Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-01-04

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| women.
There are 100 women sugar planters
in Louisiana.
Gardening for women is engaging
attention in Germany.
Women are two inches taller than
they were thirty years ago.
Evening silks in the style of thirty
years ago are the height OF modern
fashion.
Wealthy women of New York give
more to charity than those of any
other city.
Fashionable women as bicycle riders
are very numerous on the Boulevard,
New York.
The latest fad is to light banquet
table with wax tapers, placing one be-
fore each guest.
At Reading, Penn, seventeen school
janitresses are to have authority to
arrest disturbers.
A deaconess hospital in connection
with the Church of Scotland has been
opened at Edinburgh.
The Johns Hopkins University of
Baltimore. Nd, allows female students
only in its medical school.
The hennins, or huge headdresses,
worn by the ladies of Paris during the
fourteenth century, often cost as much
as $40.
There is noteworthy prepolder.
ance Of females in Sweden. The latest
statistics show 14S,660 more females
than males.
The Governors of Westmeath Asy-
lum, Ireland, have appointed woman
doctor to the medical charge of the fe-
male lunatics.
Women are employed to tend rail-
road switches in Holland. They do
not fall asleep at the switch, and do
not get drunk.
Talented young women find a con-
tinually expanding field for work in
designing pictures for the newspapers
and magazines.
Harvard refused to meet Boston
University in debate until the latter
cut out woman who he'd been chosen
as one of its champions.
The Countess of Wharncliffe cut the
first sod in England for the extension
of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin.
colnshire Railway to London.
Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner is said
to be the best amateur musician In
New England. Most of the able mu,
sical criticisms so prominent through.
out MIR. Warmers writings are due to
her influence.
1t is curioushow many women named
"Emma" have become famous in tha
musical world. There are Elm na
Eames, Emma Caive, Emma Nevada
and Emma Abbott, oil of whom were
or are queens of song.
Miss Florence Nightingale, who is
enjoying excellent health at seventy.
four, is in very comfortable circum.
stances. Besides her private income
she has $250,O0O publicly subscribed
for her at tho close of the Crimean
war.
"Gyp," the French writer of sensa
tional novels, Is Nine. dc Martie. She
is forty-four years old, was born in
Brittany, and is greatniece of Mira
beau. She married at nineteen, and
her eldest child, boy, is twenty year,
of age.
Sleek mirror velvet is preferred TO,
collars, which are cut bias, in stock
like folds, and are much trimmed or
the sides with rosettes or punches oi
box plaits, or else swallow bows with
pointed winglike loops that reach ur
to the ears.
The cynical Detroit Free Press re-
marks that q woman may love a mar
for what he does for her, and the
cynical Atchison Globe remarks that
after woman marries she doesn't see
the point of her husbands Jokes as
quickly as she used.
There is business woman in New
York who lives in daily fear of failing
in business. She has put away thou.
sand dollars in her tea-caddy. This
is to purchase chickens for the nucleus
of stock farm if business manipula.
tions turn out wrong.
Nobody will accuse the artistic girl
of turning her boudoir into an apothe.
cary shop. Still, it is fact that the
cunning creature is supplying her den
with mysteriously beautiful light ut
night by placing globes of colored
water in front of lighted candles
placed on corner brackets.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker at.
tributes her good health in this, he,
old age, to the fact that she employs
an electrical or magnetic masseuse at
least twice week. Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe has the same treatment,
and is strong in body. 1t is theory
with Mrs. Hooker that one can ''keer
young forever" in this way.
A woman jeweler and engraver, who
sits in window in Sixth avenue, New
York City, busily engrossed with her
work, attracts the attention of the
passers-by. 1t is wonder moro
women do not learn these trades, as
their nimble fingers would seem to fit
them peculiarly for the work. A
pleasant and lucrative employment it
is said to be.
Rev. DIR. Phebo Hanaford, the WE'LL
known Universalist clergyman, enjoys
the rare distinction of having been the
first woman chaplain to preside over
body of Legislators. This experience
was hers in the years 10 and 10 al
New Haven, Conn. For such services
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