The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

guise, and a pretty kind is studded with
large interviewer spots.
One OF the liveliest and most success
full drummers out West is Miss Ellen
Green, who travels for paint house.
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation of Chicago propose to build an
addition to their home at a cost of |
$40, 600.
The beautiful and gifted Queen of
Roumania, better known as Carmen
Silvia, is threatened with permanent loss
of health.
One of the most beautiful of the popu-
lar shoulder capcs recently seen was of
black ostrich feathers, quilted and lined
with satin.
Many of the fashionable women of Lon
don have their wraps, ulsters and seal
skins lined with Scotch plaids, which is
the "Fife craze"
White washing petticoats are some
times made of the finest China silk, and
embroidered flannel ones have deep flut-
ings Of torchon lace.
Among the luxurious sealskiu gar
ments recently imported is the Russian
rid.ng-cloak, which is lined throughout
with silver-fox fur.
A SMALL close bonnet, with crown OF
heliotrope passementerie, has n bow of
looped reseda velvet formed like a Cath
crime wheel in the front.
Mrs Astor, wife of the New York
millionaire, says that well-bred women
are learning to dress more and more
plainly every year in public places.
Brown furs are in high favor for small
garments, capes, cuffs, etc The long
ileeced cinnamon bear and the darker
grizzly bear are especially favored.
Some of the newest brocadcs show
black velvet leaves in relief on colored
grounds, with another satin-brocaded
leaf coming from beneath the velvet.
Mrs. John f. Gordon, of Cunning
County, Neb., has ten thousand cocoons
ready for shipment as the result of her
first seasons experiment in silk culture.
Miss Bertha Millard Brown, of RoX-
| bury, has won n State scholarship at the
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is the first woman who has done so.
There are at present two dental col.
| leges in Philadelphia which admit wo-
men, but, strange to say, only few
American women take advantage of the
fact.
Miss Maude Banks, who essayed the
stage few years ago for a couple of sea-
sons with slight success, is now the pri-
vate secretary of her father, Congressman
n. p Banks.
Mildred Fuller, the Chief Justices fifth
daughter, is blonde, with large blue
eyes and golden hair that lies in short
ringlets over her head. Her cheeks have
brilliant color.
Mrs. Ellen Swallow Richards, the only
woman instructor in the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology, has charge of the
water analysis of the Massachusetts, State
Board of Health.
Ms. Frank Leslie is overwhelmed
with the conviction that the luxurious
chambers which young city bachelors
can now provide for themselves are dis
couraging to matrimony.
A new model shows a rich indoor dress
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border of tan-colored leather, embroid-
cred in iridescent beads. The same trim
ming is used on the bodice.
Fichus and boas of bearskin and Alaska
sable are imported in the new fiat shapes
fitted close to the throat, with two long
V-shaped ends, to be worn with Direc-
toire muffs of the same heavy fur.
A pretty gown of late design has ont
of thc~ new long, narrow buckles whicl
! curve into the figure, the material being
drawn down from the shoulder in becom
ing folds into the buckle in front.
! The first woman graduate of a New
! York college was Miss Emily Schettler
: now deceased. The alumne of these in
stitutions number over 200, which dem
onstretss the increasing demand 70
q women doctors.
. Many of the fashionable "plaited'
4 skirts are not plated at ALL but strips ol
folds are laid, overlapping each other or
4 the skirt, so as to afford opportunities 70
: the introduction of contrasting materia
!. in a simple way.
d There are sixty-fve thousand womel
e III America interested III Ine CulJlNdtioI
e of fruit, and among them are some of tn
). most successful orchardists in California
Last year one woman made profit {
i. $1,000 by raspberry culture.
Many of the elegant newmarkets c
4, sealskin are wholly untrimmed, but tn
10 Iooser surtouts with flowing sleeves hay
h borders of sea otter, lynx, black marter
n or Russian or American sable. An eds
,e of sable is frequently placed along tn
h. wide collars and cuffs of sealslin wraps
OF A japanese nun is decided novelt
&c in a Roman Catholic convent. Hoy
X. ever, young japanese lady belonging
at one of the highest families in the Mix
h, dos Empire, aud who has recently bee
OF much admired in Munich society, W
as take the veil this month to enter Bava
lie ian nunnery.
d, A Russian girl, eleven years old al
pit SIX feet eight inches in height, has be-
he on exhibition in London. She grows
he inch every two months, is awkward al
he shy, plays diligently with her dolls,
nn good and affectionate, but is given b
~ character for obstinacy by her uncle, W
has charge of her.
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