in the
jungles of India and great bear in the
trackless woods of the North.
Nine de Valsayre, foreign cham
pion of woman's rights, has started
crusade for the admission of women
writer's to the French Academy.
Mrs. Ogden Mills, of New York, has
necklace of seven rows of pearls held
in place by diamond bars; such neck
lace only suits perfect shoulders.
The bang is gone. The brow that
knew thick lovelocks knows them no
more. There was only one bang at
Queen Victoria's drawing room.
Mrs. Richard King owns one of the
largest ranches in the world. 1t lies
about forty five miles south of Corpus
Christi, Texas, and contains 700, 200
acres.
Mrs. c. F. Wells, of Fowler &
Wells, New York City, is the Oldest
woman publisher in the world, having
been connected with the house for
over sixty years.
Miss Anne Bayard, daughter of the
new American Ambassador to the
Court of st. James, is said to have
been the most graceful and spirited
rider in Washington.
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wo, in the province of Posen, of two
girls, who, thinking to improve their
complexion, swallowed a poisonous
compound. 1t speedily killed them.
Mrs. May Raulett has built up at
Rockland, Me-, quite an extensive
business, usually restricted to men
that OF shipping Office, from which
she furnishes seamen in any desired
number.
The four richest of the women's col
leges in this country, Vassar, Welles-
ley, Smith and Bryn Mawr, received
about $6, 900, 900 in gifts of every kind
during the first twenty years of their
existence.
A training home for women in Eng
land teaches laundry work, the man
agement of dairies, saddling and
harnessing horses, and the care of
poultry; besides everything necessary
in housekeeping.
Woman's work in India has made
great progress. There are now I'll
women-foreign and Eurasian-mis
sionaries in India. These have access
to 40,513 zenanas, and have go, Ala
girl pupils in the mission schools
Miss Marguerite A. Moody, a teacher
in public school in South Boston,
Mass, has resigned, after an uninter
rupted service of fifty two years The
grateful Alumni Association gave her
basket containing tifty-two roses.
The development of the lace indus
try in Ireland has been a great boon
to the impoverished people. In en-
broidery alone $4,000 girls are en-
ployed, and ], ,065, 900 dozen handker-
chiefs were sent last year to the Ameri-
can market.
Mrs. Rachael Foster Avery, who was
the Secretary of the recent Woman's
Congress at Chicago, says that she sent
out 5000 personal letters in prepara-
tion for the meetings. She employed
sometimes as many as twelve stenog-
raphers, and often worked seventeen
hours day.
The PYincess Margaret, of Con-
naught, who is only eleven years old,
took her mothers place at the recent
opening of bazaar at Southsea, Eng
land. Her father accompanied her,
and the two were addressed as "Your
Royal Highnesses, much to the de-
light of the little Princess, who was
presented with handsome casket.
Miss Mary Elma Busselle, of New
ark, N. j., is the Sergeant-at- Arms of
the Board of Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair She was born in New
York, and is descendant fthe French
on both sides of the house. She was
first elected to hold her Office for the
Executive Committee only, but was
afterward appointed to act for the
entire Board.
Among the numerous presents show
cred ON the Princess May is magnif-
icent bed cover of geranium red satin
embroidered with lilies and roses
worked in solid gold and silver. The