The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-06-03
NEWS AND NOTES FOR wa ZEN.

Long polonaises are out OF style
Tricotine is a fashionable dresa fabric.
English brides wear moonstones for
luck.
Presbyterian blue is a new color in
hosiery.
Wool crepe is only new name for
nuns yelling.
Jackets are lined or faced with silk Of
uniform color.
Embroidered surahs will be very popu-
lar this summer.
All the pongees are perfectly covered
with embroidery.
Jackets are made short at the back
and with loose fronts.
Folded surplice waists are seen on
lace, surah and wool dresses alike.
Most of the tailor made costumes have
a finish of galloon or gilt braid set under
the edge.
American grenadines show velvet
stripes of various widths on the arrow
like meshes.
Some of the new web laces which will
be 80 generally used in thin costumes are
embroidered in color.
The Empress Ghyantoka of Japan,
who reigned in the eighth century, orig.
mated printing.
White braid, interviewer with gilt or
silver and white wool lace are used for
trimming serge dresses.
V-shaped bodices are worn with lace
elbow sleeves by those who do not care
to have quite low dress.
Gauze and China crepe are used as
we'll as tulle for skirts; they are plain,
broche or tufted with chenille.
The Swiss pattern dresses are marvel.
ously cheap this season and can be made
most attractive if carefully managed.
In Switzerland women monopolize the
telephone business, and in Valparaiso
they are employed exclusively as street.
car conductors.
1t is said to have been q rule with
Ninon de PEnclos, whose skin was the
admiration of beholders, to use rain
water exclusively.
Some pretty white flannel costumes for
summer wear in the country are heavily
braided on the waist and sleeves with
gilt or silver braid.
The English tailor suits have little
hat of the same material with rolling
brim. Gordon blue is the stylish color
for these imported costumes.
Scrim makes the foundation of great
deal Of the darping stitch embroidery;
for sofa cushions particularly does this
make very desirable ground.
Black cashmere and Henrietta cloth,
either quite plain or embroidered all
over with silk, are used for polonaises to
be worn over skirts of watered silk.
A Mansfield Comm, lady, has a par
rot which was brought from Mexico
thirty-three years ago, by Captain Henry
Allen, of New Haven. The bird has
been shipwrecked three times.
Among the prettiest goods shown are
the American figured woolens in all
shades. Combined with plain goods, to
match either the ground color or the
figure, they make durable and stylish
costumes.
The richest trimming laces are the
genuine Chantilly and the Spanish hand
run, but there is very effective COM
blnat1on OF the latter with an imitation
of Chantilly, very good and fine and of
beautiful material, which is equal in ap.
pearance to the real. and more durable
than all hand run Spanish, which draws
at every point of contact.
Among the prettiest and most artistic
of the new woolen costumes are those
which are embroidered in chenille shad-
ed in several colors of the wool. The
preference seems to be for detached fig
ures, for leaf. shaped, egg.shaped or cir
cular designs, alternating with fiat bands
put on lengthwise, or as ornaments with
out the alternating bands.
Princesse dresses are shown again, and
are given a new effect by the loose Span
ish jacket which is added to the front,
while novel idea in others is that of
using wide stripes for the front of plain
satin or more dresses, making these stripes
form panels in the skirt, and cutting
them off above the waist line to repre-,
sent Swiss bodice; the upper part ot
the front is then of the plain material
used for the back.