The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-05-05
NEWS AND NOTEs FOR wOMEN.

Both round and pointed bodices are
fashionable.
Bonnets have Fanchon, Normandy and
cape crowns.
Shoes and boots are less pointed but
not squaretoed.
Hooks and eyes are again used on the
bodies of dresses.
Dark blue sateens come with varied
and elaborate borders.
Even the cheviots come in all the new
tangled embellishments.
Skirts of street suits are made longer
and barely escape the sidewalk.
There is a woman in Florida who is
the mother of forty-two children.
A Georgia woman has in the last eleven
years peced and quilted 1863 quilts.
Overshoes for womens evening use are
of white fur tied with satin ribbons.
Guimpes and plastrons will be worn
with dresses of every sort of material.
The popular Gretchen dress will be
worn during the season by little girls.
French cashmeres are much worn and
very generally smooth-surfaced goods
prevail.
Fine curduroy will be used for cuffs,
collars and revers for woollen dresses for
children.
Tartan ribbons of velvet are used to
trim felt bonnets for wear with tailor
made costumes.
Mrs. Mary E. Campbell, grandmother
of Congressman j. E. Campbell, of Ohio,
is 100 years old.
Table covers are large once more and
the embroidery is all over, and not con-
fined to the border.
Jet will not go out of fashion,
whatever may be the fate of bead orna-
mentation generally.
The brims of new spring hats are
neither wide or eccentric. They are mar
rover in the back than in the front.
The husband may boast of "holding
the reins, ;" but it's generally the wife that
says where the wagon is going. Life.
Fichus of surah and lace crossed at
the bust have sailor collars. Those OF
Grape have broad bands OF embroidery In
rich colors.
Miss Jennie Lind Goldschmidt con-
fesses that she has kept her vocal organs
in tune for twenty-five years by yelling at
her children.
Wells are now worn under bonnets, not
to cover them, as the trimming is quite
spoiled in effect, but the result to the eyes
and eyelashes is somewhat more disas-
trous.
Those who foretold the sudden and
early death of small bonnets are very
wide of the mark. Fashions so sensible
are not likely to be supplanted by eccen.
tricities.
Cambrics and sateens are shown in
exquisite designs rivaling foulard silk in
sheen and color; dark blue sateen has a
border of wheat ears and miniature ears
form the design upon the fabric.
Crinkled zephyr cloth is shown in
every variety of dark and light colors,
with stripes for the skirts, while the bod
ice and drapery are of plaid, CORE
spending with the skirt in color.
Amongthe prettiest of the simple even
ing dresses for small parties or to receive
after the tailor models and varied with
bright-colored ribbon bows here and
there.
Philadelphia has eight female phys.
clans whose practice is reported to reach
$40, 1000 year for each, while twelve
others have incomes of $4,000, and
there are twenty-five who earn over So, 600
year.
The bonnet crowns are in many cases
so peculiar that one must see them artis-
tically trimmed to learn to like them.
Heart-shaped, square-shaped, round and
indented are only few of the many to
be opened for inspection.
When fair maid was wed by Colonel
Cough, of the Hussars, in London, the
other day, his deep-voiced, hearty II
will, made the bride Jump so noticeably
that everybody smiled. He was a man
of Mars who talked in tones Of thunder.
Women have the right to pre-empt,
tree-claim or homestead a quarter section
of government land in any of the Terri.
tories, just the same as males have. The
girl must be twenty-one and unmarried
to exercise the privilege of taking up
land.
For ladies who do not like to wear q
stiff hustle or tournure, the best substi-
tute is a cambria petticoat with founces
all tho way from the waist-line to the
bottom on the back breadth, which the
laundress should be instructed to starch
very stiff and smooth with her hand,
but not iron, so as to retain all the
starch.