Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-21
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The tiara of diamonds is losing its
vogue somewhat.
The fashionable chirography of the
period is vertical.
There is a rage for "old lace" of
every kind and sort.
Souvenir cups and saucers have
crowded out the spoons.
Handwriting on the wall says the
days of the puffed sleeves are number ed
Evidently the prejudice against
green as a popular color has died away.
Dull blue note paper and envelopes
isthe atfectation among society women.
English girls use artificial means to
make them taller than nature de-
creed.
The "golf cape" is worn by hun
I dreds of women who never saw the
game.
Blonds are not in fashion. 1t is the
girl with chestnut brown" hair who
reigns
In Paris, fashionable women wear a
large ribbon bow and streamers on
one arm.
Large silver waist buckles should be
worn if there is wish to keep up With
the procession.
There's a hospital in 500 Chow,
China, in charge of DIR. Anne Walter, a
Mississippi woman.
The medical attendant upon the
Ameer of Afghanistan is an English
woman, Miss l.. Hamilton.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is said to
twenty-three and half years.
1t Is said that "Ouida," the novel.
ist, never shakes hands. She declares
it to be the most vulgar form of salu
tation.
Miss Lucy E. Ball, of Brooklyn, is
the only woman acting as a Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue in the
country.
The girls Of Gillian County, Ore.
gons make considerable pin money
poisoning coyotes and collecting the
bounty on the scalps
Money and beauty are tempting
bats. Miss Anna Gould is said to have
already turned down three princes,
one count, one judge and an actor.
Princess Alix worked a man-drill in
n Welsh mine she visited and brought
down several blocks of coal, carrying
off small specimen as memento.
The very newest fad among crema.
tionists is that of New York widow,
who wears in tiny locket over her
heart pinch of the ashes of her hus-
band.
The first colored woman to receive
the degree of NJ. A. in the United
States was Miss Mary Paterson, who
was graduated from Oberlin College,
Ohio, III 1862.
Mrs. Deborah Brown and daughter,
of Toronto, Canada, have arrived at
years of discretion. The mother is
lis years old, and the daughter
eighty y-four years old.
Mrs. Craigie, who writes short
novels and sharp epigrams over the
name of John Oliver Hobbs, is an
American, though she was educated
i'll England, and has spent most of her
| time there.
There are plenty of Inconvenience
about being Queen. The Regent of
Spain, for example, cannot take walk
with her little royal son, because she
has been warned that if she does there
will be a double assassination.
The fancy stores are aglow with
stock or crush collars, folded girdles,
collarettes and plastrons made of
Scotch plaid silk, chiffon, ribbon both
PLAIN and fancy. and of cerise, ma
genta, olive-green, black and golden
brown velvet.
The Glover in Art, will be the
name by which an exhibition shortly
to De opened in Paris will be called.
1t will contain representations of flow
ers in needlework, textiles, porcelain,
sculpture, and painting, and, as the
title would indicate, will be devoted
entirely to floral art
The Ameer of Afghanistan has been
under the treatment of Miss L. Hamil-
ton, M. d., young Scotchwoman,
who first trained as nurse in the Liv-
erpool Infirmary. She took her med.
ical degree i'll Brussels, and was prac-
ticsng physician in Calcutta until she
went to Cabul few months ago.
Susan B. Anthony says the reason
why the average woman who tries to
address an audience cannot make her.
self heard is that she does not know
how to hold herself. ''Throw your
shoulders back, " she says, "keep your
head erect and talk just as though you
thought you had something particular
to say to the persons on the last row
of seats. "
An authority upon physical training
says that n woman who wishes to keep
Sin condition" should sleep nine hours
cat of the twenty-four, bathe in cold
water, exercise five minutes daily with
dumb bells, drink a cup of hot liquid
before breakfast, spend half an hour
every day in outdoor exercise, make
the best of bad bargains and always