Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-09
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Paris dressmakers have just decreed
that fashionable lady bicyclists must
wear pulled sleeves to blouses.
One hundred young ladies gradu-
ated from Vassar College this year,
the largest class in its history.
Amelia Sternbecker, seventeen years
old, of San Francisco, CAL, has in
vented a fender for trolley cars.
Mrs. William r. Morrison, wife of
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner, is very able politician.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is IN ac-
complished angler, and enjoys moth
ing so much as battle with a fish.
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of the
late Bonanza King" is admitted the
swiftest rider of all the women who
ride the wheel at Newport.
Red hair at present is quite the
fashion, and women who have started
in life with ordinary brown locks now
struggle to have Titan shade.
The bridal veil of the Countess de
Castellane cost three times as much as
the one purchased by the Princess
Helene for her wedding to the Duke
d'Aosta.
Miss Florence Blackmore, of Frank
lin, Mass, aged fifteen, has just per-
formed the feat, unprecedented for
one of her age and sex, of ascending
the crater of Popocatepetl, Mexico.
Very short sleeves and very long
gloves are the rage among smart wo-
men in Paris. White gloce kid is the
favorite dress glove for day wear, and
parasols and gloves match in color.
The Princess of Wales is fond of
testing novelties and is wholly fear
less. She recently made the first trip
in the great aerial wheel at the "In-
dia at Earl's Court" show in London.
Olive Schreiner, tine novelist, now
Mrs. Cron Wright, is thirty three,
and tiny creature, it is said, with
lovely dark eyes and very bright
face. She is tour years older than her
husband.
The students of Newnham and Cir
ton Colleges, England, propose to
form a woman's missionary settlement
in India, where ladies from the uni
versities may reside and join in med
ical, evangelistio and educational
work.
The New York World is authority
for the story that during her youth
Miss Frances q. Willard was courted
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fused to marry because he would not
abandon tobacco for her sake. He is
now q bishop.
The Arcbduchess Maria Theresa, al
though fragile in appearance, is said
to be remarkably strong and vigor-
ride from Reichnau to Guns and back,
a distance of about 1876 miles, without
stopping, except to change horses.
Nine. Patti says that she hopes to
sing with her last breath, and thinks
that the reason so few voices last
among present day singers is that SO
much of their tuition is forced. When
she was young, she says, "Singers
were not turned out in half dozens,
like oysters on the half she'll"
Manufacturers assure the wholesale
dealers that mohairs are the coming
fabric. They predict for next spring
the same furore over mohairs that
there was last spring over crepons,
which are now passe. Some heavy
mohairs will be shown in the fall
goods, all with very high luster.
Mrs. Lincoln, an authority on cook
cry, declares that Americans can learn
much from German housewives in the
way of seasoning. For instance, in
preparing vegetables they almost
always add little grating of nut.
meg. This is not noticeable and
distinct, but it imparts an unuaual and
most pleasing flavor.
Miss Florence Nightingale, at the age
of seventy -four, is enjoying excellent
health. She is rich woman, having,
besides some private means, the $780,
600 publicly subscribed for her by the
English people at the close of the
Crimean war. This sum she proposes
to settle as trust, the interest to be
devoted to nursing wounded soldiers
in case of war.
Nine. Dieulfy, who has attained
high rank as an authority on Persian
archaeology and antiquities. appears
in the salons of Paris in mans attire.
When she was n bride, in 1870, she
went with her husband on military
expedition to the far East, and to
avoid attention appeared as q lad OF
sixteen, since when she has never
changed her dress.
A London florist, young woman,
who has hit the fashionable fancy of
Mayfair in the arrangement for her
wares, with consequent financial sue
cess, uses black velvet ribbon as q
rule to tie her bouquets. The flowers
which compose them are always
loosely arranged, and the black velvet
snood she finds equally effective with
delicately tinted OF bright-hued flow
ers.