Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-02-02
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and red by night, is woman's stone
A novelty for vests for the front of
dresses is of white cloth embroidered
with jet.
Silver and gold caps on the ivory
handles of umbrellas are less obtru-
sive than last year, being much smaller.
Evening cloaks of black brocade are
trimmed with an ermine collarette and
lined with white moire or brocaded
satin.
The Infanta Eulalie, who has been
spending much of her time in London,
is going to live in Paris during the
winter.
Evening cloaks of black brocade
are trimmed with an ermine collarette
and lined with white moire or
brocaded satin.
The Princess of Wales always sends
word to those who wish to present her
with bouquets as to the size and
weight of the presentation. The rose
is her favorite flower.
To prevent the hair from coming
out take pint of bay rum and half an
ounce of quinine. Mix and apply to
the scalp twice a day with woolen
cloth. rubbing it in well.
The horseshoe is introduced into
various styles of dress. The horse
shoe crown is one of the newest forms
for bonnets, generally supplemented
by Mercury wings in front.
Chrysoprase, charming light
green tinted stone, is in particular
favor this winter. Double hearts of
it, surrounded by diamonds, are the
prettiest thing to be imagined.
'Miss Smith, of England" is de-
scribed as the protector of ''inexpen
sive homes for gentlewomen. Among
these desirable places are some small
furnished cottages as low as 81. .25
week.
Mrs. Ellen G. Johnson, Superinten-
dent of an English prison for women,
finds she can control and stimulate her
charges to higher effort by offering
them prettier clothes as q reward for
improved behavior.
Double breasted effects appear upon
many of the bodices of winter
costumes, and this mode is often
carried out in stylish house dresses,
the bodice pointed or in basque form.
and cut down low, over guimpe of
some pretty contrasting color and
material.
A woman mail carrier, Rose Shell
ley, carries the mails regularly be-
tween Dexter and Goshen, an eight
een-mile stretch of lonesome road in
Lane County, Oregon. Early or late,
snow or shine, she makes the trip, and
no stress of weather or fear of road
agents has yet interfered with her
performance of her duty.
A curious fashion has found some
favor in England. The hostess at an
afternoon at home is supposed to feel
sufficiently odd, rs the only lady in
the room without a bonnet, that she
had adopted the custom Of wearing
some head covering herself. AS a
lookeron observes, it is rather queer
spectacle to see the lady of the house
in hat receiving her friends under
her own roof.
One of the latest ideas is to keep
scrap book containing all the refer
ences to ones self that appear in print.
Women of fashion and society bellies
keep them and wherever they go, sea-
side or mountains, ct home or visiting
in other cities, cut out the references
made to them in the society columns OF
newspapers and preserve them care
fully in scrap book, which is some
times beautifully bound.
Gray-white wool, looking as though
it had lust come off the sleeps back,
is fiecked with rose and green or other
colors, and trimmed with matchiaS
ribbons in children's cloaks. This is
the same material of which women S
wrappers were offered last seaso--.
Another new material used for chill
dren is in hilloc& weaving, the tiny
hills that dct the surface being IN a
different color frGin the ground. Lit
tie wraps OF this are finished with rib
bons of two colors. The standard as
sortment of soft, warm, figured i'm.
ported cloths is shown,
Fashionable hairdressers say that
hair brushed to a satin finish will be
worn III blc hcul IutuIc, ulbHouSh tio
fringe of short curls about the face
will be retained, as they make wo-
man look more youthful.
The skirt of the day is no longer
lined stiff stuff, but is wadded up
to the waist with very thin wadding,
and, of couase, covered with silk or
satin, the softer the better, for it is
no longer good form to have the gown
rustic.
Silk and wool mixtures will be
largely used in the making of street
and church costumes for the spring.
In its weaving the silk threads are
thrown almost wholly on the surface
of the goods, and rich lustrous effect
produced.
Mrs. Casey Tincher, ninety years
old, went to Carlisle, Ky, the other
day to draw her pension. She walked
twelve miles and seemed no more ex-
hausted than woman of thirty would
have been She walks to town at least
once a week.
Artificial flowers are worn on even
ing dresses, placed as if they were
| growing at the side of the skirt, but