The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-10-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

A morning dress should never be elab-
orate.
1t is not now good form to wear many
rings.
Good kid is the latest thing for evening
shoes.
Dress is very cloud" in London this
season.
Canvas dresses for outing are favored
5v ladies.
A Maine lady possesses a slipper 175
years old.
just $50, 900 women are married yearly
In England.
Figured lawns are usually made up over
colored silk skirts.
There are only sixty-six new shades is.
sued for autumn gowns.
Sunset glass is the most unique thing
Tor table ornamentation.
Velvet ribbon is much used for trim.
ming organdies and summer silks.
The easiest way to clean rubber over.
shoes OF oven boots is with vaseline.
The use of curling irons is thought by
some ladies to induce the growth of the
hair.
Beautiful gauze ribbons, In checks and
plaid, are selling at third less than
cost.
Flowers become more and more part
and portion of home necessity and deco
ration.
Now there are lounge robes made Of
silk, very after the cut of the masculine
garment.
A strawberry about three times the size
Of the original fruit is the newest device
in menu cards.
A new song entitled ga Revere" was
composed by Mrs. Henry I. Spooner, a
Boston society woman.
The smallest waist of any woman in
fashionable London is said to measure
eighteen and one-half inches.
A daughter of the late Hon. Henry j.
Raymond, editor of the New York
Times, is a practicing physician in this
city.
Miss Elizabeth Strong, the painter OF
animals, burned her hands in Paris last
year and has not been able to resume
work.
Mrs. Mary Wing, of Fayette, Mo-,
eighty years old, does the washing, cook.
ing, sewing, knitting, etc., for family
of four.
The orchid is copied for brooches, but
jewelry of this kind is only considered to
be properly worn by women of rare and
strange beauty.
All the "swellest" floral decorations
made in London during the season were
the work of two lady florists, Mrs. Nor
ton and Mrs. Green.
Rumor has it that Julia Ward Howe
is emulating the late Horace Greeley in
the matter of handwriting. 1t is not
every printer that can read it.
The sweet pea has been the favorite
flower in London this season, especially
one in new shade of pink, which is
called the "Piincess Beatrice"
Narrow ribbons of fine quality are
now used to finish the bodices of dresses
at the back rather than the wide sash
which has been so long favored.
A portrait on ivory of Mrs. Fremont
in her youth, a valued memento of
General Fremont's, was placed on his
breast at his death and buried with
him.
The newest wrinkle in parasols is one
which conceals in its curved handle the
ever useful glove buttoner and powder
puff. They are within a box which
opens with tiny spring.
Someof the elaborate skirts are made
with deep flounces of beautifully woven
lace OF embroidery, which being pro.
tected from wear can be removed when
the garment needs laundering.
Louise Abberna, a gifted French
painter, ambitious for the ermine OF
Rosa Bonheur, wears male attire, and
has grace of manner and speech that I
Chesterfield might have inspired.
Waterville, Penn, is proud of several
things, among them ladies' orchestra,
in which the little fiddle, the big fiddle
and the horn are all manipulated har,
moniously by maidens young aud fair.