The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-08-20
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

NlNeu.
Sleeves grow fuller and larger in the
armhole.
Skirts grow fuller and bustles more
bouffant.
White and black lace scarfs are revived
for neckwear
There are now 155 women students in
Boston university.
The horse-hair cushion Is the latest
form of the hustle.
Fifty-seven American women writers
were born in Maine.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the writer, owns a
large farm at Kittery, Me.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, of New York, is
the richest widow in the world.
Women voted at Clinton, N. Y, on
the question of water works tax.
Nearly 5000 women are employed in
the various government offices in Eng
land.
The poke of Valenciennes or Oriental
lace is the bonnet to wear with lace and
muslin dresses.
Decatur county. Iowa. has girl who
captured and sold fifteen wolves during
Ine laSC season.
Dotted net wells are not worn at all.
They have been superseded by the plain
ones made of colored tulle.
A late fashion is to send presents of
flowers in baskets locked with tiny pad
lock, each person having a key.
In San Francisco all of the day district
telegraph work is done by women. They
are paid from $40 to $50 month.
Some of the summer parasols are so
pretty that it seems almost pity to ex-
pose them to being faded in the sun.
The wife of L. F. Fisler, the Camden
baseball player, is said to be the first real
Chinese lady ever seen in this country.
A Cuban always smokes two packages
of cigarettes and four or five cigars a
day. The women and children do nearly
the same.
A fancy is for ''rose pokes;" they are
simple black or white straw pokes with
the whole brim hidden by clusters of
| deep red roses without leaves.
favorite way of sewing on lace this
year is gathering the lace, then sewing
it on the wrong side, turning and catch
ing it down at intervals, making puff.
Miss Sarah o. Jewett is considered to
be the handsomest woman author in Bos-
ton, with perhaps the exception of Miss
Blanche Howard, who wrote zone Sum-
mer."
The old fashioned challie-a light
woolen fabric with which some silk is
woven-ls revived for summer dresses.
The ground is light in color and is strewn
with flowers.
Many skirts of silk AID broche are cut
into tabs of various forms at the bottom,
with thickly gathered or plated ruches
of plain silk set on underneath to make
them set out.
The old-fashioned challie-a light
wooden fabric with which some silk IS
woven-is revived for summer dresses;
the ground is light in color and is strewn
with flowers.
Poppy red and jonquil yellow grapes
are used by those who do not employ
either flowers or feathers on round hats
A twisted scarf around the crown is used
as trimming.
Wild millinery plants are the last in
vention. BY this term is meant grasses
OF every kind, tied in little bundles
which show the stalks, and fastened on
the hat with brooch or clasp.
French grey of the palest Shade, ecru
and violet colors are very stylishly used
in grapes of different texture, and also in
tuile for bonnets to match costumes of
cashmere of shot silk, foulard, etc.
A Western physician writes pathetically
to newspaper complaining of the con-
duct of female doctor who has taken
away all his patients, and left him and
his family on the brink of starvation
German cross stitch still holds its own
among needlework. 1t is very useful
for tea-table cloths, toilet covers and the
/ like, and is an easy, comfortable kind of
work that does not require any thinking.
Null pokes for the country are trimmed
with roses and Nalenciennes lace when
white null is used, but for the pale blue,
pink and poppy red null are white lilacs,
violets or some flowers of contrasting
| colors.
At contest in swimming school at
Manchester England, young girl swan
600 times around the bath house, dis
tance of eight miles, while the best swim
mer among the boys made but 5O4
rounds.
Dotted Swiss lawn, with raised spots
and colored printed figures, made with
gathered tlounces edged with black
French lace, with shirred and belted
waist, is a showy summer dress for
young lady.
A pleasing design for a polonaise has
each of the two front pieces of the waist
about half yard wide and laid in folds
at the center At the belt these cross,
and the upper one curves gracefully and
loses itself in the folds.
Very thin delaine or wool muslin is
popular for young ladies country dresses,
and may De had so sheer and of such
delicate hues that it is made up over col
ored silk Innings throughout in order to
give deeper tones and more character to
the dress.
White cambria is greatly used for fete