The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1880-10-27
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Matters,

| VI hidhA1B COSbuU16S, OuB bloN
may be varied according to individua
fancy. Waists are generally Terminated
IN one or two deep points in front. anC
continued to the overskirt drangTv al
| the back. They are, except for ex.
! treme full dress, cut open, sometimes as
lar as the waist, to display the chemi.
sette. When closed at the throat tbey
are finished with wide collars, a deep
box plating in front, and sometimes the
| small hood at the back. Edges of
basques are finished with a cord.
Sleeves are cut to suit Individual tastes.
A few puffed at the shoulder and the
leg ot-mutton sleeves are on suits of
foreign design. Fringes, passementeries
and beaded ornaments of the richest de-
scrlptlons trim the skirts. Sunfiowers
en- mbroidered in bullion and silk en-
broideries on tulle in natural colored
flowers are beautiful and expensive
trimmings. They are made in sets of
collar, cuff and pocket trimmings. and
are also sold by the yard. The white
Spanish laces, beaded and fringed with
wax and crystal beads, are appropriate
trimmings for wedding dresses. The
ends of all tabs and similar trimmings
are gathered and finished with tassel
or other ornament. This idea is carried
even to millinery, where the ends of rib
oons and bonnet strings are either gath
cred at the end or shirred a few inches
above and the ends fringed, producing
the same effect. The colored plaitings
OF last season are replaced on the edges
OF the newest importations of walking
dresses by bands of colored plush.
Shirred trimmings are still used, but not
so extensively as last season. Knife plait-
!ngs share the favor they have held so
long with box plaitings this season. The
whole front of dress is sometimes laid
IL line knife plaits. This is seen only on
plain SILK and satin. Dress patterns
with embroidered trimmings are one of
the novelties. A new material for in
tants' cloakings is of snow white cloth,
with raised figures. Black lace is sell
dom seen this season-never in millip-
ery-and only the richest Spanish lace
is used on black silk costumes. A large
shawl is the most effective trimming for
one of these serviceable toilets, draped
to form the overskirt. The smaller
shawls are used as q fichu or tie, for
either house or street. Several kinds OF
white lace are used for trimming white
hchus. The centers are of mouselaine
de sole or silk muslin and edged with
Breton, Duchess, Valenciennes, Maltese,
Alencon and the new Vermicelli lace
Three fichus are caught at the left side
OF the belt and fastened by large bow
with short ends of satin sash ribbon
called the Watsonian bow. Ties of
seven, eight and nine inches in width
are of India null with lace or embroid-
cred insertions and edged with lace.
Chemisettes of Duchess lace are finished
at the neck with crepe lisse ruchings.
Jabots are made with cascades of these
laces and range in price from $500 up to
any price, according to the lace used.
Breakfast caps are worn universally by
married ladies as well rs matrons. They
are made generally of satin ribbon and
Breton lace, and occasionally hand
kei chief, with delicately-printed border,
Is effectively used in their manufacture.
irish tatting and crochet laces are very
fashionable. The newest lace of tue
season is the real Irish point or Carrick,
from two to five inches wide
and from SIS TO $l5 yard. An imita-
ton OF this, on baStiste, is called Honi-
ton, or Irish point embroidery, and is
from elghty cents to $3 yard. -Nea0
News and Notes for Women.
The French minister OF public in
struction has appropriated 800, 900
for the establishment of normal schoo
tor youpg women.
Mr.. Moody has built girls seminary
ut Northheld, Mass, in which board
and tuition are furnished for $lOO year.
A hundred pupils are ready to enter the
Institution Mt the opening this fall.
A young lady in Newport, Conn, has
his season gathered with her own
hands from the fourteen-acre pond near
)y over 800 pond lilies (American
otus) and forwarded them TO the
Flower Mission in New York.
Some good women of Paris have
ormed society called the Association
les Femmes de Mode. which takes under
wing women who belong to
he liberal professions and are, by mis-
ortune or the loss of their natural pro.
ectors, left without resources.
a social philosopher takes note that
where q LADY is very pretty one never
oUks at ner dress, and where the toilet is
very striking, one iorgets to look at the
In the first case the dress is an
adjunct TO the woman, in the latter the
woman is an accessory of the dress.
The Irish university bill provides
that the honors and degrees of the new
Irish university shall be open to women
Is well as to men. A society has been
formed TO procure the endowment of
and other means of aid for
the higher education Of women in
Ireland.
This may be warning to the ladies
who paint and powder their faces until
they look like the wax faced figures
intended to exhibit goods on. A lady
in New York went up TO a dummy TO
put a shawl upon ii to see how it looked,
but when the dummy turned upon her
with anger and indignation, the lady
saw that it wasn't a wire figure, but a
would-be blooming lass of forty or
more.
When Secretary Chase organized the
banking system he organized
the bureau with two ladies and
one gentleman. One of these ladies,
then a young girl, but now
widow, is still employed by the govern
nent in its national banking business.
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