The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-03-19
.NiFMs ANn NoTEs FOR WOMEN.

s~You can buy yelling now with tinted
cheeks and chin.
Mrs. Mayne Reid is writing a life Of
her husband, the novelist.
There arc $4,000 girls who work in
Boston, not including the servant maids,
Witt tailor-made suits many ladies of
good taste wear collars Of printed per-
Gales.
A new bodice can be worn over differ
ent skirts and has the effect of lengthen-
ing the waist.
Mary Anderson, the actress, is Of
Scotch and German descent. She was
born in California.
None but lustreless wooden fabrics with
crepe trimmings are allowed in fashion
ably deep mourning.
Some professional pianists and many
fashionable diners s-out have their hands
made up by beauty artists.
President Carnot's wife last Christmas
Day gave each of 400 children savings
bank book with $40 deposit.
Cord and tinsel ornaments are GRO
cheted together to make bands or trim
ming for cloth and silk costumes.
Ladies of fashion in Boston, one of the
local papers relates, now wear at their
afternoon teas Egyptian costumes.
The German court ladies have adopted
the Marguerite style of wearing the hair
in long braids. The bang will be banished
also.
Shoddy wants color and variety of
style. Elegance demands neutral tints
and simplicity of cut that cannot be re-
produced.
The feather waistcoat is a rare novelty
and is made entirely of the fine breast
feathers of Trinidad birds. The trim
ming is a costly caprice.
The newest standing lamps have a
small shelf with an upturned edge placed
about three feet from the floor for hold
ing flowers of what fancy chooses.
A large bow of plated crepe lisse,
consisting of two flaring ends caught in
the middle with a tight knot, if well
liked as garniture Tor toques and hats.
A clever Buffalo On. W woman has
been to England, travelled all around
London, and saw everything worth see
ing, in two months trip, at cost of
5000.
The woman who first circumnavigated
the world belonged to Bougainville's S
famous expedition of 1716, which
occupied precisely two years and four
months.
A new combination of color of refined
taste is dove gray and yellow, the color
of gold. This combination is found in
all rich and heavy fabrics and also in
cheaper goods.
An uncomfortably tight shoe may be
mace easy by laying cloth wet in hot
water across where it pinches, changing
several times. The leather will shape it.
self to the foot.
Among the ultra who mourn no flowers,
no perfumes are allowed in the private
apartment save the odor of violets and a
few punches of white flowers, fit emblems
of departed souls.
The Kentucky University, at Lexing-
ton, has Just opened its doors to women,
owing to the efforts of the Kentucky
Equal Rights Association. 1t has now
twenty young women enrolled.
An excellent substitute for crinoline,
which gives the skirts the desired
"standotfishness," are layers of cotton
batting sewed in between the lining and
facing, quilted and perfumed.
Maud Banks, daughter of General N. P
Banks, who has left the stage and is acting
as her fathers Private Secretary in Wash
ington, is a fine German scholar. She
speaks and writes German with perfec
ease.
For softening the hands, take one-hal
cupful of glycerine, one cupful of ros,
water, one-half teaspoonful spirits o
camphor. First put camphor in the bot
tie, then glycerine, which shake well be
fore adding the rose water Apply afte
washing the hands and while still wet
Rub in well then wipe with soft towel
Mrs. Rebecca Collins, Quake
preacher, now eighty-tive years old, ha
been speaking ever since she was twenty
and is still active, travelling and preach
ing all over the country. She started i
Philadelphia the Home for Discharge
Women Prisoners, is Vice President G
the W. c. T. T., and is active in ever
kind of philanthropic work in her hohl
in New York.