Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-07-12
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cycling.
Black satin is much worn for skirts
and sleeves.
Bretelles are again popular, made of
the dress material or different trim
ming.
In tho Michigan spring election no
less than eight women were elected
School Commissioners in as many
counties.
Some Ohio girls have formed an as.
sociation to wear the bloomer costume.
Twenty-four have already adopted the
short dress.
Full woman suffrage in South Aus.
tralia is an accomplished fact. Queen
Victoria has signed the bill and it has
become law.
Mrs. Frederick T. Greenhalge, wife
of the Governor of Massachusetts,, is
an enthusiast upon patriotic antiqui-
ties and Puritan gene ealogy.
Ex-Empress Eugenie has hedge
hog for pet. She carries it about
with her constantly in q wicker bas-
ACu AAAOu WAbA pbuUou blIhs
Mrs. NJ. Terry, pretty st. Louis
woman, is suing an engraver and a
shoe manufacturer for using her pic.
ture on an ad. without her consent.
Bicyclomania is reaching stage
among fashionable people that must
bring about o reaction. It is already
too fashionable for the conservative.
A Bronte Museum has been opened
in the village of Haworth, in York.
shire, England, where the authoress
of 'Jane Eyre passed her early life.
Lady Sutton, the widow of Sir
Richard Sutton, who tried to win the
Americas Cup with the Genesta, is
going to marry again; curate this
time.
Mrs. Louis Agassiz has contributed
largely to scientific literature, writing
jointly both with her husband and
her stepson. She has also written for
children.
One is hardly in the swim at oil
without a needlework and insertion
front Of some sort. These pile the
counters of the shops in literally doz-
ems of styles.
After long consideration of the
subject the Cumberland Presbyterian
General Assembly has decided that
women cannot be ordained to preach
in that church.
The box x-plaited front for waists is
in high favor. 1t is 80 very common
that for the woman who will have only
one or two waists it is wise to select
another style.
Women are employed in telegraph
offices and post offices in Russia be.
cause corporations find them more &c.
curate in details and more careful to
please customers.
Out of the 1000 artists not aoade
micians or architects exhibiting al
the British Royal Academy this year,
1877, over a sixth, are women, includ.
ing thirty-seven married women.
1t is intimated that Lady Aberdeen,
diplomat of the first water, might
have had quite as much to do with the
recent adjustment of the Manitoba
school difficulty as her husband, the
Earl.
Mrs. Lii Hung Chang has 1000 SER
wants, 1000 coats, 1900 pair of trou
serettes and 500 fur robes. Her feet
are SO small that she cannot walk and
she dresses her hair in fifty different
ways.
So much has the art of dressing and
dyeing feathers been developed that
numbers of the seemingly rare feather
boas worn have simply been made
from the plumage of the ordinary
fowls.
Lady Isabel Somerset has arranged
series of mass meetings in the lead
ing cities of England, to take action
upon the Armenian question, at all of
which she will be one of the leading
speakers.
Mrs. Lyme Stephens, who died re.
Gently in London, England, was for
merly French dancer. but marrieda
wealthy member of Parliament. The
other day her art treasures were sold
and brought $705, 900.
The sailor hat, that never-to- o-be-for-
gotten member of the millinery fami-
ly, is more prominent than ever this
season. It has O wider front and
more dropping effect than of yore.
and is garnitured in great variety of
ways.
Miss May Proctor has taken up her
fathers work and recently gave an en-
tertaining lecture for the benefit of
the Woman's Press Club in New York
on "Other Worlds Than Ours"
which was illustrated with many pic
ures and maps.
Several young women in London
have started a novel and sensible
dressmaking establishment. They take
last seasons dresses and make them
over in the prevailing fashion. No
entirely new dresses are made and the
charges are reasonable.
Sleeves are lightly lined for mid
summer wear, and droop gracefully
ikirts, too, are losing the starched,
angraceful effect that came from
zoo much stiffening; they are still
,oluminous, but have no longer the
wooden folds of recent date.
Miss Stainforth and Miss Larpent
have opened an agency in London for
the renting OF houses and fats and to
secure lodgings for those who desire
hem. This they do not only in Lon