Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-30
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Black satin sashes are worn by
young ladies with light dresses.
French models show violets and
cowslips mingled in charming con-
fusion.
OF the large body of property own
ers in Great Britain one-seventh are
women.
Marion Harland has gone to Pales-
tine with the intention of writing an
Oriental novel.
Military braid sprinkled with gold
or embroidered in Oriental fashion is
used to trim wool dresses.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the writer
on birds, did not know one bird from
another until she was past middle
age.
Sculptors contend that the height of
the Venus de Medici, five feet five
inches, is the perfect stature for
women.
One of the prettiest trimmings for
the new bastistes and ginghams is
open-worked embroidery wrought on
the goods.
Flowers are tied in huge knots of
ribbon in front or at the back, many
dropping low over the hair, but very
little side trimming is seen.
Mrs Amelia A. Frost, of Littleton,
Mass, is the first woman preacher to
be ordained by the straightlaced Con.
gregationalists of the Bay State.
A little handbook of "Women's
Employments," recently published in
London, schedules fifty recognized
callings at present open to the sex.
The bouquet that will be most
fashionable in London this season is
called "Tho New Victoria Shower, .
and is composed chiefly of orchids.
An American colored woman, Mrs.
Amanda Smith, is temperance
evangelist in England now, lecturina
under tho auspices of Lady Somerset.
The directoire capote is announced
in London for elderly ladies, but
American women did not take kindly
to the shape whan it appeared be.
fore.
The regulation sailors hat has
appeared with very high crown and
narrow rim, which gives it very
mannish effect, not becoming to many
faces.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, it is said,
received the very munificent sum of
IS for the 'Battle Hymn of the Re,
public" and $40 for her poem, "OuI
ORDERS -
Mrs. Nancy Gilman, aged ninety,
recently secured 100 signatures to a
petition asking the New Hampshire
Legislature to grant the right to
vote to women.
The unpleasant habit that young
mothers have of insisting upon kissing
the baby has resulted in Philadel.
phia organization called "The Anti.
Baby Kissing Society"
Mrs. Frances Crosby, authoress o
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" aut
three thousand other hymns, is sixty
four years old. She lives IN New
York, and has been blind since she
was six weeks old.
Miss May Philbrook is the first
woman to apply for admission to the
bar of New Jersey, and the justices
are SO bothered with the problem that
the whole Supreme Court of the State
will consider the question.
When writing a letter the Empress
Eugenie always uses the diamond
pen" with which the Treaty of Paris
was signed. 1t is a quill plucked
from a golden eagles wing, and
mounted with diamonds and gold.
Judge Newton, of Uniontown, Penn,
has made Mrs. Sarah Elkins u tip
staff of the court, to have charge OF
the ladies waiting-room and look
after the female witnesses and prison
ers and take charge of their rooms
Miss Helen Carroll is said to be the
richest girl in her own right in Wash
ington. She is a sister of Royal
Phelps Carroll, and inherited an in
come of $4,000 year from hei
grandfather, the late Royal Phelps,
of New York.
The philosophical faculty of the
University of Heidelberg has resolved
that women students can be admitted
to the degree of doctor there. In
Gottingen also similar facilities are
permitted, and two English ladies,
who have already studied mathematics
at Cambridge, are attending lectures
there.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
by severe system of fasting and ex
ercise, massage, and training like {
sporting man, succeeds in keeping hel
waist measure to twenty inches, il
spite of her fiftysix years. And ther'
are some foolish persons in the worlt
who will think that Queen might
have rather more laudable ambition
than this.
Zara M. Freeborn, an American
artist in Italy, is credited with having
one of the most attractive studies IN
Florence. 1t is an old palazza in Vlale
Filippo Strozzi, and is filed with the
rarest bric-a-brac, China rugs and
evervthinp else that delights the