The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-03-24
NEws AND NOTEs FOR WoMEN.


Eight feminine physicians are regular
practitioners in Paris.
OF the 8, 900 school teachers in Ne
brsska, 1000 are women.
Summer homespuns come in diagonals,
stripes and plain grounds.
The full skirt Of last season is again
the favorite of young girls.
Full skirts and round waits arc the
features Of little girls frocks.
Embroidery decorates the new cotton
thin goods in call over" designs.
Newmarkets and long ulsters are worn
even by little girls of all eges over six.
Dark Russian Green and dark plump
or lead are excellent colors for between
suits.
The new sheer cotton dress fabrics look
like old-time bereges, not like lawns nor
cambrics.
Belt buckles and clasps set in imitation
stones are so handsomely finished that
they are classed as jewelry.
Belts of silver are costly novelties;
they are ribbed, chased in rich antique
and medieval designs, or are plain.
Fichus of crepe cross over the bust, one
end is cut off where the other crosses il,
the latter extending to the waist line.
Silver and gold nets, studded with
balls of silver and gold, are worn over
pale-colored sstins and brocsded silks.
New spring woolens come with can
vas-woven grounds, on which are stripes,
bars and figures of boucle, velvet and
plush.
Elamine velours is the name given the
new canvas-woven velvet and boucle-
striped. figured and barred woolens that
are to be worn in the spring.
White glimpes will be worn around
the necks of colored dresses, with a dog
collar of velvet or embroidery fastening
them high around the throat.
1t is proverbial that California girls
marry well, and an exchange suggests
that this is due TO the fact that they can
throw gold dult in the eyes of their suit
ors
The comfortable walking and house
shoe for ladies no longer young is the
nuns or sisters shoe" of fine, soft
kid, laced ovar the insvep and having low
heels.
Bretelles, cuffs, and high dog collars
of velvet, velvet straps, across full
guimpes or blouse waiscoats, and velvet
belts are to be used on fine frocks of fine
white fabrics.
Several years ago Senator Ramsey gave
his wife the choice of a $500 block in Min
neapolis or a spring bonnet. Mrs. Ram
sey chose the block, which has Just been
sold for 800, 600.
For party dresses for little girls nothing
Is prettier than white cashmere, yelling.
or chudda cloth, with collars, cuffs and
borders of colored or white velvet, frise.
or striped plush or Astrakhan.
Steps have been takn toward forming
an ''anti-plumage league in England,
with a view to checking the wholesale
destruction of birds caused by the pres
ent fashion of wearing feather ornaments.
Crinoline is waging war through the
French modistes with ladies of taste, but
gains little ground. Worth is using the
steels in almost every shape, but cannot
get them to accept the bona fde thing.
A novelty in watches for ladies are
c-sim1les of those worn by the court
beauties in Louis XV's time. Some of (
them have oval gold faces, with enamel
while others have enameled
dials, with gold and silver numerals.
Mrs. Mary Howett, now eighty-three
years old, is in the enjoyment Of good
health and still engaged in literary work,
being a regular contributor 70 Good
Words. She resides at Moran, Austria,
in a beautiful old house, which bears the
name of ''Marion's Rest"
Effective dresses are made entirely of
plain tulle in several shades of the same
color. Blue arranged in this way is ex-
beautiful, the outer skirt being
Of blue-white yelling, the deeper tints /.
a cloud-like effect to the cos /
tune. Shaded ostrich feathers are used /.
far trimming these dresses.