The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-09-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


ages SEQ, 600, 600 estate.
Women are taking upsilk culture as an
occupation in California.
What is called the redingote gown is
growing in popular favor.
Queen Victoria was recently made q
Colonel in the German army.
Dressy jackets are worn with plain
gowns by fashionable girls.
There are evidences of return of
fashionable favor to real laces.
Very few gowns are made with plain
bodices and coat sleeves now.
Greens and browns in all shades seem
to be the favorite colors this summer.
There is Woman's Socialists Club in
New York city. The officers are all
single young women.
Simultaneous with the attempt to
abolish the tournure is the effort to re-
store the Empire dress.
George NJ. Pullman makes it his rule
to pay women equal wages with men
when they do equal work.
Miss Ames, daughter of the Governor
of Massachusetts, is said to look wonder
fully like the Princess of Wales.
The latest arrangement in Paris for a
wedding at home is a floral umbrella,
under which thu happy pair stand.
In Finland's system of public schools
manual training is universal Boys learn
10 sew as well as girls, and girls also learn
carpentry.
Jeweled hoops, the Marquise shape
and the oblong cross setting, all appear
in finger rings along with other we'll
known styles.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Mitchell, a slster-in-law
of Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, has
been appointed a member of the Chicago
School Board.
A Kansas maiden of eighteen years has
broken ground and planted forty-five
acres of corn this season, which is now
growing finely.
Black gauze fans are now bordered
with gold OF silver spangles and painted
with BUTTERFLIES, birds or fancy designs
in light gray.
Soft felt hats are very comfortable for
travelling wear. When thus utilized
their only trimming is scarf of soft
waterproof silk.
White gloves are now worn when pay
ing ceremonious visits. For quiet calls,
shopping, etc, suede gloves are still
generally favored.
Fashionable walking boots are of dull
leather, with various ornamentations of
lustrous leather They may be buttoned
or laced in front.
The fashion is creeping in of very short
invitations to dinner. To some of the
most fashionable London parties guests
are invited only one or two days before.
Nearly all waists are made with sur.
plice or diagonal fulness. or with crossed
bretelles, while sleeves are given every
form except that of the tight coat sleeve
so long in vogue.
Beads on some fans are now arranged
so that when folded those beads on the
edges of the folds make the letters of a
name. When unfolded the beads are
lost in the general pattern.
Infants are again wearing bead neck
laces to a limited extent. One secs now,
among other jewelry provided for these
little folks, single strand of guinea
gold beads, smooth amber or beads of
fine coral.
Colored gems and semi precious stones
of pleasing hues are in as great demand
as ever Fine garnets have come to the
front, spinels are in favor, and so are
yellow topazes, jacinths and aquamarines.
The opal is unquestionably gaining in
public favor.
The qualities of women as Librarians
are enthusiastically commended by Mr..
Dewey, of Columbia College. Most OF
the students of the Columbia School of
Library Economy are women, and of the
candidates for admission between thirty
and forty were women and only two were
men.
Vegetarians cannot derive much con.
ISOLATION from the death of Anna Kings.
ford, M. D., of Paris, where she was one
of nj. Pasteur's most determined op.
ponents, as well as in England She
was clever woman, but had "fad'
about not eating meat. As a result, she
is dead of consumption under 40.
Says Boston fashion writer: "Some
of the new London jackets are froggy,
some doggy and some horsey. That is
to say, some have braid enough to satisfy
an Austrian hussar, some have very large
buttons with a dogs head upon them
and Others, what with horseshoe button:
and jockey cut, look as if they would
trot off by themselves"
Nearly all the fashionable of the fail
sex in London now wear wrist watches
They are constructed in every form, from
the plain leather strap to the magnificent
bracelet, where the face of the watch i,
oncircled by precious stones. The same
device is also applied to purses, pocket
books, canes and even umbrellas, which
are made up with diminutiye watches
attached.
Miss Helen Blanchard, of Philadelphia
is the possessor of a very large fortune
which she derives from her invention o.
the ''over and over" attachment fo
sewing machines. She borrowed at ex,
orbitant interest the money necessary tC
pay for her patent Office fees, and now
enjoys an income that is exceeded b,
that of but few women in that city o
rich spinsters.
Mime. Demorest is a striking instanc,
of exceptional pluck aud success in hei
way. She came to New York a poo
girl, and by her own exertions started
and built up the great business she a
present controls and which has brough
her such wealth that she and her husband
now own, besides the business, most 0
the real estate in the vicinity of thei
building on Fourteenth street, and larg
blocks of it, it Is said, in other parts o
ha pff