The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-29
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


wings and head, is now fashionable.
Pretty demi.trained toilets for young
ladies are Of white wool braided with
silver.
Venetian green and terra-cotta are
combined in some Of the newest tailor
gowns.
An oxydized silver scarf pin in the
form of a miniature ear of corn is a
novelty.
Mrs. Young, of Creston, Iowa, is com
pleting a bedspread made wholly of
spool cotton.
Two old ladies who have passed three
score and ten recently took their first
/ look at a locomotive at Blakely, Ga
A young Spanish lady is n medical
/ student in Paris. Her mother is the
author of several scientific works.
Small handkerchief-like squares of
pinked cloth OF all colors are used as
decoration on hats, bonne,s and mulTs.
Sea otter has only been known to Eu-
ropeans as fur for about 100 years. 1t
is the rival of seal in fashionable favor.
Bridemaids who follow the newest
fashion carry walking sticks Of ebony
and silver, to which bouquets are at
tached.
A Womans Committee has been
formed in London to help in the work of
the international Arbitration and Peace
Association.
A joint stock company composed en-
tirely of women has been incorporated
in stockton, Cal, for the purpose of
dealing in real estate.
In spite of the great popularity of
broadcloth long coats and peiisses jack
cts still hold their sway and appear in
almost endless variety.
The delicate embroideries In metal
threads on gauzy organdy or sheer India
null ball gowns take the form of the
figuring on Turkish chair scarfs.
Mrs. Jeanette Thurber, herself a good
business woman, has offered five hun
dred dollars toward the establishment of
a school for the business training of
women.
Ladies' pocketbooks continue to in
crease in size. One recently noted was
made of Congo leather with silver trim
mings, and was fourteen inches long and
seven inches wide.
There seems to be a tendency with the
best dressmakers to return to short tunc
fronts, in place of the long ample
draperies which have covered nearly the
entire front of the skirt.
Although slender-throated women
sometimes arrange a sort o. jabot of
Spanish lace about the neck, the ac-
cepted neck-dressing is still a plain,
straight linen collar OF simple ruchc.
The preparation of the trousseau of the
future Empress of China is under full
headway, although the wedding will
be in 1889. Thousands of hands are now
busy, and it will be the greatest ever
made. The hats are particularly numer-
Gus.
Plain velvets are being extensively
imported, and are used for long Russian
coats, for entire costumes, for cutaway
| jackets with fancy vests to be worn with
wool skirts, and for the bodice and train
worn with lace petticoats for full dress
occasion.
! One ofthe latest crazes among fashiona-
| BILE French ladies is to study astronomy.
/ Many ladies are having small observa-
| tories built in their ga dens. Another
| fashion is the collection of rare books,
curious editions and beautifully bound
volumes.
A tiny Spanish cap which fits the back
| of the head like a bowl is one of the
| pref things which Partisan ladies wear
with matinee gowns. The cap is of vel
vet edged with tiny golden pendants or
coins Its artistic effect is quite be-
witching.
A novel fabric, suitable for utility"
! dresses, shows stripes, woven to repre-
sent lines of braid sewn to the fabric.
Wider stripes have six or eight rows of
what appears to be sOutache or diagonal
braid, but which is really woven into the
bacN ground.
"A string of pearls is worn about the
neck says foreign fashion journal,
but it does not say that they need be
real gems. The Roman pearl or fish
skin article is worn by young girls on
whom any but the simplest of jew els look
out of place.
A new bow, to be placed on the left
side of bonnets, is called the ten end
bow. It has ten dropping ends of
watered ribbon, cut bias and gradually
lengthening toward the back above
/ Wnlcn are lOur or nNe snort standing
loops closely strapped.
The dinner costumes this season as seen
in the importations from Paris are very
gay and full If lightness, no longer very
decollete they make up in dressiness for
this lack, and the low cut neck is tiled
in with very fine chemisette of tiny
folds of Brussels net.
The season for making up remnants is
at hand and if judgment and taste are
called into play one may buy and have
made up at reduced prices their next
summers wardrobe and rejoice when the
warm season comes that the trial is over
and done hy this forehandness.
A pretty, though sometimes expensive,
hair ornament consists of small side
combs, less than two inches in length,
of real or imitation tortoise shell, sci
with row of real or immitat on Gems.
These are worn either at the side or in the
coil of hair surrounding the forehead.
The new hotel which John Wana.
maker, of Philadelphia, has erected fol
the benefit of the women employed in
his store, has ample accommodation
for 100 boarders 1t contains bowligg
alley, several reception rooms, dancing
room and numerous anaTtmqnts for hath