The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WoMEN

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Beach tan is now the fashionable color,
Archery is again the most popular pas.
time.
The ends Of velvet bows are now cut
square.
Flannel dresses are the most worn BY
young girls.
Women are eligible to school Offices In
sixteen States.
fJenny Linds grave is covered with
resh flowers every day.
Princess Mary of Teck is one of the
prettiest girls in England.
Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
Queen Victoria, of England, is in favor
of Sunday music for the people.
Nearly 15) women are buying aud sell.
ing real estate in Superior, Wis.
Miss Grace McDonough, of California,
is pretty girl with SO, 900, 900.
The Archduchess valerie's wedding
dress had train fourteen feet long.
The ladies of Chicago will receive and
entertain the Federation of Women's
Clubs in 1882.
The Misses. Emily and Georgiana Hill
have started school of journalism in
London, England.
Clara Morris, the emotional actress, is
great lover of birds, aud has a regular
aviary at her home.
The very English girls along the
Hudson and about the bay wear white
duck yachting suits.
Rosa Bonheur claims that she has
painted her best pictures since she at
sained the age of fifty.
Deep girdles, well boned after the
peasant bodice, are put on the new toll
cts of white and figured silk.
Sweet-pea blossoms, white and col
bred, real and artificial, are the popular
decorative flowers of the moment.
Gold bracelets made of satin gold and
fastened with small padlocks are very
fashionable and equally expensive.
One of the prettiest dress patterns for
all round wear is black India silk
lowered with pink and green posies.
The "robe" dress is shown in hand
worked trimmings and hand-painted
velvet for the cuffs, collar and brelettes.
Mrs. Theodore Irving, the founder Of
the order of Kings Daughters, is the
widow of a nephew of Washington Irv-
ing.
A new impetus is given the cape,
which appears in all styles of creamy lace
and net, and also in ermine and lambs
fur.
The favorite flower of the Princess of
Wales is the Alexandra orchid, which
was named for her soon after she went to
England.
Miss Juliet Corson is obliged to sit in
IN invalid chair while she directs andil-
.ustrates her methods of cooking before
her classes.
The most stylish sleeve is the full
bishop, made with loose slip wristlet
one inch wide and banded just above the
elbow with two-inch ribbon.
A young woman in Florida has lust
lied in untold agony from the results of
bite of an insect which was concealed
N bunch of flowers she wose at her
leck.
Beautiful white toilets for receptions
md dinners are made of the finest and
ichest of China and India silk scattered
over with tiny white silk buds, leaves or
rose sprays.
A fancy is shown for velvet bands on
white null and flannel dresses. Generally
/ Grecian or scroll pattern is worked on
;he black ribbon velvet with metal or
white cord.
A bill making women eligible to the
office of notary public has passed the
Dakota Legislature, and Mrs. @. s.
rhorp, of Britton, mas received the first
commission.
The board of education in Columbus,
Ohio, has decided that hereafter there
shall be no difference in the salaries paid
to men and women who are teachers in
public schools.
Fine Irish point lace, in pure white
IN pale beige tints, is made use of for
oonnets, for evening drives, and is also
much used on sailor and garden-party
nats of Neapolitan braid.
As many as three or five rows of tiny
buttons are seen on bodices, and they
ire also plentifully on cuffs, collars and
coat tails. These coat-tail basques will
be the thing for all fall suits.
The first colored graduate from the
Department of Music of the University
Of Pennsylvania is Miss Ida Z. Power.
She is an accomplished violinist and has
written several short sonatas.