The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-09-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

world were old maids.
Crossed scarf draperies are still much
used for grenadine dresses.
The prettiest sunshades this summer
are made of canvas over colored silk OF
satin.
Feather fans are popular this season,
and are particularly attractive with
dressy toilet.
The fashion of round waists and
sashes is coming more and more in favor
day by day.
The etamine scarfs for cool afternoons
are cross-barred with colored silks and
dotted with chenille.
Women are numerous in the British
civil service. In a competition for 16j
places in the postofice 1884 women en-
tered.
A magnificent new black lace is the
marquise, which has a cord running
round the design in the style of the finest
Spanish point.
Buff lawns have been revived this
season, trimmed with white and buff
embroidery, and are very clean and
daiAty-looking.
The revival of an old fashion is that
of using alternate stripes of lace inser.
tion and material for basque, sleeves
and apron drapery of dress.
The capability of the female mind for
practical invention has again been shown
this time by Minnesota woman who
has patented a riding saddle.
A novelty of the season is the pretty
jacket. bodice of white or buff etamine,
trimmed with insertion and lace to
match, and very pretty to wear with
any colored skirt.
Cut-crystal balls, silver plated ovals
and plain, FURNISHED silver, profile
heads and horseshoes, with a snake
gracefully coiled about, are the latest
notions IN parasol handles.
Roman sashes make very gay round
waists, with which young ladies brighten
up and give variety to their toilets by
/ having this extra bodice to change With
the lace basque that belongs to the
skirts.
In bonnets, the large capote, very
much in the shape OF Norman cap,
with mass of flowers heaped up on the
top, Is the last nouveaute, while hats are
higher and more extravagant than ever
! in shape and trimming.
A Chicago lady who made purchases
of bric-a brac in Paris to the amount OF
$4, 900 get home to discover that every
single article was on sale at within half
mile of her home, and at much lower
prices than she had paid.
Gainsborough hats of immense size,
trimmed with large bouquets of any,
thing wild flowers for choice and tied
with a ribbon of any loud color, are all
| the rage in Paris for the country or sea.
side. The more dishevelled the effect
the better the hat is liked.
Seven hundred women are employed
at the central telegraph Office in London
and about three hundred and fifty more
at the different telegraph and postal
branch offices of the metropolis. AT
Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and
other provincial centers a considerable
number earn their living in this way, be.
! side nine hundred similarly employed
outside the civil service.
Mr.. Young, the coiffure of the Princess
of Wales, begins dressing hair at Z
o'clock in the morning of the drawing
room day. So great is the anxiety to re-
ceive his services that he is engaged, not
days, but weeks, beforehand. Woe to
the lady who comes first on the list She
must be in a state of worry the whole of
the morning, lest careless movement
should disarrange the coiffure before the
hour approached for displaying it to the
world.
White or cream -colored flannel is the
fashionable fancy for seaside and noun.
tain house toilets. Braid is the usual
garnituIe for these, either plain, cream.
colored, or white Hercules braid, or tie
more dressy gilt braid, which is
warranted not TO tarnish. Such suits are
also prettily trimmed with velvet, the
vest, with collar, cuffs and skirt panel,
being of velvet. When velvet trim.
mings are used the buttons should be of
the same.
Very wide sashes are worn, both with
washing and silk gowns, and also for
evening, and the loops are so arranged
that they form a back drapery of them.
selves. A white lace dress with variety
of these sashes, may be made to do a
good deal OF hard work for morning OF
evening wear. A velvet bodice in the
evening with lace skirt is always dressy,
anu llle same sklII Win lace DOulce
will do for afternoon wear. Valenci-
iennes is the best lace for this style of
toilet.
Five years ago a remarkably bright
and pretty girl of seventeen worked in a
San Francisco laundry. The son of
wealthy parents fell in love with her.
She returned his passion, but said that
she would not marry him, as he wished,
because she was uneducated and coarse.
Then he offered to send her away to
school. She accepted this offer. During
the ensuing four years she was in Mon
treal convent, very apt and studious.
The training wrought all the change
that was desirable, and the wedding took
place, with long tour in Europe after.
ward. The couple returned to San Fran.
cisco lately. TO show that she had nei-
ther forgotten nor was ashamed of her