Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-14
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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.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Selous are now
making a wedding tour in tents
through Asia Minor, attended by five
servants.
In Paris hair dye is considered SO
detrimental to long life that one in
surance company refuses to insure tho
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 colors now most favored
by modistes and milliners and tho
majority of the fashionable feminine
world.
The Georgia Senate passed bill
making it penal offense for any per
son to make remarks or write articles
that reflect upon the good name of
woman.
Among the members of the class '95
in the Chautauqua Reading Circle is
young Japanese girl, who expects to
graduate with her class at Chautauqua
next term.
Opera cloaks with big sleeves are
vexing problems to women. One OF
the new models Is SO voluminous that
the owner is obliged to go sidewiso
through an ordinary door.
Miss Emma Frances Dawson, one of
the best women writers on the Pacific
coast, is a Maine lady by birth, and
her most notable poem is 'Old Glory"
a song in honor of the American flag.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, in its recent con-
vention again passed resolutions con.
demning vivisection, and deprecating
the slaughter of seals for women's gar.
ments.
DR.. Y. May Kin was the first Chinese
lady to receive a medical degree in
America. She has now large prac-
tice in Kobe, Japan, and was the first
scientifically educated female practi.
tioner in that country.
Says the Drapers' Record: "Arti-
fetal whalebone is now made from
leather strips, by means of chemicals,
high temperature and heavy pressure.
Originality, even in whales, promises
to be at discount soon."
Miss Florence Marryat, the novelist
and daughter of the famous Captain
Marryat, is to deliver series of
lectures in this country on the follow.
ing topics: ''The Mistakes of Mar.
riage," "The New Woman" and "Can
the Dead Return?"
A peachy complexion, like that of
young girl, was possessed by the
Marquis de Crequy even to the close
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of ninety eight, and for the last forty
years lived almost entirely on oranges.
She often ate a dozen of them for
breakfast.
A lady in South Kensington, Lon.
don, has found new use for dogs.
One muddy day lately she was seen in
the street with parcel in one hand,
an umbrella in the other and an Irish
terrier holding the trail of her dress
in her teeth. He never let tae dress
touch the ground.
The neglected women of India have
now the prospect of skilled medical
treatment. There are sixty-five 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-P -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
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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 availed 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 in
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
eorsage 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 long -sleeved,