Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-10-12
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M1bb NAbEBhECV DeubOu HuS won U.s.
tinction as the only doctor of science
in botany at the University Of London
this year.
The best dressmakers and tailors
say that o dress, as we'll as coat,
should be fastened from the bottom
up, not from the top down.
Mary Frost Ormsby has for tho
fourth time been appointed by the
American Peace Society delegate to
the peace congress. It meets in Ant
werp.
At recent civil service competition
for tho position of sorter in tho Eng.
lish postofice with maximum pay of
80 o week, there were COS female can
didates to fill ten vacaccies.
Sarah Grand, whose 1ame by mar
riage is Mrs. @. r. McFall, resides at
Kensington, the London suburb. 1t
is said that she received only 1894 for
the manuscript of "The Heavenly
Twins"
Women with red or auburn hair,
blue eyes and q bright color, should,
says an artist, wear cream, white, blue
green, black, olive-green, pale yellow,
gray-greep, bottle-green, stone-gray
and amber.
A new kint of gauze interviewer
with gilt or silver threads is isfrequently
usod as lining for net or lace dresses,
This Is rather wiry of texture, but is
very firm, though semi-transparent, af-
fording o very satisfactory foundation.
Mrs. Thistlewayte, who recently
died in England, was in her youth tho
most beautiful woman of the United
Kingdom. She was the original of the
famous picture, "The Nuns" copies
of which arc seen in SO many house
holds.
Miss Millicent Fawcett, the brilliant
senior wrangler of 1890. is about to
begin business career as a civil
engineer. Chicago has her counter
part in Miss Anse Do Barr, who is a
duly accredited and practicing engi-
neer.
Some people in England aro asking
why Jean Ingelow could not be the
poet laureate. She is living in on
old fashioned house tn Kensington,
London, and is now q gentle, gray
haired woman Of nearly seventy four
years.
Silk is foundsto be the coolest and
most serviceable material for almost
all purposes. Nothing is better to
travel in than dark Indian silk, and
the silk waists which everybody wears
are even cooler than washable shirt
waists
The cross Of the Legion OF Honor
has been conferred on the wife of
Adrien Demont, whom some think
better painter than her husband. She
is daughter OF Jules Breton, aud is
thus entitled by right OF birth to bo
an artist.
Silk skirts for winter wear are han-
mel lined. The trimming on them
consists usually Of pinked ruf1le of
the same. These skirts are made usu-
ally like dress skirt, haring little
less widely; or with front gore and
straight sides and back.
Mrs. e. G. Sutherland carried OF
the third prize, $3.50, in the Mcclure
Syndicate short story competition.
Mrs. Sutherland's story is called
"Dikkon's Dog, and, like her favorite,
"Two Corporals, lis an army yarn, deal
ing with the rank and file.
Mrs. Edmund Yates, it is reported,
carries about with her. wherever she
goes, the ashes of her late lamentel
husband, who, it will be remembered,
was cremated. They are enclosed in
an air tight receptacle, and this is
fitted into a little travelling bag made
for the purpose.
Besides the woman astronomer, Miss
Clarke, London has woman lawyer
and woman entomologist, Miss
Ormonde. whose work on tho Colorado
beetle is famous Missouri, too, has
u woman entomologist in Miss Murt-
field, the credit for whose admirable
work goes to some one III the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Miss Eleanor Hewitt, the Oldest un.
married daughter Of ex-Mayor Hewitt,
has been roadmaster at Ringwood, N.
j., where their country home is stu.
ated, for several years, and very
good one she has been, too. An arti-
clio on road making has been con-
tributed to New York weekly re-
Gently by Miss Hewitt.
A soft gray or brown alpaca with
skirt we'll cut, and coat or bodice SIM
ply made, according to taste or re-
quirement, can be handsomely trimmed
with piece or ribbon velvet, moire, or
bengaline, severally, according to the
selected style, and the result be
stylish and ladylike costume fit for
any ordinary occasion.
Many society ladies' consult as-
trologers, either to kill time or be-
cause they have faith in the events
foretold. Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, of
New York, quite frequently has her
horoscope cast, paying for this
privilege about $40. She does not
consult an ordinary seeress, but one
who visits New York twice year.
A novel French corset is made of
silk net with elastic cores. It is low
cut and rather short, and is laced in
front, the lacing passing around small
but very strong hooks insteal Of
through metal trimmed eyelets. 1t is
claimed that this corset can be laced
to fit very snugly and with less discom-
fort than with tho old style Of lacing.