Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-03-05

jewels.
Braids come in all shades for trim
mings.
Teagowns are of light colored vel
veteen.
Petticoats are made of striped silk
and velvet.
Heavy white satin is seen with sort
of groundglass effect.
The leading florists of San Francisco
and Cleveland are women.
Curled cocks feathers are used O
great deal on black hats.
Fancy handles of fans are extensively
adorned with gold feur-de-lis.
France has had sixty-seven queens,
of whom thirteen, an odd number for
luck, led happy lives.
Golden cornelian is heard much of
Abroad it appears in everything, from
match boxes to brooches.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, there is horse
shoeing establishment that is owned
and run successfully by woman.
Twenty-Five spinsters are numbered
among the inhabitants of the Cherokee
Strip. They have located their homes.
Velvets and bengalines will be used
for coats, and so will cloths, the new
est of which are rough cheviots in plain
colors and in mixed effects.
Pearls, black, white and pink, of
unique beauty of shape and color, are
worn set bud fashion in tiny cup of
brilliants as ornaments for the hair.
A Swedish woman has hit upon
new field for women's work. She has
started in business as an analytical
chemist in town which is the centre
of the mining industry.
New gloves in prune, navy blue and
bottle green have moderately heavy
stitching, ending at the wrist i'll fancy
scrolls. Large buttons in horn or
nickel are in high favor.
Jet in every form will be more in
vogue than ever-crowns, bands,
aigrettes, buckles and sprays being
eagerly sought for hat and bonnet
decoration by both young and old.
Miss Fareedi Flute, of Bayrout,
Syria, has presented to President
Cleveland a portrait of himself made
in mosaic in Damascus. 1t took four
months to complete it, and cost $500.
White silk hose intended to accom-
pany rich bridal costumes have real
lace inserted over the instep or lace
effect woven in. The silk is beauti-
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exquisite.
Mrs. Flora Kimball selected and
superintended the planting of trees on
seven miles of the streets of National
City, CAL, by request of the Super
visor, who deemed her the most COM
petent person in the place.
There is positively an epidemic of
moire antique raging in London. You
may have it in black or in mother of
pearl tints, in combination of blue
and green and brown or heliotrope,
but have it you must if you would be
in the fashion.
The new basket-plaited Eulalie
coiffure is worn with high Spanish
comb set with Irish brilliants. Often
this comb is set in sideways in coquet-
tish fashion. To some women this is
becoming, but to others it is little
short of ridiculous.
Gloves are growing longer. The short
sleeves are pulling them up the arms.
All the shades of red and brown are
worn in the dogskin and heavy kid
walking gloves, while suede and glace
kid dress gloves are in colors to har-
monize with the costume.
Rosa Bonheur is still painting in
her quaint study near Fountainebleau,
France. She is now an old woman,
small, sunburned and wrinkled as
peasant. The grey hair is cut short
and is still thick. As she wears
blouse she dons cloth cap
Nine. Fateno, wife of the new
Japanese Minister, likes American
dress, with the exception of corsets.
She is trying to accustom herself to
them, but finds it very hard to sit on
the floor gracefully and comfortably,
as she can in her national garb
A letter holder is made of square
of cardboard covered with dull, dark
green silk. To this is overhanded
cloverleaf piece of cardboard covered
with somewhat lighter shade of the
silk and sewed at three sides so that
the letters may be inserted at the top.
There are ladies' who would be
strongly tempted to turn back if, while
on the way to church to be married,
they should happen to meet funeral,
and others who would be almost as
greatly shocked on seeing black cat
or a crow, both of which animals are
known to be unlucky.
Mrs. N. Z. Bronston, of Atchison,
Kan, has been setting type for forty
three years. She learned her tradein
her fathers Office, in Newport, Ky,
beginning when she was twelve years
old. She has been part owner of one
or two newspapers in her day, and has
set type in many offices in Kansas.
A new career has been opened to
German women by the foundation of
school of decorative art in Berlin. At