Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-28
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Morrow County, Oregon, has a lady
stage driver.
A Marie Stuart, of fancy basket
straw, has an edging of geranium vel
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Ringlets, real, old-fashioned ring
lets, are said to be feature of COM
ing coiffures.
The Queen of Siam has the smallest
foot of any titled lady in the world.
She wears l } in boots.
New style studs are dead white
enamel with the tiniest of tiny dia-
monds sunk in the center.
The death of DIR. Emmy Lange
leaves Copenhagen, Denmark, with
only six female physic ians.
Mrs. Marks, aged almost ninety
years, was b baptized in the sea, near
Rockland, Me-, several days ago.
Vests of chinchilla, seal and astrak.
han are made for wearing with open
jackets, and are considered q novelty.
Mary E. Wilkins's new novel,
"Pembroke," has made great hit in
England, and critics say of it that
George Eliot II ever did anything bet
ter.
Sun bonnets, genuine, oldfashioned
ones, have been much affected by
young women in the country this sea-
son. They are warm. but they do
protect, which is moro than many
sun hats do.
Professor Mary Roberts Smith,
graduate of Cornell and formerly con-
nected with Wellesley College, has
been appointed to position in the
social science department of Leland
Stanford University.
Although Ouida, the novelist, is re-
ported to have made over quarter of
million dollars by her writings she
is now in financial straits and was re-
Gently forced to sell her books and
curios. What she has done with this
large sum is a mystery.
Sunshine" is the appropriate name
of new material for draperies, and
is particularly pretty for pillows
Against solid background is woven n
damasse figure, which changes its tone
of coloring as it variously catches the
light, in true Sunshine fashion.
There are now three women physi-
clans on the sanitary corps of the New
York Board of Health-Drs. Alice
Mitchell, Helen Knight and Frances
G. Deane. They are under the same
rules and are required to do the same
amount of hard work as their mascu-
line associates.
There are many straws which show
the reaching out in these days of the
feminine mind. Here is one. In
Hallowell, Me-, the free library sta
tixtics for last month show 114l books
given out OF these women took 407,
girls 40, against Isl taken by men
and 173 by boys.
A certain paper is envying the out
ing girl her cool and attractive-look-
ing shirt waist, and mourns that men
may not step abroad in similar attire.
This is only feeble compensation, and
scant revenge that women should at
last have hit upon one style of dress
which comfortably clad men may
envy.
Red slippers are not so much worn
as they were. The tan suede low
shoes and slippers are being tride
superseded by the smooth kid of the
same shade. The smooth kid ones are
not nearly so pretty, being cut with
straps to cross over the instep and
with both straps and fronts embroid-
cred with beads.
Etna, N. j., can boast of the strong
est woman in that State. Her name
is Kate Kuhn, and she is styled the
female Sandow. She is only nlne-
teen, but has a handsome and svm-
metrical form, and her muscles stand
out like those of trained athlete.
Some wonderful stories are told of her
phenomenal feats of strength.
One of our country's bravest hero
ines died the other day at Bellevue
Hospital, New York City. She was
Mrs. Juliet Henshaw, one of the first
to come forward at the call for voluu-
teer nurses to care for cholera patients
at Swinburne's Island. She was
Kings Daughter, and her skill, to-
gether with her devotion and bravery,
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were evidence to many how faithfully
she served.
Miss Elizabeth Banks, who was once
private secretary to the British Minis
ter to Peru, is going to try to per-
suade the women wage earners that
domestic service is preferable to shop
and factory work. She will publish
series of letters in a London daily,
describing her own experiences rs
parlor maid and house maid in Eng
lish families. SIN Cap and Apron"
is the title of her letters.
There are eight women colonies in
the German army. They draw their
swords but seldom, it is true, but they
make up for this by drawing their sal
aries with unfailing regularity. They
arc the Empress of Germany, the
Dowager Empress, the Princess Fred
erick Charles, of Prussia the Queen
Regent Sophia. Queen Wilhelmina, of
the Netherlands the Duchess of Con-
naught, the Duchess of Edinburgh
and Queen Victoria.
A rival in iavor of old-fashioned
names for girls is taking place. For
n long time past few parents would
have thought of calling their children