Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-31
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China is without "old maids"

head.
A new dress goods for ladies is
called Swivel silk"
The lace frills on the shoulders are
very essential feature of every kind OF
dressy indoor garment.
Miss Anne Whitney has completed
a fine portrait bust of Miss Francis Il.
Willard, the temperance advocate.
Bicycling for women is not popular
in Paris. There are only twenty-sss
wheelwomen in that city of boule'
wards.
Butter-colored and deep ecru laces
outrival the pure white laces in popu-
larity as trimmings for dressy summer
gowns.
Princess May arranged that her we'd
ding trousseau should represen,
nothing but the handicraft of the
British realm.
Beige-colored crepon trimmed with
guipure lace and a girdle of two OF
three bands of satin ribbon is fa.
vorite dress this summer.
The students of Vassar College pro.
duced Sophocles's tragedy, "Anti'
gone" with great success at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. the other evening.
The Princess Eulalia is blond With
golden hair and blue eyes, MS she may
well be. since nearly eleven-four'
teenths of her ancestry are Saxon.
Though women in France are nova.
days permitted to become doctors,
lawyers, architects, ETC., they are not
allowed by the law to sign legal
document as witnesses.
1t is a novelty, and shows the rapid
strides females are making, that the
Odeon Theatre, in Paris, has nominated
a lady, Nine. Jacques Bertillon, as the
doctor of that establishment.
The English Horticulture College
has lately received several applica.
tions for women head gardeners and
one for woman to take entire charge
of the Conservatives and greenhouses,
There is said to be young girl in
Kentucky who has the power of charm.
ing animals. She lives near Frank.
tort, and the widest animals are said
TO become gentle at the sound of her
voice.
Cobwebby crepe lisses are figured
with faint, shadowy leaves and flowers
IN natural colors, and even the stamped
Swiss and organdie muslins are as
beautiful in effect rs some of the
treasured pompadour patterns in silks
once worn by the beautiful Marie
Antoinette.
The Boston girls complete de.
pendence upon glasses is cheerfully
illustrated by one who has just begun
to wear them and who lays everything
to them, even the ''lit" of her new
cape and the bad behavior of their
friends when she is not looking at them
through these glasses.
The Empress Frederick has recent,
founded i'll Berlin home for Englisl
governesses, which is open to American
governesses as well. 1t is q pretty,
cheerful house, where the young womel
can live comfortably and cheaply while
out of a situation, and where aid, al.
vice and suggestion are always to bs
had.
The Mendocino County (Cal) girl
who has gone into the business of trap.
ping shows that the field of women's
occupations is widening, but it is very
doubtful whether many of her sex will
follow her example and engage in the
healthy occupation that nets this
Northern California girl so good rev.
enue.
A milliner in certain city who has
the reputation of doing over old bon
nets and their trimmings SO that they
look Gas good as new," restores the
flowers that have lost their bloom by
touching up the colors. Her secret OF
making expensive roses and other
blossoms bloom again is we'll worth
knowing.
Philadelphia has woman architect
who has given great satisfaction to
large number of persons for whom she
has designed houses. Her work has
included club houses, factories, stores,
seaside cottages and handsome city
dwellings. She also superintends
every detail in the erectio of the
buildings she pans.
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing declares that
she has cured more cases of dyspepsia
than any ten doctors in America. She
has won a wide reputation in her re-
lentless warfare against "heavy" cakes
and bad bread. Her husband was u
lawyer with fair practice in south
ern city before his health broke down.
This led Mrs. Ewing to become pro.
fessor of the culinary art Now she is
the money maker of the family.
Miss Jerusha Lusk, who is char
coal burner in Middlesex County, Con-
necticut, affords beautiful example
of the feminine home-making instinct.
Like her male compeers, she lives in a
sod hut. Inside, however, she has
cretonne hangings on the walls,
bright, neat rag carpet on the floor
Ia movable platform of matehed
boards), a sideboard of the kind famil-
lar to denizens of city boarding houses,
for it is cabinet bed, and pretty
bookcase we'll fi1Iad