Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-08
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HoW tippeu WIN SOlu.
Mink collarettes are to be worn a,
much as usual this winter.
Two tifteen-year-o old girls have passed
the entrance examination to Yale Col
lege.
Before long women will be admitted
to German universities on an equal
footing.
A German lady of wealth and posi-.
tion has founded school of garden.
ing for women.
The Duchess of Fife recently landed
in one day seven salmon, weighing from
six to ten pounds.
That phenomenal young sculptor,
Theo Alice Ruggles, is now the wife of
Henry Kitson, himself worker in the
plastic art
Persian lamb, ast1 achan, mink, bear,
monkey, lynx, marten and beaver are
all popular furs for trimming use or
for whole garments.
Hereafter the junior fellowship OF
Dublin (Ireland) University will be
open to female and mule students on
the same conditions.
There are 600 women journalists,
editors and authors in England and
Wales, according to the British census
reports just published.
The new medical school of Tufts Col
lege, College Hill, Mass, open to both
sexes, has been formally opened in
Boston with o class of sixty assured.
Mrs. Hermann Oehlrichs, n rich
New York lady, is member of the
"Needlework Guild" which makes
garments for the poor and the desti-
tute.
Black silks, especially the thick,
soft-finished silks, are coming into
competition with satin-duchesse for
combinations for velvets, black or col
ored.
Narrow elongated half-moons in dia-
monds make pretty brooches, and these
pinned into the hair at the top of
coil have all the appearance of dia-
mond comb.
A decided novelty in Dresden china
is fruit knife stand. In shape it
somewhat resembles little bottleless
caster with receptacles for knives in
the upper band.
Swedish women often work as farm
them on their backs in leather bag,
as squaws carry their young. This
plan permits the mother to use both
hands at her farm work.
The Czarina of Russia, although en-
ploying a houseful of seamstresses,
makes nearly all the clothing for her
youngest children, and also takes their
new hats to pieces and trims them ac-
cording to her own taste.
The Empress of Austria has to give
a written receipt for the State jewels
every time she wears them, and her
majesty, as result, usually contents
herself with her private collection,
which is worth 81 500, 900.
A novel feature introduced at a we'd
ding recently was that all of the house
guests inscribed their names on roll
Of vellum, which was afterwards in
serted in filigree silver tube, which
was presented to the bride.
Mrs r. l.. Willard is an enterpris-
ing Chicago woman. She is the pro-
prietor of barber shop which boasts
six chairs each one in charge of wo-
man barber. Each of the assistants
makes $12 week and half of all they
take in over $23.
The very newest fashion among the
ladies of st. Petersburg, Russia, is to
arm themselves with long canes when
they go abroad. Some of these canes
measure six to seven feet in length,
and as the ladies stalk along they seem
at distance stalwart amazons who
have supplied themselves with small
scaffolding poles or plucked up young
trees.
The so-called gold bonnets, with
crowns of bullion embroidery, are very
effective with pleated brims of brown
velvet trimmed with parrots wings
standing out from choux of white chif-
fon edged, with gold picot loops.
White satin ribbon strings two inches
wide start from the back, and are tied
under the chin in a stiff bow.
The death is announced of Miss E.
E. j. Crop, the first woman who
crossed the Atlantic from England in
q steamer. On April 8, 1888, she
sailed from Bristol in the Great Wes-
tern, under the command of Captain
Hosken, Royal Navy, who obtained
special commits sion to command
merchant vessel. The voyage was ac-
complished in fifteen days. She was
the only female passenger ON board.
Amateur skirt dancing has been
ousted in Australia by the skipping
parties, which are all the craze just
now in fashionable circles. Mrs. Ru-
pert Clarke is responsible for intro
ducing this fascinating form of enter
tainment to Melbourne society. Tour
naments are held on to the asphalt
tennis courts, and valuable prizes are
offered by many hostesses for the laoy
who skips most gracefully and most
successfully.
Daco1ano