The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-10-02
NEWS AND NoFEs FOR WOMEN.

The city editors of the Muncie Qnd.)
Erening Herald is a woman.
Srimati Hardevi, Punjabee lady,is the
first woman editor in India.
There are a number of women who are
notaries public in Chicago.
Fine Suede kid shoes with vamps of
patent leather continue to find patrons.
The New England Women's Press As
sociation numbers almost 100 mem
bers.
A Berlin professor says that constant
piano practice will ruin the health of any
girl.
The real name of the author who signs
herself "The Duchess, " is Mrs. Hunger
ford.
The newest driving cloaks are less vol
luminous than they were several months
ago.
An insurance company conducted by
women has been established in New
Orleans.
Mr. Gladstone never drinks tea except
what is specially made for him by Mrs
Gladstone.
Full bishop sleeves are seen on wraps
and gowns, though coat sleeves continue
to be worn.
Very pretty rustic stands of pottery
simulate stunps and gnarls of wood in
form and color.
Nearly one-half of the 47S medical
students graduated at the Boston Uni
versity are women.
The black ribbon collars now seen on
light dresses are fastened with small
Rhine stone buckles.
Women are said to have the bumps of
order and cleanliness more highly de-
veloped than the men.
Twenty-three young ladies will make
up the list of fashionable debutantes in
Philadelphia next winter.
Pongee silk corsets are exceedingly
cool and comfortable, and consequently
in demand at the present time.
Sarah Arabclla Mackie, of London, has
been granted patent for Improvements
in the manufacture of artificial fuel.
The Woman's Educational and In
dustrial Union, of Buffalo, n. Y, owns
fine building, adapted to its work.
1t is rumored that long wasted cor
sages will be made to extend over the
hips in medieval fashion, next winter.
The latest thing in women's sailor hats
is a startling combination of red brim and
white crown, or blue crown and white
brim.
A London firm of diamond dealers has
an order to supply the stones for neck
lace for Lady Guinness, which is to cost
1925, 900.
When white gloves are used for driving
they are stitched on the back with three
rows of black, each row a quarter of an
inch wide.
With the Recamier wrapper, which is
a simple short-waisted gown, is worn a
turned-over collar of embroidery, with
cuffs to match.
The Princess Sophia takes daily les
sons in Greek that she may be able to
converse with her future husband, the
Duke of Sparta.
Book-covers that fit over any novel, and
are of n correct shade to match the read
er's costume, are iavorites with this sum.
mer's seaside girl.
New tullc gowns are some of them
made up with succession of skirts.
Each skirt has Il deep hem and falls
straight all around.
Lady Forester sends to the factory girls
of London every week upward of 200O
punches of flowers gathered by the ser
wants on the estate.
Mrs Napier Higgins, the author, is
the first lady Fellow of the English
Royal Society of Literature since the
days of Hannah More.
Silk Innings have not been used as eX-
tensively as last year The waist lining
and foundation skirt for cotton dresses
are made of white lawn.
Birdie May Wilson, of New York, has
been granted a patent in Great Britain
for a device for plucking hair, to be used
in the dressing of skins.
The City Council of Chicago has
authorized the appointment of five
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of factories and tcnements.
1t is said that the japanese women who
embrace Christianity exercise an influence
in moral questions hardly inferior to the
English and American women.
All the lovely tints of lilac, mauve and
heliotrope are suddenly restored to their
old-time popularity, some of the new
dyes shading exquisitely into faint tints
of old rose.
The cook problem--in New Orleans
possibly the most unsolvable problem of
all-is about TO be worked out in Lon
don, where If, 900 girls are now attend
ing the cooking schools.
This has been a great season for the
"lady guide, - one OF the latest develop
ments of women Of education who have
TO earn something. The Worlds Fair al
Paris has helped them wonderfully.
Black laces and white laces are beauti-
fully combined in some Of the new Cor,
day and Marie Autoinette tichus, and
capcs and gowns formed of this magpic
mixture are among some OF the most Gle
CANT dresses of the season.
Five dozen pairs were the number OF
| gloves in a recent bridal trousscau.
There were n dozen and 81 half in Whit