The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-12-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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the backs are quite short.
"a pretty woman has ruined more
than one church, says Sam Jones.
In Butte, Montana, maids and kitchen
girls are in demand at $50 week.
Long and straight effects still prevail
on many of the trimmed dress skirts.
"Onyx, set with diamonds" says the
Jereler, sis being worn by ladies OF
quiet taste"
Miss st. Pierre, of Georgia, manages
and owns business interests valued at a
million and half.
A popular article with both sexes is
represented in silver handles for umbrel-
las, canes, parasols and whips.
The Macon telegraph claims that
Georgia chartered, built and conducted
the first female college in the world.
The president of the New Orleans
Woman's club is Mrs. Maria Jefferson
Swayze, a niece of Thomas Jefferson.
The English walking hat, to match in
hue the walking suit, Is in demand this
fall. All trimming on these hats is
massed high in front.
There are no old maids in Turkey.
The system of taking wives on faith,
without seeing them, is responsible for
this happy state of Turkish society.
Pennsylvania at her recent State fair
offered several prizes in "a dressmaking
contest" In all there were eight prizes,
seven of which were won by young
ladies.
Plush and velvet are favorite materials
for covering hats and bonnets, though
there are many models with crowns Of
novelty fabrics or tinseled cloth and
brims of velvet.
Wool dress goods, for which there is
a great demand, all exhibit rough sur
faces, the loopyarn cloths, boucle goods
and cloths with fraise effects being among
the leading styles.
Mourning dress fabric include the
rough surface novelty cloths so popular
in colors. These are made up in combi-
nation with plain cloths; and are fash
ioned much after the models worn out
of mourning.
A California girl shoots wild geese
and sends their feathers to market, and
in this way she has laid by $500 to give
the man who marries her. 1t is thought
the men all seem to be waiting for her to
make it 81, 900.
In 1910 Harriet Martineau found seven
vocations open to women in the State OF
Massachusetts now there are 294 occupa-
tions in which 251, 1873 of the female sex
earn their own living, receiving from
$3.50 to SO, 900 per annum.
The increasing masculinity of English
girls is topic for many London essay
lists. In dress, talk and manners it is
the fashion with daughters Of wealth
and refinement to be rs much like their
brothers as decorum will allow.
Mrs. Langtry, not satisfied with the
natural color OF her hair, which was
beautiful, and of which she took inces-
SAINT care, has painted it kind of reddish
color, which, it appears, is becoming the
fashion in Paris, and has much injured
her appearance.
A new variety of that favorite flower,
forget me not, has been raised in Ger
many and is introduced to the trade by
NJ Faurobert, of Berlin. 1t is named
"Eliza Faurobert," and is remarkable
for its deep blue flowers of large size,
which are borne in clusters, and for its
extended towering season.
Old as the saying is, there is one thing
that the average woman will not do
confess her age. A Western lecturer
recently advertised lecture for ladies
over twenty-five years of age. The lec-
turer was promptly on hand, but the
audience consisted of only one person
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The Turkish fashion of wearing jew
eled buttons is seen here on some i'm
ported evening costumes. They are in
turquoise, garnet or some of the pretty
alpine quartz crystals. In Turkey, where
they are sometimes composed of more
costly Jewels, they are part of the
brid's dover, and a:e often heirlooms of
great antiquity.
Simplicity in bridal attire is more a
foreign than an American fashion, but it
must be allowed it is far more appro-
! pirate. If one wishes to preserve any
sentiment with the bridal dress one does
not care to use it as a ball dress after
ward. Heavy satins and brocades tempt
one to wear the dress instead of storing
it away as an heirloom.
Trimmed hats and bonnets seen at re-
cent New York openings are for the
most part exaggerations of the shapes
worn the past season. The crowns to the
round hats are taller and more conical,
the brims are narrower and more eccen-
tric, while the trimmings on both hats
and bonnets are higher and more pyrN-
midal and more arbitrarily massed on
the front of the crown of hats aud on
the tops of bonnets than ever.