Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Mexican women never wear bonnets. A Cleveland laundry is run by girls. ’ — ■ " In Holland women tend the railroad swithes. New York has gambling houses for women, where they go and lose their money like men. A girl may be almost pardoned for throwing herself at a man if he is a good catch.

The death of Rosina Yokes takes out of the world one of the most delightful bubbles of laughter it ever knew, says the New York World. Her laugh made her. Other actresses of the same grad© sang, * talked and recited charmingly; she bubbled. Nobody could ever quite imitate that lau/h. It was like a > little vocal rocket shot off by her teeth. It mounted on a scale of its own and burst in a high note into a thousand sparkles. The gayety of heart that had defied a thousand misfortunes was chilled by aa Amer ican winter.

Miss Virginia Dox in a recent address before the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Baltimore Presbstery tatked in an interesting way about the Mormons, among whom she has spent many years "in mission work. “In a little Mormon town in which I resided for a time,” said she, “my next door neighbor had seventeem wives, and this was not by any means an exceptional case. Tho Mormon people as a rule are deplorably ignorant, but they arc eager to learn, and it is through this eagerness that we are enabled to uplift them.” There lives near Bunnsville, Va., a colored woman eighty-three years old, whose name is Lavina Hayler. Years ago she lost her teeth, but is now cutting another set. Some months ago her gums became very sore, and now two teeth have mado their appearance and several more are nearly in sight. The old woman s much pleased with her new teeth, and has expressed great delight at so soon being able to “chaw hard ag’in.” NEW PATTI SLEEVE. This is a novelty in sleeves, being a combination of the gigot and puff. It is cut all in one; but for narrowwidth material, such as silk, the extra width can be put in separately. Very small pleats, placed one on top

of the other, reduce this fullness t« the size necessary for completing the seam, which extends from elbow to wrist. At the armhole the extra fullness is put into pleats, back and front, the remainder being gathered to the required size.

A NEGLIGEE OF PRIMROSE CREPE OR MOSS-GREEN VELVET.

VELVET, SILK AND LACE.