Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-27
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A solid silver glove stretcher cost

A Solld silver glove Stretcher costs
$15.
Black satin sashes are worn by
young ladies with light dresses.
French models show violets and
cowslips mingled in charming con-
fusion.
OF the large body of property own
ers in Great Britain one seventh are
women.
Marion Harland has gone to Pales-
tine with the intention of writing an
Oriental novel.
Military braid sprinkled with gold
or embroidered in Oriental fashion is
used to trim wool dresses.
The jet bands and tiny fringes of
spangles and fine cut beads are to be
very much in evidence on hat brims.
Jet bonnets from Paris are in small,
close Puritan shapes, with wreath of
violets over the face and at the back.
Mrs. Nancy Gilman, aged ninety,
recently secured 100 signatures to a
petition asking the New Hampshire
Legislature to grant the right to
vote to women.
The unpleasant habit that young
mothers have of insisting upon kissing
the baby has resulted in Philadel-
phia organization called "The Anti
Baby Kissing Society
Mrs. Frances Crosby, authoress of
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and
three thousand other hymns, is sixty
four years old. She lives In New
York, and has been blind since she
was six weeks old.
Miss May Philbrook is the first
woman to apply for admission to the
bar of New Jersey, and the justices
are SO bothered with the problem that
the whole Supreme Court of the State
will consider the question.
When writing letter the Empress
Eugene always uses the diamond
pen" with which the Treaty of Paris
was signed. 1t is quill plucked
from golden eagles wing. and
mounted with diamonds and gold.
Judge Newton, of Uniontown, Penn.
has made Mrs. Sarah Elkins a tip.
staff of the court, to have charge of
the ladies' waiting-room and look
after the female witnesses and prison
ers and take charge of their rooms.
Miss Helen Carroll is said to be the
richest girl in her own right in Wash
ington. She is sister of Royal
Phelps Carroll, and inherited an in
come of $40, 600 n year from her
grandfather, the late Royal Phelps,
of New York.
The philosophical faculty of the
University of Heidelberg has resolved
that women students can be admitted
to the degree of doctor there. In
Gottingen also similar facilities are
permitted, and two English ladies,
who have already studied mathematics
at Cambridge, are attending lectures
there.
In the style of dressing the hair
there is a tendency to loosen the front,
wave it over the ears, and fasten it
into bunch of curls, which must be
tied with a watered ribbon at the back.
Gray hair has become so fashionable
that whatever the color may be the
lHlebU ihty Is W wear Que llttle CuTl OI
gray at the side of the forehead.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
by severe system of fasting and ex-
ercise, massage, and training like a
sporting man, succeeds in keeping her
waist measure to twenty inches, in
spite of her fifty-six years And there
are some foolish persons in the world
who will think that a Queen might
have a rather more laudable ambition
than this.
Zara NJ. Freeborn, an American
artist in Italy, is credited with having
one of the most attractive studies in
Florence. 1t is an old palazza in Viale
Filippo Strozzi, and is filed with the
rarest bric-a-brac, China rugs and
everything else that delights the
heart of an artist. Her "Naiad, study
in marble, is nearly finished, and is
pronounced by connoisseurs a master
piece.
Mrs. William Tod Helmuth, of New
York City, who has been elected Pres
ident of Sorosis, is hardly the woman
to please the advanced" element, for
she disavows any belief in the general
superiority of one sex to the other and
owes great deal of her influence, her
knowledge and her liberality to her
gifted husband, who has made her his
confidante, his assistant and his other
half on all occasions