Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-13
GOSSIP.

Mrs. Gladstone is q very fine organ
ist and still plays occasionally at
chapel worship.
DR.. Jennie M. Taylor has gone to
Africa, the first dental missionary
among women.
Over twenty National organizations
were represented at the Woman's Con-
ference in session at Atlanta, Ga.
If ladies are to be entirely in the
style nowadays they must wear jewels
that match the color of their eyes.
Rev. Thomas Dixon's new Church
OF the People, in New York City, has
a board of deacons, half of whom are
women.
There are now twenty-five women
in Chicago who are practising lawyers,
and fifteen more will soon be admitted
to the bar.
Women inventors took out 400
patents in 1894. OF these 100 were
for articles of wearing apparel and 100
for cooking utensils.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New York
City, has two fads which she rides to
their utmost trength-diamonds and
athletics. She is also lovely dancer.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York City, though very domestic
woman, despises the petty details of
Housekeeping, and leaves all the re-
sponsibility to the manageress.
Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Eastman occupy
the pulpit of Park Street Church,
Elmira, N. Y. They share the parish
work, conduct the service together
and in turn preach the sermon.
Mrs. George B. De Forrest, of New
York City, collects fans. She has one
of old point lace and pearl which be-
longed to the Pompadour. 1t has on
it painted portrait of Louis XIV.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr says she wrote
"The Bow of Orange Ribbon" in less
than six weeks. Previously, however,
she declares she had read eighty books
in order to get the necessary Dutch
history.
Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer, of New
York City. has in her stables some
very valuable horses, and her husband
is an expert at driving "four," but
she never drives when she can possibly
avoid it.
Miss Rose O'Hallaran, of the Lick
Observatory, California, is one of the
abiest women astronomers of the
world. She is furnishing series of
astronomical articles to the San Fran
cisco Call.
Mrs. Gould, wealthy New York
widow, has the distinction of having
built railroad-the Covington and
Macon Railroad, in Georgia-which
was the development of her enterprise
and money.
Some Of the friends OF Governor
Atkinson, of Georgia, have presented
handsome gold watch each to Miss
Sawyer and Miss Burton, the two
young women who nursed him through
his recent dangerous illness.
The newest colors are blue shade
of steel called "Valkyrie. various
shades of red of the American Beauty
rose order or color, pinkish yellow,
Gismonda purple, the ''bluet" shades
of blue and shades of emerald green.
General Sherman's daughter, Mrs.
Eleanor Sherman Thackara, is a wo-
man of literary attainments, and has
contributed some practical articles on
training school work to the magazines.
She lives very quietly in Philadelphia.
Miss Alice King, the English novel.
ist, who has been blind since she was
seven years old, is an accomplished
and fearless horsewoman and gallops
over hills ard rough moorland paths
impossible to any but the most pro-
ficient rider.
At a recent wedding the group OF
elk bridesmaids made charming pic
ture in their frocks of simple white
silk, with white satin waist ribbons
and large white velvet picture hats,
with violets and black feathers. Each
carried large basket of violets.
They have q native woman lawyer
in Japan, but only one. Her name is
Nine. Tel Sono. She was educated in
England. and while actively engaged
in the duties of her profession, takes
a great interest in the welfare of her
sex. Nine. Tel Sono has founded a
training college for women.
Mrs. jennie King is Georgia wo-
man who is winning laurels as ap
evangelist. She holds remarkable re-
vival meetings through the South, and
her eloquence is described as phenom-
email, although her education is a
limited one. She is pretty young
woman of twenty-eight, the wife Of a
prosperous farmer, who does not OBJ
iect to her preaching.