The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-04-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

fair to be stylish, is terra Gotta with
green.
A member of the Diplomatic Corps al
Washington is said to have chosen a
"Treasury girl" for his wife
The first woman doctor in Mexico has
lately been honored with a complimentary
bull fight for her entertainment.
One of Euglaud's greatest beautie ,
the Countess de Gray, formerly Lady
Lonsdale, has the typhoid fever.
The Mayor of Argonia, Kan, Mrs.
Salter, gives 500, her salary for OF G
year, to the Temperance Temple fund
The Cuban women cannot go out I,
doors in the daytime, except in their
carriages, and accompanied by parent
or guardian.
An association of lady dressmakers ha.
been started in London in order to pro-
vide work for a large number of high
school girls.
The silver and gold passementerie
/ brings in an era of silver gilt and silver
/ buttons. They are of small size, not to
/ be obtrusive.
| Blue and white, a popular combination
for the summer, is this season rather sup
/ planted by green, and white which is to
be very stylish.
/ Russian net is utilized for bridesmaids
dresses and is very pretty and soft, being
in various bright tints, there is as much
choice as in tulle
Cheviots were never in so many at
tractive mixtures as this season. They
are lighter than usual but very soft and
artistic in coloring.
When buttons are used on the waist
they are in small sizes, usually little balls
of crocheted silk to match the costume; :;
these are in three rows.
Shocked surah fronts are seen on Some
lovely challi gowns which promise to be
the most stylish and attractive dressy
costumes for summer wear.
White petticoats of heavy wooden
fabric are very stylish when made up
with stylish overdress, the petticoat
being made in wide plaits.
Fancy tafTetas will this season be en-
ployed as underskirts as well as trim
mings, and in eros bars, stripes and
plaids they are quite charming.
Dark blue with suede color is effective
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and Bengaline, which will be popular
mixture of materials this season.
Green Is color seldom used in cotton
fabrics, but this season it will be seen in
combination with all sorts of colors in
sateens, in ginghams and in lawns.
1t is said that Miss Amelia Rives, the
popular Southern writer, has been over
whelmed with offers of marriage since
the Harpers published her portrait.
White wool vests for colored wool
gowns, either fully shirred or box-pleated
in the favorite shirt effect, are very new,
immensely stylish, and more than i'm
mensely ugly.
A new idea for bodices of soft stuff is
to have the full front caught in at the
waist by bands of inch wide ribbon so
crossed as to form double diamond and
give a slender effect.
Pink frlls of silk or clusters of pretty
ribbon bows appear as face trimmings in
some of the new French bonnets. The
lrregularity of the frills gives them a very
charming appearance.
The Greek women of the upper class
are generally clever, well-bred, well-in.
formed and might rival in accomplish
meuts, culture and conversational powers
their sisters in the West.
Many skirts are made without front or
side draperies, the material being pleat-
ed down the middle of the front fiat on
the sides, or gathered there and massed
in great fullness behind.
For simple home toilets are pretty
models made of serge, French camel's
hair, or Henrietta cloth, showing a long
wasted pointed bodice, to which "A single
rather full skirt is applied.
Diamonds are not so closely associated
with weddings as formerly. Colored
stones are in fashion for engagement
rings, and the groom's bridal gift is more
often pearls than diamonds.
The Danish Parliament is considering
the advisability of giving women the
right to serve on Poor Law Boards and
School Committees and the right TO their
own property and earnings.
! Wide Breton vests are pretty for youth
full dresses. They are now made to
reach only to the waist line, being en-
broidered across the top like yoke, and
draped at the waist by a soft sash or
pointed belt.
The professional mender has become a
necessity in every fashionable house.
This lady charges SO much per day, and
she has more to do than she can attend
to. What she cannot mend is not worth
mendshoning.
The young ladies of Brooklyn have
adopted the conceit of wearing single
BLOSSOMS CT flowers in their mouths.
Bru3ettes affect red ones, blondes take
to Ftolets, and carnations, heliotropes
aHd daisies are used.
4 A summer hat which hes been started
into Partisan popularity by a pretty ac-
tress is of coarse yellow straw, falling
low on one side and standing up on the
other as high as square crown. This
upturned side is waved in and out. 1t
is trimmed with knots of oats and grasses
and wealth of field flowers.
Yoke bodices will APPEAR again this
season, not, however, those made with
an unsightly straight seam across the
chest and across the middle of the back,
but finished off in sweeping curves and
Stimulating very closely an ornamental
low bodice or PEASANTS waist, supple
mented at the top by high bodice of
silk or fancy materials.
A woman of fine complexion has ad %
mitted that it is due to the milk in the
cocoanut. Her formula is this: "Take