The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-25
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

larger.
Colored stones arc coming more into
fashion.
Masculine fashions are raging among
the women.
Now we are having tartan surahs for
summer silks.
Full wreaths of flowers without foliage
encircle many toques and turbans of vel
vet.
A velvet facing is used with summer
roses and blackbird wings for trim
ming.
Veilings with black velvet dots are
worn to initiate the "patches" of bygone
times.
The fishing dress is now an accepted
fact in the summer wardrobe of many
women.
Queen Victoria's stock of India shawls
for wedding presents has become ex-
hausted.
New tailor-made bodices of striped
material have the darts taken in the lin
ing only.
Married women wear the smallest pos
sible bonnets, young girls the largest hats
they can find.
Little pads are used to support the top
of fur sleeves made up of the softest
woolen goods.
Bonnets are stnngless, or they have
mere strips for strings-but strings, like
wells, are optional.
The tendency to snowy fower-laden
hats is so great as to tax the milliners to
supply the demand.
Black Leghorn hats trimmed with
wreath of buttercups or daisies are worn
by the smallest girls.
Velvet forms part of many or most
summer hats and bonnets, or it trims
them, mingled with flowers.
The latest New York caper is to array
pet dogs in the choicest of floral blooms
when taken out for an airing.
Many open lace patterned woolens will
be worn. They are very pretty, being
wholly or partly transparent.
All new jackets are longer than those
of last year, and are fitted more closely
about the hips and in the back.
Accordion plated lace capes are
trimmed with bands of ribbon and have
ribbon bows and shoulder straps.
The University of Basle is the only
one in Switzerland which still refuses to
admit women to its medical teaching.
The newest "woven wind" tissue is of
,No1a x-o1lOtr- eiIly ,r,,NI IL
takes the name of "sunbeam gauze."
Little girls wear accordion plated
dresses, the blouse and sleeves, as well as
the skirt, being made of the plating.
The embroidered nainsook gown is as
much in demand this summer as last for
girl graduates and commencement wear
A plating of black lawn underneath
the hem of the skirt, so that it cannot be
seen, is a great protection to walking
dress.
OF the more than 1000 students who
have Joined the volunteer movement for
foreign missions about one-quarter are
women.
The money annually spent for cosme-
tics by the women of this country would
paint II, 1000 houses, allowing SIS for
each house.
Some American and many English
mothers insist on short, very short skirts
for all their daughters under fourteen
years of age.
Except for very young children, the
+ Greenaway bonncts have given place to
large poke hats of soft felt, heavy with
ostrich plumes.
Mrs. Langtry says: "a woman of the
deadest white skin, with light blue eyes
and pale blond hair, becomes a poem
in a yellow gown"
The Duchess of Albany, widow of the
Queens invalid son, took a regular
course as hospital nurse, and has just
received her diploma.
In Denmark most of the girls are
trained in agriculture, which is there an
important industry. The owners of farms
receive pupils who undergo a regular
training.
"Marion Harland, " the author, is Mrs
Mary V. II. Terhune in real life. She is
the wife of Brooklyn clergyman, and is
tall woman, with gracious manners and
dignifed presence.
Mrs. Mary j. Holmes is one of the
most indefatigable travellers among
women authors. She has recently com
pleted years tour of the world and is
now going to Alaska.
The beauty spotted veil is tremendous
success. There are not more than three
spots in veil, which can be shifted
round so as to locate the black disc of
chenille on the chin, cheek or forehead.
Little butterfly knots of bright rib
bon are considered chic tied about the
handles of parasols, along the sleeves of
null and lace dresses, and perched on
the shoulders at the belt, and diagonally
across the corsage of summer dresses.
Women inventors appear very often
on the Patent Office records, and one of
them who succeeded in pushing through
an improvement in an eye glass spring is
said to have made a very comfortable
fortune by the capitalization of her ideas
in practical form.
The two principal prizes in landscapes
given to the British Royal Academy stu
dents have been taken by women, and a
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