Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-16
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England has women engineers.
Russia has 700 lady physicians.

the average fourteen ounces.
Corsets have not been worn by Queen
Victoria in over twenty years.
About one-ninth of the professional
writer's in Great Britain are women.
The wise woman is never the first to
follow nor the last to abandon fashion.
Mrs. Mary b. Day has Just been
elected State Librarian in Kentucky.
The Gear is much interested in the
work of women physicians in Russia.
Chinese women are said to regard
the hairpin much as American women
do the ring.
Only six children have ever been
born in the White House and they
were all girls.
Boston has SO many women's clubs
that their notices fill three columns of
short paragraphs.
Mrs. Ju, wife of the Chinese Minis
ter at Washington, paints her cheeks
a bright magenta.
Kansas State University has one
woman in the law department She is
called sister-in-law.
Christina Rosetti, the poet, is sixty
years old, and because of her health
goes very little in society.
The wife of President Dole, of
Hawaii, is native of Maine, and for
merly taught school in that State.
A fee of $3.50 day lis given the ply.
sician to the Empress of Russia when
in attendance upon his august patient
Boston statistics show that fifty
seven girls under seventeen years of
age were married in that city last year.
The Queen of Afghanistan has de-
cided to adopt European dress. Her
husbands pocketbook won't find this
Ameer tritie.
Mrs. F. c. johnson, of Nebraska,
has made q fortune in apples. She is
one of the best authorities on pomol
ogy in the West.
Ellen Terry, the actress, told n
reporter that the progressive woman
sis more in danger of wearing out
than rusting out. "
Lady Griselda Ogilvie, youngest sis
ter of the Earl of Airlie, has, like the
Duke of Sutherland's sister, become
professional sick nurse.
Actresses are compelled to paint
their faces before they go on the
stage, or the lights would give them
the appearance of ghosts.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poet,
does not hesitate to acknowledge that
she has consulted scores of people
"gifted with occult powers
A number of Salem (Oregon) women
have formed ''rainy-day club. 4"
They advocate short skirts and other
dress reforms for muddy weather.
Never roll glove Pull it off
wrong side out, instead of by the fin
gers. Smooth out the fingers care
fully and lay the gloves straight in
box.
Mrs. Kenneth Mcleod, of Cross.
well, Mich, has celebrated her CEN
tennial She was twenty years maid,
forty years n wife and forty years IL
widow.
Women do not know it, but it is a
fact men hate the ''petticoats' on din
ner candles, which often burn and
give a scorched paper flavor to the
viands.
A figure that lacks breadth at the
shoulders is greatly improved by a
short, round waist, bib sleeves that de
not fall below the elbows and wide
revers of lace or silk ruifies.
Cotele, heavy corded bengaline,
is used for capes and coats and for
the sleeves of velvet and plush coats.
Sometimes it is used for the sleeves of
seal coats, but II seems out of place
there.
Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson is one of
the leading authorities in Egyptian
archaeology III this country. She was
one of the judges Mt the Worlds Fair
and is now leeturine in the East ON
Greek art.
Moorish women have one custom
that commends itself 10 womankind in
enlightened lands. Ii is II point OF
honor among them never 10 know their
own ages They have no birthday
celebrations.
Mrs Hetty Green, the sharp Wall
street tinancler, goes about habitually
Ia an attire that co AID be matched any
where for twenty dollars She is shy
aud looks queer, but Is described by
her landlady as star boarder.
Women are proverbiallS slouehy
about their shoes, bit of the toilet
that men notice first. Heels should
he kept straight buttons on, aud sole
even, b. the very last. untldy shoes
will spoil an elegant toilet Rusty
shoes are disgrace.
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lted With che Intention OF erecting
monument over the unmarked grave
ei brave Molly Pitcher, ot revolution
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