The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-10-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

A glove must be long or IL is nothing.
Promenade costumes are severely
plain.
Orange and gray are a frequent com.
bination
Faille Franchise will be much worn
this autumn.
Paniers and wing drapery are decid-
edly pronounced.
White camels hair is much used for 8
o'clock tea gowns.
The Princess Of Wales spends S5, 600
a year for bouquets.
Straw embroidery is one Of the novel
ties for dress trimming.
Velvet jackets, sleeveless, Of course,
are worn with lace dresses.
Tulle nesse is a new tullc Of gossamer
tincness for yelling bonnets.
The Woman's Relief Corps, Of Massa-
chusetts, has d, i4j members.
Rhinestoues and cut steel buckles are
used for fastening velvet belts.
Satin in combination with lace is to be
taYorlte for the coming season.
White silk vests. braided with gold OF
pale tint, are worn with blue tailor
made dresses.
straw bonnets and hats of dark shades.
the latter faced with velvet, VIII be worn
late IN the autumn.
Linen duck is used for tailor-made
dresses and is made up in the same man
ner as woolen material.
Light summer toilets of bavadere
striped material have overskirt and
sleeves Of figured material.
Dresses of woollen material are now
made so light that they are not burden
even In the warmest weather.
Jet continues in high favor and is seen
in great variety. Jet galloon is used for
trimming skirts and bodices.
The old-time fashion of pinked
founces of India silk upon thin cotton
dresses is revived this season.
Tussore silk is most serviceable for
constant wear 1t dyes and cleans well.
1t is made from Indian wild silk.
1t has become quite the rage to have
sermons, lectures, associations, clubs.
etc, exclusively for the gentler sex.
InEelt bonnets and hats for autumn
wear the shapes do not vary in any great
degree from those worn during the sum.
mer.
Ribbon is used in profusion on all sum.
mer toilets in the form of bows of ever,
description-ladders, brides, sashes and
ends.
A French dressmaker tells an Ameri-
can correspondent that she paid Sl2 tc
an artist to learn how to make a certain
bow.
Afternoon dresses OF faille lined with
lace have overdresses of figured silk,
having the same colored ground as the
plain faille.
Queen Margharita of Italy has chosen
woman physician. Signora Margarit,
Farne, one of the first Italian women 10
study medicine.
In Philadelphia there are said to be Mt
least fifty women who possess fortunes
Of $500, 900, and there are over a dozen
who are millionaires.
Birds wings and feathers are shown in
great variety, although it was hoped that
popular feeling was opposed to the
slaughter of the innocents.
A university for women. founded by
private capital. is to be established at
Moscow. 1t will have these faculties
Mathematical, physical and pathological.
Some girls and young women are be.
ginning 70 part and wave their hair in
the fashion so becoming 10 a certain
type Of face, in vogue dozen years ago.
Mrs. Mary Stamps, principal of the
Normal school at New Orleans. is a niece
of jefferson Davis, and is a woman OF
large influence in educational circles in
the South.
Two daughters Of the Prince Of Wales.
whose ages are sixteen and fourteen re.
spectively, have made the tricycle. IA
nous. They think nothing of taking a
run of fifty miles a day