Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-12-07
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One London woman makes q good
living in breaking in new shoes.
Queen Marguerite. OF Italy, has
yielded to the prevailing cyclomania.
All animals enumerated in natural
history are utilized for fur trimming.
The girl of the period resorts to
artificial methods to add to her
height.
Even small women in sealskin wraps
with balloon sleeves will look sim.
pressive."
There is q young society bud of the
Gotham -Four Hundred who wears o
No. 8 shoe.
Every one of England's royal
princes wears facsimile of his brides
wedding ring.
In picture frames for the "house
beautiful" white and gold have great
est popularity.
For the linen closet most house
keepers find lavender both pleasant
and serviceable.
The Queen of England has a large
but finely shaped hand. She wears
No. 8 black suede glove.
The Empress of Germany takes
keen interest in hospital work and is
good friend to the nurses.
"Occasion" prices at the Paris
shops correspond to the especial. sale"
placards of New York stores.
The Princess of Wales, who occa-
sionally tries her hand at angling, has
gold mounted rod that cost 5000.
For birthday rings silver has again
come into popularity, especially with
agate, sardonyx and moonstone set
tings.
Miss Helen Gould goes in strong for
billiards. 1t is said that she has been
known to score as many as three points
at run.
The daughters of the Prince of
Wales have taken to cycling and run
into each other just as everyday
wheelers do.
The ladies of Montgomery, Ala, are
about to present the United States
cruiser Montgomery with handsome
silver service.
Mrs. Ella w. Peattle, member of
the staff of the Omaha (Neb.) World
Herald, has been nominated for po-
sition on the School Board of that
city.
Miss Anna T. Grant, who is at the
head of a printing and publishing
house in Boston, is preparing a pro-
fessional and business woman's direc-
tory.
One of the Washington hotels has
fitted up special sets of honeymoon
apartments. Blonde, brunette and
nut-brown brides have rooms to
harmonize.
An anti-corset league is conducting
q campaign against tight lacing in
England. It's motto is: "Fashion
without folly; elegance without &C.
centricity."
Those who are in the country now
and can secure good specimens of
rough bark, will find it an effective
decoration for special room in their
winter home.
The verse of Helen Hunt Jackson
was ranked by Emerson above that of
most American poets. She was born
in 1881, and her best prose works are
tales of Western life.
Worth is said to be the only dress
maker living who refuses to alter your
dress if it does not suit you. If the
fit is not perfection he makes an en-
tirely new costume.
A committee Of German women has
been organized to visit foreign coun-
tries and study the woman question
under the leadership of Frau Profess
sor Won Gisysky, of Berlin.
When Mrs. J. w. Mackay, wife of
the bonanza millionaire, wants to i'm
press her European friends with her
own importance she invites them to
dinner and sets them in front of a
$196, 900 silver service.
London society women have q new
fad-the wearing of an immense ring
on the first finger OF the right hand.
The ring has to be big and aggressively
solid, so that it may contrast with
small and delicate hands.
On rainy days in China, when lady
comes to muddy place she beckons
to boy. who will, if he is in the bust
ness, drop down in front of her, max
ing stepping stone on which the
lady reaches dry land again.
The cleverest American actresses are
taking steps to emancipate this coun-
try from the tyranny of French
fashion. Many of them have very de.
cided and original ideas which they
make their dressmakers carry out.
One of the few things for which old
Queen Mary is to be thanked is the
big sleeve. While it represents the
garish taste of the Tudors, it also in
its present notifications gives a pic
turesqueness to tall girls costume
that is often queenly.
A new cult has been formed which
is devoted to the eyebrow and the eye
lash. Its disciples believe that the
charm of beauty lies in broad arched
brows and they use all sorts of brushes,
tweezers and pomatums to produce
the effect seen in ancient statues.
Tho most famous jewel in New York
society belongs to Mrs. John Jacob
Astor. 1t is superb combination of
gems, arranged in the shape OF a
stomacher, and contains $50 stones,