The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-04-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

Fringe is fashionable trimming.
Roses are popular floral ornament
Cloth dresses are ornamented freely.
Geneseo, N. Y, contains 100 widows.
There are 275 '1ady clergymen" in this
country.
All-over machine braiding upon cloth
jackets is passe.
New ribbons are from one to five
inches in width.
The engrossing clerk of the Kansas
Legislature is a woman.
The trimmings on spring hats and
bonnets are arranged low.
Empire styles promise to predominant
in costumes for next summer.
Directoire revers are seen upon low
corsages as well as high ones.
Sorosis, New York's fam us woman's
club, is twenty-one years old.
Mrs. Burnett, the authoress. is decorat-
ing new house in Washington.
Columbia Colleges women's annex will
be named for President Barnard.
There are $4,000 women in America
interested in the cultivation of fruit.
Black is effectively introduced into
many of the light ribbons for spring use.
An original hat pin of silver is a per-
fectly simulated nail with a rather large
head
New York women are called the most
natural in appearance Of any in the
world.
What are known as laminated ribbons
are richly embroidered with gold, silver
or copper.
A ''cat reception" is the latest form of
entertainment among the young girls of
New York.
Passementeries of Jet or silk cord and
gimps and galoons of silver or gold re
main popular.
The women OF Denmark, to the num-
Der of 10000, have petitioned for the
right of suffrage.
The Nevada Assembly has passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors to women.
The old-time Turc satin, in changeablc
colors, is used for the shirred portion of
some of the new gowns.
Passementerie holds its own as a fash
ionable ornament. Embroidery is seen
everywhere and on everything.
Surah silks, when made up in Direc
toire style, with straight skirts, must be
OF heavy quality to be effective.
Girls under fifteen years of age fire..
quently wear the hair all thrown back
and falling in long curls behind.
The latest craze among actresses is the
hand and arm photograph. They spend
no end of money for such pictures.
Quite fashionable for chatelaine pur-
poses are the pretty crystal ball watches,
some of which keep very true time.
We seem to be fast approaching the
classic outlines of Greek dress in our
most elegant and fashionable attire.
A stylish and effective dinner dress is
made with lace skirts. The skirts are
plated all around and open in front.
Another Tennessee woman in an
official position is Mrs S. p. Lowe, who
has Just been reelected State Librarian.
The new bonnet ribbons show stripes
of irregular widths in contrasting colors,
also OF various weayes in a single color
Thick aigrette bows of ribbon and
tulle, withgrasses, leaves or wheat spikes
in the midst, appear upon the new bon
nets.
Jet retains its hold upon headgear, and
is seen in crowns and bands and buckles
and things as it has been this five years
past
Some of the very prettiest and most
stylish evening mantles are made up IN
delicate grays, lined with white or flesh
pink.
Velvet covered hats in toque shape are
now worn, and both fancy gimps and
metallic laces are used for banding
them.
Full skirts will be worn again next
summer, and the bodices and sleeves will
not be very different from those now in
vogue.
In artistic circles in London the En-
pire gown is worn in all its classical
severity by married and unmarried young
women
The queerest of the queer fads which
have come into style recently is the fast
ening of watch into the rosette of a
slipper.
Mrs. Oliphant lives at Windsor and is
treated with much consideration by
| queen Victoria, VINO IS fond OF her
writings.
For walking costume, the redingote
divides honors with the long plain pelisse.
Passementerie braiding or fur is used for
trimming.
Mrs. George Pell is said to have her
coachman and footman gotten up more
expensively than any other woman in
| New York.
Mrs. ladstone has Just celebrated hel
seventy seventh birthday, the festivities
taking place at Hawarden Castle, where
she was born.
White and cream wooleus, widely
barred with a color, are chosen in pre-
ference TO the solid colors for home and
/ afternoon wear.