Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-09-21
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This is the age of bodices.

photograph taken.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the American
novelist, is being llonized by literary
London.
Many women wear natural wooi
underclo thing both in winter and
summer.
The Princess of Wales is pronounced
the youngest-looking grandmother in
England.
In the Baptist denomination eight
women in all have been ordained to
the ministry.
Probably the finest collection OF
laces in New York belongs to Mrs.
Jesse Seligman.
The Duchess of York is fond of her
baby-blue costumes, as they are very
becoming to her.
Ouida, the novelist, is passionately
fond of big dogs, and has several CO.
lossal canine pets.
The Queen Regent of Spain is very
short-sighted and makes free use of
her double glasses.
In the village of Senite, in Burmah,
the women wear thirty and often forty
pounds of brass wire as ornaments.
There are clubs of girls in Sydney,
New South Wales, the object of which
is to attend the theatre without male
escort
Professor Bruhl pronounced the
brain of woman to be superior to
mans, because of its more delicate
formation.
Mrs. Ann Wheeler died recently,
aged 102 years, at Ashmore, England,
in the house where she was born and
had lived all her life.
A New York writer, discussing the
imperturbability of the modern, soph-
isticated girl, notes that the latter is
nowadays rarely observed to cry.
The mother of Breto Harte was
handsome factory girl. Her husband
educated her, and she became one of
the most cultured women in Detroit.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, is at
her most winning best when she visits
the sick and sorrowing in hospitals,
and she is specially gentle to little
children.
Lady Aberdeen is actively engaged
in arranging an exhibition, to be held
in 1898, to celebrate the progress of
the work of women during the Vic
torian era.
An ornament which Mrs John Jacob
Astor always wears is plain gold
bangle on her left arm; doubtless it
was gift of her husband in their en-
gagement days.
Miss Florence Nightingale has been
appointed an Honorary President of
section of the International Congress
of Hygiene and Demogrnphy, to be
held at Buda Pesth.
Many of Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu's letters were destroyed by her
daughter, who imagined that the
family name was impaired by connec
tion with literature.
Georgia has female mail carrier
who is only twenty-five years old
She makes forty-mile route three
times week on her pony, and man
ages q large farm as well.
Miss Adelina Robinson, at one time
champion tennis player, has lately
turned her attention to banjo playing.
Her skill in this direction is quite as
great us with the racquet.
Two hundred men and women had q
banquet in Cleveland recently to cele-
brate the passage of bill by the Ohio
Legislature giving women the right to
vote for School Trustees.
At recent wedding in the suburbs
of New York City the bridesmaids car
ried pretty bags made of the materials
of the brides gown, filled with rice,
for the post-ceremony throwing.
Chinese lady spends her time in
embroidering shoes, in cards and
domino playing, in lounging in gar
den houses, in gossiping with her fe-
male friends and amahs, and in smok-
ing occasionally.
Don't" says an authority, ''if you
are going abroad, try to buy shoes in
London. Take all you will need from
New York, for there are no boots IN
London to suit the taste or the foot of
lue AinerlcuH SlIl.
Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., of
New York City, is the best whip in
America among women-or zone of
the best" is, perhaps, the better way
to put it, for this country boasts OF
many skillful horsewomen.
Matt Grim, the young Geor-
gian novelist, had her first intro
duction to literary life as secretary to
Edmund Clarence Stedman, the great
est living American critic, during an
illness he had some years ago.
The singer Albani has very fine
collection of autographs, which she
keeps in a book bound in pink mo.
rocco, embrossed with gold. The first
signature in the book is that of Queen
Victoria. Rubinstein and Verdi have
contributed their autographs
A sailor hat trimmed with white
rosettes, brown linen dress, trimmed
with white, with pearl-colorel gloves,
is the simple costume in which Mrs.
George Gould appeared one day dur
ing the race between her husbands
boat and that OF the Prince Of Wales.
A new dress fabric made of "peat
fiber" is in contemplation, and tho
possibility of using aluminium for
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