The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Gray is a popular color.

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Parisiennes are wearing long pendant
earrings.
There are 5000 women physicians in
this country.
Silver ornaments are more than ever
the fashion.
There are 200 women editors in the
United States.
Mexican onyx handles figure on the
new umbrellas.
The Empress Eugenio has at last paid
a visit to Paris.
About dozen women practice dem
tistry in New York.
The State University Of Oregon has
| 100 women students.
Some of the new large buttons are ex-
tremely artistic in design.
There are female medical colleges in
Philadelphia and Boston.
Tea gowns now have less Of the effect
of wrapper than formerly.
The portiere of bead and bamboo still
! retains its former popularity.
No well regulated newspaper nowadays
is without women on its stall.
Accordion. plated cloaks are TO be
frequently seen on the streets.
Two-thirds of the magazine articles
are said to be written by women.
Fringe is again very fashionable and
may be seen on many new dresses.
The taste for contrasts is carried out
in furs as well as other trimmings.
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silk are very effective for dressy use.
In New York there is not a profession
into which women have not entered.
The daughter of a Partisan million
aire is to marry DR.. Tanner, the faster.
Iow-necked evening gowns are dec
grated profusely with floral garnitures.
Twin sisters in Richmond. Va, have
arranged to be married on the same
day.
Evening gloves should meet the sleeves
of the dress whatever the length of tho
latter.
Women have practically monopnlized
the business of teaching in the public
schools.
The newest feather muffs are fiat and
square, and ornamented with bow of
ribbow.
The cattle reporter of one of New
York's leading morning papers is a
woman.
Queen Kapeolani, of Hawaii, rolls a
cigarette with the skill of Spanish
senorita.
Women reporters, correspondents,
etc., are coming to rival the men in
number.
Women earn more money in journalism
than in any other occupation they have
invaded.
There are nearly 100 women now
serving on school boards in England
aud Wales.
A permanent library, composed solely
of books written by women, is to be es-
tablished in Faris.
Glossy black cocks feathers are made
up INTO collars aud small capes, with
small muffs to match.
Wherever room can be found for bit
of fur ornamentatiou OF trimming fashion
demands that it be seen.
A New York school tea her has Just
resigned after fifty-five years of service.
She is in her eight eth year.
The biggest pay yet given to any wo.
man was received by Fanny Fern, who
got 500 column for her work.
Women awyers-unknown ten years
ago-are getting abundant, and some of
them are making plenty of money.
Light delicately tinted party dresses
are now cleaned by chemical process
which leaves the fabric uninjured.
Long mautes are now noticeable for
the novel and leading features of double
sleeves with which they are adorned.
Green is combined with blue, although
contrasting shades are used. If the blue
is pale the green is deep, and vice versa.
1t is said that in Italy there are eight
American born Princesses, seven March
ionesses, twelve Countesses and a Baron
ess.
Princess Metternich and Princess
Eeuss, the wife of the German ambassa-
dor, are among the best skaters in
Vienna.
Novelties in fans include lace and tulle
headed ones, which, when closed, ex-
hibit Christian name written in beads
on the folds.
Women are catching up to men as
money makers in the lecturing business.
Kate Field has made more than 500, 900
by her lectures.
The Queen of the Belgians, assisted
by her daughter, the Princess Clementine,
has started monthly magazine entitled
La Jelsns FL's.
Dinner and reception dresses have
demi- trains of ten TO fifteen inches in
length, but full trains are seen only on
full dress toilets.
Suede gloves for evening wear are now
brought out in light buttercup shade
which accords well with the fashionable
colors for evening wear.
1t is said that Miss Mary Garrett will
spend $500, 600 upon a new school, de
signed TO be the Baltimore branch of the
Bryn Mawr PENN College.
Hand screens are made in the shape of
magnifed insects and flowers, the
foundation in this case being firm card
board, fixed TO a handle in gilt wood.
Perhaps the single book which has
brought a woman the most money in the
shortest time is Miss Leslies cookery
book, which netted $4,000 for its au
thor.
Old fashion-makers say that never in
the history of the dressmakers' ant have
! there bpen such an abundance and yeri.