The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-05-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Blue is very popular color.

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favor.
Big black straw hats are shown for
children.
Ladies who have discarded petticoats
grow in numbers.
A large proportion Of jackets are made
of pale gray cloth.
The close clinging English skirt is
liked for tailor gowns.
Plaid ribbons will be used for the gar
niturc of summer dresses.
Black round hats are worn extensively
with dresses of all colors.
Butterflies and Brazilian bugs hover
over many of the flowers.
Masculine fashions are adopted by the
women again this season.
Embroidery is used for trimming mus
lin, silk and cashmere dresses.
For walking costume soutane cloth
of military blue is very stylish.
A band of ribbon tied with a bow
around the wrist is a new fashion.
Queen Victoria is sufferer from rheu-
matism which has become chronic.
Both chip and Neapolitan braid bon
nets will be much used this summer.
Some of the flowers seen on the new
bonnets are an impossibility in nature.
The tailor-made jacket and vest all in
one has started in to be very fashionable.
All purple, heliotrope and mauve
shades are exceedingly fashionable Just
at present.
A black fan of turkey feathers is con-
sidered chic with the most delicate even
ing toilet.
1t is a popularity of the bonnets this
season that the smallest are said to be the
most expensive.
Eyebrow brushes are about as odd
caper as could be imagined. They come
with embossed silver backs.
If you want to seem tall and COM
manding carry white parasol and wear
a white hat or white aigrette.
Ornamental hairpins now include bees
and butterflies of the very natural looking
kind that come only from Paris.
The Countess of Waldersee is the
daughter of James Lee, once we'll
known grocer in New York city.
Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, has a very unique collection
of gold enameled and silver spoons.
In the Scotch tartan dress goods, the
small inconspicuous patterns are held by
the dressmakers to be the most elegant.
Nine. Patti sleeps with a silk handker-
chief round her neck. She uses very
salty gargle of cool water every morning.
A strong reaction has set in against
the soft, clinging, lackadaisical cloths
that came in with the Oscar Wilde ,raze.
Old-fashioned silver pocketbooks in
the form of shell, such as our grand
mothers used to carry, have come back
again.
Lady Dufferin says that the English
are rapidly spelling the exquisite taste OF
the East Indians in dressing and in dress
fabrics.
Mousquetaire gloves comes in all the
new and beautiful shades, and the ones
with the greatest number of buttons sell
quickest.
An English literary statistician has dis
covered that of the 562 heroines in last
years novels 372 were blondes and 100
brunettes.
Mrs. Stanford, wife of Senator STAN
ford, adds charity TO her other virtues.
She supports nearly a score of kinder
gartens for the poor of San Francisco.
The will of the Indiana man who left
SS5, 900 to found home for old maids
has been declared invalid by the court,
the testator having been of unsound
mind.
Buy black straw hat, put band OF
Partisan or Turkish embroidery about
the crown and skewer it with a couple OF
silver-headed pins and you have a spring
| bonnet.
The Princess OF Wales takes lively
interest in hammered brass work, an art
in which she herself is proficient, and
which is taught at her school in Sand
ringham.
Bodices and basques, finished with
side effect, whether double breasted OF la
Russo, suggest the pretty rosette or bow
of ribbon pinned on the shoulder or col
lar under the ear.
A very unique fan is on exhibition in
the window of a London store. II is
made of human hair exquisitely worked,
and what seems to be lace fringing on
the sticks is also hair.
At rough estimate there are 1900
young ladies in the musical circles of
New York society, according to we'll
known conductor, who "fddle well
enough for orchestral work"
White toilettes will be in vogue this
summer; green is unquestionably Ia
mode; brown is the poets color, and the
yellow tints, particularly baize, primrose,
apricot and cameo are on the top wave OF
popularity.
A body can buy right pretty dress
pattern for $40, in silk or wool, but the
making and FINDINGS" cost $50 and the
bit of fur about the skirt and reverse
S16. Verify well-dressed woman is a
dear delight.