Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-07-19

Ribbon is growing moro and more

Ribbon is growing moro and more
popular.
The Bishop OF London has joined
the ranks OF the women sufragists.
Transparencies of lace are let into
many of the skirts with very good
effect.
Our modern housemaid insists upon
large bow instead Of cap on her
head.
Among the newest materials are
embroidered crepons, with tiny dots
in Dresden colorings.
Philadelphia hotels have abandoned
the rule against the entertainment Of
women unaccompanied.
Twenty-one neighboring farm
houses in North Paris. Me-. have sent
out twenty-four schoolmarms.
The Princess of Wales adorns her
boudoir with curious patterns of
skates of oil countries and ages.
New black lace butterfly evening
bonnets are studded with tiny shine
stones, with very brilliant effect.
The grass linen embroidery and
Valenciennes lace are seen as trim
ming on the most diverse materials.
1t isn't called "women's rights" or
s'women's suffrage" any more. 1t is
"equal rights" in the new parlance.
Many women wear the hair combei
down over the ears and waved out at
the side like the old style of forty years
ago.
There are said to be over 1000 women
in New York who, in one way or an
other, make their living by their
pens.
Louis Imogen Gurney, the New
England postmistress-poet, has start
cd on walking trip through Eng.
land.
The first woman to apply for and
get place on police force was Miss
Edith Walker of Bogota, Colombia. in
1894.
1t is said that the ex-Queen Isabella
of Spain is the godmother of more
children than any other woman in the
world.
Tho first paper devoted to woman
suffrage over published was the Una,
edited by Mrs. Paulina Davis, OF Prov.
idence, r. !.
Dona Manuella Palido, the first and
only woman lawyer in Spain, opened
an office in the Spanish capital in
February, 1894.
A woman drummer, representing a
Boston Mass wholesale drug house,
has, invaded Kentucky, and is taking
in the larger towns.
The first European women to marry
q native of Burmah was Miss Mabel
Cosgrove, who married Chan-Toon, Of
Rangoon, in January, 1894.
The Misses Brice, daughters of SEN
ator Brice, of Ohio, will make bicycle
and kodak tour of the rural districts
Of France during the summer.
Pompadour silks aud those with
chine grounds in soft colors of blue,
beige or fawn color are much used
for rich, dressy blouse waists.
Vienna has society-the Gisela
Verein-which raises funds for young
girls to enable them to marry. Last
year sixty-six were provided for.
Over 10000 women are attending
colleges in America, yet it is only
twenty-five years since the first col
lege in the land was opened towomen.
The Princess Maud of Wales is q
bicyclist, but does not rush into
bloomers. She wears neat and mod
est costume, with a riding-habit skirt.
Many of the new imported model
trimmed hats are veritable "dream."
Such lovely flowers can only be an i'm
itation of those growing in Paradise.
Cherry wood handles are the fashion
in some of the newest umbrellas.
There is not as much real or imitation
silver used in ornamention as hereto
fore.
Skirts in Paris have moro godets
than ever, and they are very much
Everything is trimmed with "choux"
and flowers.
Fashionable women in London are
wearing wide ribbon around the neck
to hang down on either side nearly to
the edge of the skirt 1t has the eff
feet of a priest tole.
Miss Lily Marshal. an English girl,
is the inventor of the fino iridescent
effects in brass work which have at
tracted SO much attention. She has
studio in New York City.
The death of Mrs. Henry C. Lewis,
of Coldwater, Mich, leaves the art
collection possessed by her late hus-
band, valued at $500. 900, at the dis.
posal OF the University OF Michigan.
Beatrice Harraden, author OF ''Ships
That Pass in the Night" has slight,
girlish figure, short, curly hair and
big, brown, "astonished" eyes, to-
gether with sweet voice and gentle
manners.
DR.. Helen Webster, of Wellesley
College, is the only woman who has
ever earned the title of doctor OF
philosophy. She went to Germany
and literally won the honor by hard,
unremitting labor.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has presented
to the First Presbyterian Church OF
Richfeld Springs a new pipe organ
and an addition to the church build
ing as memorial to her husband. 1t
was in this church that they were
married