The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-08-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN
chatelaines are arnin worn.

Canvas and lace.woven stuffs are all
the rage.
J Tucked skirts are much worn here and
/ in Europe.
Embroideries are much used on sum-
mer dresses.
The pendant, set with gems, is IA
vorite ornament.
White costumes are exceedingly fash.
ionabe this summer.
The scarf of gold shot etamine is the
favorite seaside hat trimming.
Copper, steel, and lead tinsel braids
trim many seaside ramble suits.
The pretty Gretchen dress for little
girls is as popular this as last season.
There is a steady tendency to return to
the styles of dress of fifty years ago.
Miss Louisa M. Alcott is a successful
author. Her works have reached sale
Of 500, OOO copies.
American silks are all the time increas-
ing in favor on account of their excellent
wearing qualities.
Summer silks are trimmed with black
velvet ribbons. Some dresses show
velvest vest, cuffs and collar.
Gloves for evening wear are made of
kid as far up as the wrist, while the long
arm consists of silk net or lace.
When one does not possess hot-water
bag it is suggested that they substitute
bag of hot sand for neuralgia.
The British climate is. said to have
greatly benefited Mary Anderson, who is
now more beautiful than ever.
Some lovely wide garden hats have
oeen made of plated gauze over net
frames, with satin ribbon and Marabout
feathers for trimming.
Small necklets of plated silk Grape,
pink, cream, blue, lilac or red, with
small pompon to match at the side, are
most fashionable for dressy toilets
Printed plush continues to be used for
upholstery of odd chairs, and for light
gilt chairs it is specially desirable. 1t also
forms desirable cushions for wicker
chairs.
Wide ribbons are used for panels as
we'll as sashes, and also across the front
of dresses, but for sashes more especial
lY, the very long ones reaching nearly to
the bottom of the skirt. 4
The latest device for an ornament to
room is a gilded rollingpin studded with
gilt hooks, which is hung up by bright
ribbons. After awhile the emblem of
mans humiliating subsection will be
conspicuous in every room in his house.
White plumes will be fashionable all
summer upon dressy white hats, but
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montures, and sprays of fine French flow
ers, grasses and foliage will quite usurp
the reign of feathers as a garniture for
hats and bonnets until the autumn
breezes blow.
"Auld Robin Gray" was written by
Lady Anne Lindsay. daughter of the fifth
earl of Balcarres. She was born on No.
vember 81, 1859. and at the early age of
twonty-one produced the ballad which
Sir Walter Scott says ''is worth all the
dialogue which Corydon and Phyllis
have had together from the days of
Theocritus downward"
Small pelerines of white muslin or eta.
mine are a very graceful substitute for
an out.of-door mantle in hot weather.
These pelerines are trimmed with some
/ SUI VI plSbIy ldHCJ luCSs anu WlJn DOWS
of ribbon matching ithe dress, or else,
more soberly, with black velvet ribbon,
suitable to wear with any dress.
Boys wear jackets plated in the mid
die of the front and back, and fastened
much below the waist with wide belt.
Some have the front only very nicely
plated, so as to form plastron, with a
narrow revers fastened down on each side
with row OF small buttons. Knicker-
bockers have come into fashion again.
and boys wear them with various kinds
Of jackets up to ten or twelve years of
age.
AS rule hats for the seaside are &c.
centric and fantastical in the extreme,
and those of the present season are even
more extraordinary than we are accus.
toned to see them at this time of the
year. The high conical crown is still
further heightened by enormous loops OF
ribbon which shoot up beyond the top
of the hat, while an enormous cluster of
field flowers, wheat-ears and grasses is
posed in front.
Uuglazed kid gloves, in various shades
of buff, are still worn with all toilets.
Fine thread gloves, however, are con-
sidered in good taste with washing
dresses. They are worn very long, with
open-work borders at the edge; some
have lace cuffs, embroidered with silk,
matched in color to the trimming of the
dress. Mittens are not much seen this
summer; they are not admitted in elegant
toilets, but only in quite neglige dress.
A new star has arisen in Dakota. It
is Miss Taylor, who came to Wahpeton
three years ago. The first year she took
a pre-emption and refused an offer of
marriage. The second year she took a
homestead and a tree claim and had four
offers to Zine" farms. She has now a
section of land, twenty-seven COWS and
innumerable calves Has taken at the
county fair the first prize for butter,
and the last prize for pumpkins. Can
ride horseback, shoot gophers, drink al
kali water, and isn't afraid of mice. She
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