Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-08-31
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men in the District of Columbia.
Fully one-third of the female popu-
lation of France are laborers on farms.
Rich Americans buy more costly
trousseaux than royal mamas provide
for their daughters.
A Winnebago Indian girl from
Nebraska is one of the brightest
pupils at Smith College, Northampton,
Mass.
At Red Cliff, Col, a woman candi-
date for Mayor was defeated at re-
cent election largely by the votes of
women.
The bicycling fashion has reached
Rome, and many of the Italian ladies
may be seen flying about on their
wheels.
Bicycling is fashionable fancy at
present at Newport, r. 1. There are
several clubs, with both men and
women as members.
The young women employed i'll
dairy farming ut Ebling, Germany,
have adopted mems attire, as they
find that it facilitates their work.
Miss Samantha King, apretty school
teacher at Inland, Ohio, with a wagon
and team recently worked out the poll
tax which had been levied upon her.
In the forthcoming Handel festival
in England the only vocalist not on
English-born subject is Miss Ella
Russell, who is clever American
girl.
Mrs. Julia E. Baker and the Misses
Baker, of Cincinnati, Ohio, have pre-
sented to that city statue of Gin
cinnatus, which has been placed in
the City Hall.
Mrs. Lynn Linton, the novelist,
claims to be the first English woman
writer for the daily press. She began
newspaper work in London more than
thirty years ago.
A "Society Of Women Journalists
has just been formed with an Office
near the Strand, London. A register
of women journalists seeking employ
ment will be kept there.
Miss Maria Gonzales Hermosilla has
just been appointed postmistress in
the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The APP
pointment is regarded as marking an
epoch in the history of Mexico.
Miss Angles, daughter of the late
Dean of Peterborough, England, has
been elected one of the Poor Law
Guardians of the city, and is the first
woman ever chosen to that Office.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria,
by severe system of fasting and exer-
else, massage and training like sport
ing man, succeeds in keeping her waist
measure to twenty inches, in spite OF
her fifty-six years.
There is report that Miss Wander
bilt, daughter of Cornelius Wander
bilt, the New York millionaire, who is
now in Paris with her parents, is en-
gagged to the eldest son of an Irish
nobleman and diplomat.
The Infanta Eulalie must sigh at
times for the royal hospitality of her
American visit. Her pension has been
reduced, and she gone to London,
where she will live economically and
bereft of much of her state.
Mrs. Tunis Bergen, who is one of
the original Brooklyn anti-suffragists,
is tall, handsome blonde woman,
about thirty years of age. She took a
prominent part last year in collecting
colonial relics for the Worlds Fair.
Wellesley girls found skirts much
''in the way" when boating on the
lake, and finally discarded them alto
gether in their rowing shells, their
substitute being very modest and
tasteful adaptation of gymnasium
suit.
AS the season advances white gowns
for ladies are the favorites for the sea-
shore and mountains. The favorlte
wrap at the summer resorts is the Golf
cape In white cloth, lined with some
dainty bright color in plaid or bro
cade
One of the newest and most anus.
ing branches of industry that vanity
and worldliness have developed is the
collecting of newspaper notices of dis
tinguished bellies and beauties, and
supplying them in a neat, compact
form.
The new coin bracelets are half
concession to the popularity of the
bangle circlet, which is not now worn.
They are made apparently of half
dollars cut into halves and strung on
the bracelet, with the straight and
curved edges alternately out.
A new shade in Paris is pelure dog
non, in plain American, "onion peel
ings." AS usual, it is iscorrectly named,
for it holds the tlnts of some of the
inner sheddings of the Bermudas-
vegetable to perfection-from pale
green white to limpid silver.
One of the fastest stenographers in
the country is Miss r. Maude Wolfe,
of Boston. She writes fuently in
three languages, and her notes are SO
plainly written that they are readily
deciphered by her assistants. Miss
Wolfe is also remarkably pretty and
highly educated.
The Empress of Japan, who recently
celebrated her silver wedding, is not
only q very pretty woman but very in
tellectual and has great strength and
beauty of character. Her particular
hobby is the peeresses' school, which
she has established at Toxic, and she
has a suite of apartments there.