The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Wool is The correct thing.

i ne tuckCu sleeve mas come 10 stay, IL
is so pretty and so becoming.
Lady Mcdonald takes an active in
terest in revival meetings at Ottawa
Among the prettiest of demi-trained
toilets are those of cream white Henrietta
cloth.
The wife and daughter of General
Boulauger are believers in woman suf-
frage.
Mrs Cleveland never walks in the
streels unless accompanied by her dog
"Kay.'
Tucked panels of china crepe on we'd
ding gowns of moirc are new and very
stylish.
The Empress of Russia has knack
with the needle aud makes beautiful en-
broidery.
New straw bonncts are so soft and
plant that they are folded, not pressed,
into shape
Some of the women of Paris have
formed a league for the suppression of
impure literature
Mrs. Dutton, of Indiana, is 102 years
old. She has been a confirmed smoker
for ninety-two years.
The Duchess of Madrid, the wife of
Don Carlos the Spanish pretcnder, is a
tremendous stickler about etiquette.
Prof. Simon Newcomb's daughter en-
joys the distinction of having been the
only female student of Johns Hopkins
| University.
Flowers are now mounted with their
own leaves, or ferns, or grass, as the
taste of the moment is against the mix
ture of blossoms.
The daughter of Mayor Hewitt. of
New York, is one of the best "whips' in
| the country. She can drive four in hand
/ better than most men.
The old, old fashion of silken bodices,
! pink, blue. green or any color, with
skirts of tulle, Grape or tarletan of white
or cream, has been revived.
! The teagown grows upon the English
| public. For country house wear it is all
but universal, and in London it is quite
the thing for home dinners.
] -Absinthe-a pale, creamy yellow green
evening tcisigs,' which %lf6ttoTT 6tt T5S.1. snmmsi s.
with black lace or cream lace.
For the last twenty years Queen Vic
toria's weight has been a mystery. She
is very sensitive about her increasing
size and refuses to be weighed.
Jet bonnets, with the heads forming an
open cross-bar pattern, are filled in with
tulle, of black, poppy red, suede or
apple green, according to fancy.
A honeycombed or shocked blouse is
one OF the prcttiest of the stylish neglige
waists which will be sure to be popular
with young girls the coming season.
The belts of round waists begin under
the arms, and fasten little to one side,
either with a small buckle or chou.
cabbage bow-of the trimming ribbon.
Tucks appear in all fabrics, from tulle
to cloth, and while in the light stulTs
they are run with floss silk, in the heav-
ier ones they have layer of wadding
added
Red or black beugalines are trimmed
with gold galloon plated in them, and
laid around collar, vest cuffs, and along
draperies, and either forming a loose
girdIe or edging the sash.
The killed skirt introduces a novelty
this season in the trimming which is
placed on the edge of each plat; this is
sometimes a row Of pinking or small
cord, in contrasting colors.
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 a double diamond
and give a slender effect.
The man docs not live who is in.
7 susceptible to the dainty femininity of
/ fifty worn laces and muslins. Man wants
woman to be an ant in the morning, a
bird at noon and butterfly at night.
One of LISTS feminine pupils preserves
as highly priced relic handkerchief
with the great master wrapped about his
finger one day when it was bleeding. A
few dim bloodstains still remain on the
handkerchief.
Mrs, w. B. Shoemaker, of Muscle Fork
Township, near Keytesville, Mo-, has
not been away from home, not even to
visit a neighbor, for more than twenty
five years, although all the time she has
enjoyed the best of health.
A New York belle has Just ventured
upon a green dinner at which the deco
rations were wholly of palms, maiden
hair and smilax: the soup asparagus,
the ice cream pistache, the china all
green, with a suspicion Of gilt; the host
ess's jewels, emerald.
Malatesla, warm russell brown, an
antique pink of peculiar shade known
as heart of the tea rose, Usage, a dark
blue gray, old oak, deerskin, antique
| blue which has a tinge of green, and
Cordova lovely pale golden shade of
terra Gotta, are among leading new
| shades.
Among the novel designs seen upon
/ the new sateens are forked lightning
streaks, clusters of dice, spades inside
circles, three large links of chain,
sleigh-bels, large palm-leaf fans, bars
made of dots, disks, leaves, and parallel
! lines made mp of dots checker board,
harebells, fuchsias, lilies, etc.
Foulards and printed India silks will
be made up with shirred basl lues Tapped
/ to a point on the left shoulder-or else
vest of gathered lace set thick with
tiny bones, and matched by a lace front
to the skirt draperies, which is scalloped
across the foot and caught up irregu-
larly by bows of wider ribbon.
The Woman's Club, of Wisconsin, the
first Western organization of women for
social purposes to have building of its
own, possesses cOmmodious clubhouse
in Milwaukee that was erected at a cost
of S25, coo. The club has large mem
ber,hip, to which only women are ad-
mitted, aud is in every respect in a
/ hourishing condition.