The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-08-06

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
has graduated S67 women since its or
ganization.
Sprigged and spotted net over shot
silk promises to rival in favor the black
lace dresses.
Russet shoes are worn to much larror
extent than ever before by both ladies
and gentlemen.
The stiff Oxford sash will be worn as
finish for the neglige waist so much ad-
mired just now.
Tennis players of both sexes are wear
ing silk shirts. They are worn with
skirts of any material
A young woman of the Harvard Col
lege Annex won the Sargent prize for a
translation from Horace.
1t is stated that Georgia's female
butcher can clean and cut up more hogs
than any man in her county.
Brown plaided surah over darker
shades of brown surah, plain, makes a
nice dress for outdoor sports.
Short, curly locks are the style with
both elderly and young ladies. Tresses
are freely sacrificed nowadays.
Babies and very little girls still wear
the granny" bonnet of shirred silk, lace
or null in pink, blue or white.
Butterfly wings of black and canary
colored crush velvet roses trim small
black lace toque very effectively.
Gold dog-collars have taken the place
of the massive porte bonheur bracelets,
so popular for the past five years.
Yellow is in great favor this season.
A light bit of it on hat or gown bright
ems the toilet in remarkable degree.
One of the prettiest little dresses ex-
tant is of sky blue China silk trimmed
with rows of very narrow white vel
vet.
There are fully 500 women in Chicago
who ride bicycles. There is an average
of one woman rider to every twenty
men.
Now there is fat woman's club in
New York city, and the members sit
around and sip obesity tea aud eat
nuts.
A lady in Apoka, Fla, has used the
same needle for seven years. She saws
she would sooner lose dress than the
needle.
Tennis blouses, silk shirts and flannel
waists are laced. The cord has been
abandoned and small pearl buttons sub
stituted.
Mile. Bilbisco, Roumanian lady, is
soon to be admitted to the Paris bar. She
will be the first woman to achieve that
distinction.
Country dresses in strip ped flannel or
polka-dot sateen, with white vest of In
dia silk, catch the eye in all the sub
urban resorts.
Hemstitching on some handkerchiefsi is
done in colored threads, but so delicately
as to give not more than faint suspicion
of colored border.
Short-waisted and fanciful bodices pre-
vail on most little girls dresses, and
skirts are full and straight and either
gathered or pleated.
A lively Maine young woman has de-
veloped much skill in snaring Maine
song birds, and does quite business at
caging and selling them.
A well-known London lady of rank
has just had pair of ten-button gloves
made in which each button is a dia
mond. The pair cost 5000.
A feature of little girls dress skirts is
that they are invariably long enough to
touch the ankles, thus the wee misses
look like tiny midget women.
Many new gowns have their most
prominent features borrowed from old
fashions, such AS the position jacket,
gauntleted sleeves and high, short waists.
United States Minister TO Austria
Grants pretty wife has a valuable Bull
garian girdle of carved and jeweled sill
yer which she wears with all manner of
toilets.
Miss Ida E. Bowser, who graduated
from the Department of Music In the
University of Pennsylvania, is the first
colored female graduate and an accom-.
plished violinist
Honeymoon trips are no longer pro-
claimed as they used to be, and nobod,
knows where the bride and bridegroom
go to pass the first few weeks of W. b.,
that is to say, "wedded bliss"
Ancient fans had long handles, so tina
ladies used their fans for walking sticks
and 1t was by no means unusual for testy
danes 20 chastise unruly child rem b,
beating them with their fan sticks.
Fine little zephyr gingham dresse,
are made with full, straight tucked skirt,
low-necked and short-sleeved bodice
worn over a guimpe of fine white needle
work, and are tied with sash of the
gingham round the waist.
The Russian Minister of War has made
a concession to the ladies by issuing al
order prohibiting cavalrymen from wear
ing ordinary spurs at balls. Hencefortl
they must either wear blunt spurs, if il
uniform, or go to balls in civilian dres
( without spurs,