Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-01-12
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Ermine is very fashionable.

One-seventh of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
Jet ruffling, as supple as rufiing OF
silk, is used on velvet wraps.
About five feet four inches is consid.
cred the average height of women.
The favorite jewel in London this
season is the pale yellow carnelian.
Rochester IN. " University has
decided to admit women in all courses
offered by the institution.
Miss Ahearn, State Librarian of In
diana, was recently elected Secretary
of the American Library Association.
Modjeska, the tragedienne, is said to
be fine pianist and rs an interpreter
of Chopin's music she displays much
esprit, as well as delicate finesse.
The florists bill is an item of rather
vast proportions ill one New York
house-something in the neighborhood
of 800 month during the season.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer is author
ity for the statement that i'll the last
twenty five years 81 / 200, 900 has been
given in this country to women's col.
leges alone.
Some of the smart women abroad
wear their silk and satin muffs hung
on silver chain; others utilize the
long gold and pearl chains in vogue a
season or two.
A clause in the charter recently be-
slowed on the University of Wales
makes women eligible equally with men
to every degree and office within the
gift of the university.
Among the novelties for evening
wear are collarettes of black ''footing,
edged with white inserting. They are
about ten inches deep with double
capes and double ruf1les around the
neck.
Miss Helen Cam is one of the
youngest members of the galaxy OF
Gotham amateurs who love the violin
She is only seventeen years of age, but
avery good player. Her instrument
is an Amati.
The Duchess of Devonshire is one
of the handsomest women in London.
She is very bewitching when she
wears her favorite style of Mary Stuart
ruffle on black velvet coat, and
bonnet to suit.
The Harvard Annex has now go
students, of whom twenty are doing
post graduate work, about 100 are in
the four undergraduate classes and
the remainder are special students
taking advanced courses.
1t is impossible TO suppress the
tendency of Dame Fashion to revive
the modes of our grandmother time.
The rumor is that large earrings, which
have not been worn for long time,
are again to become fashionable.
Women have taken two of the three
special fellowships offered by the Chi
cago University this year. Cora A.
Stewart, Vassar girl, has become
fellow IN history; Alice f. Pratt, of
the Chicago University, has become
fellow in English literature.
The entrance hall to Mrs. John ia.
cob Astor's country place, Fernclif, is
about fifty feet long by ninety-fve
wide. The walls are done in brass
paneling, with frieze of blue and
black and terra Gotta. Deer heads,
almost too many to count, adorn the
walls.
The Empress of China has no sym
pathy with gay and fighty fashions.
She celebrated her sixtieth birthday
by issuing proclamation enioining
general restraint of extravaganza. Her
Majesty has even prohibited the Gus
tomary gifts of silks and jewels by
ministers.
Mrs. George Gould is President Of
the kindergarten and Potted Plant
Association, of New York City. On
each November s she gives ont prizes
to the children who have been most
successful in the cultivation of the
plants given TO them III the spring by
Mrs. Gould.
The sentiment with which American
girls cherish their wedding gowns.
often preserving them for the first and
second generation, is curiously
changed in the reigning house of
Austria, the Princesses of which pre-
sent their magnificent bridal robes to
the church tor priestly vestments.
Mrs. We Cha Yum, wife of the first
Secretary of the Corean Legation at
Washington, is handsome woman, as
beauty in Corea goes, and sweet.
faced woman according TO American
IDEALS. She is modest and retiring,
and is the first Corean lady of the no.
Oility who ever left her native land.
Mrs. Ambrose Griffith, of Win
chester City, has secured Il patent on
an improved baking pan, her owr in
gention, which promises 10 yield her n
fortune. The pan is 80 arranged that
the process of baking can be observed
without removing the cover. feature
that every cook knows how to appre-
,iate.
The hereditary throat trouble which
fast reducing the Princess of Wales
a. the stone-deaf condition OF her
mother, the Queen of Denmark, has
,lso made its appearance ia the third
generation. The Princess Maud OF
Males has tendency 10 weakness Of
'he throat, which, u is feared, will i'm
ialr hcf hearing also.
An evening costume is of silver gray
striped molre antique, faulty fhot
sith apple green and heliotrope, aud
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