The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-05-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Red gowns, wool for the street and
China silk for the house, are again in
vogue.
Two young ladies from Boston make a
good living by teaching whist in New
York city.
The Empress of Austria has almost
entirely given up hunting, which sport
she used to he very fond of.
The Empress of Russia gets no relief
from her rheumatism and will probably
visit AiX-le Bains in the spring.
Mrs. Frank Leslie told a reporter
recently that she had to decline ION an
average two offers of marriage every
day. of her life.
1t is said that the ever popular sailor
hat, this summer, will have quaint
! crowns of drawn silk, with a cluster of
/ ribbon perched at the top
a certain French Countess of cconom.
| ical habits recently married her steward.
| IL is presumed that she was desirous OF
saving the expense of his salary.
Colored grapes will be used very ex.
tensively in millinery, and for summer
wear nothing can be prettior All the
desirable shades are to be found in this
fabric
Pretty summer dresses for little girls
arc made of striped gingham of two
contrasting colors, worked all over with
white wheels or open compass or star
patterns.
The cord and tassel is favorite mode
for trimming the spring costumes of
wool, and draped gracefully like
girdle they make a simple yet graceful
trimming.
Panels, pastrons, etc, of white cloth
are ra.ded with gold or fancy tinsel
braid, and are inserted in cloth costumes
of light gray, navy blue, dark green and
terra Gotta.
Large plaids are preferred for little
girls gingham dresses, and these are
trimmed with plain-coored gingham, OF
with all-ovcr embroidery cut into tabs
and epaulcttes
Large plaids in light gray, blue, buff
or brown wool, or figured challi or gay
striped mouseline de laine, are being
made up into spring and summer frocks
for little girls.
Most bodices are now fastened with
hooks and eyes, or buttoned invisibly.
When buttons are visible, they are merely
small molds covered with cloth, ors small
crocheted balls.
Polonaise costumes entirely of wool
are trimmed with MORE sash ribbon ten
or twelve inches wide. which is arranged
as girdle and sash, and also cut up to
form est and revers.
Pearl and crystal dress garniturcs are
intermiXed with gold. silk cords and
laa1s in, ,t.h,f, 1.
trim costumes of white WOOL crepeline
and India silk for summer wear.
Black hats are likely to be very popu.
lar this season. Economical ladies will
welcome this fact, as black hats are uni
versally becoming, and may be worn
with toilets of every description.
Graceful back draperies for silk dresses
are composed of three breadths, which
are laid in two triple box-plaits at the
belt, each plait being caught up in the
middle to give slightly bunchy effect
The young ladies who arc studying at
the Wesleyan University of Iowa have
adopted a uniform consisting of cap
and loose-ftting garment, not unlike
Mother Hubbard, that reaches to the
heels.
costume of striped wool, recently
noted, had the plated skirts arranged so
that the stripes went around the figure;
the stripes of the front drapery were like.
wise, and the back drapery had diagonal
stripes.
The newer pockctbooks show tend
ency to shorter and broader forms, al
hpugh the great majority have by no
means revived the square shape. The
modified lengths are, however, the pre-
ferred sort.
Mrs. NJ. A. Crocker, of San Francisco,
CAL, has given the Young Women's
Christian Association s 0, 600, which will
be used in purchasing Il lot upon which
building will be eventually erected by
the association.
Many of the new waists arc plain on
the shoulders and plated at the waist
line. This is a pretty way of using bor-
dercd goods, as the edges are straight,
and the selvage may be used as trimming
along the buttons and buttonholes.
Francis J., of France, was the first
monarch who introduced ladies at his
court. He said, in style of true gal
lantry, that a drawing room without
ladies was like the year without the
spring, or the spring without flowers.
A young lady, who was one of leap
year party at Bonnersville, Dakota, pro-
posed TO the gentleman she escorted, and
on being accepted produced a minister
and they were married. Now she says
it was only a joke, but the bridegroom
insists that it was not, and has appealed
to the courts.
Frocks of light wool for little girls
are often made with a velvet yoke, which
is cut low to wear over guimpe, the
armholes being simply corded without
sleeves, and velvet belt inserted. The
velvet yoke sometimes extends down the
front to the belt, the space between be-
ing laced with ribbon or silk cord.
Henrietta cloth dresses are made with
the skirt quite plain, or else in side plaits,
which are either very small or four or
five inches in width. A single wide
band or several narrow rows of watered
ribbon are the favorite garnitures. The
front drapery may be long or short, as
preferred, but the back should be very
long and full, and arranged with plaits
in the middle and the sides in iabot folds
Ug zee Yam is the name of a Chinese
woman who recently arrived in San
francisco. She is possessed of wonder
ful beauty, and the Californians have
gone wild over her. She is a sisterin-