The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-04-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Glalu rlDDOnS are III AhSnlOudOle lhNOI.
Even poplins come in fancy plaids and
clan tartans.
The fancy tartans come in silks for
visiting gowns.
Surah silks will be restored to favor
for spring toilets.
Sir Edwin Arnold, the English poet,
isquoted as pronouncing the japanese
women "semi-angelic."
Many of the new sultings brought out
for tailor gowns have fringed borders in
a contrasting color on one selvage.
Straight sashes of three-inch padded
silk and angel sleeves of gauze are char
acteristics of very novel house or party
dress.
The Juror for plaids this season re-
ceived its first impulse from the tartan
cloaks and gowns made for the Duchess
of Fife.
The directory styles, with some varia-
tions and accessories, will be as popular
this spring as they have been for the last
two seasons.
Pretty cotton, merino and challie
cloths have printed borders along one
selvage that will work up neatly for
house gowns.
The late Empress Augusta left Queen
Victoria a splendid gold bracelet con-
tanning the words "For ever" set in
precious stones.
Iowa is the banner State for women
educators. Fourteen of the State Su-
Ar ,,,A thc
of the teachers are women.
Barred, plaided, checked, and striped
mohairs and alpacas come in all the color
combinations seen in the wool tartans
and zephyrs of this spring,
The new mohairs and alpacas are more
lustrous than those of last spring, and
they come in all the new colors that are
seen in other spring fabrics.
Miss Louise Meyer, of New Orleans, is
the latest Southern writer for the
magazines. She is only eighteen, but
shows talent of high order.
Mrs. Marshall Field, wife of the Chi
cago dry goods millionaire, keeps a lady
secretary, whose sole business is to dis
pense the private charities of her mis-
tress.
Mrs. Stanley Brown, who was formerly
Miss Mollie Garfield, is now living very
quietly in Washington with her husband.
The only house she visits is Secretary
Windows.
Street gowns grow more and more
quiet and Puritanical in effect. The re-
verse is seen in house gowns of all kinds,
for dinners, teas, at home in the after
moons or evenings.
The Dowsger Empress of China takes
great interest in the development of
the Celestial Kingdom, and spends a
great deal of her time in consultation
with railroad projectors.
Mrs. Calvin S. Bricc, wife of Ohio's
new Senator, was before her marriage a
teacher in the public school at Terre
Haute, Ind, while Mr.. Brice was a strug-
Cling young lawyer at Lima.
A woman who, like Charles Dickens's
Jenny Wren, made her living by dress
ing and repairing dolls, recently died in
St. Paul, Ahnn. Hundreds of her little
friends are mourning for her loss.
New cheviots have dotted stripes aud
stripes of broken lines in clustered
effects Then there are tarlan and striped
cheviots in all the clan tarlan and new
fancy French tartan combinations.
Lady Paunceforte, wife of the British
Minister, is setting the Washington
women an uncommonly good example in
the matter of walking. Perhaps she may
yet make exercise and health fashionable
Light spring woolens, beiges, mohairs,
light ladies' cloths, camels' hair serges
and nuns veilngs, of heavier quality
than those worn last year, flood the retail
dry goods counters and are selling
rapidly.
Mohair glace in two tones or two
colors will be more worn this spring than
last, while those in pure shades of Eiffel,
gray, biege, reed green, navy and deep
sea blue suede and tan will be as popular
as ever.
Heliotrope and black are introduced
with fine effect in new fancy tartans of
French. importation, the other colors
ranging through all the rust and Eiffel
tower reds, the new greens, blues and
Vellows.