Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-11-30

Minnesota has . dairy school for
women.
The college colors OF vassar are pink
and gray.
There are three times as many wid.
ows as widowers.
Santa Fe. New Mexico, has .
Woman's Board Of Trade.
Belva Lockwood is about to begin
the practice Of law in Virginia.
There are 10, 900 more women thar
men in the District of Columbia.
III Delaware suffrage is exercised by
women in several municipalities.
Some of the Russian railroads have
smoking cars for the use of ladies.
According to the last report no less
than 80, 900 women own and ride bi.
cycles.
Among vassar Colleges forty-seven
instructors arc fourteen of her own
alumnae.
Women are less sensitive to pain
than men, and actually feel less of it
in given operations.
The day of severity and angularity
is past, and the simplest dress must
now have its touch of beauty.
Miss Ella Knowles, of Montana, has
recently received fee of $40, 900 for
her services in mining lawsuit.
Many women who do not use bicy-
cles or tricycles now walk about the
streets of Paris in knickerbockers.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is
laconically described in an article on
women writer's, as "the mother of two
sons and twenty-five novels"
OF the nine candidates successful in
the late examination in the art, theory
and history of teaching at the London
University, eight are women.
The Princess of Wales has great
fondness for having her picture taken
in 'groups." The Prince dislikes the
ceremony rs much as his spouse en-
Joys it.
Mrs. Daniel Mcdonald is First Vice.
President of the Northern Indiana
Editorial Association. She helps her
husband edit the Plymouth Ind.)
Democrat.
Rosa Bonheur, the French painter,
is not afraid of work. Though over
seventy years OF age she spends a
long, busy day at her easel. Her only
recreation is photography.
In Korea woman is poor beast
Of burden, to whom is given not even
name. She is designated as the
''frst daughter of X, or the second
or the third, or as the "frst wife of
Y"
If the feshy women should follow
all the "don'ts," or adopt any proper
tion of the Spartan suggestions to
train down their weight, there would
be really nothing left for them to live
for.
Queen Victoria is described by re-
cent writer as rather comfortable,
motherly looking old woman in plain
black dress, from beneath which is
visible the toe of broad, easy fitting
shoe.
The King of Italy has shown an al
most feminine instinct in his choice
of punishment by forbidding the
Duchess of Aosta from appearing at
court for two months, because she
rode bicycle.
Brooklyn is the only city in the
United States which can boast OF a
female Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue. Miss Lucy E. Ball has just
been promoted to that position in the
City of Churches.
The question has been raised in
India whether it is proper for women
to baptize converts of their own sex.
1t has special reference to the work of
the Zenana missions, which is largely
carried on by women.
Ladies' chalets are to be new fea-
ture in London. They will provide
at various points of the metropolis in
little cottage buildings the advan-
tages Of lady's waiting room in con.
junction with millinery shop.
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. Dean. They are under the same
rules and are required to do the same
amount of hard work as their mascu-
line associates.
The latest bicycle suits for women
are made of wool, mohair, serge and
silk, in all the darker and mixed
shades. Braids and buttons to match
the goods are used in trimming. An
enthusiastic rider needs several
changes in season, as the dust and
heat cause suit to become shabby
very soon.
This is bad news for the girl that
visits the winter resort: A crusade is
being started against the engagement
ring. One of the reasons gwen for
it's proposed abolition is that many
girls become engaged for no other
purpose than to add another ring to
their collection and break off the con-
tract as soon as it becomes convenient.
New York buys more laces than any
other city IN the world. 1t has a least
a score of women whose laces exceed
$50, 1000 in value, and probably hun
dred whose collections would sell for
$4,000. Five hundred dollar fchus,
5000 handkerchiefs, $500 scarfs, and a
$1,000 over-dress are mere bagatelles
in the wardrobes of the wives of mill
| ionaires.