The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-09-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Black SILK mlttS Will be 1aSnlonaDle |
again with summer dresses.
For warm weather oxford ties made
of patent leather will be fashionable.
The sleeves of new costumes are long
er, and more trimming is seen upon
them.
White serge dresses for little girls arc
trimmed with many rows of gold
braid.
Sailor hats are trimmed with scarfs
with sometimes an addition of "quilr'
feathers
Copper thread is introduced into the
new laces, and is very effective, especial.
ly on brown dresses.
In white cashmeres, plated waists,
with belts, long pointed drapery and
tucked skirt is the rule.
Sashes of moire ribbon eight or ten
inches wide will be worn by ladies as
well as by children this summer.
Miss Brown, a Concord young lady
who recently graduated at Harvard, had
phenomenally high grade in the clas-
sizes.
The St. Louis Century club, the lead
ing literary society of the city, has six
men and three women on its board of
directors.
Rich black dresses for summer are
made of China crepe, embroidered or
brocadcd for the skirt, while the over
dress is made of lace.
Improved English walking hats have
appeared once again, little wider in
the brim and with less roll at the sides
than upon the old models.
A pretty dress for child bridesmaids
is pink faille slip covered with dotted
muslin, not tied in at the waist, and the
broadest OF high Gainsboro hats Of pale
pink silks with immense bows.
A rough straw round hat or small
bonnet suiting the dress in color will be
chosen for travelling. Wide ribbons,
scarfs of etamine, or many small bows of
narrower ribbons are the trimmings.
Black satin or surah dresses are ef.
fectively remodeled by adding panels,
vest front and collar and cuffs of dark
red surah laid in fine plaitings, or bright
red satin veiled with black net or lace.
The "housemaid dress" so popular in
England, is gaining ground here. 1t is
q good dress. but its chief charm, sim
plicity, is entirely lost when it is worn
over crinolette or artificial protuberances
of any kind.
Mrs. Langtry was the daughter of DR..
La Breton, for many years dean of the
parish of Jersey. She married Edward
Langtry, widower, who was son of
George Langtry, the famous boat builder
of Liverpool. Mrs. Langtry first became
| famous in 1877.
The Scientific American states that
plush goods and all articles dyed with
aniline colors, faded from exposure to
light, will look as bright as ever after
being sponged with chloroform. The
commercial chloroform will answer the
purpose very well, and is less expensive
than the purified.
Trumbull's celebrated painting of the
battle of Bunker Hill and the death of
Warren has recently been produced in
chenille and silk on a sewing machine
There were 10, 900 yards of chenille and
SO, 900 yards of of silk used, and s, G40,-
900 stitches were taken. The work is
now on exhibition in Hartford.
For those who are tired of vests, a
single reverse of the material with which
the dress is trimmed is turned back on
the left side of the waist from the throat
down low on the bust, or perhaps only
half way to the waist line; this is espe.
cially effective made of velvet or of
watered silk, and it is also made of the
dress goods thickly braided.
The fashion of stripes has even ex-
tended to black materials of light tex
ture, and though patterns of spots. ETC.,
are still to be seen, stripes predominate.
Black wooden canvas stuffs are extremely
serviceable, and when trimmed with silk
or woolen lace makes pretty dresses for
walking or making calls in quiet way.
The gold engagement bracelet is be-
coming as popular as the engagement
ring. Only diamonds, rubies and pearls
are used on these bracelets. The old
brings bad luck, as a wedding gift,
seems to have gone over entirely, and
now it is said that emeralds and sap
phires are the "unfortunate" stones to
give for bridal presents, though they are
highly fashionable as gifts at any day
later or to anybody else,
The middle-class girls of Holland are
certainly very pretty. They have soft,
clear skins and bright complexions.
They are decidedly piquant in appear
ance, much more so than their sisters
over the Rhine. This year the favoritc
color is parrot green of various shades,
which seems to suit their brown hair and
eyes amazingly. They wear the high
crown, fashionable hat, with string ol
two added. AS for the back crinolinC
now the rage, have seen nothing il
size or sway to equal the achteruit of the
fashionable girl of Amsterdam. The
,, literal meaning of the above word is "be
hind the house."
Brought Home in a Wagon.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Mr. j. Helmus
s Vice President of the City Brewery, wa.