The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-10-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
The big bonnet dies hard.

Ribbons, belts and sashes are i'm
mensely popular.
OF the All laundries doing business
in Chicago, 1s0 are owned by Chinese.
White serge waistcoats are worn with
dark woolen dresses, pique with sateen.
A grandmother at the age of thirty is
a more familiar sight in China than an
old maid.
A twelve-year- girl has opened
shooting gallery in Nevada. She is an
expert shot.
Six hundred and ninety women voted
at a recent election in Seattle, Washing
ton Territory.
A becoming finish is impaired to a
shirred, white null bonnet by facing with
black velvet.
Fashionable materials for mourning
are Henrietta cloth, cameps hair and al
batross cloth.
The fashion of wearing real fruit in
stead of artificial, or of natural flowers
has increased.
A peculiar costume seen recently was
of white flannel, with small owl wings
stuck all over it.
Handkerchiefs with bright colored
border or embroidery are tucked in the
belt or button-hole.
The woman market is down now in
Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring from
$40 to 1920 head.
Twelve cups of coffee every day is the
elixir which keeps Virginia lady ninety
nine years old happy and healthy.
The Wesleyan Female college, Of
Georgia, created in 1888, was the first
college for women In this country.
A large blue rough-and- ready straw
hat has poppy red Grape punched around
the crown, with a number of wings in
front, of the same color.
Hungarian women seem to have seized
upon their "rights" without disturbance
or controversy. They go to all public
meetings where men go.
Copper red is favorite color for the
crepe de chine and silk Jersey waists
that are worn with skirts of white wool
or of black lace over satin.
A favorite way of sewing on lace this
year is gathering the lace, then sewing il
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it down at intervals, making puff.
The empress of Austria, while at Hei.
delberg recently, lived at the most ex,
pensive hotel with a suite of seventy
persons, including four fencing masters.
A morning dress of biscuit colored
twill is covered all over with square
cubes o. cut and uncut velvet, the color
enhanced by. .looped bows in peculiar
tone.
Upon a small "capote" bonnet is 8
large TUT of full-blown poppies made OF
velvet and intermingled with ears OF
barley and ferns, tied together with
grass.
POplin is again in favor, Worth having
brought out many handsome costumes OF
| this fabric, which is now seen in q
lighter and more drapable form than
formerly.
Embroidered bretelles, or, prettier still,
those made of lace and net, wide on the
shoulders and tapering to point at the
bet, front and back over the bodice, are
again in vogue.
The future queen of the Netherlands
will be the richest woman in Europe, be.
ing heiress to the 81, 900, 900 of her late
brother and the vast private possessions
of her father, the present king.
Addison, who wrote a good deal about
female fashions in the Spectator, very
much ridiculed the hoop -petticoat, which
was so large, about the year 1774, that h
women wearing one occupied the space
of six men.
On the subject of winning husband,
a woman writes: 'Men love to be big
and great to their wives. That's the
reason why helpless little woman can
marry three times to sensible, self-re.
liant woman's none"
/ The bitterest words that were ever
written about women were by women
Lady Jane Montague. She wrote: "
have one consolation in being women
that is, l can never be unfortunate
enough to have to marry one"
Anne Boleyn was remarkably dainty
about her gloves. She had a nail which
turned up at the sides, and it was the de-
light of Queen Catharine to make her
play at cards without her gloves, in or.
der that the deformity might disgust
King Henry VIII.
A lovely lace and surah costume is of
pale blue surah, with plating at the
foot, above this two Breton lace flounces
and pretty Breton net drapery edged
with the lace, basque pointed back and
front, covered with the net, the drapery
fastened with loops and ends of pale
blue satin ribbon.
1t is said to be satisfactorily demon.
stated that every time wife scolds her
husband she adds wrinkle to her face
1t is thought the announcement of this
fact will have the most salutarv effect,
especially as it is understood that every
time wife smiles on her husband it will
remove one of the old wrinkles.
There are number of women painters
in Madison Parish, Louisiana. Mrs. NJ.
A. Gibbs lives on the Hecla plantation,
which she manages with great success.
Miss Lu Lucas manages a large estate,
and personally superintends a large
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