Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-01-26
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Women are engaged in 100 eccu-
pations.
There are 800 women undertakers in
the United States.
Fluted effects are sought whenever
they can be applied.
Capes and basques are no longer
plain and smooth surfaced.
A London laundry is owned and
operated by women exclusively.
The dowager Queen of Portugal is
probably the best dressed woman in
Europe.
Plaid silk blouses, with velvet
jackets, are arrayed in number of
pretty variations.
The Waltham Matchmaking estab-
lishment employs 1900 women among
its 5000 work people.
Cape Colony in South Africa has
municipal woman suffrage. The colony
rules l 900, 900 square miles.
Low, small dishes of decorated china
or of cut glass are used for bonbons,
and longer low dishes for celery.
White, with pearl trimmings and
ornaments, is very much de rigeur for
the evening gowns of young women.
Silver and gold caps on the ivory
handles of umbrellas are less obtrusive
than last year, being much smaller.
There are few spinsters in the
Caucasian settlements in South Africa,
as the men outnumber the women ten
to one.
Governor McKinley's mother is
eighty four years old and has nine
children, who became successful men
and women.
There is no doubt that pierced sill
yer will be the fashion for many long
day to come. The large fruit baskets
are magnificent.
There are entire apartment houses
in New York monopolized by self
supporting bachelor girls, and they
are the happiest of their sex.
Lady Eva Quinn, wife of Captain
Wyndham (heir presumptive of the
Dunraven), has killed six grown tigers
from the frail shelter of Il howdah.
Lemon-yellow seems to be one of
the popular trimming colors. A hand
some costume of black velvet has
satin.
The women of Belgium and Holland
are noted for their snowy linen; they
attain this desired result by the use
of borax, handful to ten gallons OF
water.
Cups with silver mounts carry all
before them. Very chaste are the
pure white china cups, slipped into
two silver bands, to which the silver
handle is attached.
The University of Chicago puts wo-
men on the same basis as men, whether
students or teachers. Its History and
Political Science Club has two or three
women on its list of officers.
The accordion plated idea is in full
force. Blouses, sleeves, skirts and
even hounces are crimped in plaits of
varying fineness. Some of them seem
to be little more than mass of
wrinkles.
While long and slender waists and
evidences of compressed breathing or,
gans are occasionally seen, there is n
decided tendency toward natural
waists and room enough for the lungs
to expand.
Mrs Augusta G. Hagen, of Phila.
delphia, conducts, jointly with her
husband, real estate business in
Philadelphia. She takes entire charge
of the Office during his absence Mrs.
Hagen has been appointed notary
public.
New tailor costumes are made OF
mems summer suitings There are
sleeves, collar, cuffs, and sometimes
shoulder-rufiles of velvet, but the lat
ter are not thought quite as appro-
pirate as the plain, perfectly-titted
waist with collar and wide lapels.
A lovely evening dress shows the re-
turn to fashion of the costly lamine
gauze, which displays a more or less
wide stripe of metal foil, giving an ef-
feet which, by gaslight, candle or
electric light, is extremely brilliant,
even too brilliant for those whose taste
is quiet.
Poems over the signature of "Annie
Fields, which appear in the leading
magazines, are written by the widow
of the well-known publisher, James L.
Fields. Mrs. Fields lives in Boston,
where she is we'll known for her zeal
in all kinds of philanthropic work,
especially in the realms of organized
charity, or the Associated Charities.
1t is quite obvious that difference
between the fabric of the bodice and
that of the skirt will be fashionable
for some time AS material for in
dependent waists changeable silk has
been used for some time. The newer
waists are made of solid colors, crepe
being used good deal. The plain
black surah waist is favorite, as it
can be worn under the fancy jackets
like the Eton, Bolero and Zouave.
The Princess Maud of Wales is
credited with an original freak. A
little while ago she slipped away from