The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-02-27

Among the newest new reds are Nero.
nese, sultane, Mephisto, and English
cherry,
Queen Victoria's household expenses
during the past year amounted TO the
sum of 1925, 600.
In Italy there are eight American born
Princesses, seven Marchionesses, twelve
Countesses and Baroness.
Combs for holding the hair in place
are small but fanciful. Gold, shell and
amber are favored materials.
a thorough knowledge of hygenic
cookery will prove the most useful ac
complishment to any women.
When velvet is used for cloaks. the
trimmings are rich fur and silk cord
passementeries without beads.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, ,Ir., who is going
on the stage, has a fine contralto voice
and is an accomplished pianiste.
Patti, the cantatrice, uses coca wine
and glycerine mixed for her voice, and
physicians approve the mixture.
Some dainty tea gowns are Grecian in
style. They have clinging draper es and
there are siiken girdles at the waist.
Coats for outdoor wear appear in sew.
eral styles. One, long and close. fitting,
has silk sash folded about the waist.
Mrs. Cleveland has started new fash.
ion in cloaks. 1t is a tight fitting terra
Gotta garment with short double capcs.
Fancy needlework is employed in
making flower pincushions with loose
petals done in embro dered or pinked
silk.
A shepherds crook of Roman gold is
favorite hatpin, and gold and silver
boathooks are much admired as hair
pins
Fur and embroidery are noted on bon
nets, as well as on wraps, and even pas.
semeaterie now figures as a bonnet gar
niture.
The reports of the Patent Office show
that at least two of the patents granted
during every week are issued to women
inventors.
The full, round peasant circular is a
favorite shape for party cloaks, as it COW
ers the entire costume, and is easily put
on or taken off.
Elderly ladies wear deep mantles of
Persian lambskin, which are made with
large sleeves that are gathered smaller
about the wrists.
Pink rose petals are made into pretty
bands and edge the half-lcw or v
shaped necks OF evening dresses worn
by young ladies.
Sashes of watered ribbon, or of thick
gros grain ribbon with heavy corded
edges, are almost invariably worn with
tulle ball costumes.
The "Oolong wave" is not a new
wrinkle in doing up the hair. 1t is the
latest designation in Washington for
the greatly abused afternoon tea.
Philanthropic women in Hartford,
Conn.,, have organized classes in dress
making and commercial arithmetic to
aid young women in earning a living.
A little girl of PouIan, Ga, raised
enough peanuts and sugar cane to pay
for five and half acres of land, and she
had enough money left to fence it with.
A new role for women in London is
that of serving writs. A pretty young
women there is said to find doors open
to her, which to nearly every other
sheritf's officer are shut fast.
/ Fashion in France ordains that hence
forth armorial crests and such things are
to be banished from such places as letter
| paper, etc, but are to be embossed on
women's dresses in colors over the heat.
! Pretty afternoon dresses are made of
| iawn, gray, tan colored, dark blue, or
| golden olive French camel's hair. These
/ toilets a:e graceful and artistic and are
cut in princesse fashion with slight
/ trains.
The industrial department of the
! Woman's Educational and Industrial
! Union of Syracuse, N. Y, sent out fifty
seven graduates during the year Just
closed. This is said to be an unusually
large class.
A Woman's League has been formed
/ in New Orleans. One of its objects is to
look in large and practical way after
the interests Of women-Gs TO how they
are treated in asylums, prisons, stores,
station houses, etc.
a Maine historian says that in old
times the fine ladies of Eastport then a
very gay, fourishing town, used to
acquire beautiful compilations by sleep
ing with their heads ont of the windows
in fOggy weather.
OF white dress fabrics there is no end.
Brocades, plain or striped velvets, watered
silks, bengaline, ottoman silk, faille,
Irish poplin, embossed satin and Henri
eta cloth are obtainable in white and
make up very effe lively.
In spite of the oft-repeated assertion
that cloaks alone will be worn by
fashionable women, there are innumer-
able short wraps in velvet, bengaine
cloth, broche and plush to be seen on
fashionable thoToughfares.
The startling intelligence comes across
the water that Queen Victoria has dis.
missed her corset lacer. The Queen, il
is supposed, will so-lace herself here
after with the reflection that she is sa =
ing the wages of a corset lacer.
EThe humorous editor of the Boston
Transcript is in a quandary. The craze
for whistling among girls is seriously
troubling him. He says it is almost i'm.
possible to tell whether the girl is solicit.
ing kiss or only preparing to puclSer.
Miss Lucille Eistun, of Cincinnati,
could whistle before she could talk, and
when she grew into girlhood her parent,
tried TO break the habit, but without
success. She continued TO whistle, and
when she began her studies in music she
found il help. OF late years she has
practieed whistling instead of singing,
although she recently received a gold
medal for the highest proficiency in tbe