The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-07-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


written ballet.
Although deaf, the Queen of Denmark
is fond of music.
Pink takes the place of hcliotrope
among summer tints
Queen Marguerite of Italy is very fond
| of American literature.
The fashion of wearing corsage diff.
ferent from the skirt is in vogue.
Queen Margaret College, Glasgow is
the only woman's college in Scotland.
The mother of General Lew Wallace
lectures on woman suffrage and temper.
ence.
Miss Kate Kavanagh is a successful
ranchero In the Crur d'Alene country Of
Dakota.
Queen Olga, of Greece, has made and
embroidered a national costume for her
husband.
White and copper promises to rival
white and gold as a favorite color COM
bination.
White braids will be in vogue on dark
sateens, and on velvet and silk they are
also fancied.
The Empress of Germany tastes por.
tions of every article of food intended
for the Emperor.
Gray and green are very stylishly
blended together in some Of the new
hats and bonuets.
Silk-fowered wooden lace looks rich
and elegant as a trimming for summer
challies and lustres.
Full bows of ribbon, with a stiff quill
or two, are the only permissible trim
ming worn for travelling hats.
The Princess of Wales is setting the
example OF displaying as much jewelry
as possible on court occasions.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, the temper.
ance organizer, says the doll teaches
little girls to be vain of dress.
If Queen Victoria lives few years
longer she will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage OF history.
A garment that is a basque at one side
and upon the other we'll defined polo
naise, is among the latest caprices
Gray with yellow-the bright, brassy,
buttercup hue--is one of London's afro
cious combinations for evening gowns
About the prettiest of new rustic hats
are made of fine corn husks, deicately
braided and neither bleached nor colored
Real silver hooks and eyes are seen
upon the corsages of some of the summer
gowns, and are ornamental as well as
useful.
Brilliantine, the new summer stuff so
popular for house gowns, is merely the
oid-time alpaca in new tints and printed
patterns.
Isaiah Walton, q flrmer living near
Byron, Ca, says he has five married
daughters whose aggregate weight is
over 1000 pounds.
The University of Zurich, Switzerland,
has conferred the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy upon Miss Frances Ii. Mitch
ELL of Philadelphia.
1t is stated that so great is the demand
for green hats the present season. that
dealers find it at times almost impossible
to keep them in stock.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with q
picture of Marshall Wilder, the humor-
ist, on one side of her and mirror tied
with ribbons on the other.
Striped fabrics, when used for corsages,
are made more effective by being made
to taper sharply at the back forms, and
to slope diagonally to point in front.
Thousands Of hands are now busy on
the trousseau of the future Empress of
China, and it will be the greatest ever
made. The wedding will not occur until
1882.
Among the most attractive of the sea-
sons bonnets are those Of straw lace,
which are nearly as delicate as some of
the silk and thread hand wrought
guipures.
Sleeves are made of two materials to
be very stylish and are very becoming
Two full wide puffs with wide bands be-
tween are very pretty, and bows to finish
at elbow and wrists.
There are in Asia 200, 900, 600 of Bud
dhist women not one of whom, according
to her religious belief, has any hope of
immortality, except, perchance after
transmigration through many animals,
their spirits may enter some boy infant.
1t is said that the new gold braided
and bordered white camel's hair capes
are called Bulgarian simply because they
had to be called something, and the
name Marie Antoinette had been
stretched about as much as it would bear.
DIR. Sarah Hackett Stevenson said at
the Woman's International Conference in
Washington, that the women who went
to all quarters of the globe as physicians
did more missionary work than the
church missionaries, because the doctor
appealed to nature.
Cheese straws are a new wrinkle at
dinner parties. The cheese comes in
long sticks like macaroni, and one end is
tied with a narrow strip of ribbon.
These cheese straws were first introduced
at the five O'clock teas two seasons ago,
and now find Their way to the fashion
able dinner table.
Albert cloth, among the best of new
English woolens, is to be had in golden
bronze, blood orange, terra Gotta, moss
and olive green, all which are made up
with much heavy braiding of gold, sill
yer, steel or copper, the design outlined
with silk or mohair braid CT color con-
trasting with the foundation.
Parisians are wearing new sort of
earring, to which they have taken
kindly-an arrow or feather fixed almost
horizontally across the lobe. The arrow
is generally enriched with single pearl.
The feather has small cluster of colored
ttones. Long droop earrings have also
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