The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-12-04
NEMa ANp NoTEs FOR WOMEN.

Tartans and stripes are In higher favor |
than ever.
skirts grow longer in the back, but
shorter in the front.
The newest Paris gowns have the skirt
sewn on to the bodice.
Table covers no longer hang all over
and all around the table.
Mrs. "stonewell" jackson is writing
her husbands biography.
In London the women are beginning
to wear the single eyeglass.
Steel knives have come into fashion
again for use in certain courses.
The craze for antique oak and white
and gold furniture is on the increase.
Brown, tam gray, and black gloves are
the correct wear with all out-of-door
toilets.
All waists have surplices, bretelles,
plastrons, waistcoats or revers of one kind
or another.
The new Duchess of Marlborough is
making a reputation in England by rails
ing fine dogs.
Embroideries are not used on the
choicest underwear. Lace trimmed goods
are first choice.
A discussion has been started lately as
to the advissbility of having at least
seven pockets in dress.
Hangings of willow bamboo are used
for country bedroom windows. They
can be lsoped back or left hanging.
Entire dresses of crocheted wool are
worn by English children, especially
delicate ones, in cold, damp weather.
At the sale of the Duke of Brunswick's
effects in London, Mrs. Mackey purchased
A pair of diamond ear. rings for $400, 600.
The Carrick cape, with a flat boa or
stole ending in square tabs at the knees
or higher, is a fashionable London wrap.
A handkerchief in the possession of
the Empress of Russia is said to have
cost S2500 1t took seven years to make
! it.
In the manicure world filbert finger
nails arc cultivated and the moons
brought out with a touch of cherry lip
rouge.
A piano once owned by the wife of
President John Quincy Adams is now in
the possession OF Miss Cordelia Meyers, of
Newville, Penn.
1t is said the milliner who makes the
bonnets for the Princess of Wales and
her daughters has no other customers and
does not hang out sign.
The exquisite ''inish' which is put
upon all dresses and msntles, and which
is the distinguishing feature of the times,
is an outcome of the tailor gown.
Some one who has made study of
the chemical properties of veal urges
women who desire to become beautiful to
sleep with slices of it on their faces.
Mrs. Harrison has now in the White
House several quaint and genuine pieces
of antique furniture which she picked up
during her summers visit to Nantucket.
The mother of the famous Guernsey
sisters performed the remarkable feat at
the age of seventy of learning Hebrew
enough to read the Psalms in their orig
inal tongue.
An old friend has come to the fore
! again this season in the shape of ladies'
cloth. This fabric appears with border
effects, which are novelty. 1t is likely
to be exceedingly popular.
Dove or Quaker gray is the most fash
, ionable and also the most becoming
. shade of this most trying color. 1t com
bines well with Eilfel, pale rose, blue
(. water green, canary yellow, tiamingC
red, and other shades of bright and posi-
tive color, with cream, pure white, black
silver and gold, copper and steel.
1t is to be feared that the very small
bonnets which even elderly women seen
so fond of will bring about an invasio
'e of hair. "Too much hair and nc
enough hat" form a combination that ha
,e been fashionable before. Can we eve
forget the day of big chignons and littl
tip-tilted saucer-shaped hats2 Is not tn
= very thought of a return to these terrify
., ing2
M Ringoal is new English out-of-doo
game for ladies. 1t is played with graz
n hoops and sticks and two nets eight fe
IN high and ten feet wide. 1t is propose
" TO make it rival and rule out tennis,
possible. as it exercises both arms, bot
Us shoulders, both hands, and the who
Ill body in the running and turning nece
oy sary to catch the hoops before thu
reach the goals or nets.
"a Oriental ideas prevail in costume
!! ne Persian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Servian al
IL Arabian embroideries are all the rag
and are used on gowns of pure viii
or and cream serge, on velyets and silk al
yn wooden, and silk and wool mixtures
an all colors and shades, converting the g
ments with which they are trimmed,
he matter what the material, into gorl
ith Gus wonders of taste and fine art a
inc dreams of splendor.
ylv Christopher c. Andel is the father
S ,c. the smallest mite of humanity in n
,on M Haven, and, in all probability, in O.
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