Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-10-11
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woman and .he old is tho Oklahoma
bloomer quilting bee.
Mrs. John G. Carlisle believes in
bicycle riding Us part OF the cduca-
ton of every healthy girl.
Florence Nightingale, who is now
an invalid, recently completed the
sixty-seventh year Of her life.
| A daughter of the poet Longfcllow
lives in Washington. Her name is
Marion Longfellow O'Donohue.
After every member of woman's
club in Spokane. Wash, had been
President tho organization went to
| pieces.
Many of the basques have fitted
fancy vests, and there are some new,
oddly-shaped collars that are very
pretty.
Brown University hns conferred the
degree of Doctor of Letters upon Mrs.
Julia j. Irvine, President of Wellesley
College.
Mrs. Clevcland's fad is amateur pho
geography, and she has in her posses
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Of her household.
Mrs. Stanford devotes all her timc
and energies to tho management of
the California university bearing her
deceased sons name.
Among the fellowships most valued
ut Cornell are those in literature, and
one of them this year falls to Miss
Louise Robbins of the class of 81.
Miss Agnes Irwin, Dean of Radcliffe
College, Harvard University, has been
honored with the degree OF Doctor OF
Laws by the Western University of
Pittsburg.
Hair cloth extends no more than
ten inches from tho bottom Of the
skirt, and often notas far. The skirts
are very few where this stiffening is
used the entire length of the back.
If one wishes black skirt to wear
with several fancy waists, the addition
of the godet hip pieces is desirable; in
fact, last years skirt of good cut
with this change woald be quite up to
date.
De Brazza's bride is plucky girl.
She will accompany the great explor-
er when he returns to the Congo next
month, and will share the privations
as well as the honors of his work
there.
Miss Gertrude Pearson. of Boston,
has received the prize for tho best
written work in general chemistry out
of a class of tifty-two or more students
of the College of Physicians and Sur.
geons.
Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated
at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged
by tho University of Leipsic to assist
DR.. Raisel, its American professor OF
history, in preparing history of the
United States.
Eastport, Me-, has genuine new
woman, but Of type not likely to be-
come fashionable. She regularly does
the bucksaw and axe with all the skill
of the hardest male expert.
The Queen of Italy is said to be an
enthusiastic collector of boots and
shoes. Her collection includes shoes
of Marie Antoinette, of the Empress
Josephine, Mary Stuart, QueensAnne,
and the Empress Catherine of Russia.
An article on the elegancies of the
toilets of fair Parisians, in Figaro,
contains the information that "baths
qualified 10y fresh strawberries are said
to be very refreshing; twenty pounds
are rubbed through sieve for each
bath.
When Emma Willard began the
higher education of her sex by found.
ing the Troy Seminary, she was told
that she would be wanting to send the
COWS to school next, and the State OF
New York refused to spend dollar in
aiding her experiment.
The fin.de-siecle "dudess" carries
her watch anywhere except in pock-
et-pendant, for instance. from her
belt or waist. European papers as.
sert that, us n consequence, many
moro ladies' watches are nowadays lost
or stolen-but not stolen by pickpock-
cts.
The first women graduates of Glas.
gov University. Miss Sarah Logan
Blair and Miss Isabelle Blackjack, were
loudly cheered by the young men at
their attendance upon the 'capping"
ceremony to obtain their M. A. de.
grees. The boys made the old hall
ring with the strains of "She's jolly
Good Fellow"
Sonora Maria de Burton died in Chi
cago recently. She was the wife
of the lato General II. s. Burton,
United States Army. aud was claim.
ant for an enormous tract Of land in
Mexico, under grant made by tho
King OF Spain TO her grandfather. Don
Jose Manuel Ruiz. A Chicago syndi-
cate was negotiating to buy the claim,
which is valued at So, 900, 900.
Lady Irving, wife OF the newly.
knightcd actor, is described rs "a
slender, sweet-faced woman with
weary looking eyes aud pathetic
droop ut tho corners of he, mouth -
charming woman, looking much too
youthful and fragile to be tho mother
of two tall sons" Lady Irving lives
in strictest privacy, apart from her
husband, but her boys visit her very
often.
The Empress Of Austria has not vet
followed tho example of the court
ladies around her aud taken to the
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