The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-04-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR wOMENT

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The "Fife" travelling cloak is another
name for the Connemara cloak when
made of plaid.
In the public schools of Chicago,
1852 schoolma'ams are employed, who
are paid S199, ,624.6 so a month. H
The New Jersey Legislature has re-
iected bill giving women the right to-
practice in the courts Of that State.
Mrs. Levi p. Morton has five daugli-
ters, all of them blondes. The oldest,
Edith, has promising artistic talent.
Mrs. William Walter Phelps, wife of
the American Minister, has introduced
,'five o'clock tea" in Berlin with much
success.
Plaid gingham dresses are made up on
the bias throughout, with round belted
waists, slightly full at the belt, but plain
on the shoulders.
Crescents of gold held together by slen4
der wires appear in bracelets. There is
also decided tendency toward the
heavy curb bracelet.
White embroidered muslins are used
| to trim Scotch gingham dresses, as yokes,
collars, cuffs, Spanish jackets and as in
sertious in the skirts.
Miss Clara Mcknight, an eighteen
year old lady of Ironton, Ohio, has passed
a satisfactory examination and been ad!
mitted as pension attorney, I
The selvages of silks of good quality
are still liked for trimmings. They are
/ ia, ,rra,,rral ~, ,ahntc on, thn cl.
along the side or back breadths.
The colors fashionable in cashmeres
are repeated in Scotch ginghams, and
black stripes or bars of sateen are feat
ures of many of the newest patterns.
Tailors who work for ladies are fond
of giving mannish names to feminine
garments. "Aless jackets ''covert
coats, ''reefers," are among the popular
names.
Brown figures on green grounds are n
fashionable color contrast, while blue
and green are fashionably combined IN
various designs of stripes, polka dots and
flowers.
Delaware has recently allowed school
suffrage to women. Out of forty-siX
States and Territories there arc now
TWENTY-FIVE where women have some form
of suffrage.
In Denmark most of the girls are
trained in agriculture, which is there an
important industry. The owners. of
farms receive pupils, who undergo a
regular training.
A charming addition to dainty even
ing costume is an aigrette of isinglass,
sprinkled with numberless small dia-
monds, which may be worn in the hair
or upon the corsage.
The Duchess of Albany, daughter-in-
law of Queen Victoria, has just received
her diploma as a hospital nurse, after
taking the regular course and standing
the usual examination.
Pretty ginghams have bourette stripes
alternating with thin, lace-lille stripes.
Sometimes rough bourette threads, black
: or white, are scattered at intervals over
the surface of ginghams otherwise plain.
The worlds supply of human hair
comes chiefly from Germany, Switzerland
and the French provinces. 1t is bought
up by drunmers from the European
capitals who attend the country fairs fol
that purpose.
Miss Hankey, the first woman ever
graduated at Columbia College, is to be
commemorated by a window in the
college library. The design is an al
, legorical treatment of her career as a
!, scholar, cut short by death.
s Bordered ginghams are so wide that
| the width serves for the length of the
, skirt, the border forming the skirt trim
. ming The borders are wide, and are
e of Scotch plaid, or have graduated stripes
8 of the new chine designs in vines.
S Although large sleeves, made precisely
y as last summer, will be worn by many
i upon gingham and other wash dresses
dressmakers advise moderately large Goa
sleeves, or the mutton-leg sleeves, mad
without too much fulness at the top.
The full enveloping cloaks worn witt
g travelling costumes are known as doml
q lettes, and are completed by Sultan
g sleeves, which are really capes, of whicl
v the sleeves form part. The entire wral
It is usually lined with gay plaided surah.
s Dark indigo blue India silks will agail
II be useu Tor morning GOWNS Int ue"es
e designs are white flowers, thistles c
le grape clusters, or stripes of yellow, green
IS white or red, placed two inches apart j
ie clusters of two narrow lines with Law
Ie ender stripe between.
:. A curious fact is that seventeen clerk
'r in the Senate of the new State of Wash
Ie ington, a majority of them-niue-ar
women, and there is but one who carrie
ID Mrs" before her name. The same rul
10 holds goods with the House, majorit
a of its clerks being ladies.
X Velvet ribbons are used lengthwise
= trim skirts. An effective way is to taste
le them at the belt then allow them to droo
u in loops below the hips, where they al
" tacKed, and drop thence to the foo
nc where they are finished with forked enc
T. or are fastened to the hem with lars
=, rosettes.
,a There is a curious law in vogue 4
90 Switzerland which compels every new
he married couple plant trees shortly aft'
the marriage ceremony. The tre
IN ordered to be planted on wedding da
ora +ha ,,ina and ,UaaninO willow {