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

Colorado is said TO have 1000 women
stock growers,
Sandal shoes are worn with Empire and
Directoire gowns.
Light gowns are decorated with q garni.
ture of ball fringe.
Boxing schools for women are among
the latest developments.
A novel sun umbrella has fiat place in
the handle for Japanese fan.
Queen Victoria has been made Colonel
of 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 foi
mountain wear, also for yachting.
Sailor maidens are now wearing scarf
pin in the shape of Neptunes trident.
Chenille embroideries are used as a
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
$4,000, was among Princess Louise's
wedding presents.
nsppor sr1,-,. 49,
skirts that escape the floor or with mar.
row falling demi-trains
Fans of long ostrich feathers or 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 a girl of seventeen.
Some indomitable statistician has fig
med out that 10000 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
"Rose 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 Eiffel bangle consists of circlet OF
gold rope tied on top in a true-lover's
knot, from which swings 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 OF
four years are made in wool, pique and
gingham. These consist of kilt and in
side bodice joined with belt
In bonnets there re.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 a 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 or the most trusted of the mail
carriers in the mountain district of Ore
gon is Miss Minnie Westman. She is a
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
perfumed sachet with a kind of hand
painted score card thereon and quantity
of ornamental pins, by which he can
easily keep track of the number of col
lars, cuffs, shirts, ETC., he sends to the
laundry.
A West Seneca On. " woman has for
the last few years supported herself from
the earnings of seventeen acre flower
farm. Her income is at times as much
as $1,000 year. She recommends hori-