Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-01-11
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Deep lace collars are tie vogue.

Deep lace collars are tie vogue.
Women's work in India has made
great progress.
There are now I'll women mission
aries-foreign and Eurasian-in India.
In single sawmiIl in Washington
State two women work on shingle ma
chimes.
French law makes it the duty of a
wife to accompany her husband where
ever he goes.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is said to
be twenty-three and half years.
Mrs. Emma Scott, of Birmingham,
was elected enrolling and engrossing
clerk by the Alabama State Senate.
Opalescent colors are again coming
into favor, and garnitures of opales-
cent beads are in the very height of
fashion.
Women have recently been appoint
ed to clerkships in the Bank of Eng
land, after passing preliminary exam
ination.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Selous are now
making wedding tour in tents
through Asia Minor, attended by five
servants.
Miss Lizzie Darlington, q daughter
of ex-Congressman Darlington, of
West Chester, Penn, is about to be-
come lawyer.
In Paris hair dye is considered SO
detrimental to long life that one in
surance company refuses to insure the
lives of women that use it.
Black and yellow are favorite COM
combination. Fine, soft black net
over lemon-colored silk is specially
becoming to spirited brunette.
Miss Francis E. Willard says that
good cooking is essential to human
happiness, while bad cooking has
driven thousands of men to drink.
Bluet blue. cerise and magenta pink
are the three oolors now most favored
by modistes and milliners and the
majority of the fashionable feminine
world.
The neglected women of India have
now the prospect of skilled medical
treatment. There are sixty-fve hos
pitfalls and dispensaries now affiliated
to the Countess of Dufferin's fund for
supplying medical aid to them, ten Of
these having been built, and kept up
by native Princes.
Nine. Casimir-Perier has received
so many disgusting and insulting
letters since her husband became
President of France, and has been SO
upset by the many ugly drawings in
closed, that her correspondence is now
opened by secretary before being
handed to her for perusal.
1t is said that red parasol destroys
in great measure the actinic power
of the sun, ard must therefore keep
the skin from freckles. Photograph
ers long ago availel themselves of
this popularity Of light transmitted
through red medium, and it seems
reasonable to SUPPOSE that red shade
might protect the complexion.
The most noteworthy feature i'll
general style is the continued popu-
larity of the bodice unlike the skirt.
With the exception ofthe huge sleeve,
which often matches the skirt, the
corsage is generally in contrast to it.
As many as three corsages are fur
nished with one expensive velvet skirt !:
low-necked bodice for elaborite
wear, high-necked bodice, with demi-
sleeves, for dinner, and a long g-sleeved,
high bodice.
The collar has become almost as
much an objective point of the waist
as the sleeves. Large rosettes on
either side and at the back, and some-
times in front, give fulness around
the throat in the effect of a ruche
Sometimes huge bow Of lace and
chiffon is placed high up on the left
side of the collar. which no longer lies
in closely drawn folds, but is often
puffed and fulled in various ways to
increase its size.