The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-08-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Heavy gold embroidery appears on
several white cloth dresses.
Chatelaines continue to be worn, be-
ing both ornamental and useful.
A number of young women in Cush-
bert, Ga, have organized an anti-kissing
society.
The silk petticoats are many of them
trimmed with pinked ruflles of silk alter
mating with lace.
The title of "Old Maid" does not now
attach to lady until she has passed her
thirtieth birthday.
A Minnesota woman dislocated her Jaw
in yawning, and had to ride twenty-three
miles to physician.
Artificial poppies are to be had III any
color desired. Such are the modern i'm
provements on nature.
Surah and foulard silk petticoats are
of all colors, the light tints being much
worn with light dresses.
Mary Fisher, colored girl, is valedic-
torian of the graduating class of the
Atchison (Kan.) high school
Epaulets are q fashion of the season,
becoming to slender forms, but stout
women should avoid them.
Mrs. Humphry Ward, Miss Olive
Schreiner and Mrs. Margaret Deland are
called the Agnostic Trinity.
White summer gowns for morning
wear are as fashionable as they were in
the time of Marie Antoincttc.
Now that the seasons fashions have
been settled, the discovery is made that
some of the bonnets are as high as ever.
The Cherokees, of Indian Territory,
have recently dedicated new seminary
for girls which cost them 5000, 600 to
erect.
Jenny Lind was born at Stockholm,
Sweden, October g. 1921, and died at
her English country home November 9,
1887.
A seminary for Scandinavian women,
| the first institution of its kind in this
country, is to be erected at Red Wing,
MINI.
Real lace is used very exceptionally for
trimming mantles, the popular sorts be-
ing produced by machinery at one-half
the price.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York. en-
joys an income of $4,000 a day, and her
total yearly expenses are said to be less
than $4,000.
English girls who have a fancy for the
unique wear as part of their yachting
costume under short, open jacket, a
shirt made like mans
Exceedingly pleasing effects have been
gained in brooches, lockets and pendants,
with pierced gold work laid over a col
ored enamel background.
The round waists of the simple gowns
now worn, show but one seam, but the
lining is as perfectly fitted as the art OF
dressmaking can devise.
An Eastern comic paper, speaking of a
popular actreSss fondness for animals,
says: Mary Anderson's fondest pet is the
American golden eagle.
One of the greatest difficulties which
British hostess must overcome is to
find young men who are willing to be-
come partners in a dance.
The riding habit and hat of the Ger
man Empress at the grand review in
honor OF King Humbert were white and
Gainsborough, respectively.
Fourteen thousand girls are attending
the London school board cookery centers.
Still further facilities for increasing this
number are now being made.
Useful as well as pretty bags arc made
of picot-edged ribbons in three colors.
The ribbons are sewed together to form a
bag, then lined and tied with narrower
ribbon.
The new Professor of Pathology at the
venerable University of Bologna is Sig
norma Giuseppina Cattani, an uncom-
monty pretty yonng lady of profound
scholarship.
A young lady named Break, who died
recently at her home near Freehold, N.
j., left goodly portion of her property
to the gentleman to whom she was en-
gagged to be married.
In Kentucky family are five girls
named, respectively, Arkansas, Louis
lana, Tennessee, Florida and Virginia,
each one of whom weighs over one hun
dred and sixty pounds.
The thimble is claimed by the Dutch
as an invention of their country, but it is
known that it was in use among the silk
embroiderers Of China hundreds of years
, before it was used elsewhere.
Mrs. Bradley Martin of New York,
made the first purchase at the Paris Ex-
position this year. Immediately after
the formal opening, she bought a mag
nificent piece of lace for $1,000.
AT the literary ladies' dinner gwen in
London short time ago, seven gentle
men novelists offered to come as walters,
as they were debarred from appearing as
guests, but they were not admitted.
Two of the largest individual owners
of sheep and cattle live in Texas, and are
women. One of them, the widow Cal
lahan, owns about $4,000 sheep. The
other, Mrs. Rogers, is worth 81 900, 000
Presidential chambers" for ladies have
been built in London, consisting of two,
three and four rooms, which rent from
50, to Sc, unfurnished. Only those
women who earn their own livelihood are