Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-10-05
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| Hannah More wrote 'The Search
After Happiness" at twenty-eight.
Women are to be employed rs drum
mers for a Chicago dealer in gum.
The Empress of China has her own
private silk looms within the royal
palace.
The Princess of Wales is said to be
ushering in an economic style by wear
ing two-button gloves again.
Diaphanous crepes, figured silks,
muslins and all the transparent ma
terials are more tempting than ever.
Signorina Teresina Labriola, daugh-
ter of Professor Homonyme, of Rome,
has received the degree OF doctor of
laws.
Rudyard Kipling is said to have
been Tilted by six London girls in sue
cession before he wooed and won his
American wife.
Mrs. Virginia l.. Miner, the woman
suffragist of st. Louis, Mo-, who died
a few days ago, bequeathed $1,000 to
Susan B. Anthony.
A neat and useful little addition to
a dress is yoke fashioned like the
top of the bodice and made of muslin
cut in holes and embroidered.
Queen Victoria purchases almost
every new book of note published, and
her expenditure on literature of all
sorts is over $4,000 per annum.
Mrs. Eva T. Cook, the senior Vice
President of the Woman's Relief
Corps, delivered the Memorial Day
address at Northboro', Mass, before
the post.
Mrs Seward Webb's new house in
the Adirondacks will have one hun
dred rooms and require an army OF
servants. The cost of the castle will
be 81, 100000.
The newest fans are limitations of
antique ones. Some are of co ored
silk with colored pearl handles with
quaint medallions set in littlo frames
of iridescent spangles.
Nine. Jane Hading, the great French
actress, says: American women are
very clever and intellectual, but the
great majority of men don't care rap
about plays, literature or art"
Mrs. Russell Sage is an ardent nd
vocate of woman suffrage. Miss Helen
Gould also signed one of the numer-
Gus petitions which were in circula-
ton last spring for the "cause."
A prominent figure in the English
woman suffrage movement is Mrs.
Fawcett, widow of Professor Henry
Fawcett, who was at one time Post
master-General under Gladstone.
The remorseless historian has dis
covered that even Mrs. Browning
dropped three years from her age, SO
that she was forty instead of thirty
seven when married to Browning.
1t is a commented-upon fact that
the occupation of trained nurse at
tracts very few Southern women. The
North and East furnish the greatest
number of volunteers in this profess
sion.
The first woman to hold office in the
League of American Wheelmen in New
York State is Miss Amelia Von Shaick,
who was appointed by Chief Consul
Charles II. Luscomb local consul ut
Tuxedo Park.
A Rational Dress Association has
been formed in New Zealand. It's OBJ
ject is to be "the bringing about of
that change in woman's dress which
her wider life and increased activity
seemed to demand"
A new monthly periodical with the
title of The Impress, is about to be
started in San Francisco, VITA Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson as editor.
Helen Campbell will be the assoc ate
editor, and Paul Tyne the publisher.
Jet belts are very dressy and are
largely worn with silk blouses They
are made of jet beads and cabochons
strung on elastic, the strands being
held together with jet slides, and
elaborate clasps being arranged in
front.
Miss Marion Gilchrist and Miss A.
L. l.. Cumming, of Glasgow, have the
honor of being the first ladies to take
medical degree in Scotland. They
have Just graduated from the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, after q seven years
course.
Miss Emma Maud Phelps, whose
strong story Seraph, an admirable
translation from Sacher- Masoch at
tracted such attention few months
ago, translates from the Hungarian,
Flemish, French, German and 9th er
languages.
"George Egerton," the author of
Keynotes, is young Irish lady,
Miss Dunno. Her father, Captain
Dunno, was for many years an Irish
official, having been Governor of
different jails, and is himself an artist
of some skill.
China linen is new fabric used in
making up fine underwear. 1t is es.
pecially suited for summer wear, hay
ing, in addition to its weblike fine
ness of weave, a sort of cool slipper
mess to the touch that is inviting in
warm weather.
Select checked wool for the shop
ping gown. Drape slightly the front
of the skirt and make Garcon de
Cafe jacket to be worn over wash vests
or shirt waists. For hat, take a Ty-
rolean of black straw trimmed with q
ribbon and buckle.