Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-08-23


quite a reputation aA An after-dinner
speaker.
Princess Helene, who recently mar
ried the Duke OF Aosta, is ON enthu-
siastic sportswoman.
Miss Emily Faithful during the lat
ter years OF her life smoked cigarettes
necessarily for nervousness.
There are said to be 200 women id
New York City who go I'd Europe
twice d year to buy their dresses.
Labouchere, OF London Truth, pro-
gressive in most matters, is opposed
to the use of the bicycle by women.
Twenty-three per cent. of tha par
tioipatnts in the recent celebrations OF
the Goethe Society In Germany were
women:
Florence, Italy, is rejoicing in the
visitation OF party Of fifty American
young women who have settled at San
Donate and 60 sketching in a body.
Pupils in the Chicago Art Institute
design lace handkerchiefs, buckles,
combs and calendars, as we'll as wall
papers, rugs, iron lamps, freplaces
and CRATES.
Lady Lytton, widow of the author
of Lucille. who has just received an
appointment in the British royal
household, is said to be in quite re-
duced circumstances.
Paris may evolve another Marie
Bashkirtsef fever out OF the sad case
of Motoysi Savian, a young Japanese
poet who has just died in poverty and
neglect in one ef her hospitals.
Those who have seen her say the
Queen of Madagascar is the handsom-
est of crowned women. She dresses
in abominable taste, and dresses her.
self overlavishingly with jewels.
Mother Mary Gouzaga, who is said
to be the Oldest sister of charity in
the United States, celebrated the
sixty-ninth anniversary of her initi-
alton into the order at Philadelphia
recently.
Japanese women never discuss their
servants. To do so would be contrary
to Japanese etiquette. They may talk
of dress, the theatre, the music, and
the rest, but tribulations must not be
referred to.
The number of women studying at
the University OF Geneva is constantly
on the increase. This year 1913, or
twenty i've per cent. of all the stu
dents are women, most of them Rus
SLAMS or Poles.
Sir Henry Irving says that English
women are singularly undemonstra-
tive. Although women admire him
greatly and often form the larger part
Of his audiences, he gets his applause
almost entirely from the men.
Amelia Sternecker has invented o
fender for trolley cars which will be
given trial by the San Francisco
electric railways. She is but seventeen
years of age, but has had passion
for machinery since her early child
hood.
Mile. Marie Lafargue, who has
scored such brilliant operatic sue
cess in London, was discovered in the
Basque provinces by Comtesse de la
Rochefoucauld. who sent her to the
Paris Conservatory, where she won
the first prize.
Long as she has been an English
woman, the Princess of Wales has
never quite mastered the English ac-
cent. She cannot manage the letter
"r," and "channel" she pronounces
s'shannel," besides other little foreign
peculiarities.
The earrings worn by italian women
indicate the part of Italy TIE wearers
come from; the longer the earrings
the further south the women come
from. In the extreme south most of
the earrings hang close to the shoul-
ders; in the far north they are quite
short.
A prize of fifty gold dollars, offered
by the philosophy and science depart.
ment of the Chicago Women's Club
for original Investigation by women
students in the University of Chicago,
has not been awarded this year, the
work submitted being not up to the
required standard.
Miss Ramsey. the young lady who
has gained first class in the moral
sciences tripos at Cambridge, England,
is cousin to Mrs. Montagu Butler,
the wife OF the Master of Trinity, q
lady who in 1887 took higher honors
in classics than any male student
achieved in her year.
In the cities of Japan there is a
large class of women who make their
living by furnishing amusement I'd
ennuied female patrons. They are
we'll educated, can converse, recite
poetry. tell stories, sing songs, play
the guitar and dance for the enter
tainment of those who send for them
Tacoma, Wash, claims the only
woman Custom House broker ON the
Northern Pecific coast. She is Miss
Florence B. Moffat, daughter of q
steamboat captain, and is said to be
actively interested in shipping inter
ests and to know more on matters OF
transportation and commerce thar
many men in the business.
The lady upon whom the great Cav
endish bestowed the proud title OF
"Queen of American Whist Players, >
Miss Kate I. Wheelock, is Milwau
keean-a petite, fascinating woman
engaging in manner and intellectual
in appearance. She has been playing
whist for fifteen years and teaching