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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1892
Page
5
In Pats Oct 15 dispatch a Paris inspired scene shows Felix’s shop as prince of evening stockmakers with delicate gowns. Descriptions cover debutants and mature belles in light frocks, trimmed silhouettes, pearls, lace, and yellow primrose gowns. Also notes on froebel schooling and New York College Settlement work.
The article profiles Miss Hindman a pioneer in women’s rights and education. It details her Mt Union College degree in 1860 as the first woman to earn a Bachelor of Arts, her work teaching freedmen in Huntsville Alabama, and founding a Normal school and an industrial school. It notes her leadership in women’s suffrage groups and ongoing lecture campaigns across the United States.
Describes belts and flower wreaths atop bodices with short puffed sleeves and long slender evening trains. Notes a chic American debutante frock from Felix’s in sheer white silk mull trimmed with came lace, a fitted hip-skirt and graceful sweeping train.
The piece surveys rising golf interest in New York and previews tennis as a revived pastime. It also offers practical tips on whipping cream for charlotte russe, noting milk dilution, whip technique, and froth production, plus a remark on autumn silvered pottery and Rose leaves in linen storage.
Born in a county with the oldest college west of the Alleghenies and the first female seminary in the West, the Woman Suffrage Club is tied to a long line of families noted for intellect and liberal social ideas.
The report shows expenditures of 8061.75 with a treasury balance of 231.33. Retiring President Mrs Mary E Mumford offers farewell remarks urging members to contribute talent culture and ability to the general good and to maintain a high membership standard.
The Convention of the Women’s Clubs of Pennsylvania at the New Century Club in Philadelphia on November 2 will cover topics from the Chicago convention to welcoming national delegates for 1894. Discussions include the federation’s value to individual clubs and the desirability of state federations, with afternoon sessions on women in business and the permanence of women’s clubs in American life. The New Century Club hosts a tea for delegates at 4:30.
Mrs W H Hovig of the Woman's Club is in Philadelphia. Mrs Janes B Scott, president of the YWCA, is away for a week. Ella De Vor attends the Bethlehem convention with full notice. Mrs C I Vane will attend a state clubs convention in Philadelphia. The Travelers Club praises Miss Martha Griggs for a meritorious sketch. Tex Woman's Club considers adding a rule to drop nonattendees within three weeks of election. Miss Martha Glass will winter in Denver and forward papers for club reading. Musa W D Moone earns compliments for readings, compared to Charlotte Cushman. Daughters of the American Revolution honors Mrs John A Logan for a funding drive to establish a university in the capital. Dr Lana Rurax, of the Woman's Club, seeks health in Carleton and plans to contribute by correspondence. Miss Cons Reese, president of the Women's Press Club, returns from a southern tour.
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