The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


be bought for little or nothing.
Fans are larger than ever. The big,
soft, white ostrich feather fans hold their
own.
White gloves with embroidery simula-
ting bracelets are worn in second
mourning.
Cheviot, tweed and canvas goods are
the fabrics which take the lead in stylish
materils this season.
Coquilles of jet are employed for
crowns and trimming. Some of these
are made of graduated cut beads.
Shoes at last come to the decided
point at the toe that the shoemakers have
been aiming at for the last few years.
Instead of painting plaques and sau-
GERS it is now the thing for fashionable
young ladies to etch and paint on wood
and silk.
Beige and snuff color are worn. Null
ti-colored beads and Oriental embroidery
find their most appropriate ground on
those shades.
Bonnets made of small natural white
flowers, and therefore ''good for one oc-
casion only,n are in high fashion for
bridesmaids.
Women with plenty of money wear
white silk stockings, but those whose
purses are not so long still ching to the
black or brown ones, but with white
feet.
Long, black, lynx boas are again in
vogue, as was limited at last season, when
few, and very few, of the most ee-
giant women in New York appeared in
them.
The manner in which the velvet or
plush covering the crowns of turbans and
bonnets is made to rise in conical loose
masses in front is q novel feature in mil
linery.
Women physicians are highly success
in the Quaker City. There are several
there who make from $40, 900 to ST, 600
a year, aud many who make a round
s., 1000.
The Duchess of Buccleuch gets So, 500
year from the British Government as
Mistress of Roses, and eight other Peer
esses 81, 500 apiece as Ladies of the Bed
chamber.
Fancy garnitures of feathers are much
used. Pheasant, Ospreys, sea-gulls and
pigeons are in high favor, and the wings
of game birds ale used with the high,
stiff ribbon bows.
Jet ornaments of small size for bon
nets and fichus are in all manner of de-
signs, lions, birds, butterflies daggers,
scimetars and every variety of warlike
implement being among the fancies.
Daisy rosettes, made of narrow orange
colored velvet ribbon, with hearts of
brown plush, are set in high holly
wreaths around new autumn bonnets and
hats of golden brown or beige straw.
Black and white are worn fashionably
in trimming dressy hats and bonnets, the
white being in small proportion and in
the form of feathers or ribbon or lace,
the black velvet, plush, lace and jet.
A frequent arrangement of plaids or
checks and plain stuff in a frock is to
make the entire skirt, under corsage and
+ sleeves of the plaid or check, with cut
away overjacket or coat of plain goods
Mrs. Colt, the widow of the famous
inventor of the Colt revolver, is de-
scribed as quiet, dignifed lady of mid
die age, gentle and cultivated in manner
and decidedly aristocratic in appear
ance.
In place of the white lace balayeuse.
sOlong worn under the skirts of house
dresses, every one now wears very full
rnffles or plaitings of thin silk, the color
OF the dress, pinked or goffered on the
edge.
A frequent arrangement of plaids or
checks and plain stuff in a frock is to
make the entire skirt, under corsage, and
sleeves, of the plaid or check, with
cutaway overjacket or coat of plain
goods.
Wide braids, bands of applique galloon
and other border trimmings are used on
bottom of the skirt as well as to form
panels on frocks of cloth, wool fabrics,
sicilienne, and even plain silk when made
up for demi-toilets.
Slender gold threads are frequently
seen crossing each other at right angles
in the new indefinite plaids of the richer
kinds that are formed of bars of cut and
uncut velvet or plush on ground wool
serge, diagonal, chevron or herring bone
stripes.
Queen Victoria is said to be an artist
of no mean ability, aud she spends a
large portion of her time while in Scot
land sketching. The Princess Beatrice
is also prohclent as an artist, and it is
stated that some of her works will be ex-
hibited in London this winter.
Silver sertularias, really sea animalcule
or their creation, are extensively known
to importers of millinery goods under the
name of sea MOSES. They are gathered
on the Atlantic coasts of America, shipped
to Europe, dyed in various colors and re-
shipped to this country, where, of course,
we pay high duty, as they pass though
the Custom House.
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