The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-09-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Face wells now drop below the chin.
All jackets have very short basques
now.
The drapcries worn are airy and lightly
ornamented.
The women of Rhode Island pay taxes
on $40, 600, 900.
Percale and challios in small patterns
are much worn.
with gowns of wash fabrics come
| parasols to match.
Blouse and pleated waists are in great
favor just at present.
A young lady Of New York city keeps
humming birds for pets.
London and Paris costumes are re-
markable for the prevalence of green.
The mother of General Bouauger is a
Welch woman, and eighty-four years of
age.
Miss Eta ingalls,, the daughter OF the
President of the Senate, has become a
| journalist.
Very small black birds are seen among
the other trimmings of black lace hats
and bonnets.
This year the graduating class at the
Harvard "AnneX" for women was larger
than ever before.
Several New York drug stores employ
young women as clerks and are teaching
them the business.
Uppcr-ten young ladies in London
society have adopted photography as
their pet diversion.
Mrs. Jui;a Ward Howe has learned to
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since her marriage.
The world of dressmakers and design
ers have become history crazed in the
matter of new costumes.
The Royal University of Ireland re-
Gently conferred the degree of master Of
arts on five young women.
Kentucky was the first State in the
Union to give school suffrage to women.
The law was passed in 1852.
Ladies who find veil trying to the
eyes are wearing q veil with fine esprit
star on the very thinnest ground.
A new shade of tawny yellow is tiger
lily. Itis seen in new tulles, gauzes,
and piece laces for evening gowns.
pretty sleeve for house frock is a
rather long single puff gathered into a
band of embroidery just below the ell
bow.
A golden bronze straw hat trimmed
with hop blossoms, Glove, and d0ldelion
flowers run to seed is fall offering of
millinery.
Mrs. Maria f. Beasley, of Philadel-
phia, is q woman of extraordinary me-
chanical genius, and has made fortune
from her inventions.
Some of the new imported gloves are
delicately perfumcd, and a London mil
liner has set the fashion of perfuming
choice hats and bonnets.
Tan colored shoes are the "fad" of the
fashionable on the other side, both men
and women wearing them on occasions
when they look out of place.
1t is well to remember that blouses of
washing silk must be ironed alway on
the wrong side, and care taken that the
iron be warm rather than hot.
Steel lace, as fine as cobweb, and in
any color, makes collars and cuffs for
women that will not wilt in the warmest
weather, and are winning favor.
A late fancy in Paris is the wearing in
the hair of tortoise shell combs and pins
with heIds of faceted steel flowers that
look like diamonds by gas light.
Sleeves grow loose and looser and are
aften ornamented at top with a separate
braided bit, to match which there are
! braided shoulder pieces aud collar.
Flannel is still the favorite stuff fo
tennis and yachting costumes but serge
and Jersey cloth are preferred by the
best dresters, if expense is no object.
Woolen gowns are made of special
material which has satin foundation
worked all over in gold and colored
silks. They are dressy but inexpensive
The dresses called and worn as Empirt
/ gowns look very little like those worn bI
/ the Empress Josephine, for many of then
are parodies of that tasteful woman's at
| tire.
Yokes of all kinds, square, round,
| and pointed, shocked and tucked, plain
and braided, and half yokes, are ali
fashionable on children's dresses and
coats.
/ Pale.colored gloves of dressed kid are
| the latest fancy. Corn-color, shrimp,
teal, and pearl are ornamentel with
stitching one shade darker than the kid
itself.
The average yearly income OF the
working woman OF Boston is $500. 07,
and her average expenses are reckoned
at $2G1. 30. Ehere is certainly not very
much left over for incidental items, such
as doctors bills, amusements and books.
a London hostess In search of novelty
has given a dinner with green velvet
table cloth, with wreaths of Alpine
! poppies." Another used a white satin
cloth, on which were placed large sacks
of white satin tied with silver cord, from
which wealth of white flowers was
tumbling out"
Among the oldest developments OF
New York's haberdashery is that shop
where under linen may be Lired fOt
trousseau purposes, and where tho
finest of garments may be had for the
honeymoon only, if the intending wearef
will lay down cold cash sufficient to buy
outright a moderate outfit.
Don't Kill the Old Hens.
When hens are shedding feathers they often