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


cases than they were last winter.
A library has been opened in Phila-
delphia for Jewish working girls.
The late Mrs. Charles Crocker, of San
Francisco, left fortune of about
| $40, 600, 900.
All sealskin garments are now shaped
to follow the lines of the figure, yet are
not tight-ftting.
Dress skirts for misses just in their
teens should extend TO within two inches
of the boot tops.
Jennie Flood, the daughter of the
bonanza king, is the wealthiest unmarried
woman in California.
The young Empress of the Germans is
having 1900 diamonds set Eleven pearls
will relieve their brilliancy.
Velvet will be the material for winter
wraps and for the polonaisc, which is
again favorite Of fashion.
Feather and fur trimmings will be
much employed on dresses; the former
for silk and velvet, aud the latter for
cloth ones.
John Hicks, United States Minister TO
Peru, writes home that the Peruvian girls
are very pretty, and that the men are
very gallant.
The wife of General Lew Wallace is
herself a writer of more than usual
ability. She is a tirelcss worker and an
expert at proofreading.
Miss Addic Hamilton. Just appointed
by the President a Notary Public in
Washington, is the second woman ever
holding that position there,
Sealskins are now dyed darker shade
than formerly, and the skins are care
fully shaved and thinned, so they may be
better adapted to the figure.
Prince Beatrice played the pianoforte
accompaniment to NJ. VOLTS violin when
that brilliant artist appeared before the
Queen of England recently.
Miss Helen Gladstone, Vice Principal
of Newham College, Cambridge, Eng
land, looks more like her famous father
than does any other of his children.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is an honorary
member of the Authors Club of New
York and the only writer of the gentler
sex connected with that organization.
A fan, a walking stick, a hat and a
bonnet frame, an easy chair, hair
comb, a corset. an omelet and dance
bear the name of Edison. Such is fame.
Golden brown and fcelc gray are
beautifully combined in tailor-mado car
riage costumes of royal armure and
ladies' cloth of exquisitely fine texture,
The mantles this year are either long
or appear to be so, for those that are
short at the back have very long ends
completely covering the front of the
dress.
The Dowager Empress Victoria, of
Germany, sold some New York city
bonds not long since at public sale. The
original insignia was stamped on each
bond.
A Washington admirer of Mrs. Cleve-
land, while in Winchester, Va, the other
day, purchased a mahogany sideboard
100 years old and sent it as a gift to Mrs.
Cleveland.
Mrs. Burton n. Harrison, one of the
Century writers, was Miss Constance
Carey, Richmond belle during the war.
Her husband was Jefferson Davis's pri-
vate secretary.
The sleeves of both sealskin and cloth
coats are put in very full on the shoul-
ders, to admit of the puffed sleeves. The
broche wooden material are the favorites
for the long mantles.
The fashion of weaving ribbon through
coarse net has extended to underwear.
Petticoats are made of coarse cotton net,
being made firm about the lower portions
by Intervening of braid.
The catogan braid, which is the favor
ite style of head dressing at present, is
particularly suited to young girls. But
the old girls should wear it, too, as it
makes them look much younger.
A very pretty style for a cloak is of blue
cloth, with coat back and long tabs down
the back. The loose fronts are shirred
at the waist, the straight sides are en-
broidered in gilt braid fastened with gilt
buttons; similar embroidery trims the
sleeves lengthwise, as also the cuffs.
The engagement or lnvincible locket,
as it is also called, is worn from a light
neck-chain and falls out of sight beneath
the bodice. These lockets are thin, fiat