Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-11
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Ribbon, $3 yard, goes on white
baskets that cost 81.

AlShtluu DOW eueCUS III buOrb plulleS
are among the novelty hat trimmings.
New artificial flowers for house dec
Grafton will almost deceive the florist.
A generous sign of the times is in
crease in size of wedding cake boxes.
'Brownie" toques are shown for
children. and are i'm nensely popular.
Chinchilla capes are among the most
elegant garments of the winter sea-
son.
Many grotesque styles masquerade
these days as alleged colonial fash
ions.
Bangles coming back are period
of what cai be called prolonged neg
lect.
Purses for women made of the now
highly fashionable chinchilla fur are
new.
New piano covers are of scarlet
plush, beautifully embroidered in
gold.
Large round yoke collars of lace
have the pattern outlined with a silk
cord.
Dealers say the pointed shoes have
reached the limit. and will now de.
cline.
Large, stout women wearing the
small derby make even the melancholy
smile.
Dull blue and French gray station
cry is having run equal to through
train.
Tight lacing, and not dyspepsia, is
what makes SO many disagreeable $50
ciety women.
An inmate of an old ladies' homo in
Bath. Me-, has put l /, 905, COS stitches
into a crazy quit not yet finished.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York,
though possessed of many millions, es-
capes with an assessment upon SO, 900.
Lady Carlisle is training staff of
women to take charge of her estate in
Yorkshire, England, in place OF men.
Queen Margaret, of Italy, is to re.
ceive costly gift. The Yoloce Club,
of Milan, has decided to give her
golden bicycle.
The wife of Representative Blair, OF
New Hampshire, is about to publish
novel of New England life. The book
is to be entitled 'Lisbeth Wilson"
Miss DR.. Jennie Taylor, niece of
Bishop Taylor, of Africa, and physi-
clan in his mission work, recently
walked 500 miles inland, and was not
slclx n ta of onu TINA
The Dowager Czarina is Grand Mis-.
tress of the Ladies' Order of st. Cath
arine, founded by Peter the Great.
The badge of the Order is the first fe-
male decoration in Europe.
There is society in China called
the Heavenly Foot Society,"" the
members of which are pledged not to
marry any woman whose foot has been
cramped of its natural growth.
1t is strange that we always think
of Anna Katharine Green as writer
of detective stories when, in reality,
only five of her fifteen published
books belong to that class OF fiction.
Mrs. Bradley Martins titled daugh-
ter is known in Eugllsh society as
"little Lady Craven" because of her
diminutive size, youth and childish
manners, which have fascinated the
nobility.
Mrs. Langtry, the professional
beauty, is said to attribute the per.
feet health she is now enjoying to her
long walks, regardless of weather.
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usual for her.
Queen Victoria received three prizes
at the Smithfield cattle show and the
Prince of Wales captured two. Brit
ish royalty either raises fine cattle or
has u strong ''pull" with the judges at
the prize exhibitions.
Mrs. l.. A. Starkweather, of Kan.
sas City, Mo-, one of the first women
solicitors OF life insurance, says she
finds no difficulty in inducing women
to insure. In one month she wrote
$211 900 on the lives of women.
1t is said that Lord Beaconsfeld's
most successful compliment to tho
Queen was: "Authors, madame, like
your Majesty and myself. " She
thinks that she is an author, and takes
great pride in the book which she has
written.
Through the Jealous efforts of Nine.
Henri Schmal, editor of the organ of
the French New Woman, bill has
been approved by committee of the
French Chamber giving women full
control over the product of their per-
sonal industry.
Mile. Louise Nikita, who is an
American girl, and descendant OF
Daniel Boone, has made the great op.
cratic success of the season in Paris as
Mignon. The composer of the opera
says that she is the only artist that
ever sung and acted it to his entire
satisfaction.
When the late DR.. McCosh first
came to Princeton his daughters some
what astonished gallant undergradu-
ates who took the young ladies out to
walk. 1t was no mere easy jaunt of O
mile or 80 that the Presidents daugh-