The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-09-11

women.
Mrs. George W. Childs is considered
one of the best dressed women in Phila-
delphia.
Miss Ala NJ. Longfellow, daughter of
the poet, is much interested in amateur
photography.
Nine. Mciba, the Australian prima
donna, began to sing in public when she
was only sixteen.
The typewriting business nets from
$2500 to $4,000 to many young woman
in New York city.
The West End damsels of London have
four cricket clubs among them, with
three Others forming.
Accordion-plaited skirts are in high
favor in Paris, so their lease of life is
likely to be extended.
Dotted white null, Swiss, and yelling
gowns are in vogue along with striped
and barred white dresses.
Crepe de chine is the prettiest fabric in
during the period of mourning.
Patti, the famous opera singer, per-
sonally superintends all the details of
housekeeping in her Welsh castle.
The prettiest white dresses of the sea-
son are made of China silk and silk null,
the null being used for the sleeves.
The French style of mourning is more
generally adopted in this country than
the English, because it is less heavy.
To cover a parasol twenty inches deep
it requires two and one-quarter yards of
material that is twenty inches wide.
A woman in Lafayette County, Mo-,
has an apiary of 1875 hives. She expects
to make 10, 900 pounds of honey this year.
The women of Boston have named a
committee of fifty to carry out the plans
for taking the city schools out of politics.
English ladies fond of horseback riding
often arrive at Hyde Park, London, at
eleven o'clock and do not leave until half
past one.
Straw braids and stripes, composed of
braided rushes or straw embroidery on
an open ground give pretty trimmings
for hats and bonnets.
A guild of the Kings Daughters has
been formed in England. The order is
patterned after the one in this country
and has proved success.
Thirty years ago the Empress of Russia,
the Princess of Wales and the Dutchess
of Cumberland had to get along with So
a month each pin money.
The white and cream silk warp materials
are more dainty and endurable than ever.
They are particularly desirable for sea-
side and watering place use.
Women are said in England to seek
death according to the following order
Hanging, abstinence, precipitation,
drowning, cutting, poison.
Queen Victoria is to peronally superin.
tend great agricultural show in Windsor
Park, and the visitors will be enabled tc
walk by twenty miles of pigs.
The first woman postmaster appointed
in the United States was the wife o.
Colonel Andrew Balfour. Her commits
sion was signed by President Washington
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, tn,
novelist, is reported to have remarked re
Gently that if she had known the penal
ties of fame she would never have writer
line.
The new small capotes are very fla
and fit the top of the head closely
Some are mere puffs of tulle or of lace
with flower in front and very marrow
strings.
The new industrial home for womeI
who have renounced polygamy has beel
opened at Salt Lake City, Utah. 1t
support is provided for by the Unite'
States Government.
The revived bereges come with inter
woven and printed borders on plail
colored grounds of delicate intermediat
shades, blue, rose, gray, beige, green
bronze, purple, yellow and cream.
ABombay Qndia) newspaper announce
two marriages, in one case the bride be
ing aged two years and in the other fl
teen months, while the bridegroom wa
thirty. This is the system which Pur
dita Ramabai is struggling against.
Chicago women are looking after th
working girls of that city. They have
home for self-supporting women, whic
has been patronized all the year by 25
women, and the Illinois WOmen's Pre-
Association gives them free popular weel
ly entertainments.
Mrs. Ballington Booth, Of the Salvt
tion Army, is young, beautiful, fairly edr
Gated and gifted. The most fashionab
, parlors in New York leave open the
, doors to her, and the society women
the metropolis have hailed her with d
, light as a new sensation.
S Women are being regularly enlisted +
e national politics in England. Lord Sail
a bury recently made an address to Il
o Primrose League, stimulating them
o action; and Mr.. Gladstone, not lol
n since, in an address TO the Liberal Fedel
!. ton, also called on the women to do
II they could.
+ Miss Jennie Slack, the sixteen-year-c
r daughter of William Slack, who liy
p southeast from Villisca, Iowa, is a you
d lady that does credit to the blue-gr
country. This season she has tend
d thirty five acres of corn, MIXED six co
n night and morning, and helped in otl
,Ways about the farm duties,