Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-08-03
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Long envelopes are now IN vogue.
The square one is no longer fashion
able
Women violin players have in
creased greatly in numbers in Europe
of late years.
The earring is again in favor. 1t has
crossed from Paris with the bandeau
and monocle.
The deceased Nvife's Sisters bill
has been defeated again in the British
House of Lords
Attorney General Stockton, of New
Jersey, has decided that women could
vote at school elections.
All of the students of the violincello
at present at the Royal Academy of
Music in England are women.
A New York surgeon has succeeded
in trimming young lady's large ears
to size that meets her approval.
The Princess of Wales has taken to
two-5utton gloves, bless her economi-
cal soul, and now the rest of us may.
The widow of General Boulanger
has bought property at Tunis, where
she says that she intends to spend the
rest of her life.
A shopper was seen the other day
in one of the large New York shops
who wore veil embroidered in tiny
rosebuds and violets.
Miss Faulkner, a Virginia country
girl, was married recently in Culpeper
County to Viscount Netterville, who
has castle in Scotland.
The Husband and Wife bill has gone
into effect in Kentucky. The effect
of the bill is to render every married
woman femme sole.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy. the
poetess and postmistress, is such an
accomplished pedestrian that she can
walk twenty miles at pleasant jaunt.
The largest life insurance policy
ever placed on woman in this or any
other country has recently been taken
out by Mrs. Charles e. Longley, of
Providence, r. |.
Mrs. Valentine Reister, of East
Orange, N. j., threw her apron over
a mad dog and held the animal until
uti HdO Ine DTuUC
had already bitten two little girls.
Mrs. Eva NJ Blackman, who is the
Police Commissioner of Leavenworth,
Kan, is the editor and proprietor of
Popuhst paper called the Labor
News. She is twenty seven years old.
A fashion in England is to have
white ribbons and artificial flowers on
the horses ears and upon the coats
of attendants when the brides carriage
goes to the church for the ceremony.
The women's colleges of the United
States are trying to organize inter
collegiate tennis association Miss
Bertha Haven Putnam, the tennis cham
pion of Bryn Mawr, is the leader of
this movement.
Miss Sallie Matthews, who died in
Louisville recently, was for time in
command of an Ohio River steamboat,
with fully hundred men under her.
She was thirty-three years old at the
time of her death.
Nearly 400 women in the United
States are graduates of schools of
pharmacy, and majority of them
have charge of hospital drug-rooms,
or are engaged as dispensing clerks in
large drug stores.
The University of Heidelberg has
conferred the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy on the daughter of we'll
known jurist. 1t is the first time that
a German university has granted this
diploma to one of her sex
Among the many pretty ideas in
dress garniture is heading the ruffies
set on dress skirt with narrow
ruching of ribbon, or else using the
ruche without any ruffie ut all. In the
latter case the ruche may either be put
on plain OF in zigzag lines.
A novel but not altogether pleasing
notion is the use of wide ruffies of lace
between and under collars of cloth
1t seems scarcely appropriate to put
ruffies of the most delicate lace be-
tween cloth capes, but as the fashion
is started, there is no telling where it
will end
A Awoman in Pennington township,
near Warren, Ohio, desired side
walk from her house to the village,
two and half miles away. She circu
lated a subscription paper and super
intended the job in all its details, in.
cluding the grading and building of
bridges and culverts.
Bridesmaids dresses OF sheer plain
muslin made over silk and trimmed
with lace insertion put in perpendicu-
larly, and deep frillings of lace, are
pretty for weddings. With these are
worn large, girlish straw hats. An
other fancy is to have the bridesmaids
wear different colors.
1t is not generally known that the
new President of Wellesley College,
Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, is sister of
Buffalo Bill, the Hon. William f.
Cody. Mrs. Irvine is graduate OF
Cornell and studied after ut Leipsic.
She was Greek professor at Wellesley
before her election as it's President
''Studies i'll yellow" are among the
most fashionable tints of the moment,
and ''sunset" is brilliant shade that
appears among new French taffetas,
summer bengalines and brocedes.
"Aureole' is another very popular
tint so is 'honeysuckle, F." and new
fsDaris oraanv iS nonuIar with artisti.