The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-07
NEWS End NOTES FOR w0MFN.

Blondes choose very light colors for
their street toilets.
A very new bracelet ia a mere thread
of gold set with a rough emerald.
Diamond hairpins, jcweled both at
point and head, are now fashionable.
Pale and deep tan plush skirts are worn
with dresses of various colors and fabrics.
Cloth gowns of pale suede have white
moire vests and trimming Of golden
beaver.
Young ladies trim their black silk
gowns very effectively with silver and cut
jet gimps.
The Princess Of Wales is forty-three.
but she makes up so we'll as to pass for
sweet sixteen
Dainty home toilets are almost inva-
riably made with belted corsage of
some description
Bonnets of dark green velvet are
spangled with Jet and trimmed with
black moire ribbon.
Cashmere bonnets, with pinked edges
and caps sewn inside, are in vogue for
babies and little girls
In recent publication a woman an
nounces that she is the only woman inf
del lecturer in the world
Very new draperies are straight
breadths, showing their selvages, which
are further accented by lining of pirot
ribbon.
The oldest old maid in the country is
Miss Betsy Sargent. of Canterbury, New
Hampshire. She was one hundred years
old last July
OXydized silver lace-pns in the form
of turkeys claw are popular. Another
new design represents silver log with
atIny gold frog upon it.
The wife of Don. NJ. Dickinson, the
new Postmaster-General is handsome
woman, tail, with auburn hair, clear
complexion, and large dark eyes.
White ribbon, 70 ded, or b rely show
ing the edge and ending in tiny bow
outside is still the fashion for the neck
and sleeves of dark wooden gowns.
The Princess of Wales, it has been re.
ported, has velvet basque trimmed with
black ong-haired fur. Basuues, it need
hardly be told, are now in fashion.
The contour of the head is best dis.
played by low coil of hair. Ii one has
a Grecian profile, the small, high Psyche
knot is becoming, as well as fashionable.
Skirts of cross-barred Bengaline and
watered silk are fashionably worn with
polonaises or basques and draperies of
cashmere of harmonious or contrasting
shades.
The st. Louis Repu1lican, having dis
covered that the bellies Of that town are
growing thinner, expresses fear that
the women will ultimately disappear al.
together.
With costumes of light tan camel's
hair, nothing is so stylish as a long wrap
OF gray-bue cloth, edged with moutlon
fur and accompanied by cloth bonnet
of like hue.
The Chicago Neins without mincing
matters, admits that ''the genuine hicagc
complexion is undeniably grimy, and
that few Chicago women ever have
really clean faces"
Miss Louisa Corbin, niece of Austin
Corbin, now at Nice, has become en-
gagged to Mr.. Horace Walpole, nephew
and heir of Lord Oxford The wedding
will be in London in May.
The high art" craze in London and
Taris has about done away with the
tight sleeve, in which the arm had quite
the effect of sausage roll, though it is
questioned if some of the draped, slashed
and pulled affairs that repace it are not
even more of monstrositics.
White and god is throughout favor
ite combination. Young matrons par
t cularly Affect evening gowns of white
broad 10th, flannel or chuddar cloth,
heavily enriched with gold-siver. too
sometimes-and the fancy further APP
pears in both hats and bonnets.
An Anti-Celbacy Insurance Com
pany" has been established in Denmark
in which young women beginningat at the
age of 13 can insure themselves for a
tri ing sum. If they marry they forfeit
all claims, but ii they remain spinsters
until 40 they are entitled to small an
nuity.
Two startling, not to say romantic,
events have transpired at Vassar College
since-the opening of the present school
year. One young lady, who was passing
herself off as "being still in the market, F."
was discovered 10 have been married for
some time. Another fair damsel fell
into the college lake and was rescued by
q handsome artist who was riding by.