The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-07-03


land.
Round waists and belts are slowly but
surely displacing pointed bodices and
basques.
There are six women police officers in
the London police force, all employed as
detectives.
Black hats and bonnets are trimmed
with the yellow minosa, a favorite trim
ming flower.
Bonnets of white and rose tulle are
decorated with roses. The eglantinc is
the favorite.
Chicago has home for self-supporting
women, where board is to be had for
1925 week.
With dresses of pale green crepe de
chine black gloves and ribbons are now
worn by the fashionable.
Brocades with Empire designs of floral
scrolls and laurel leaves are made up over
skirts of white satin or silk
The monks gown of brown camel's
hair, which envelops the wearer from head
to foot, is used for travelling.
France is somewhat shaken up over al
legged indulgence in morphine-taking by
thousands of Partisan women.
There is such craze for reviving old
fashions that it is to be expected that snuff
boxes will soon come into use.
Bishop sleeves of chantilly lace are
yard and half wide and show a closer
one of bright color underneath.
A London milliner has invented cork
bonnet. 1t is made wholly of the bark
of the cork tree and is very light.
Shoulder capes are sometimes made in
V shape of two pieces of ribbon with
bias sides, meeting in the front and back.
A discovery, due to the plentiful royal
deaths abroad, is that diamond necklace
worn between two jet ones is strict half
mourning.
The authorities in Holland have decreed
that woman cannot serve on school
board. In Sweden it has been decided
that they can.
You can buy child's sash of washing
silk five inches wide and one-half yards
long for one shilling, but you must go to
London for it.
Seen upon a recent hat: Two birds,
three butterflies, two yards ribbon, four
of lace, about ten of silver cords in rows
and rings and rosettes.
Frocks of fine white wool braided all
over with white silk look and simple
enough for shepherdess and are costly
enough for a princess.
A new finish for sashes of silk or rib
bon is two bands of jet openwork across
the ends, with handsome jet fringe fall
ing from the lower one.
A young lady in Portland, Me-, has
worked up new business, in which she
is said to be doing well-that of reading
to old or disabled people.
For morning walks or shopping thick
wells are allowable, but for all other oc-
Sessions the sheerest dotted net, coming
Just below the chin, is the correct thing.
An easy mitigation of the new baggy
sleeve is to shirr it just below the arm
hole, and set velvet or galloon under the
shirring, with another row just above the
cuff.
IL Is AlStONGItu lllhl DIOOhl1n uuTStS
have a habit of drugging children when
they take their charges out for an airing,
in order to gossip and firt with the po-
licemen.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptures, at
reception given her by the Chicago
Woman's Club, wore five medals, four of
gold and one of silver, which had been
.uardad har in Ttalv
The punishment of women by flogging
still exists in the Transvaal Though the
South African press is down on the prac-
tice, only recently woman was sentenced
to receive fifteen lashes.
A company has been formed to erect,
throughout Great Britain, blocks of dwell
lings in which solitary women may live
side by side and enjoy the pleasure of
cheerful society, without sacrificing either
their privacy or independence.
A servant girl in Easton, Penn, who
recently died, left $500 to the German
Lutheran Church, and $4,000 TO a grand
daughter of her employer. The money
was all saved out of her wages.
Miss Mary F. Seymour, editor of the
Business WOmdR's journal, approves of
women learning stenography and the use
of the typewriter as an aid to proficiency
in other businesses and professions.
The newest thing in London household
economy is a female butler-a maiden
dressed in livery of blue, green, gold,
or scarlet, as taste may prefer. The eff
feet alleged is "more quiet and equal
style"
More than a third of the board school
mistresses in London get salaries of over
$1,000 a year, and there are altogether
about 1000 in the metropolis and the
provinces together who receive $3.50 or
upward.
Miss Alice 3. Sanger, the Presidents
stenographer, the first woman ever en-
ployed in any such capacity at the White
House, is a native of a suburb Of Bos-
ton, and was famous for her attainments
at school. She is related to General n.
Z. Banks and TO Elias Howe.
s'Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vanderbilt wear
silks especially designed and wovel. for
them. Where they buy their things is
never divulged by dealers, and the fashion
of their gowns is profoundly guarded by
their dressmakers from the knowledge of