Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-02-15
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coniurer.
Christina Georgina Rossetti, the
poetess, is dead.
Scarlet is mourning color for un.
married women in Brazil.
At a recent wedding in Kansas
there were twenty-four bridesmaids.
Superstitious women, prejudiced
against green, have been known to
refuse lettuce.
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt has dark
hair, which she dresses in fluffy and
picturesque style.
Mrs. Maria Lawrence, of Palmer,
Mass, is a member of the fire depart
ment of the town.
A Japanese brides playthings are
burned on her wedding day, typifying
the end of her childhood.
An association to enable Mohamme-
dan widows to secure second husbands
has been formed in Turkey.
Some Of the most valuable emeralds
in the country are owned by Mrs.
Joseph Drexel, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Humphry Ward has received
about 100000 from the three
books she has written in the last six
years.
The old-fashioned coral beads which
our mothers wore as armlets are be-
ing revived for the fin de steele
ladies'.
The habit of drinking vinegar is
said to be very difficult to cure. Many
women drink vinegar for the COM
plexion.
Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper, daugh-
ter of James Fenimore Cooper, died
of apoplexy few days ago at Cooper
town, N. Y, in her eighty-second
year.
Froken Hulda Lundln, the we'll.
known Swedish lady teacher of Sloyd,
has received silver medal from the
Ladies' Committee of the Chicago Ex-
position.
Miss Francis Willard is the third
woman upon whom the degree of LII. ID.
has been conferred, the other two
being Maria Mitchell and Amelia B.
Edwards.
Miss Morrison, San Francisco
girl, recently graduated from the
medical department of the University
of California with the highest honors
of the class.
Twenty female clerks are employed
by Sydney New South Wales) in
surance Office. Their work is noted
for being more correct than that of
male clerks.
Hat pins mounted with spheres of
silver tiligree work in every conceiva-
BILE design are shown in abundance.
Those inlaid with tinted enamel are
simply elegant.
Ono of the surprising things to
American women in England is the
number of English women who marry
men from five to twenty years younger
than themselves.
Miss Emily Davies, who laid the
foundation of Girton College, Eng
land, in 1869, is still living. Nine.
Bodichon, who gave the first endow-
ment to Girton (s5OO0), is dead.
A new departure in Russian Jour-
nalism has been initiated in Helsing-
fers with the establishment in that
city of newspaper edited and con-
Quoted entirely by staff of ladies.
The three women elected to the
Legislature of Colorado have decided
that they will not wear their hats in
the Legislative halls. They reached
this decision after special caucus.
The use OF ribbon for trimming is
more general than ever before. Plain
waists have shoulder straps, braces
and suspender-looking trimmings of
ribbon either in satin or grosgrain or
velvet.
Mary Anderson-Navarro says that
for the first seven years she enjoyed
the life of the stage. Gradually the
work became irksome after that, and
for the last year it was scarcely en-.
durable.
Bracelets, by the way, are no longer
sold in pairs. Only one arm is deco
rated nowadays, the left or right, as
fancy dictates, and this may exhibit
as many bracelet oddities as one cares
to display.
Nine. Casimir- -Perier, wife of the
French President, according to pri-
vate letters from Paris, manifests
disposition to be very gracious to-
ward some social stars of the Ameri-
can colony there.
Charming toilets are made by Paris
costumers for Parisiennes for $35 or
$45, but let an English or American
woman order a similar outfit and she
will have to pay a third more on ac-
count of her nationality.
Miss Marie Celeste Stauffer, of New
Orleans, to whom Samuel j. Tilden
left 800, 900, was married few days
since at New Orleans to George Pres
ton Eastwick. The wedding and re-
ception we're fashionable affairs.
Another American woman has be.
come an English Countess. This lady,
who was Miss Corbin, married Mr..
Walpole. nephew OF the Earl of Ok
ford, and the Earl having lately died
leaving only two daughters, the title
goes to his nephew.
The only woman chemist in Paris is
Vassar girl, Miss Ida Welt. She has
distinguished herself ut the Univers-
ity of Geneva and at the University of
Paris. The Academy of Sciences has