The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

ornaments for the hair.
Stylish umbrellas are made with
handles of petriied wood.
Flounces, both gathered and pointed,
are seen on stylish costumes.
The only woman lawyer in Philadel-
phia is Mrs Carrie b. kilgore.
The latest winter fancy prescribes
monkey and ostrich feather boas.
Rev. Sophia Gibbs is pastor of the
! Universalist Church at Decatur, Ill.
The bridemaid of 1899 will be attired
in a garb highly ornate and Frenchifed.
Big buttons are again in style and will
be worn profusely throughout the sea-
son.
Miss Strong, the young American ri
val Of Rosa Bonheur, is native of San
I Francisco.
Bead.dotted tulles and plain tulles
still hold their own as material for dane
ing. gowns.
Fashionable costumes of cloth are
severe in outline and entirely without
ornamentation.
The waistcoats are of brocade, the
| figure representing very small but very
bright knots of flowers.
The directoire coat and the directoire
gown have made both big aud little
buttons very fashionable.
Mrs. II. Riddle of Savannah was made
Grand Worthy ice Templar of the
Good Templars of Georgia.
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the
English physician, exacts as large fees as
the highest priced practitioner.
The Rev. Elizabeth w. Greenwood
says there are in this country IA, 465
commercial travellers who are women.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is responsible for
the declaration that the reign of Paris
as the mistress of fashions is at an end.
The esthetic style has quite disap-
peared and is replaced by the tight coat
of satin, with pearl and silver buttons.
The Empress of Austria contemplates
a voyage in the West Indies, to be fol-
lowed by a tour through the United
States,
Two pretty Santa Cruz (Cal.) girls
make pretty fund of pin money. catch
| ing frogs around spring on Escalona
heights.
Mrs. Robert Williams, of Preston
County, w. Va, although but fifty-two
years old, is the mother of twenty-five
children.
The Princess of Wales is more than
ever discarding laces, satins and fur
bellows in public places. She dresses
with studied simplicity.
The Chicago Society for the Promo.
tion Of Physical Culture aud Correct
Dress was organized last May and now
has membership of 100.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes presided
over the Convention of the Women's
Home Missionary Society of the Method
ist Episcopal Church in Boston.
Dayard Taylor's mother is still living
at Cedarhurst, near Kenneth Square,
| Penn. Mrs. Taylor is handsome old
lady, and remarkable linguist.
Mrs. Frances L. Willard, President of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
officer, dignihed, quick-minded and
vigorous"
Miss Amanda Delmas, a Creole who
was brought up to life of Incidence,
and was then thrown upon her own re.
sources, is one of the most successful
sugar planters in Louisiana.
Long fat bows, butterfly and cockade
bows, are all worn on the shoulders at
the top of the full sleeves of many in.
door gowns Such bows give a very
dressy effect to an otherwise plain
toilet.
There are as many as four different
types of blondes in Philadelphia-the
ASH the chataigne or chestnut, the
blondes dorees or golden blondes, and
the strawberry" the latter, by the way,
quite numerous.
The Italians are making some very
pretty buttons and sending them to this
country. They are made hy hand in
Venice, and are of shell, of a shrimp pink
color, the lining of large conch shell
called the "King."
Philadelphia is generally rackoned as
somewhat slow town, but il is away
ahead in the matter of lady editors.
Besides numerous ladies employed by
the daily papers, the city has five sue
cessful magazines, all edited by women.
A generous patron was lady who
contributed to fair held the other day.
She brought large number of useful
and fancy articles to assist in the adorn-
ment of the tables, and after they had
been accepted purchased them all her
self.
Miss Amelie Rives Chanler wears
shoes that are made like gloves, with a
pouch for each toe. The majority of
women, however, cannot wear such
shoes, for their big toes lie on top of the
other toes and cannot be trained over
again.
Long, rich fringes of sewing silk cloth
with spiked ends or beads with head
ings of rich raised passementerie and
velvet bands worked in applique and
satin stitch are quite the newest as they
are the handsomest trimmings of the
season.