The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-06-30
NEws Avn NOTEs FOR WOMEN.


sticks.
Velvet neck bands with throat bows
are much worn.
There are thirty-five varied weavings
of white wool for dress goods
We are going back to the days of our
grandmothers for our fashions in rib
bons.
Lessons in cookery are being given to
the girls in some of the national schools
around Dublin.
TIE fashion of long, pointed finger
nails isrevived among fashionable women
who enjoy criticism"
A new wrinkle is the little satchel
worn with strap so as to como directly
under the elbow of the left arm.
The canvas dresses introduced this sea
son it is believed will prove desirable for
travelling, as these shake the dust rapidly.
A novelty is the Scotch plaid net lace.
It is not stamped, as one would suppose
at first glance, but actually woven that
way.
Big hats, wasp-like waists and Jumbo
hustle m0Ne the average woman on the
New York streets an absurd carica-
turc.
Miss Rose Kingsley, the daughter of
Gha,les Kingsley. is to become one of the
EDITORS of new English magazine for
young people.
The improved jerseys are awaiting an
other name, so completely have they de
serted their modest, earlier name and
association.
Gathered vests, from collar to wais:
line, are very stylish; they are extremely
full, yet are gathered into a narrow
space and have pointed revers on each
side
very useful travelling jacket is OF
black and white checked tweed The
front is finished with revers of brown
ottoman silk, and the cuffs and collars
of the same.
Mrs. Kate Greunnel, of Royal Oak,
Mich, is a carpenter by trade and is SO
expert in the art of shingling that she
can easily give two men all they can do
to keep up with her.
In Massachusetts, women are now ad,
mitted to the medical societies of the
State, and are employed in increasing
numbers in women's prisons, reforma
tories, insane asylums and children's hos
pitals.
An English court sentenced a woman
to six months imprisonment at hard
labor because she obtained money by
carrying around a sealed and addressed
envelope, and solicited from passers by
penny to buy q postage stamp,
Ribbon enters largely into the effect
iveness of many of the Summer costumes,
and exquisite little designs for tacking
here and there on dress or jacket, or,
for that matter, for adjoining the neck
and hair, are to be seen in the stores.
where many an idea may be found by the
ingenious or those who can tie graceful
bow.
Black grenadine forms a mantle worthy
of notice. The material shows one stripe
in velvet'lowers ON the canvas ground,
alternating with stripe of lace figures,
eXquisitely embroidered in Jet beads.
The odd front is rather loose, and is
gathered in at the neck; it is cut short
at the elbow, and the edges are bordered
with a fullness of lace, which is also cas-
caded up the fronts on either side.
The baschlik, dear to the hearts OF
Russian and German women, has made
its appearance on this side of the water.
1t is a hood with long ends, made OF
black or colored wool. and is elaborately
embroidered with colored silks or orna-
mented with gold or silver braid 1t is
to be worn here as scarf about the
shoulders for driving, or in summer at
the watering places. These baschliks,
so useful in summer as scarfs, are mos.
picturesque sleighing hoods in winter.