Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-06-07
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Women are letter-csrriers In Hun
gary.
The big soup plates are coming back
again.
Sash ribbons are wider than ever
before.
It is remarkable season for beau
tiful ribbone.
1t is called "betrothal" now, instead
of engagement.
Russian lovers send daily present
to their fiancees.
The crown worn by Queen Victoria
weighs forty ounces.
Bicyclists among women of the
''smart set" multiply.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the novelist,
is getting prosaically fat.
There are twenty-five women run
ming country papers in Kansas.
Women's cycling clubs are spring
ing up in all parts of the country.
Two women have been elected to the
Board of Education in Freeport, Ill.
Muzzles are used on refractory wo.
men in the provincial penitentiary at
Cologne.
The collection of old lace belonging
to the Princess of Wales is worth
$3.50, 900.
The University of Aberdeen has
conferred the degree of LID. on Miss
Jane Harrison.
Mrs. Paran Stevens left an estate OF
81, 100000. She made no charitable
or public bequests.
An authority on anthropology says
that the ears of women are set farther
forward on the head than those OF
men.
The girl of the period holds her
head very high these days, not because
she is proud, but because OF the stock
collar.
The publisher of the Macmillan
Magazine has offered the Princess OF
Wales $4,000 for an article. She has
declined.
A scabbard for the fan is new in
vention imported from Paris. 1t is to
dangle from the waist belt from sill
yer chain.
Summer girls will be known by
variety of shirt waists they have.
One skirt and dozen waists will de.
scribe it.
The number OF fashionable women
who make their own bonnets nova
days is what gives so many milliners
dyspepsia.
Elizabeth Vierebe, who died recent.
y in German village, hal been q
servant in one household for seventy.
nine years.
American women have won great
social triumphs in Rome this season,
and have been widely quoted for their
beauty and cleverness.
john Hunter, the famous ana.onist,
once said that the feminine love OF
conversation was in consequence OF a
popularity IN brain tissue.
Queen Victoria is the only lady SOY.
ereign in Europe who never patron
lied Worth, the famous Partisan cos
tuner, whose death has recently been
announced.
The Women's Higher E lucation In
stitute of st. Petersburg has Just been
presented with the fine library of the
deceased Duke Ssaltikow, consisting
of 1910 volumes.
This is season of contrasting
colors, but they are so skillfully blended
that the effect is generally very pleis
ing. Dark blue and mauve is a CON-
bination in great favor.
Stiff muslin ribbons are novelty.
They are made of mousseline lie sole,
with narrow satin edge, and are
ornamented with tiny branches OF
silk-embroldered flowers.
The woman with handsome throat
will do we'll to adopt the fashion OF
having the top of her gown finished,
not with high collar, but with
scrolled design Of gold or jet.
this summer, especially for trimming
muslins. With plain materials it is
most effective when figured, though
the same gown and ribbons may bloom
with posies.
The City Council of Paris has been
petitioned by the Equal Rights Com
mittee of that city to name street
after Nine. Alboni, the famous oper-
attic vocalist, who left $4,000 to til,
French capital.
Milton, w. Va. has a military com.
pany composed entirely of girls. They
are drilling under the tutorship OF
captain OF the State militia, anil pro-.
pose to appear in public when they
become proficient.
Most of the black hair use in wigs
and "switches" is said to come from
the Italian and Spanish converts;
most of the blon lie hnir from the
heads of Swedish, Danish, Russian and
German peasant girls.
Rufhes. gimp, Iettel trimming. pufs,
bands, bows, lapels. collarettes, ichus.
bretelles, berthas and every other
imaginable garniture AMI style OF
finish are called into requisitioa in
the getting UP OF this part of the COS.
tune.
Dhaubai Fardoujee Banajee, au
Indian woman. carried off the first
prize in the Bombay Association OF
Artists. She went to Paris to com.
plete her studies, aud Que of her pic
lures was accepted by the Committee