The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-10
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Checks are very popular.

Red is ever popular with brunette beau
ties.
Shot alpacas are deservedly fashion
able.
The newer checks are irregular or
broken.
There are dozen women notaries
public in New York city.
Sashes are playing very important
part In the seasons fashions.
English women have better all-round
feet than their American cousins.
Blonds are said to be disappearing
both in England and in America.
Partisan ladies devote especial care on
the choice Of their personal handles.
Entire bodices or waists Of beads on O
foundation Of net are something new.
1t is to be remarked that the very long
stick sun shade is declining in favor.
The discovery has been made that no
two girls of the period have hats alike.
There are women who have not yet
adopted the blouse waist, but they are
very few.
The sleeves Of checked dresses are
made in gigot style and ended with a
small cuff.
Cosmetic artists and beautiHers claim
that the veil is detriment to a good
complexion.
Small buttons of cut steel are being
used on cropon dresses to hold the drap-
cries in place.
Fans of shingle wood, on which auto
graphs are to be inscribed, have como
once moro into fashion.
Ginghams this season excel all pre-
vious offerings in finish and colorings.
They come in stripes, checks aud plaids.
A women at Long Branch On. J.)
hotel appeared in the dining-room the
other day wearing $50, 900 worth of jew
elry.
Mrs. Ada Bittenbender, of Osceola,
Neb., has tried many cases before the
Supreme Court of Nebraska and has not
lost one.
Mrs. Houghton, a resident of Spokane
Falls, Washington, is said to have made
$3.50, 900 in real estate speculations in
four years.
Brass plates are put on the high heels
of low shoes, to keep them from declin-
ing. Even the fine suede feathers are
penny plated.
The Maori women of New Zealand are
killing themselves trying to wear corsets
since they have seen them on the mis-
sionary women.
Needlework scollops appear upon many
| of the French vests, blouses and morning
dresses of China silk, sheer wool batiste
and camel's hair
No meal is quite so hard for the house.
wife to provide as breakfast. The
ordinary monotony of eating is never so
hard to overcome.
Partisan ladies at present indulge in
the delightful luxury of allowing their
skirts to trail, and sweep and stir up the
| dust of the streets.
The Vassar girls have concluded to en-
dow a chair of astronomy in that college
in honor of, and to be known after, the
late Maria Mitchell.
An orchestra composed of good-look-
ing young women from Boston is an at
traction at hotel on Mount McGregor,
near Saratoga, N. Y.
Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer has
charge of a church in Providence, r. l.
She has the reputation of being one of
the best speakers in that city.
A novel charity in New York city pro-
vides excursions for little girls who are
obliged to take care of younger children
while their parents are at work.
To raise pile on plush hold it over
steam few minutes, wrong side down,
and then pass it tightly across hot iron.
Then brush the plush with a stiff bristle
brush.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the President of
France, has revived Magenta red" as a
fashionable color in Paris by appearing
at an official reception in velvet robe of
that hue.
Modistes returning from Paris say that
w-throated bodices on day dresses are
already in vogue, and that before the
middle of next season they will be seen
everywhere.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
heads; the fair-haired may even have to
dress seventy miles of threads of gold
every morning.
SirJonn MiiIals was so struck by the
loveliness of young lady whom he met
in London recently that he asked her to
allow him to paint her portrait. The
young lady said yes, and gets picture
worth Sl5, 900 for nothing.
A wonderful wedding dress was re-
Gently made up in Russia for the dnugh.
ter of great Russian artist. It Is OF
regulation white satin, but on the satin
are inuumerable little pictures, chiefly al.
legorical, painted by her fathers artist
friends. What may bo its value in year,
to comet
A Big Redwood.