Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-02-23
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O1XJy- elgnU Mar y oInlUnB are students
this year in Smith College, New York.
The Duchess of York has set up
swing for the amusement of her guests
in wet weather.
The Queen of Italy is bringing out a
volume of folk lore, the result of her
summer holiday.
1t is said that fencing is to be the
fashionable exercise for ladies this
season in London.
Within a year Eleanor E. Greatorex
has become one of the best-known of
American illustrators.
The English Queens favorite wall
paper has bright blue ground
sprinkled with white stars.
Miss Clay, of Lexington, KY, will
be candidate for the Office of City
School Superintendent of that city.
1t is point of honor that Moorish
women never know their own ages.
They have no birthday celebrations.
Miss Green, young lady from
Cardiganshire, is the present English
governess to the Emperor of Ger
many's children.
Ornithologists are quoted as esti-
mating the number of birds annually
sacrificed to the vanity of the women
of America" at 100000.
Miss Herbert, the daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy, has character
istic mode of dressing, and is said to
design most of her own gowns.
Katherine Lee Bates, Professor of
English literature at Wellesley Col
lege, has lately brought out a volume
on "The Early English Drama"
Mrs. John Clay, the widow of a
Kentucky stock breeder, left direc-
tions in her will that each superanu-
ated animal on her stock farm should
be cared for at a yearly expense OF
$50 to the estate.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, daughter OF
the Earl of Aberdeen, is three years
old, and greatly resembles her charm
ing mother in appearance. She is the
editor of "Wee Willie Wrinkle" a
paper for children.
The youngest Queen Consort OF
Europe, the Queen of Portugal, was
born Mt Twickenham in England She
was the favorite child of the Comte de
Paris, and is brave and graceful
horsewoman. She has two little sons.
Women organizations are becoming
go numerous and popular in New
York City that 81 saw you at the club
the other day is remark frequently
to be heard among women as they
meet in the shops and on the streets.
One of the greatest authorities on
pomo!ogy in the West is Mrs. F. O.
Johnson, of Hastings, Neb. She is de
scribed as ''very charming in man
ners and stylish in figure. She is q
fascinating talker, and has made q
fortune raising apples.
1t is fact of interest that Nine
Eva Nansen, the Arctic explorers
wife, is regarded as being next tC
Nine. Greig, the finest romance singer
in Norway. A vocal recital she gave
in Christiania recently was attended by
the royal family and crowded audi
ence.
The widow OF Frederick L. Ames
has presented to the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts, in memory of her hus-
band, two ife-size portraits by Rem
brandt valued at $40, 900 each. One
is u portrait of DIR. Tulpp, dated 1854,
and the other of his wife bears the
same date.
What may yet be popular? No one
knows, but there is wild talk, as there
is always talk, of sedan chairs to &c
with the paniers which are certainly
coming. One lady says that sedan
chairs would "give work to the unem
ployed." So would breaking stones
or the treadmill.
Mrs. John Sherwood, of New York
City, has undertaken crusade in be-
half of servant girls. Within ten
DAYS, she says, she succeeded in per
suading eighteen shop girls to take
positions as domestics in the country.
She then adds, "What could one hun
dred women accomplish in twenty
days?"
Next To Mrs. Cievelands fondnes,
for quaint, old things comes her fond
less for clocks, which is fully graft
led, as more than twenty hands lme
ones and many small ones came IA
wedding gifts. The clocks are in every
room, and are placed SO that they har'
nonize with the other furnishings
Boston boasts of two young women
who are composers Miss Helen Hood
and Miss Margaret Lang The Apollo
Club, one of Boston's : musical societies
has set the seal of It's high approval
upon the compositions OF these younl
gomen, and musicians praise theii
work. SO far they have both confines
themselves to song writing.
The first woman 10 be appointed up
~ the Illinois State Board of Charl'
ties Is Miss Lathrop In the cours'
II her visits 10 charitable institutions
fully on partially supported bY th'
State, she has found many abuses, ana
has appealed ~ the Wumea's Clubs e
I Chicago aud other cities g. aid her
through their individual memhcrs, n
lhr work ui d,seosei ins aud correct
ug daieets ~ manaYements.
A.lss catherine Hogan reeuntll
passed thr reeoui highest examination
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