The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-05-29

a London made gown has the entire
front made of Marechal Mel roses.
The young Duchess of Braganza is at
present popular idol in Portugal.
Graceful neck scarfs in Empire fashion
are worn with stylish home dresses.
Some of the new parasols have broad
stripes running around the breadths.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard has just
patented a music rack and bath shoe.
Nearly all the hats and bonnets are
smaller and much lower than heretofore.
Gold trimming and gold embroidery
may be seen on white and black bonnets.
One of the banks at Stafford, Kan. has
a lady, Miss Addie Cox, as assistant
cashier.
White and black bonnets are much
trimmed with gold ribbon and gold en-
broidery.
The late Duchesse de Galliera be
queated six years wages to each of her
servants.
Mrs.Jane Brown, widow of the banker,
has fortune safely invested worth S4,-
600, 900.
Olive Logan thinks that the domestic
economy of the French consists in doing
without things.
The opium habit is said to be very prev
alent at Washington, especially among
society women.
Low crowns are the rule with round
hats. The brim is much longer in front
than at the back.
Mrs. Wanamaker, in Paris, is said to
receive flowers from her Philadelphia
home each week.
Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich
Islands, rolls a cigarette with the skill Of
a Spanish senorita.
A sister of Stephen A. Douglas, al
most eighty years old, is postmistress at
Clifton Springs, N. Y.
"Girls who use powder" says the
Boston Courier, "don't go offany quicker
than those who don't"
The two best male matrimonial catches
in New York are George Vanderbilt and
T. j. Oakley Rhinelander.
It was the custom in olden times for
husbands to make allowances to their
wives for paint for their faces.
The late Duchess of Galliera gave S1O,-
600, 900 to the city of Genoa for a
hospital and other public work.
Miss Hattie,Ca of Kearney Coun-
ty, Kan, has won several prizes at lasso-
ing in competition with cowboys.
Embroidered scallops at the foot of
skirts are by no means so stylish as a
plain hem with insertion above it.
The ferrule at the top of the new
parasols is very long and pointed in
parasols that have cane handles.
The fashion of carrying muff dates
three hundred years back. Courtiers
wore them in the time of George l.
Notwithstanding the popularity of the
straight Directoire gowns, draperies still
exist, but they are soft and clinging.
Miss Rosa Barreda, one of the ac-
knowledged bellies of San Francisco. is
said 10 have the blood of the Incas in her
veins.
Bracelets or amulets, worn above the
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are made of ribbon fastened with a Jew
eled pin.
Colored light wool or silk petticoats,
when black ones are not preferred, have
almost superseded white underskirts foI
street wear.
A crushable or collapsable bonnet i,
one of the latest London fads of fashion.
1t can be "sat down upon" without any
injury to it.
Mile. Dumas is the President of an as
sociation of Protestant ladies who visit
Systematically the women's prison of St
Lazare in Paris.
''Wash silks" for ladies' and children
underwear come in small patterns ar
ranged as stripes on delicately tinted anC
white grounds.
There are some large bonnets in pictur
esque, old-fashioned dunstable and cot
tage shapes seen among the tiny toque
and capotes.
The Marie Antoinette fchu, of null
net, crepe, lace or silk muslin, is grow
ing in favor as a drapery for the bodice
of house dresses.
Official etiquette requires that the wifi
of the Chief Magistrate shall have he
cards printed in the simplest manner
Mrs. Harrison"
The prettiest of all the countless in
auguration souvenirs was a miniatur
spinning wheel, an exact reproduction O
the one used by Martha Washington
which is now in her chamber at Mt. Yer
non.