The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-04-11


the most inconspicuous pattern.
Miss Julia Carson has commenced
course of lessons on domestic economy
to pupils of Rutgers Female College.
Shirred, belted and pleated bodices,
with or without yokes, are de rigVer for
summer gowns of transparent stuifs.
A very wide band in place Of a hem, or
several narrow ones above it. are among
favorite skirt trimmings of the hour.
Copper shades prevail in the new
checked and stripped woolens, and two
tones of the color appear in place of
white.
Gimps, galloons and elaborate passe-
menteries are still in high fashion, and
form the garnitures most widely used
this season.
The chaplet of fine flowers is seen on
some fiat crowned bonnets which look as
though planned by some humane milhner
/ for theatre wear.
Portfolios, with all the printed infor-
nation on the inside, seem to have been
| specially manufactured in the interest of
"ladies of neglected education"
Color, and brilliant color at that, is
seen in the upholstery of modern draw.
ing rooms, and is a relief after the faded
and sickly tints of the past fashion.
So many materials are being used for
gloves nowadays, and all being more or
less fashionable, that a pair of genuine
French kids is absolutely refreshing.
Satin and moire ribbons are both used
to stripe black lace nets for draperies to
| those useful costumes which cannot fail
to be as popular this season as last.
Mrs. Scott -siddons years ago, being
warned that she was losing her stage
figure" discarded corsets and grew more
shapely from that day forward, they say.
Plated and yoked waists will e the
rule with all thin or light weight fabrics
| of silk, wool or cotton. Plated and
tucked sleeves are to be very generally
worn.
Two bright New Jersey young women
| dissatisfied with the money they made
teaching, invested $50 in poultry. the
first year their profits were 81, 900, the
second SO, 600.
In pretty gowns for afternoon wear,
the most dressy corsage- fronts have
guimps of soft silk or China Grape at the
! top, with velvet revers below it across
the chest, forming a narrow vest.
The importers counters are already
filed with cases of exquisitely dyed
Scotch zephyrs, French ginghams and
chambrys in dots, checks, block effects
and stripes, both wide and narrow.
A lady in Lyons, Ontario, has Just
sued man for 81, 600 for kissing her on
the cheek. She alleges that the shock
was so great as to incapacitate her from
performing household duties for two
weeks.
The American girls are bound to be as
English as they can. An impecunious
but well-educated young Englishman is
earning 5000 month tea hing four buds
OF swelldom the 'genuine English
accent"
French modistes are making up ging-
ham gowns with fiounces, button hole
scalloped upon the edge, while the sub
stantial cotton jean, so affected there, is
pinched or cut in saw-tooth points after
the fashion of cloth or felt
At a recent children's ball at the
Viceregal Lodge in Dublin, nursery tales
were represented by Robinson Crusoe,
Blue Beard, Cinderella, Red Riding
Hood, etc., and many of the aristocratic
| llJlle lols dpDedIeu as ldlIlcs'
! There appears no diminution in the
favor shown to bangles of all descriptions.
Some of the newer of these are formed
of a single gold or silver wire ornamented
with a pearl horseshoe, diamond fox
head or two little diamond birds.
In London when an heiress comes out
in society she begins to receive proposals
at once. Oftentimes a girl has received
as many as 200 in the first month. The
candidates do not expect to be accepted,
but they are willing to take chances.
Miss Towney, of Upton County,
Tennessee, possesses a remarkable power
over wild aud domestic animals, and can
tame the widest horse in the neighbour
hood. The most savage dog in the
country quails before her and follows as
docilely as pet
The cotton fabrics for summer wear
have one point of semblance and that is
in their gay cooring. No plain materials
dare show their faces amid the bewlder-
ing throng of plaid, striped, checked and
broken barred designs seen on the coun-
ters of the ambitious shops.
: The yoked Garabaldi of bright surah
or India silk is to be worn here this sea-
very pretty and stylish. The collar and
cuffs are of Byzantine braid. Thi,
youthful fashion was very popular il
I London and in Paris last season.
As yet both the earrings and ear knobs
J incline to be rather small in size. Otter
they are merely a small stone set in {
simple framework of gold again they
are small cluster of fine gems, and yet
2 again they are a little gold knot OF golC
1 flower, fly or other diminutiye object.
Mrs. Merritt Trimble, Mrs. George F
= Canfeld, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss Heller
k IseliR, Mrs. Henry +. Pellew, Mrs
70 Everett p. Wheeler and other live New
- York ladies, are raising a scholarship
;. fund for So, 600, whose interest shall b.
r used TO pay the college expenses of tn,
New York woman who each year shal
pass the best examination for entranc
g TO Harvard. Thus do broad minde,
J, women seek to foster womanly ambition
II The move is one deserving unstinted ap
J pr0VsL