The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-04-15
NEWS AND NOTEs FOR WOMEN.

snaWls are again to be IN vogue.
Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of deli
cate flowers and geometrical figures.
Young girl tramps are said to be be-
coming common in the mill districts of
New England.
Waiting is going out of fashion in
England. The Prince of Wales has re-
vived quadrilles.
New clasps, much used Tor cloaks and
dresses, exhibit heads in curiously carved
and stained wood.
The Kansas house of representatives
has four girls among its pages, and its
docket clerk is a woman.
Partisan ladies are having landscapes
and miniature portraits painted on their
finger nails by talented artists.
Buttons are very small, some forming
small. round, jewel-like objects, others
curious little men or antique heads.
A new brooch is composed of an enor-
nous hook and eye of gold, inlaid with
small but very brilliant diamonds.
Mixed bright metal braids are used on
waistcoats and cuffs of plain cloth of
some distinct shade from that which
composes the gown.
In Paris fashions latest freak is fancy
ball, in which each lady is dressed as a
fower-violets, lilies, roses, bluebells
and marigolds. What a lovely bouquet.
An Indian princess has eloped from q
Cincinnati dime museum with a St.
Louis man. This appears to be retro
grade movement whichever way you look
at it.
Broad heavy galloons ars very popular
trimmings. Plated skirts have often
one, two or even three rows of galloon,
sometimes three inches wide, around the
bottom short distance apart.
'It is belief of the Buddhists of Cey-
| Ion that if a woman behaves herself
properly she will eventually become a
man." And yet people say that women
never get their rights in this world.
japanese Grape, brocaded with floral
patterns in silk or chenille is the most
fashionable material of the season for
evening and ball dresses; it requires
silk dress under it. Lace is used in pro-
fusion for trimmings.
Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell, the only
lady instructor in the University of Mich
igan, and author of several treatises on
microscopical subjects, has just been
elected member of the Royal Micro
scopical society of London, being the
third lady ever elected.
New teacups Fare flat and shallow.
Breakfast coffee cups follow the same in
larger size, and after dinner cups are tall,
conical and tapenng in straight line
from the rim to the bottom, to CORE
spond with the tail shapes prevailing in
the after dinner coffee service in silver.
Asses ears are the latest bonnet orna-
ments in Paris, an extraordinary novelty
! in trimmings which far distances such
! modest curiosities as mice, mushrooms
and watercresses. A leading belle ap-
peared in a gray felt bonnet adorned
with a pair of real dried donkeys
ears.
A doctor who ought to know says that
the practice of the wholesale use of smell
ing salts, which came in with the universal
fashion of carrying smelling bottles, is
sure to have its influence upon the olfac-
tory nerves sooner or later, and render
the victim unable to distinguish cologne
from asafptida More than all that, it
causes headaches, sore throat, and red
noses.
Tall and slender young ladies this
season have new and pretty way of
arranging a sash. A generous length
of surah is finished at both edges with a
plain, wide hem; the ends at the top are
then drawn through glitrering jeweled
slides upon each shoulder brought down
to the belt in front, crossed and fastened
with a jeweled buckle or clasp. The
ends are arranged from thence in panniers,
or one is carried to the back and the
other lightly looped, or left to fall
straight.
Gray, light brown and green cloths,
plain, or in alittle check or mixed corded
stripe, are used for some of the new
walking suits intended for spring wear,
and show very little or no trimming The
skirt is closely box plated or trimmed
with a series of wide folds or with pan
els. The apron is draped to one side.
The bodice is plain, short on the hips,
with a little position at the back and a
short pointed front. The sleeves are
PLAIN also, and rounded up naturally at
tn top, without unnatural fullness, stuff
ing or padding. The garment to wear
with this dress is small cutaway coat, or
a fitted cape. The buttons used are
small ana shaded IN horn or pearl TO
match the cloth.
An expensive and exceedingly effective
silk costume can be made of American
silk and broche combined The skirt of
dark green gros grain silk, with two box
plated tlounces at the bottom. The tab
lier reaching from the hips to the top of
the is composed of one wide vo-
lante of white embroidered Moresque
lace, over which fall pointed panniers of
the silk, looped under gracefully draped
back breadth of red and green satin
broche matching the color of the green
silk, but very lustrous, the red broche
flowers very vivid shade between scar
let and crimson. The bodice is of the
broche, with a triangular Modjeska puff
on the front defining a square pompa-
dour outline across the bust, the trisn-
gle bordered with Moresque lace, the
hi0h collar and ctiffs with the same The