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

nets.
Lillian Russell, the singer, drinks
glycerine and beef tea to improve her
voice.
The fashion of wearing lace very high
up about the throat with dressy cos.
Tunes is very popular.
Long, soft vests of silk gauze, have q
frill Of lace at the left side, and many
dropping bows of brocaded ribbon.
Dove gray and cream white pilot cloth
fabrics will be very much used during
the summer for dressy afternoon gowns.
The most elegant dinners are served
on glass and china. the handsome plate
being held in reserve for teas and at
homes.
The down quilt, except it be used
over the feet, often makes much dis
comfort, and is not wholesome bed
covering.
Cashmere is again to the fore and is
very much sought in the new shades of
reseda, cordova or gobelin, to be used
in new spring costumes,
Queen VictoriS has a mania for get
ting her portrait taken, Her last fad in
this way was to have, their Royal High
nesses taken in tableaux vivant.
/ Ferns form the prettiest possible din
ner decoration-laid fiat on the cloth
about the foot of the candle sticks or
large lamp base they are most effective.
Gilt and silver will be in great use in
embroideries, cords, galloons, ornaments
in applique, and for pins, slides, and
metallic garnitures of every description.
Parasols of gingham and sateen now
come to match those rs closely as more
costly fabrics, and are so cheap as to be
within reach of the most moderate purse.
Miss TORY, the expert cooking in.
structor, says that her penalty for max
ing mistakes in cooking, is to require the
mistake to be eaten by the person max
ing it.
The Boston women are nothing if not
progressive. Now they are going in,
some of them, for chairs in the public
street where they can have their boots
blacked.
Jerseys, Of elegant finish, are we'll
covered with an all-over design in gilt
or silver braid. The vermiceli pattern
being preferred for this braiding in law
ish fashion.
The tea gown, next to the debutante's s
costume, is that which absorbs most of
the attention of the modiste, aud on this
she lavi,hes her ingenuity and fancy
without stint.
Hard pillows well stuffed with curled
hair or uncarded wool, are better for the
health than feathers if not so comforta-
Bile. Feather pillows, if soft, encourage
wrinkles it is said.
Biscuit shades, grays and blues, will
be the leading colors for street costumes
the coming sea'on, and whenever it is
possible the braiding in color will be
seen as decoration.
Black wool dresses are, if possible, in
greater demand than ever before, not
withstanding the many beautiful novel
ties in colored wool fabrics which are
being constantly brought out.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts takes q
deep interest in the poor of London.
and is at the head of scheme prov d
ing workshops furnished with sewing
machines for needy sewing girls.
A Montgomery Station Penn. farmer
recently sent $40 to the Commissioners
of Emigration in New York, requesting
them to find him a wife who could hoe
and do farm work. The commission was
declined.
Old-tim lawns with impossible stripes
and more impossible flowers are fully re-
vived, and will be made up either with
flounces all over, or three flounces at
back and very deep, much wrinkled
drapery in front.
There is an effort being made just now
to return to the old bow knot method OF
dressing the hair, such as one sees in
pictures of the fashions of 1921. Il is
rather a trying fashion, and only young.
| fresh faces can stand it.
Chicago ladies used to eat so much ar
senic to purify the complexion that drug.
| gists ordered it in quantities to amaze
manufacturers, but the "fashivn" has
changed, and now not an ounce is sold
where pound used to 60.
No fashionable city room is considered
well appointed without an antique mu-
sic box or harpsichord Guitars, man.
dolins, banjos aud harps are counted in
as pretty lumber for the rooms that are
not Greek, Moorish, or oriental.
Two New Orleans young ladies who
| find 1t suddenly necessary to work for q
living, have opened dairy and sell milk
They have little cart, and every morn
ing bright and early may be seen driving
down the avenue behind their bright tiI
cans and pals.
Queen Victoria dislikes the electric
light, aud refuses to have it in hel
palaces. She has at length permitted
one of the royal yachts to be fitted with
electric lamps, except her sleeping cabin
and saloon. II is said soft oil lamps best
suit the compilations of elderly ladies.
Nothing is more out of place on a baby
than jewelry. Use narrow ribbon instead
of the sleeve clasps, and put the neck
lace away until she is a'grown girl. Sub
stitute for the ring you intend giving
your god-child, dress of linen lawn
nainsook, or dimity, daintily made, anC
its mother will bless as we'll as thank you
The Pail Mall Gazette tells of a uniuu
kind of torture in London shops. il
certain large West End shops, tn
female assistants are all doomed to
uniform size in waists, varying from
eighteen to twenty inches. Tall girl
and stout girls, all must conform to
measure at least six inches below tn
natural size.
Worth, the French milliner, lives i
the suburbs of Paris in palace that GOV
ers several acres and is gorgeously fur
nished. Once year it is thrown ope