The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-05-08
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

season.
The hustle is almost an hallucination Of
the past.
School suffrage has been extended to
Michigan women.
Among flower pins the pansy is still |
easily fist favorite.
The bride of Prince Alexander Of Bat.
teuberg has red hair.
Wellesley College has a japanese
student, Miss Kin kato.
Steel is the very effective and popular
metal used for trimming.
The genuine mutton leg sleeve is one
of the features of new gowns.
The rage for whistling is spreading
rapidly among the young ladies.
Accordion pleatng is decidedly the
fashion for the fronts Of dresses.
The right Of women to practice mcdi.
cine in Canada has been established.
An cmcrald-set frog with diamond
eyes is the quaintest of new lace pins.
There are Just dozen shades OF tau
color which are fashionable at present.
The custom for ladies to appear in
scarlet hunting coats is growing IN Eng
land.
The widow of General John A. Logan
is writing an article on the German
Army.
Dull blue sashes are in high favor in
Paris for wear with gowns OF nettls
green.
Anything or everything but the com
monplace is allowed by the fashion Of
to-day.
French gold and polished cut steel
will be chiefly used in millinery jewelry
this spring.
Ribbons always have been and probl-
bly, always will be lavishly used on Paris
made gowns.
Mrs. Pierre, of New York, wa,
awarded the first prize at the beauty
show in Nice.
A French savant has recently an
nounced his belief that women are in.
creasing in size.
Jet appears in many forms in the new
spring millinery ornaments and tinsel in
the woven tissues.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer was elected
President of Sorosis, the National
| Womans Society.
Mrs. Mary Tillinghast is the one wo.
man in the field of architectural decora.
tion in New York.
Bayoune, N. j., has centenarian who
claims that Washington kissed her when
she was little girI.
Paris sends us for summer wear cam
brics and percales in stripes or flowers,
or else with borders.
Sorosis and the delegates resolved to
form confederation of women's clubs
from all over the country.
The women of Wichita Kan, have
petitioned that woman be put on tho
State Board OF Charities.
In Denmark and North Germany girls
rs well as boys are received and trained
in the agricultural colleges.
The price paid by an English woman
for a court dress is from 5000 to 500
by an American from $1,000 to $500.
A bill to give women the right of suf.
frage at Presidential elections has been
introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate.
Miss Hattie Carter, of Kearney
County, Kan, has won several prizes at
lassoing in competition with cowboys.
Mrs. Henry Willard, the wife of the
famous German American tnancier, is
the only daughter of William Lloyd
Garrison.
Mrs. Harrison's new piano is of Cir
cassian walnut with silvec pedals, and q
backing of yellow satin to the fretwork
in front.
For the first time a female artist is
commissioned by the French Govern
ment 20 execute decorations for public
building,
The latest hobby of the Baroness Bur
dett- Coutts is giving prizes for iowe
culture TO the poor children of Londor
ragged schools
In Burmah a woman missionary con.
verted stalwart native and married
him out of hapd to insure his holding
fast to his new faith.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, has
travelling basket all fitted up with golC
handled silver saucepaus for maxim!
soup and other dishes.
Miss Jennie Flood, who is said to be
modest, sensible girl of twenty fivt
years of age, is heir to all her bonanzi
fathers immense wealth.
Miss Dallas York, tiancee of the Duk
of Portland, is as long as her purse
being something over six feet high
Her fortune is in the millions.
A revival Of an old fashion, which i
likely to prevail this summer, is that o
having fall of lace dropping from tn
brim of the large, black round hats.
, A correspondent writing from Athen
says that a remarkable feature of Athe
nian society is the beauty of the women
at least ninety per cent. of the womel
and young girls seen at the parties beiul
positively pretty.
) Mrs. Eaton, sister of President Harri
/ son, wore at the inaugural ball lac
, shawl that belonged to her grandmother
| wife of the first President Harrison, to
gether with a locket once owned by tn
q wife of that Ben amin Harrison VIII
s signed the Declaration of Independence