The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Wichita, Kan, has forty-two women'
clubs.
Douhe cashmere is again favorite for
dress frocks.
Colorado is said TO have 1000 womer
stock growers.
Sandal shoes are worn with Empire and
Directoire gowns.
Light gowns are decorated with garni
ture of ball fringe.
Boxing schools for women are among
the latest developments.
A novel sun umbrella has n fiat place in
the handle for Japanese fan.
Queen Victoria has been made Colonel
Of a German dragoon regiment,
Black lace overdresses continue to be
popular for half-dress occasions.
The Order of the Kings Daughters now
number 81, 600 active members.
There are twenty workers in the Chi.
cago Methodist Deaconess Home.
Light weight felt hats are in favor for
mountain wear, also for yachting.
Sailor maidens are now wearing scarf
pin in the shape of Neptune's trident
Chenille embroideries are used as
border on dresses made of cotton crepe.
The best black sateens for mourning
have dull finish like that of Henrietta
cloth.
Mary e. Farmland, of New Orleans,
has been granted a patent for a car.
starter.
A wonderful dressing-case, costing
S25, 900, was among Princess Louise's
wedding presents.
Dinner gowns are made with short
skirts that escape the floor or with mar.
row falling demi-trains.
Fans of long ostrich feathers OF curled
tips are still considered the most elegant
for full dress receptions.
Miss Mary Redmond, the sculptress,
who is to execute a portrait bust of Glad
stone, is native of Dublin.
Wings and cocks feathers constitute
popular millinery garniture for yachting
hats and hats for country wear.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is nearly
seventy, but her figure is straighter than
that of many girl of seventeen.
Some indomitable statistician has fig
ured out that 1000 books have been
written by women in the United States.
Empire green bids fair to continue in
popularity for some time. 1t harmonizes
well with pink, red, cream, and even
gray.
The Duchess of Marlborough per-
formed the ceremony of crowning the
"Rese Queen" at the Alexandria Palace
recently,
The combination of plain or striped
materials with figured is carried out in
cambrics and linen lawns, the same as In
all other fabrics.
The young women of Cornell Uni
versity, though far outnumbered by the
men, have gained fully one-half of this
years scholarships.
The fashionable London wedding. ring
has recently been of dull gold, but Prin-
cess Louise went back to the old fashion
and chose hers bright.
The black toilets worn this season are
very elegant. Black net and lace cos
tunes for evening wear are trimmed with
fine gold passementerie.
The EifBel bangle consists of circlet OF
gold rope tied on top in a true-lover's
knot, from which swings a pendant sim
ulating the Eiffel Tower.
The Women's Humane Society, of Mis-
souri,, have passed resolutions condemn
ing Sarah Bernhardt for her alleged re-
cent burning of her pet dog.
one-piece dresses for boys of three or
four years are made in wool, pique and
gingham. These consist of a kilt and in
side bodice joined with belt.
In bonnets there are some dainty little
ones, composed of entwined twigs, with
either red currents dropping over in rich
luxuriance, or clustering flowers.
Miss Jessie Ackerman, described as the
second round-the-world missionary, has
been working in the temperance cause
with great success in New Zealand
Sooner or later, as rule, the fashion
able world is Influenced by what the
French people have and wear. Just now
oxidized silver is to the front in Paris.
A mania for monograms now pervades
London. They figure everywhere-on
window curtains, portieres, carriage rugs,
furniture and drinking glasses, and even
on jewelry.
Among the most effective wash mate
rials of the present season are linen ging.
hams, which reproduce the small checked
and plated designs of the old-time lutte
string silks, in various dainty colorings.
Emperor Williams sister has the poor
est trousseau of all the royalties. The
Emperor is not exaggeratively fond OF
his sisters, and is besides perfectly inca
pable of seeing why he should spend his
money on furbelows for woman.
One OF the most trusted of the mai
carriers in the mountain district of Ore
gon is Miss Minnie Westman. She is 2
plump little brunette of twenty, and
though her route is most dangerous
one she has never met with an accident
A new and neat present for man is q
perfumed sachet with kind of hand
painted score card thereon and a quantity
of ornamental pins, by which he car
easily keep track Of the number of col
lars, cuffs, shirts, etc., he sends to tn,
laundry.