The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-12-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN

bonnets very small.
II is said that lemon juice will make
the hands soft and smooth.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde is one Of the most
popular female orators in England.
The Queen of Italy has been growing
stouter and stouter, much to her annoy
ance.
Silver finger-rings are very much worn
the design being one of two snakes with
jeweled eyes.
Only the girl with the Daphne head
and Corinthian contour should essay tho
EifIel coiifure.
A square of bolting cloth embroidered
in colored threads is reserved for q cor
sage handkerchief
Princess Beatrice, of England, has
taken TO a high dog cart, which she
drives with much grace.
Miss Sarah Irving, niece of Washing.
ton Irving, welcomes the guests who
come to the novelist's old home.
The beautiful Queen Margherita OF
Italy has ordered a portrait of herself as
present to the German Empress.
Rose Terry Cooke seldom docs any
writing now, and is coatined to her room
many days at a time owing to illness.
Big muslin bows of the same color as
the frock, with the knot already made,
are now to be found in the Paris shops.
Sir Julian Pauncefote's four daughters
have bloomingly brilliant compilations
and dress in the EXTREMIST English man
ner.
Miss Rachel Sherman, the Generals
youngest daughter, will spend the winter
in Paris with the family of Minister
Reid
Nine. Carnot, wife OF the President of
the French Republic, is of mediuia
height, with olive complexion aud Roman
features.
A descendant of Sir Francis Drake,
Mrs. Lydia Drake, who died in Illinois
the other day, had 12O living grand
children.
Mrs. Anna w. Baird has endowed
scholarship in the Pennsylvania Univer-
sity, which has recently opened its doors
to women.
Black silk is very popular, armor Glk
being most preferable, as it wears T93tl
better than the gros-g grained, and il iocs
not shine.
Green hats with white feathers and ac-
Gordon plated bows of ribbon are much
worn in Paris. They are pretty for
young girls.
Glove manufacturers say eelskins are
becoming formidable rivals to ratskins in
the making Of imitation kids. Thsv are
waterproof.
A woman living in the cenhsI part of
New York has flower farm of seven
teen acres, from which she sometimes
clears $4,000 year.
A woman in Wadley, Ga, has become
grandmother at the age of thirty. She
married when only fourteen, and her
daughter did likewise.
Street costumes will be of more elab-
orate material this winter than seen for
some time. Bengaline and faille will be
used, and silk of different sorts.
The Iverness plaids are more than
usually fine and soft this season, and in
clan colors as we'll as in new devices in
such patterns, but all very large figured
The Princess of Wales turns to the
piano for consolation when she is tired
of court and its empty pleasures. There
are few better players in England than
she.
Miss Mildred Fuller, daughter of the
Chief Justice, will be a debutante in
Washington society this winter. She
was graduated from Wells College last
June.
Bayard Taylor's mother recently cele.
brsted her eightieth birthday at hel
home in Kennett Square, Westchester,
Penn. Mrs. Taylor is very active for
one of her years
The craze for veritable antiques is
without limit. Miss Elizabeth Drexel,
who was married with the ring Martin
Luther gave Catherine Won Bora, has
much to do with the clamor.
Some of the new silken fabrics for
demi-dress uses show designs of four
o'clocks, dewberry, eglantine, rosemary,
iris and honeysuckle blossoms, and are
most effective when made up in Empire
styles.
Vandyked or deep-poiuted laces, cream,
white, black and colored, frequently en-
broidered in beads and tinted metal and
colored silks, are almost as fashionable as
the Oriental embroideries which are in
such high favor.
The Misses Pullman, daughters of Mr..
George NJ. Pullman, the Pullman car
man Of Chicago, will make their debut
in Washington this season under the au,
spices of Mrs. Logan, with whom they
travelled abroad for els hteen months.
Belts for evening wear made of minia-
lures are sold at $500. It takes twenty
of the ivory paintings to encircle the
slightest waist, and they are not to be had
under $40 each. 1t is needless to say
that this style Of girdle will not be the
rage.
Lady Dixie is one of the most accom-
plished women in England. 1t is said to
be perfect treat to sit by her at dinner.
She is so bright, piqusnt and clever, and
at the same time so kind and sympathetic.
She possesses in an eminent degree what
the French call sayoir vivre.
Very pretty lamp shades are made Of