The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-09-10
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

fashionable beaches.
Low shoes, with plain colored hose,
are worn on the street.
Married ladies frequently wear black
/ lace over shot silks of light color.
West Liberty, Iowa. has serenading
troupe consisting of fifteen young ladies.
Dresses are much less draped than
they have been for many seasons past.
In Boston there are 10000 working
women whose wages average only 81 to
/ $5 a week.
White and colored null pokes, with
Valenciennes lace ruches, are pretty for
| girls hats.
French modistes are using more ma
terials of red and yellow than of any
other color.
The Medical Summary recommends the
external use of buttermilk to ladies who
are exposed to tan or freckles.
Many elegant black lace mantles have
either the sleeves alone or the bodice
only lined with red silk gauze.
TUNES with full blouse bodices of red
Adrianople are worn with two toned gray
or beige skirts of glace batiste.
At the fourteenth commencement Of
the Chicago Women's Medical college
recently there were twenty-one candi-
dates.
A fashionable young lady in New York
has had her hair tinted beautiful chest
nut color to match her saddle horses
name.
The skirts of dresses for girls of all
ages are now made longer than they
formerly were, falling always well below
the knees.
Lockets are little used except for full
dress, when they are worn suspended
from small short chain or velvet ribbon
around the neck.
Short hair for women is coming into
fashion. 1t is very pretty and becoming
to nearly everybody, worn in loose, half
curled locks around the head.
High -heeled shoes are not worn by
girls, and all heels are dispensed with by
fashionably dressed children until they
are eight or nine years DID,
Rough-and- ready straw pokes are much
worn in the country. The prevailing
garniture is scarf of white null wound
about the crown and a mass of flowers in
front.
Many demi- toilet dresses, with bodies
cut low in front, are completed by
plastron of some lighter material, which
is tightened around the throat with a
ruche.
The fashion of bodices open in front,
either in the shape of a square, heart or
point, is very much going out. Dresses
are now made quite high or quite low in
the neck.
A pretty fashion for girls of ten is that
of adding hemmed strings of the mate
rial to the under-arm seams of full
dresses and tying them behind in large
sash bow.
The Cardinal sleeve is Partisan nov
city. 1t is quite straight, is plated the
whole length and set full into the arm
hole, whence it hangs half way down
the forearm.
Coaching parasols this season are MANY
of them covered with changeable silks of
two or three shades of some warm, dark
colors, as red and brown, gold and rose
or bronze and red.
With light toilets small pelerines of
beaded tulle are much worn. Their lower
edge is trimmed with a lace flounce fully |
gathered and ornamented with dropping |
pearshaped jet ornaments.
Lace mantles are often made upon a /
tulle foundation. The sleeves are COW
cred with lace flounces; the fronts are
heightened into scarf or into two semi
long square lappets falling on each side.
DIR. Niemeyer gives this advice to
ladies': Thirty deep inspirations taken
every morning in pure atmosphere, and
no lacing, viii do more for the color of
your cheeks than tumbler of chalybeate
or dose of iron pills"
There is no recipe for a good, clear com
plexion equal to the one that prescribes
plenty OF fresh air, soft water, whole
some food and regular exercise. Moth
ing is worse for the complexion than the
eating of sweets and rich foods.
The accordion plating, just now so
is made by machinery. The
accordion plaits open and close like the
instrument for which they are named,
without injury. The regulation plating
and killing rarely keeps its place for any
length of time, and needs constant super
vision.
Ann E. Leak, an armless woman, was
married about ten years ago to William
Thompson, a steamship engineer. The
couple went to Australia, and made
great deal of money in connection with
.he show business. Mrs. Thompson can
,rochet, knit, sew and write, using her
'eet as well as most people who perform
'uch work with their hands.
High coiffures prevail in Paris. The
'oil of hair on the top of the head is held
n place by gold or silver-headed pins, in
place ofa comb. The forehead is covered
with little round rings of hair termed
tatue curls, which are decidedly stiff in
fleet and unbecoming to most faces.
New York ladies have not adopted these
'xtreme modes, though many dress the
lair high and have abandoned the regu-
ar bang over the forehead