Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-01
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The Duchess of Portland is the tall
est Duchess in the world.
Mrs. Roswell p Flowers charities
cost her an average of $3.50 week.
The violet is conventionally the only
flower that can be worn by person in
mourning.
The Queen of Portugal is credited
with making many of her own and her
children's clothes.
Eton jackets of fur are being worn,
and elmine is going to be the fashion
able lining for cloaks.
Mrs James G. Aver has superb
| collection of jewels. Some of them,
indeed, are world renowned.
Colored shoes are only suitable for
the daintiest feet, and display the
proportion better when made with sim
plicity.
Dress waists are worn SO very tight
fitting that it is almost impossible for
breathe properly.
Round waists have lost none of their
prestige, but are rivaled by basque
bodices and pointed corsages with frills
attached to the lower edge.
Denim is one of the best materials
for dress facings. 1t will outlast six
facings of silesia and will not rub your
shoes white as does the canvas.
Buttons are to be worn in all sizes
and compositions, but simply MS a
| trimming The waist will be fastened
with hooks underneath the buttons.
Crinoline is in stock, but it is not in
style. Modistes use it for hat, collar
and sleeve-head lining, but not scrap
is put in the skirt of stylish dress.
A noted physician says that the most
prolific cause of womans nervous dis
eases, Mysteries, spinal diseases and
sick headaches is high boots.
Brooklyn boasts of two women who
are employed as blacksmith and deco
rator, respectively. Mrs. Bridget Du-
gan is employed in the former trade
and Miss Mary Leaf in the latter.
To prevent delicate chintzes and
calicoes from fading when washed, dis
solve five cents worth of sugar of lead
the 6-ess for two hours. Then wash it.
The young Duchess of York has had
to wear mourning twice since her mar
riage. The royal family has now so
many ramifcations that scarcely
week passes that some connection does
not die.
Long hair should never be sham
I
ing stimulates the growth of the hair
and makes it glossy and soft. 1t also
stops the hair from falling out and is
the best tonic for the scalp.
Mrs. Marshall Field is considered
one of the most charitable women in
Chicago. sympathy as we'll as help is
rendered women out of employment.
All applications for help are investi-
gated by Mrs. Fields private secre-
tary.
A hundred and fifty years ago un-
married as we'll as married women were
styled Mrs" Girls were called "Miss"
until they left school, when they took
rank as "Mrs. )" while married women
were very generally addressed as
"Madam.
Perhaps the secret of Nine. Carnot's
perpetually youthful looking pictures
is to be found i'll the fact that for the
last fifteen years she has steadily de-
clined to be photographed She de-
clares that she will never submit to the
ordeal again.
Mrs. Edward Payson Terhune Mar
20 lnfo in,
literary work She has written cook
books and novels, essays and blank
verse, and has now sailed for Europe
and the Holy Land to gather materials
for an oriental romance.
A St. Louis woman has lately per.
fected an invention for making sweet
potato -four. The process includes
peeling the potato and drying the peel
as food for live stock, drying and
grinding the potato into three grades
of -four, and also slicing into Saratoga
chips.
Wellsville, Allegheny County, in
Western New York, has forty women
agriculturists, all successful. One has
stock farm. One was housemaid
her brother failed on the old home
stead; she had saved money; she
bought the farm few years since, and
all its belongings are rejuvenated.
Princess Maud of Wales is particu-
larly fond of assuming an alias and
dropping some of the red tape of roy
atty. Every year she goes to visit
her former governess, who lives in
Devonshire Always the sensible
Princess insists on being called Miss
MILL" and upon being treated as
member of the family.
Elizabeth Banks, once private secre-
.a-y to the British Minister to Peru,
xill publish in London dailya series
of articles concerning her experiences
as e parlormaid and housemaid in
English families. The title will be
"in Cap and Apron. She recon-
mends domestic service 10 poor girls
in preference to shop worS.
The Empress Of Germany has Just
had model cf her figure ma L. to be
used as IA substitute when she cannot
personally have her dresses fitted. II
seems strange that this should Just
have been done when American women
have for some time had forms made
that were duplicates of themselves aud
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