Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-01-19
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California has women tramps.

California has women tramps.
Europe has women commercial trav-
elers.
Society women ut the National Capt..
tai have begun to wear anklets.
A woman in Jackson, Mich, has
died from wearing tight corsets.
Afghans for the library are made of
felt and outlined in gold bullion.
A three-eyed girl of great beauty is
said to be coming sensation in
Europe.
During the past thirteen years the
Patent Office has granted $500 patents
to women.
There are entire apartment houses
in New York monopolized by self-sup-
porting bachelor girls.
Nine. Cortessio, of Key West, Fla,
who is not yet forty years of age, is
great-great grandmother.
A maid of honor to Queen Victoria
receives $500 year and has thirteen
weeks of attendance at court.
Brocades in pompadour effect are
extremely pretty and bid fair to retain
their popularity during the winter and
spring.
a Denmark old maids insurance
company pays regular weekly "bene.
fits to spinsters of forty years and
upwards.
The Queen of Greece is president OF
sisterhood devoted to the reforma-
tion of criminals, and she personally
visits prisoners.
Five hundred and two of the 622
students at Wellesley College have
put themselves on record as favorIng
woman's suffrage.
Chinese women devote very little
surerfiuous time to hair dressing.
Their tresses are arranged once a
month, and they sleep with their heads
in boxes
Cream colored crepe de Chine com
bined with fuchsia-red velvet forms a
very pretty theatre waist, and another
dainty creation is pink crepon made
up with black velvet and ietted bands.
The women inclined to embonpoint
have been overlooked, and to her re-
lief comes the stylish pelisse, dignified
princess and redingote, which i'm
part so much slendernesa to the figure.
Marie Janet, the poor peasant girl
who founded the order of the Little
Sisters OF the Poor, died recently in
Brittany at the age of seventy-four.
The order has now 253 houses, shelter
ing 1000 Sisters.
Miss Elizabeth Banks. who was
ONE private secretary to the British
Minister of Peru, is going to try to
persuade the woman wage-earner that
domestic service is preferable to shop
and factory work.
The football game found more en-
thusiastlc champions in the regular
young ladies' boarding schools than in
other schools and colleges where the
students are engrossed in their work
for academic degrees.
Good taste and sense seem evident
this season. The bonnets are small,
compact and neat. The hats are mod
crate as to brim, small in crown and
curving gracefully to suit the form
and pose of the head.
Bonnets this winter are diminutiye
affairs indeed, and elderly women who
seek in vain for genuine protection
for the head are obliged to take up
with the Empire round hats and have
strings added to give them bonnet
effect.
Miss Heldegnrd Werner is the latest
musician to appear before Queen Vic
toria. She is II Swede who studied the
pianoforte at Stockholm and the
violin in Paris. She is also a news
paper woman, writes musical news for
several publications and wears gold
medal conferred on her by King Oscar.
A new school of medicine for women
has been started at St Peterburg Rus
sia, to which the state contributes
$4,000 rubies Annually. The course
Mt the school lasts four years, but
students are expected to work from
one to three years as well in hospitals
for women and children before pre-
senting themselves for the final exam
lnation.
The square, heavy wedding ring is a
thing of the past, and slender oval,
with rs little alloy in the gold as is
consistent with II good wearing quality,
is now chosen, and it is better taste as
well as more comfortable than the
heavy circlet, which spreads the
fingers apart and perceptibly weighs
the hand.