The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-08-29
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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the University of Texas this year.
Black hats and small black mantle.
arc worn with dresses of all colors.
There are four women studying med
icine at the Christiania University, Nor.
way.
Advices from the French capital state
that short waists are again coming into
vogue.
Mrs Cleveland wears a Gainsborough
hat of black leghorn in her afternoon
drives.
Crepe lisse is q popular material for
parasol covers. 1t is gathered or laid on
in full folds.
Professor Maria Mitchell has been Of
fered home for life at Nassar College
free of cost.
Polonaises may be draped alike on
both sides, or long on one side and short
on the other.
Black and yellow, black aud pink and
beige and red are fayorite color combin-
ations in millinery.
Bows of light green ribbon are some
times combined with white artificial
flowers in lieu Of foliage.
Miss Annie Bomberger, of Philadel.
! phia, is believed to have been the first
woman dentist in America.
lmitators of Amelie Rives and Ella
| Wheeler Wilcox are springing up in diff
fercnt parts Of the country.
Gold, silver and other fancy embroid-
cries are used to trim summer costumes
of pongee and cashmerette.
In many of the latest imported cos
TUNES there is a tendency to combine
several shades Of one color.
Belts to wear with dressJ blouses are
of silk belt ribbon, with buckles of
Rhinestones and other brilliants.
Some of the newest street jackets are
fastened only at the color. falling away
below in a modified <away style.
The cornerstone of the State Indus
trial Home for Girls. was laid a few
weeks ago in Chillicothe, Missouri.
White feathers, either alone or COM
bined with ribbon, are by far the most
elegant trimming for Leghorn hats.
Poppy red, ecru, old rose reseda, and
Gobelin blue are popular colors for the
foundation of dressy black lace toilets.
A Hindoo Girls High School has been
started at Allahabad, India 1t has
already more than one hundred pupils.
Mrs. Mackey recently presented her
daughter, Princess Colonna. with a pair
of jeweled bracelets valued at $45,-
600.
An Albany IN. " physician asserts
that many young ladies OF that city use
belladonna to give brilliancy to their
eyes.
The wife of the Russian Consul at San
Francisco, Nine. Olarovsky, Is consid.
cred one of the beauties OF the Pacific
coast.
Vests of white pique, plain or en-
broidered in all over designs, appear
upon tailor gowns of light rough
woolens.
White lilac and Guelder roses, with
ivy and maiden-ha fern, are the fash
ionable artificial flowers of the summer
season.
Garden hats Of basket braids are very
stylish, and are simply trimmed with
garland of wild flowers carelessly ad-
justed on the front.
Eighteen young women were passed as
qualified for the sick chamber by the
Illinois Training School for Nurses, at
their commencement
A pretty feature of a cream tinted
surah tea gown was bag front, with a
boXplait in the centre, which was
daintily feather stitched.
Miss Tosse Jones, of Oregonia, Kan,
is only eighteen years old, but she
ploughed, planted and cultivated forty.
nve acres of corn last spring.
Nine Alice de Plongeon, wife of an
eminent man of science, claims to have
found Maya writings which locate the
Garden of Eden in Central America.
Alta yellow breakfast. given to a
lady recently on her departure for Eu-
rope, dandelions were the flowers used
for decorating the table. Violet perfume
was in order, too.
AS many as three slender bracelets are
often seen on each arm of very young
girls, while the number of rings worn by
some fashionable women would seem to
indicate great strength of wrist to carry
such a burden
Fine checks in sunshades are stylish,
and with wide flounce of lace are very
dressy. Color and broken effects in
plaids, and cross bars take the place of
all the simpler and less cons spicuous
shades this season.
Ellen Terry, the actress, has Just worn
an overdress knit of pure silver thread,
and a fashion writer wants to know
what good American will follow her
her lead, and so provide a new handi-
work for less fortunate sisters.
A gold bangle, with the date of mar
riage engraven on it, with a tiny lock
and key, is now often given to a bride on
her wedding day, and when the cere-
mony is over the bridegroom locks it on
her arm and puts the key on his watch
chain.
The rage for shocking extends to cot
ton gowns, many of which have the yoke
of it and deep cuffs and borders to the
full sleeves 1t looks we'll when first
put on, but when the average laundress
gets in her fine work it is something
fearful to contemplate.
The selvage is left on nearly all fabrics,
and now has not the unfinished look it
had when it was first in style here. Some
fabrics are woven with very wide and
ornamental selyage for this purpose of a
finish, The heavy as well as the light
fabrics are with selyage.
The wife of Hermann Kaulbach, the
painter, is a beautiful. clever and n