The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-06-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

light colors.
Velvet is the favorite finish for light
wool gowns.
Mushroom and leather shades lead in
Neutral tints.
Connecticut has but one woman law
yer, Miss Mary Hall.
A novel favor is a Brazil nut in bisque
for holding perfume.
Toques are so small they fit the head
almost like jockey cap.
The newest gold embroideries are sup
posed to come from Cairo.
Victor Hugos only daughter is an old
woman in lunatic asylum.
Suede gloves in old rose shades are
worn upon dressy occasions.
Some of Philadelphia's fashionable girls
are expert with boxing gloves.
Over 40, 900 girls attended the cook
ing classes in England last year.
Plaid percales, sateens and challies
appear among other tartan stufIs.
Julia Ward Howe is the best Greek
scholar Of her sex in the country.
Plain and brocaded mohairs are effec-
lively combined in some new gowns.
The high front trimming on capotes is
preferred, and it is the most becoming.
Bonnets are almost covered with
wreaths and sprays of flowers this sea-
son.
Black satin bids fair to be the mate
rial generally preferred for summer petit
coats.
Handsome buckles and clasps are in
order with the belts of every description
now so much worn.
The light, soft wool goods worn by
gentlemen in the summer make pretty
skirts for little boys.
Ribbon velvets are, ifpossible, used in
greater profusion than ever. Some Of
the newest show plaided effects.
A useful bodice to wear with skirts of
black satin, silk or lace, is of black Chan
tilly lace and pink ribbon velvet.
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman gives away
$4,000 every year to various charitable
institutions in and about Chicago.
New modes for fashionable house
toilets show brocade in Louis XVI. de-
sign combined with silk or velvet.
Upon cloth toques the fur trimming
may be either light or dark, but is
usually selected with view to contrast.
Pretty shoulder capes of white cloth
are laid in side plaits on the back and
shoulders with double-breasted revers
fronts.
The Medici collar and some of the dis
tinctive features of the styles of the
Louis XVI. and XIV. periods are now in
vogue.
The Queen Regent of Spain is an early
riser, and takes cold water bath winter
and summer. She is very fond of games
of chance.
Rosa Bonheur, the best known living
female artist, claims that she has painted
her best pictures since she passed the age
of fifty years.
Miss Flora Woodward Tibbits, of Ann
Arbor, is the first woman in Michigan>to
apply for admission to the bar of the
Supreme Court.
A pretty wrap consists of alternate
capes of gray and white cloth, with
pointed edges braided with gold, and a
deep white collar.
The efforts being made to establish q
hospital "manned" by women, and for
the exclusive treatment of the sex, are
surprisingly successful.
Miss Henriette Markstein is a young
lady in New York city who devotes her
talents and time to giving entertainments
for the benefit of the working classes.
A broad, low forehead is an attribute
of beauty, according to the latest arbi-
tration, and front hair is cultivated to
grow down about the forehead and tenn
! pies.
There are over 900 widows on the
pension roll of the Exempt Firemen's AS.
sociation of New York city, each OF
whom draws $50 year. There is $3.50, ,00C
in the fund.
Abby Burgess, now Mrs. Grant, has
had charge of the Matinious light north
of the Penobscot River for twenty eight
years-at first as assistant, but was given
full charge in 1866.
Miss E. p. Otis, the newest of New
York's women editors, is described as
being beautiful, five feet four inches tall,
with light hair and pretty figure. She
is about twenty-four years old.
The Chinese Minister has consented t.
allow his wife to mingle with Washing
ton society, but as she speaks no Eng
lish and society speaks no Chinese, tht
benefit to either party will be small.
1t has become the fashion in Chicago
for men to buy their wives's bonnets
The milliners like the change, and sa'
that as a general rule a man displays bet
ter taste than a woman in these matters
"Carmeu SYLVIA" the RoumaniGl
Queen, is said to be an illustrious epi
cure. She has invented number o
palatable culinary compositions and oc
casionally cooks a dish for the King will
her own hands.