The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-03-12
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

A womsn's club is still a novelty in
England.
Red or some shade or of any shade con-
tinues favorite color.
The divided or bifurcated skirt is OK
periencing great popularity.
The Japanese style of wearing the hair
with jeweled pins has not yet died out.
Women organists are employed in some
of the leading churches Of Buffalo, N. Y.
The medical profession is said to yield
larger income to women than any
other.
Queen Amelia, of Portugal is said to
have placid and very sweet face, like
the Madonna.
A fashionable toque is of reddish
brown velvet, the crown covered with
holly berries and leaves.
Some of. the novelties in fans show
tinted feathers arranged as orchids, tulips
and in other flower effects.
A very pretty bonnet for demi- dress
can be fashioned with black lace and let.
with strings and pompon of amber.
Jennie June, the noted newspaper
writer and correspondent, is sixty wears
old, although she looks much younger.
In Bengal, India, at the last primary
scholarship examinations, eight out of
twenty scholarships were awarded to
girls.
The Princess of Wales has a pet dog
whose collar bears the inscription,
"Johnny belongs to the Princess of
Wales"
At Kalamazoo, Mich, the Rev. Carrie
j. Bartlett celebrated New Years Day by
marrying her first couple. The Rev.
Carrie is a Unitarian.
The Minitter of Public instruction in
Italy has given an express order that all
the doors of the art schools in that coun-
try shall be open to women.
Plain, straight skirts are waning. An
other moon will see full draperies and
good material dragging through the mud
and dust of the public streets.
Anna Franklin in 1882, aided by her
two daughters, edited the first newspaper
issued in Rhode Island. The woman
servant in the family usually worked the
press.
The sudden popularity of the tartan
garments arose from the Fife marriage.
They appear in gowns and cloaks, both
in wool for day time and in silk or purple
for evening.
1t is quite the thing to have decol.
Lotto hadino Of lorl- Il !
at the neck pretty neck. In the
light shades of evening gowns trim
ming is used.
Clara Barton, the famous philanthro-
pist, is a good shct with either rifle or
shotgun. She has been seen to bring
down two prairie chickens from the first
flush of the covey.
The light-colored kinds of artificial
hair come from Germany, except the drab
and ash shades, which are furnished bv
Sweden. Nearly all the various shades
of dark hair are imported from France.
A late redingote has a broad box
plat on either side of the front extend
ing from the shoulders to the edge of the
skirt, widening from the waist down.
and similar plaits on each side of the
back.
The town of Plymouth, Penn, has a
novel society in its midst. 1t is known
as the Young Ladies' Protective Associa-
ton, and its primary object is the pro.
lection of the matrimonial interests of
the young women of the place. Girls
between the ages of seventeen and thirty
are eligible. No woman can be admitted
over the age of thirty.
The most popular types of embroidery
now employed in the decoration of
dresses are the empire and renaissance,
which are both expressed in floral de-
signs, but differ in that the former is
limited to certain leaves and small flow.
ers arranged in straight rows, while in
the latter the blossoms and foliage are
very much conventionalized, comprising
sweeping scrolls and arabesques.