The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Dr. Annie Sawyer is the one lady ply
sician in Ottawa.
An Esquimau woman Is lecturing in
the United States.
A great deal of ingenuity Is exercised
in the'matter of sleeves.
Hats with low crowns and broad brims,
like scoops, are fashionable.
Ribboos of gold and silver metal are
extensively used for trimming.
Twenty thousand women and girls in
Chicago earn less than SO week.
Empire fans are sometimes made of
gauze ribbons mounted on white sticks.
Worth makes his mourning dresses in
a design that never goes out of fashion.
A young colored girl from Atlanta,
Georgia, has gone to Congo as a mission
ary.
Diamond earrings of the latest mode
the other.
The Empire dress with train of three
yards is the prettiest style for brides seen
this season.
All the women elected to municipal
office in Kansas this spring write "Mrs.
before their names.
Dresses made of fish net have for trim
ming rows of moire OF satin ribbon run
through the meshes.
Swiss belts of jet beads are worn with
black net and lace dresses. They are
pointed back and front.
Women who wish to preserve the slim
hess and contour of their figures are ad-
vised to learn to stand we'll.
Irish poplin, though not yet favorite
with the world at large, is very much
used by the leaders of fashion.
Big silken single tulip petals set amid
frills of lace or lisse, bloom on the caps
now sent out by London milliners.
A popular st. Louis girl recently re-
ceived during a temporary illness 5000
roses and forty-eight pounds of candy.
The fact is noted that some OF the most
tender hearted ladies do not hesitate to
have the ears of their pet dogs clipped.
A lady named Lanesco was chosen
Mayor Of town in Roumania, but the
Minister of the Interior quashed the cleo
ton.
Some of the handsomest of new i'm
ported cretonnes come in scroll and daisy
patterns, with much cream color in the
ground.
Cambridge, the seat of England's fam
Gus university, has the further distinction
of sheltering within its walls a college of
carpentery for women.
Entire gray toilets are trimmed with
silver braiding, gray passementesies in
Arabesque designs, or made up with vel
vet or brocade of deeper shade.
Nine. Kerschbaumer, NJ. D., who prac-
tises as an oculist in Salzburg, recently
delivered an important lecture in Vienna
on the study of medicine by women.
Fichus of India silk muslin, edged
with knife-plaited lace, are in high favor.
They are particularly effective when
worn with gowns of scarlet sicilienne.
Gray in an infinite variety of shades is
notable color in the newly imported
French and English gowns, and but few
of them are trimmed with contrasting
colors.
New and very stylish are the cloth
costumes which consist of Russian red
ingote of one color opening over a vest
and draped front of cloth of a contrast,
ing shade.
The round French waist, which is gath
cred at neck and waist-line, front anG
back, and shows neither darts nor side
bodies, is used for all summer fabrics
whether silk, wool or cotton.
A popular garniture for skirts of darl
cashmere is a latticed border Of narrow
black velvet ribbon laid over light cash
mere. The upper part of the corsagt
also has this velvet trellis pattern.
Gail Hamilton practices greater economy
in writing paper than almost any othel
literary man or woman. She always
writes on scraps of paper, the backs o
old envelopes beingher favorite material
The newest thing in London household
economy is a female butler-a maidel
dressed in livery of blue, green, golC
or scarlet, as taste may prefer. The eff
feet alleged is "more quiet and equa
style"
GnSilnh NuSO COulS lO1 uIlNluB Vi lIdN
cling are made of gray mohair in plail
redingote shape, single-breasted, opel
down the middle of the back, and wit
large coat sleeves, full and high on tn
shoulders.
Turquoise blue is the new pale shade
which is sometimes almost green, an,
which is most popular in India silk, ben
galine and crepeline, figured or striper
with black, or trimmed with black rib
bons or laces.
A woman in New England goes to
town and takes the name of some in
fluential citizen, and claims relationship
and the first move the man makes is t
give her $500 to $1,000 to get out of tow
and go hence. She says she makes $500
per year.
By the will Of Baroness de Fahnenburp
who died lately in st. Louis, most of he
large fortune is devoted to the buildin
and endowment at Lexington, Kentucky
of an asylum for old Protestant white me
and women and young white Protestar
poor children.
Here are heroines indeed from Mort
Carolina: Miss Lucy Miller and her sma