The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-06-04
NEWS AND NOTES ron WOMEN.

High collars ana high colhures ore all
the rage
Gold and rcd quilts are seen on hats for
little girls.
A great many natural grasses are used
in millinery.
Flower bonnets are revived under new
names and shapes.
Boston has woman saxophonc soloist,
Miss Asenath Major.
Henry George, the land reformer, be.
lieves in woman suffrage.
The ladies of Panama smoke long,
slender cigars on the street.
Embroidered infants caps have deep
capes attached to them this year.
The waistcoat ending in paniers is re-
vived on new demi-season dresses.
For travelling gowns grey camel's-hair
is and will be the fashionable fabric.
Madame Kowalewski. Russian lady,
occupies the chair of mathematics at the
high school in Stockholm.
A woman recently died at Belfast. Ire
land, who worked as man laborer at
the dock-yard there for thirty Years.
A new material is silk yelling, printed
in exquisitely tinted flowers. 1t is in.
tended to be combined with plain veil
ing.
The most fashionable colors for light
summer goods are ctevette, cream, ivory,
plstoche, green, mode, russo, reseda and
ciel.
A great deal of ribbon in the way of
clustered loops and belts and bows, is
seen upon the summer toilets for young
girls.
Infants long cloaks are now made alto
gether with sleeves, and in some cases
with elaborate deep collar, instead of the
long cape.
Parasols covered with real Spanish
lace, with q crystal ball on the handle,
are shown in the New York dry goods
stores. They cost as high as $40.
Dresses are made for little girls of all
ages of Persian embroidery in vivid car
dinal and deep blue. The material is
very thin and suitable for summer
Ginghams in monochrome, trimmed
with many rows of white washing braid,
will be favorite utility dresses for the
mountain and seaside this summer.
Mrs. Upshur, wife of Colonel Upshur,
recently, in India, was standing on
rock while tiger was raging around.
The lady killed the tiger at first shot.
Large null and nansook handkerchiefs
for neckwear have borders of bright blue
and red leaves printed around the edge,
and will be very pretty with summer
dresses.
A great novelty in dress material is
nuns yelling brocadea. Some of the
palest colors are remarkable for their
beauty, and will make admirable evening
dresses for summer wear.
Many ladies are again choosing the
glazed kid glove in preference to those
which are undressed. Silk, and silk and
linen gloves WILL however, take the lead
in popularity during hot weather.
Mrs. Kate N. Doggett, whose death in
Cuba was recently announced was one
of the most cultivated women of our
Western States, and will be remembered
both as writer and lecturer. She was
the translator of Charles Blanc's "Gram-
mar of Painting and Engraving (1S7S).
In spite of the large importation of
elaborate costumes composed of several
costly fabrics, plainly made dresses all of
one material, of good quality but with
little trimming, are seen everywhere, and
are most worn by women VINO are con-
sidered as authority in matters of dress
and fashion.
There never was q time when dress
counted for so little in the estimate of
character as now, according to we'll
known writer on social topics. 1t is get
ting to be pretty well understood that
woman who is celebrated for her clothes
is known for nothing else, for few have
strength enough to divide up in several
different directions, and if it is exhausted
in the one, it is not likely to be expected
in another.
The most expensive kind of false hair
is natural silver white. 1t is worth $1S
or $40 an ounce, more than its weight in
gold. Bleached white hair is worth only
SO an ounce. Natural hair of ordinary
shades is worth from s. to $50 a pound,
except the hair collected by ragpickers,
which brings only from 81 to So. The
value of different colors of hair depends
on the fashion. Yellow hair, not golden,
is almost useless.
A pretty and youthful toilet is of rose
pink silk and soft gray cashmere. The
short, round skirt is of the silk slashed
around the edge, with the narrow strips
thus formed drawn under, forming a
series of loops under which is arranged
a full plating of the gray cashmere.
The drapery is also of the cashmere
drawn across the front and sides in the
form of two full knotted sashes, falling
in the back from the waist to the foot of
the skirt in soft lines, and loose, irregular
puffs.
One of the most exquisite of Holbein's
works was miniature of Anne of Cleves,
and no less beautiful, as a work of art,
the box in which it was carried to Eng
land. This lovely receptacle was in the
form of white rose delicately carved in
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