The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

A Japanese woman dresses her hair
once in four days.
Square bags filled with horse-hair arc
the favorite hustle.
Walking dresses continue the samc
length as last season.
Not woman or girl works in the coal
mines in this country.
Darning needles are popular ornaments
on the summer hats.
New cotton prints for dresses show the
fine India silk designs of last year.
Slippers, CATERS, boots and shoes of
all kinds are still pointed at the toe.
The newest jerseys are fitted to the
figure with darts, side and back seams.
Mrs. John Adams was the first lady
ever presented at the British court as an
American minister's wife. 1t was in the
time of George III.
Velveteen dresses are fashionable, and
when suitably worn nothing can be more
becoming, even at the present season,
when chilly winds still prevail even on
bright days.
Velvet will continue the favorite trim
ming material for at least one season
longer, and velvet cut from the piece
will be preferred to velvet ribbon which,
however, is still used.
Readers will remember the astonishing
child-poems of the Goodale sisters few
years ago. The elder of the sisters,
Elaine, is now teacher in the Indian
school at Hampton, Va.
The highest prize attainable to English
musical students, the Mendelssohn schol-
arship, has been won this year by a
woman, Miss Mary Wurm. One of her chief
teachers in piano music was woman,
too-Clara Schumann.
A strip of figured Oriental lace, three
quarters of yard long and half yard
wide, may be trimmed around with an
cdging of the same lace, and then gath
cred in Mt the throat the width of one
inch, and left to hang loosely below the
basque.
She was sweet girl-graduate of fe-
male seminary. She had just been mar
ried and was preparing to keep house.
! Some one recommended her to buy some
spring mattresses. "Yes,n said she,
sweetly, 'if they are in season we'd bet
ter have some."
Most of the long wraps are open at
the seams so as to disclose the dress be-
meath, and although they look well
enough when the wearer stands before
her mirror at home, the smallest breeze
that blows transforms her very disagree
ably, and gives her the appearance of an
awkward bird with tapping wings.
Among the favorite combinations Of
color in millinery are pale pink, with
ruby, salmon-pink, with black or dark
green and old gold, or orange wit beads,
these being generally in the same colol
as the material which they adorn. Black
jet, of course, is as largely patronized a.
of late. 1t is becoming, and brighten'
up black hats, dresses and mantles.
A great business has been built up il
the town of Lubbock, Germany, by Mad
anne Charlotte Erasmia, a widow with 81!
children, who dozen years ago opened
a shop for the sale of canned fruits anC
preserved meats and vegetables, and ha
now a branch house in London, and
large trade in New York. She has edu
Gated her children in the best schools o
Europe.
! Some of the handsomest skirts hav,
the front either covered with founces
one above the other, or else the from
breadth is formed of solid embroidery o
of alternate bands of tucks and em
broidery, or tucks and lace. Thes
skirts are for wear with thin wrappers
or with tea gowns, which fall open be
low the belt to show the petticoat under
| meath after the fashion of half centur
ago.