Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-06-28
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All fashionable bodices show blouse
effects.
Drawing.room golf is'the latest in.
vention.
The hair of Mrs. Potter, the actress,
is turning rapidly gray.
The month OF May is not generally
considered the lucky one for we'd
dings.
All well.kept hair is beautiful, even
if it is as red as fire aud as straight as
q string.
Tho wife of Thomas Hardy, the pes.
simistic English novelist, is very plain
and hG5 severe manners.
Olive Thorne Miller is trying to un-
<erstand the language of birds and is
giving much attention to the study.
The fancy for colored underwear
continues. Exquisite sets are made OF
batiste and nainsook in very light
tints..
Princess Maud of Wales rides the
bicycle, but eschews bloomers. She
wears neat riding habit skirt on the
wheel.
It is stated by church authority
that there are now over 800 American
women living in foreign countries as
missionaries.
Eight out of ten women wear the
pin, badge or other insignia of men,
bership in some colonial or revolu-
tionary society.
The Queen of Belgium was bitten by
her pet horse the other day. Physi-
clans say that her arm will be per-
manently injured.
In Paris the fashionable dressmak-
ers are using for berthas and in other
bodice adorments Venetian point lace
set with brilliants.
A new vest has been manufactured
with corset back, which laces like an
ordinary corset. This insures per-
feet fit to any figure.
One of the tyrannies of fashion,
from which there is prospect of
speedy relief, is the heavy interlined
widely distended skirt.
The first woman to take out natural
ization papers in America was Mrs.
Elizabeth Bryer, of Omaha, Neb. The
date was February Il, 1857.
Colored cambria handkerchiefs in
pale shades Of mauve, green and yell
low, with triple hens of white finely
hemstitched, are new fancy.
The college girls of Grove City,
Penn, have organized a bloomer
brigade, and will parade through the
streets of the town on bicycles.
The continued popularity of the
shirt waists is proved by the demand for
them, which is greater than ever be-
fore, and they come in greater va
riety.
The rainbow pales beside the com.
binations seen on one hat, and flower
gardens are dull in comparison with
the showcases of the average millinery
store.
Tho aged Baroness Burdett- Coutts is
said to be remarkable for the youth
fulness Of her attire, her taste leaning
toward delicate stuifs in pink and rose
coIors.
A substitute for shaircloth comes in
new material called gazeline. 1t is
kind of open canvas which holds its
stiffness, and can be used next to thin
fabrics.
Wellesley College has turned out
1866 graduates since it was founded.
This is splendid evidence of the sue
cess of the "higher education" for
women.
The daintiest thing in handker-
chiefs is filmy web of the finest lawn,
with border Of narrow Valenciennes
lace and insertion just like the collars
and cuffs.
Spangled embroidery is much used
on gowns, chiefly on black satin
grounds which show up the spangles
to perfection and prevent them look.
ing gaudy.
Tartar women have no noses. Two
large nostrils, with small protuber
ance above, are made to answer thu
purpose just as well as a civilized na
sal appendage.
Mary Anderson Mime. de Navarro),
who has been in poor health for some
time past, is said to be now looking
stronger, and, ii possible, more beau
tiful than ever.
The newest ruches are not made o
chiffon, but of silk gauze, which il
sitter and more durable. A wreath O
black roses is also worn in place O
the chiffon ruche.
It is said that Mrs. Frances Hodg
son Burnett, author of "Little Lore
Fauntleroy," never allows her .chil
dren to be disciplined, as she does no,
believe in strict training.
Embroidery hosiery is popular, thu
instep and ankle showing extremely
pretty designs, oil very small am dom
in silk. There are also open worl
and lace woven hose in plenty.
Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Lord Sails
bury's literary daughter, has acknowl
edged the authorship of the recently
published story, srThe Curse of Intel
lect," which has made hit in Eng
land
An authority states in a medica
journal that the height OF very tai
British woman was, fifty years ago
five feet seven inches, while now tn
height averages five feet six to fiv
feet ten inches.
White cloth is used to pipe tn