The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-12-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOi, WOMEN.
This will be a silken seaso n.
Lady Wilde is tall and sta tely.

superintendents.
DR.. j. G. Ayers widow is i~said to b,
worth S25, 600, 900.
Combination bothlof stuifs nd color:
will rule this winter.
Sarah w. Trabrue, of.Illinois, invented
a baling press for hay.
A young lady of New York city keerA
humming birds for pets.
Weeping water, Neb., has q yorne
ladies' silver cornet band.
A harmonious effect is only attainablC
by having the colors differ in tones.
Wellesley girls have been provided
with an imported Venetian gondola.
The new brocades are richer in effect
than any silks heretofore produced.
The newest silver belts are either in
basket pattern OF else thick coils of silver
rope.
Thick black chenille-like seams are
seen on the backs of some of the new
gloves.
Cloth Jackets differ from those of last
year mainly in being longer and even all
around.
Mary 1. Booth, of L6yper's Bdzdr, is
known around Franklin Square as the
Duchess.
The tournure continues to diminish in
size, and many extremists have discarded
it altogether.
Pretty shocked blouses of surah,
China silk or soft wool of any becoming
shade are worn.
Pretty tea jackets are made of, Benga.
| line in delicate tints, and are shocked
very deeply at the belt.
Many tea gowns are in the directoire
style, and good part of them have an
ostrich feather trimming.
The political parties in San Francisco
/ have decided to nominate six women on
the School Board ticket.
Paris now ordains for walking a
/ jacket of lion -colored cloth with revers
and facings of ecru moire.
A wavy fringe of white Thibet goat
hair is used to trim long wraps for car
riage and other dressy wear.
Fenimore Cooper's only daughter still
lives at the novelist's home at Cooper
town, on Otsego Lake, n. y.
Mrs. Gildersleeve Longstreet has made
her mark as one of the keenest observers
of social conditions of her day.
Deep red and yellow OVERLAPPING bur-
nished gold will be the leading color note
OF the new pottery this season.
Mrs Barrows, wife of the editor of the
Christian Register, is considered the most
expert stenographer in the country.
An order of merit for all women who
distinguish themselves in any way has
been created by the Mikado of Japan.
Coat sleeves are still favored for thick
fabrics, but they are fuller at the top
than formerly and have elaborate cuffs.
The newest evening tints are wheat
color, primrose, magnolia, azuline,
Malmaison pink, tourterelle and ami
ande.
The Empire gown gains more and
more foothoid and is like to be largely
worn for house and evening toilets this
winter.
A light and dark neutral color, with
Just enough of bright one to accent
the costume, is both stylish and pic
turesque.
Vernon Lee, the young English wo-
man upon whom the mantle Of George
Eliot is supposed to have fallen, is only
twenty-five.
Dressy bonnets arc of white cloth
covered with inteilaced gold braid, the
trimmings and strings being of black
velvet ribbon.
There seems to be an inclination to re-
turn to the old-time fashion of wearing
diadems of feathers, flowers or leaves
upon the hair.
Persian designs are conspicuous in
many of the new woolens, appearing as
4. borders and also small set patterns over
the entire fabric.
The Empress of Austria owns twenty
pet horses and twice as many dogs, to
whose proper entertainment she person
ally sees every day.
Elizabeth tuart Phelps's first literary
venture was story written when she
was thirteen years old, and published in
the Youths Companion.
White muslin yoke-slips are worn up
to three years old, after which cashmere
is favorite stuff for girls gowns, both
IN dark and light colors.
A new fashion has found its way into
bridal entertainments, and that is the
sprinkling of the bride and groom with
rose petals instead of rice
Ornamenting letter and note paper by
hand is becoming a very remunerative
branch of industry in New York as we'll
as in London, Paris and Vienna
The Duchess of Connaught passed a
very satisfactory examination in the st.
John Ambulance Glass for ladies, at
Poona, and was awarded certificate.
Miss Adah Rehan, the actress, is men
toned by NJ. Nitu, Of the Paris Figaro
as a person "whose stature and rare
beauty are those of Scandinavian
divinity"
AT the new play at the Paris Gymnase
the leading lady wears a dress in which
the ''tournure, "strapotin, or "nuage,"
as they call it, the hustle in our tongue,
is absolutely lacking,
An embroidered cot quilt or rug is the
incest sort of christening gift, and a
very charming one can be made of any
soft, light stuff, with a pattern of short
stemmed daisies IN outline and knot
stitch scattered over it.
A st. ouis hair-dresser says that
bald-headed women are far more numer-
Gus than people suspect, and that the
tendency to lose their hair is more
marked among society women than