The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-06-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR wOMEN

terial for girls wear.
Nearly all the professional beauties of
London are married ladies.
Miss Cleveland, the Presidents sister,
is an accomplished linguist.
Broader hens are seen on handker-
chiefs, both white and colored.
About SIS, 200, 900 worth of corsets
were sold in the United States last year.
There are 113, ,995 English school
teachers, nearly all of whom are spinsters.
Bodices quite distinct from the skirt
are becoming more and more the fash
ion.
Grenadihe or lace polonaises will be
made to wear with satin, moire or faille
skirts.
All basques, if fitted at all, set to the
figure with the closeness of the cuirass
bodice.
Miss Julia Pease, graduate of Vsssar
College, cultivates 6,000 acres of land
in Texas.
For the first time in twelve years
Washington society possesses a Vice
Presidents wife.
A great deal of velvet and velvet rib
bon will be used for trimming even the
lightest fabrics, both as to texture and
color.
In cotton veilings or colored cheese
cloths there is a great choice in color.
Light yellow and delicate heliotrope
are particularly noticeable.
Removable trains are sent home with
most evening toilets. They are very
useful and if well cut and arranged
should never betray their adjustable ma
ture.
All skirts for the smallest girls are
made quite long, reaching to the ankles;
those for girls of four or six years are
shorter, yet these must fall far below the
knee.
Tailor-made dresses employ great va
riety of material in their making. There
are dresses of cheviot, English serge,
tweed, ladies' cloth, and the new home
spun cloths.
When Japanese girls wish to particu-
larly flatter a gentleman friend they
write him a note, the penmanship of
which is executed by their delicately
sharpened finger nail.
Over three thousand women are en-
ployed in the railway Offices of Austria.
! They get from fifteen to thirty dollars a
month Nearly all of them are widows
of men who have died in railroad SER
vice.
Some of the new hats have enormous
crowns so laden with cabbage roses,
golden oats, water crosses, sunflowers,
and other large pronounced blossoms
and leaves, that they suggest the idea of
kitchen gardens carried on the head.
One of the latest coiffures sent out
from Paris is composed of mass of
short curls, so difficult to execute prop
erly that most ladies who prefer this
style of hairdrrssing buy curled wig
and have done with it. 1t costs less in
the end
Favorite colors in riding habits are
dark greens, blues and black. Tan
colored cloth is also in fashion, as are
pale fawn and gray hues. All habits are
made with short skirts, only long enough
to touch the ground when the wearer is
standing.
Leading modistes say that black is to
be the fashionable color of the season,
and will be seen especially in lace dresses
and beaded tulle bonnets that are made
youthful looking, by their piquant shapes
and gay decor1tions of flowers and rib
bon bows.
Very elegant Eet not expensive toilets
are formed, of silk skirt which has done
duty before, veied by very deep founce
of ecru l6ce. The bodice may be either
of new silk lace trimmed, or the same
silk CIT low and veiled with high bod
ice 81 ecru net.
Plaid and striped ribbons of soft silk
ere favorites, and also the new un-
| jbleached etamine, "A soft cotton canvas,
not very pretty in itself, but rendered so
| by the silken, silvered or golden threads
drawn through it, and forming charming
combinations and figures.
A farmers wife in Indiana, who runs
the vegetable garden of half an acre, not
only kept large table bountifully sup
piled, but sold last year more than 500
worth of vegetables to the town folks
few miles away. This half acre was of
more profit than any four acres which
the husband cultivated.
New parsols are square in shape, gay
| in color, and are trimmed with pro-
fusion of lace. Grenadine parasols are q
novelty intended for piazza use at water
ing places and mountain resorts. The
are lined with colored silks. The
handles are all made of exquisite wood,
and are very fanciful in design.
Young ladies in Vienna wear their in
itials worked in silk and gold on the
front of their jackets. "Young ladies
who are engaged, " it is pointed out by
the correspondent who sends this news,
'may wear other initials than their
own" Presumably it is meant that they
may wear the initials of the favored
suitor
An Animal Apple.Gatherer.
Gathering fruit is frequent practice