Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Mme, Patey. who for twenty years was the leading contralto of Eng land, is about to retire. She ha--amassed a considerable fortune. Mme. Patey visited America in 1871. Mme. Regina Maney, the correspondent of the Reporter, of Lisbon. Portugal, is attending the World Fair. She was born in Kentucky of Portuguese parents, but has been a resident of Lisbon for many years. Mrs. Sidgwiek, of England, has collected vital statistics concerning nearly 600 women who have studied at Cambridge and Oxford. These women and their children are said to be physically superior to the British average. A GLIMPSE OF THE PAST. The bell skirt belonging to this costume must be taken for granted. ~ The material is old gold silk muslin, arid the trimming circular rows of lace, each row headed with rolls of yellow and black mirror satin. The

low bodice is very effective with its bruillone chemisette, pointed bib and frilled epaulettes above the puffed sleeves. The bonnet is an 1832 bonnet — don’t forget that—and it should be trimmed with buttercup satin, edged with a pointed cut ruche in black taffeta. Black velvet strings, bunches of peonies in two shades, and black wheat at the side complete the effect. Let it be recorded that only one English sovereign has reigned longer than Queen Victoria. Until Tuesday, Julv 18, she had two rivals, Henry 111 and George 111. Now Henry has been left behind. Four more years on the throne will earn for the Queen the title of champion British ruler.

VISITING COSTUME. Among the women who have been selected to prepare and read papers before the Columbian Congress, to convene in Chicago September 4, are Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, of New London, Conn., (daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne); Eleanor C. Donnelly, of Philadelphia, (sister of Ignatius Donnelly); Eliza Allen Starr, the Chicago artist, and Isabel Shea, daughter of the late historian, Dr. John G-ilmary Shea, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. THE HOSE SLEEVE. Here is the “rose sleeve.” of which we shall see rather too much this summer, for it requires an excep-

tionally pretty arm to carry it. The material is silk cut bn the cross and measuring a yard long. Miss Charlotte Mary Yonge, the novelist, recently passed her seventieth birthday. She has given largely of the income derived from her more than thirty novels to church objects; thus £2.000, the profits of her “Daisy Chain." went to the building of a missionary church in Auckland, New Zealand, and a great part of the proceeds of the “Heir of Redclyffe" was devoted to the . fitting out of the missionary schooner Southern Cross tor the use of the late Bishop Selwyi.