Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-13
Gossip.


Boer women are forming rife clubs.
A successful ranch owner in Kansas
is a woman.
Women are not permitted to be
photographed in China.
A training school for women nurses
has been opened in Havana, Cuba.
The woman's club movement has
developed great strength in the West.
The Legislative Council of Western
Australia has passed bill enfranchis-
ing women.
A conservatory and rose garden in
Elmira, N. Y, is owned and managed
by woman.
Kansas City, Mo-, has established
an institute particularly for substitute
teachers, in order that they may be
kept up to the modern methods of
teaching.
The Twentieth Century Club Of
Portland, Oregon, devotes itself to the
study Of the history and present
social and commercial status of foreign
countries.
Mrs. Julia Barrett, OF Sacramento,
CAL, has prepared system of steno-
graphy in the Chinese language,
which is found to be of great com.
mercial value.
The chief duty of Japanese woman
all her life is obedience-while un-
married, to her parents; when mar
ried, to her husband and his parents;
when widowed, to her son.
A woman's club in Iceland, known
as the Thorvaldsen Society, looks
after the poor, keeps up a sewing
school, visits the hospital, and carries
on various philanthropic enterprises.
Following the counsel of the court
physicians, the Empress of Germany,
who is in feeble health, is taking les
sons daily in the palace riding school,
which has been built for her especially.
The costliest string of pearls in
England Is said to belong to the
Duchess of Marlborough. 1t was a
wedding gift from her mother, and
was originally among the crown Jewels
of France.
Justice Bookstaver, of the Supreme
Court in New York City, has handed
down decision refusing the applica-
tion of the Colonial Danes of Amer
lea" to restrain "the Colonial Danes
of the State of New York" and the
National Society of the Colonial
Danes of America" from using their
several names.
Gleanings From the Shops.
New ideas in prettily carved gilt
bangles.
Much blue stationery, showing
groups of feur-de-lis designs.
Fall styles in hatpins and stickpins
fashioned from pearl, crystal and
strass.
Point d'esprit nets with various
sized meshes showing either white or
black dots.
An abundance of bodice garnitures
composed of pearls in oval and OBJ
long forms.
Net robes and allovers patterned
tastefully with large pailettes in
cuirass designs.
Newly opened lines of stick pins and
brooches representing golf and COL
lege emblems.
New assortments Of barrettes for the
hair fashioned from tortoise shell or
gilt in plain or iewel-studded effects.
New collections of white taffeta cord
ings that alternate with either ex-
quisitely fine black or white silk lace.
Velvet stock collars showing ap-
pliques of steel beads, from which a
pretty fringe depends over a chiffon
front.
Bodice garnitures composed of let
with pendant fringes, in which yari-
ously shaded jewels are tastefully in
terspersed.
Beautiful grenadines for the winter
evening wear; on which antique de-
signs are wrought with tinsel or sill
yer tracsries.
Children's dresses elaborately
trimmed with the finest nainsook en-
broidery and entredeux threaded with
colored ribbon.
Eaii velllngs In staple colorings
and world OF new mesh arrangements
showing profusion of velvet spots
variously spaced.
A vast variety of Luxeuil and other
laces in open bold patterns woven in
widths sufficiently wide for capes and
long outer mantles.
Plenty of new designs and combina-
tions in imperial ties for women's and
mems wear, with cashmere borderinps
conspicuous point.
Large picture hats ornamented with
some tissue material, long ostrich
plumes, jet ornaments of various de-
signs and tulle strings.
Many trimmings on the passemen-
terie order, showing fringes of various
sized beads or the old-time buyles in
| combinaios sith beads.