The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-22
NEWS AND NOTES ON WOMEN.

There Is more trimming than actual
bonnet In the latest feminine style of
headgear.
Hand painted boiling cloth pillow
shams and bedspreads are new kind or
extravaganza.
Twenty-six new women suffrage So
cieties have been organized in Kansas
since October /.
Bangles of silver threads are new, and
one is supposed to wear ct least two
dozen on the arm.
women's fashions for stormy days are
almost as effective and stylish as those
for sunshiny ones.
The late Mrs. John Jacob Astor's an
nual income was estimated at $l0l, 200
or over, and this entire sum was spent in
charity.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who is
in Florence, Italy, has received $4,000
from an English magazine for her story
"Sara Creme
Miss Julia Cook has been appointed
medical examiner to London insurance
company. Her duties sre confined to
women applicants.
When passementerie is used upon
black dresses, apple green, cherry red, OF
white silk is often inserted beneath the
gimp, with excellent lect.
Some new black Jackets of English
manufacture have heavy cord epaulettes.
and show narrow waistcoat of red cloth,
bordered with gold buttons.
When girl wears flower garniture
to her party dre.s she uses the perfume
OF the flower that form the bouquets,
garlands, and parure or spray for the
hair.
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the Mexican Presi-
dent, has established an extensive day
nursery in the City of Mexico to look
after children whose mothers are out
work ng.
Many petitions are being presented to
the Washington Territory legislature
asking the Ie-enactment of the woman
suffrage law, but exempting women from
jury duty.
Novel boas are made of ice wool in
be ge and gray, the former re embling
otter, the latter blue fox. Made of light
blue, pink, or cream, they are a pretty
and inexpensive wrap tor the throat in
the evening
In hats the three shapes most in Paris
ian favor are the high crowned with wide,
dropping brim cut narrow at the back /;
the wide fiat hat, with brim looped high
at one side, and the bell-crown, with
rolling bIim.
For day gowns English women much
affect the Garibaldi waist-not the skirt
like concoction we know by the name,
but something with pointed yoke and
trim belt, sloping sharply to the hips
fIom long back and longer front.
The very newest garniture is the ten
end bow, male of watered ribbon with
ten-pointed dropping ends and five or six
upright loops closely strapped. 1t is worn
at one side of the headgear. and offset by
huge dahlia rosette on the other side,
10 whose making in the height of style
six yards of ribbon are necessary.
A German author saying that women
in some departments of literature have
entirely supplanted men, gives as a rea-
son that women are carried away with
the current of the day. "In art, as well
as life, they always follow the latest
fashion, are real SITS of to-day, always
sure to appeal to the taste. of the mo-
ment.
The women of Paris have adopted for
the winter season waggle in their walk
The art of waggling gracefully in furs is
being taught at the best dancing schools
The correct wagge is des, ribed as a shor
step and an undulating sweep. 1t i,
sa d to be much more graceful than thu
mannish stride that prevailed during thu
summer.
lone of the latest novelties" says
notion merchant, is lace made of steel
II is pronounced by milliners and dre,s
makers to be exquisitely beautiful as
trimming, and they say it is also suitable
for lad es' underwear. On ball room
picnic dresses there would be danger il
a thunderstorm.
Wool now outranks silk for street aut
general wear, and This is due to the pres
tige impaired to it by fashion, which il
time will be reinforced by sense and ex
perience, so that wooden materials
healthful, diversified. durable, may ais
be set down as q safe investment, sure
now they have come in such varied an
attractive as well as useful guise, to stay
Mrs. George Gould (aee Edith Kine
dom of New York had handsome pre-,
ent. 1t was an ostrich feather fan. TIL
sticks were mOther-of- pearl, inflid wit
, gold. On each was set tiny gold rost
and in the heart Of each rose sparkled
, diamond. The ostrich feathers wei
thick and heavy, each being chosen el
pressly for its position. The whole mac
the dainliest of toys, and cost 81, 200.
: Word comes from Paris that women
. fashions are veering around to the Dire
@ tory styles. As Olive Logan express
e it, I'VE shall have Kate Greenaway f
I grown ups. The waist under the arn
Il pits il universal accepted as beautiful
e will solve at once the terrible profile
= of how to be stylish and yet avoid tigl
q lacing; that is, it should do so. \
# waist being outlined no lacing is I
Q quired."
70 Ribbons play a great part in the eve
= ing dress of young girls this season al
is add an important EN- 10 the cost Tn
st are used in cream, gold or small brocad
h stripes upon tulle, or alternating wi
re lace to form skirts which hang straig
r and bodices which are narrowed in at /
y waist with little fullness and widen
d the top. These lovely skirts are ma
g over others of net or tulle, and these ON