The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Chevrou stripes reappear.
Cream is the spring color.

NuoVrOu STRIPES TehppeNN.
Cream is the spring color.
There arc are forty-five female law
yers in the United States.
II is estimated that women spend
eight millions of dollars on bustles.
A long plush wrap with sleeves of
cloth heavily braided, is very chic.
Wide fichu-like collars of plush give
a top-heavy appearance to short cloth
cloaks.
! A sealskin mantle of small dimen-
sions, lined with Russian sable, costs
| 81, 900.
A Pennsylvania young man recently
married girl who had refused him
| eighteen times.
Water green with palest pink is ia
vorte Partisan combination for very
dressy occasions.
Wool aud silk plaids in shrimp ser
pent and gobelin shades are shown for
stylish spring costumes.
DR.. Eva Harding has been appointed
physician of the new Soldiers Orphans
Home at Atchison, Kansas.
Miss Bertha Piper has been elected
journal clerk of the Washington Terri
tory House Of Representatives.
A bright golden-haired ten -year-old
girl was the other day elected page of
the Iowa House of Rep = sentatives.
New and stylish spring woolens have
belize grounds, with broad silk stripes of
slightly darker or contrasting hue
At recent Arkansas ball young lady,
her mother, grandmother and great
grandmother danced in the same set.
The Russian cape, pointed back and
front, is more stylish, though less COM
Portable, than those covering the shoulder.
Heavily dotted wells are worn by
young ladies who have no particular in
terest in keeping their eyes strong and
young
Bengaline, which has very much the
appearance of Irish poplin, is one of the
latest and most fashionable impor-
tations.
There are twenty women students in
the medical department of the Buffalo
IN. " University, a larger number than
ever before.
Seven engagements were made at a leap
year party at Woodland, California, the
other night, where only fourteen couples
were present.
In deep mourning only black fox,
beaver, black raccoon and lynx should
be worn, while light mourning admits of
seal and sable.
Miss Rose Streater, of Midway, Ala,
is said to be the belle of the South. She
Is brunette and at distance greatly re-
sembles Mrs. Cleveland.
Long clingng pelisses of moire plush,
or Genoa velvet, are preferred even to
fur wraps for evening wear and for driv-
ing by many Partisan leaders of fashion.
Passementerie upon black gowns has
often a lining of cream, scarlet, apple
green, copper, blue, or even white silk,
but the effect is far too loud to be ele-
CANT.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, of Mo-
bile, is an enthusiastic lover of ger
aniums, and her collection is pronounced
by botanists to be the most complete in
the world.
Stripes and plaids are again combined
with plain material-whch, however.
must now match the figure. not the
ground color-so there is pronounced
zebra effect.
Agown wholly of plain velvet at once
proclaims its wearer hopelessly passe, but
combined with MORE, brocade or other
lighter material, it is chosen for the very
handsomest gowns for women of any
age.
Widows may wear Byron collars and
outside cuffs with inch-wide hens of
very sheer white muslin, or else a fold or
two of boiling cloth or soft black net,
which last is the favorite of elderly
women.
Miss Mary L. Seymour, who has one
of the largest type-writing and steno-
graphic establishments in New York, SAYS
that women make better type-wliters
than men, and quite as good stem
ographers.
New printed chailes OF pure wool
come in shades of old rose, gobelin, blue
serpent and cardinal; and are figured
either with detached flowers and leaves,
or with broken stripes; which last is the
favorte style for the newest Scotch ging-
hams.
In expression of gratitude for her eff.
forts in behalf of RUSSIAN embroidery,
the Slavonic society will present the
Czarina with a sewing machine in silver,
whose screws have each a jeweled head
and which is to be enclosed IN a case rep
resenting the Imperial crown.
Miss Wilkinson, of London, is sue
cessful landscape gardener. She prepares
plans for the laying out of recreation
and play grounds for the Public Gardens
Association, which are much admired for
their beauty and economy, and herself
Ruperintends the manual labor.