The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-14
NEWS AND NOTEs FOR WOMEN.


volga is new shade, pale greenish
blue.
The pocket reticule is the fad of the
passing hour
There is craze for Oriental tissues
and fabrics.
White and gold furniture is the pretty
fancy of the passing season.
The hustle fluctuates in size and gem
eral outline from month to month.
Gold and silver braids are used to ex-
cess on light wool spring costumes.
The contest between little and big
bonncts will be resumed in the spring.
Uabutai is the silken fabric that will
be used this spring for brides under
wear.
Japanese and Chinese ideas in dress
are introduced in French fashions for the
spring.
The variety in hats and bonnets grows
more and more bewildering as the sea-
son advances.
Rev. Eliza Fry, of Maiden Rock, Wis,
is taking the theological course at the
Garrett liblical Institute, Evanston, Ill.
Statistics of the various colleges for
women show that more graduates of
Oberlin and Syracuse have married than
of any Others.
Wellesley College is building q new
cottage which is to he called the Free
man Cottage" and will accommodate
fifty Students.
Nine. Tallien was among the historical
women who bathed in milk, TO which she
added crushed Strawberries to give it an
agreeable perfume.
Among suits for general wear in the
spring will be many o. light weight can
vas woven black bison cloth oyerskirts
of black moirc silk.
The wives of Clemenceau and Ribot,
the noted French politicians, are both
Amer cans. The former was n Connec-
ticut girl and the latter from Al any.
A Parsee girl named Sorabii has Just
been graduated in the University Of
Bombay in the First class" distinction
won at the same time by but five men.
Madame Solier, beautiful mulatto
woman, the wife of French professor,
has passed her examinations aud been
received as a Doctor of the Pals Facul-
ty.
The long cloak is very elegant wrap,
but none except very strong woman
and a good walker can take long econ
stitutional" in one, especially on windy
day.
Three crushed roses without leaves
nestle under the brim of directoire bon
nets, while tiny posy peeps now and
then from the eige of felt or cloth ca.
potes.
Duchesse lace is a favorite trimming
for velvet bonnets 1t is boNpleated
and drawn into she'll both at front aud
back, between which it makes ruille
on the brim.
A very new hat. of fine colored straw,
with a very wide brim upturned at back
against low crown, has been named
ia Tosca,' in honor of the Beruhardt's
latest success.
With tan and gray undressed kid slip
pers and half-high shoes stocking to
match are styliShly worn, while with
bronze and black kid the widest con
trast is allowable.
The eminently bad taste for fancy
plumage is dying out, and the poor,
slaughtered birds are flying away before
fashions decree faster than ever their
pretty wings carried them.
1t is safe to say that flowers will be the
spring garniture, as never before were
all blossoms and leaves, from rose and
rhododendron to maiden hair eucalyp-
tus, so perfectly initiated as just now.
Every season we are told that the tan.
colored Suede glove is going out of ia.
vor, but in few weeks after the open
ings the time-honored favorite proves
that it has come again and come to stay.