Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1892 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

Here is a question for the leisurely woman who play soli tai reand have time to go to card parties of women and hen» their own ruffles by Ihrd study. Why is it when a man Ifoa.dders himself possessed of more than ordinary ability that he lets his hair grow long, while a woman who thinks the same of herself, and wants to be the reformer of her kind, not infrequently cuts her hair short. Women have met with another discouraging defeat in politics. The Woman’a Suffrage bill, which passed the Vermont House of Representatives so triumphantly, has been defeated in the Senate. But in New Zealand the long strife has ended, and woman has come off victor, even to the point of being al lowed" to send her ballot by post. It is an interesting fact that nearly all the countries which grant full suffrage to women are islands. - -----——- - " - ■ Several accomplished young women are earning good salaries here in New York by coaching society, women in the topics of the day, the new books that are bang talked of new works of art that are attracting attention and interesting novelties even in more serious lines. While my lady is in the bands of her maid being dressed for the dinner or reception, the unique educator prepares her mind as well on such subjects as may be discussed at the function she is to attend: and so, thoroughly equipped, my lady goes forth to astonish her hearer with her cleverness and to increase the fame of the American woman for brightness, intelligence, and versatility. The friends of woman's progress are congratulating themselves that though it was intimated at the Emergency Hospital on the .Fair grounds that no woman medico? were needed, the first case to be take n there was attended by a woma .’.physician, Dr. Girtrude Wellington. A lady . was injured by the wheel of a car passing over her foot, and Dr. Wellington, with no better instruments than a policeman’s club and her own hadkerchief, stopped the flow of blood until the ambulance arrived.

Mrs. Langtry is now 40 years old, but her energy in the pursuit of pleasure is still untiring. Last season her whim was for racing and race horses, and, having made a success on the turf, as she usually does in all her business enterprises, she is going in for yachting, and has purchased the steatn yacht Lady Mabel at the modest figure of $125,000 for an extended cruise through the South Seas. TWO WINTER CLOAKS. The picture depicts two of the typical cloaks of the season. One ugure is in a long, tight fitting coat •of dark blue cloth, lined throughout with sable mink and trimmed very handsomely with a deep collar and

wide cuffs of dark Russian sable. The other is a very effective capo, made in quite a new kind .if navy serge, with a shaded stripe if red and green chenille. It is cut in three-quarters length and edged throughout with black fox fur, and warmly lined with quilted shot silk; this will make a delightful winter iloak. a girl's school hat. Here is a good winter hat for a school girl. It is dark blue felt. The band, made as deep as the crown, is dark blue grosgrain, marked with bright red satin spots. In the bow at the front this same ribbon appears tied with bright red satin ribbons. The bow and short \ ends at the back are of the plain

I satins. The heavy wire that stiffens the edge of the hat is twisted with blue and bright red cord. The hat is not a sailor, being a little nar* rower at the back than it is in the front. Such a hat is pretty to start with. It will match your little glrl’a blue dress, as a child always has a blue dress, and you can make her new dress a combination of blue and red, a combination always pretty and serviceable.