The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-02
NEWS ANDINOTEs FOR WOMEN.

Broad trimmingSlaces are again used TO
edge hat brims.
A multiplicity ofseams is the rule for a
modish corsage.
Mrs. Evans Gordon is winning great
praise in India as tiger-slayer.
The success of costume depends just
at present on the hang of the skirt.
And now there is black ice-cream
Turkish prunes being used for the color
ing.
Louise Abbema, a French painter,
wears male attire and is very much of a
dandy.
Gowns of black canvas grenadine, COM
bined with dark plaid silk, are likely to
be very popular all during the summer.
The Princess Beatrice is an accom-
plished pianist, and the Princess of Wales
has taken the degree of Doctor of Music.
Philadelphia has within her limits
probably from twenty to twenty-five
women who are worth million or
more.
A cloak that Miss Letter, of Washing
ton, wears is valued at $500. 1t is of
white silk, and covers her from throat to
dress hem.
Lace is used in great abundance to
trim lightweight silks, and either
matches the main color running through
the fabric or is black.
Enameled furniture with landscapes
"painted by an acknowledged artist" is
seen, and, we are assured, is "just the
thing for the country house,
The polonaise continues to grow in
popular favor. 1t is made of camers
hair or some fine wool goods, and worn
over separate skirt of silk.
The present London season surpasses
its predecessors in the number of beauti-
ful women-English and American-and
in extravaganza in dress and functions.
The Rev. Anna Shaw is one of the best
speakers in the service of the Woman's
Temperance Union. She was for time
pastor of church on Cape Cod, Mass.
Roman sashes, which every few years
come into fashion again, are revived for
the coming summer. The genuine sash,
''just from Rome" is not a cheap article.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, of New York city,
is not yet thirty years of age She has
cottage in Newport worth $3.50, 900 aud
an income of S1S2, 500 a year, or $500
day.
Large picturesque collars accompany
many of the new handsome demi- toilets
and tea gowns, which term now definitely
includes particular style of dinner
dress.
Pale mouse-gray and bright shade of
golden brown, that is almost terra cot
ia, are combined in carriage and visiting
costumes of India cashmere and royal
armure.
Pauline Marie Elizabeth Wedde, a
Thuringian giantress, is good looking and
of handsome, well-proportioned figure.
She measures about eight feet four inches
in height.
Something new in japanese fans is in
the shape of square box, which bangles
from the wrist by silk cord. Push a
spring and the whole affair opens and
forms fan.
Many of the stylish wool gowns have
loose waists of folded silk, belted and
wove with Kendall coats that have open
fronts, cut without darts, and jersey-it-
ting backs.
Miss Belle Smith, recently appointed
resident physician at the woman's prison
in Sherborn, Mass, is but twenty-three
years old. She has been practising medi-
cine for two years.
The experiment of a ladies' choir, the
members of which were arrayed in violet
surplices and trencher-caps, at the Mel
bourne (Australia) pro- cathedral, has
proved disastrous failure.
The two wealthiest women in Phila-
delphia, both widows, are said to be
Mrs. Thomas II. Powers and Mrs.
Thomas A. Scott. They are worth be-
tween Sc, 900, 900 and, IS, 900, 900 each.
Mrs. Mary Miller, the wealthiest
colored woman in Western Pennsylvania,
is dead. Her income was 5000 day.
Four years ago all she owned was a
barren piece of ground. But there was
oil beneath it.
A unique Tuscan straw is toque with
brim of fine large "basket work" leaves
pointing toward the front, the points of
the side too standing forward and up
like wings. Striped lisse bows form the
trimming.
A rather effective street mantle for day
wear has a perfectly tight-ftting cloth
jacket underneath, while from each
shoulder hang pleated folds of cloth, not
meeting in front or behind, but allowing
the figure to be seen through.
Time was when fashion for beauty wore
her court plaster cut heart shape aud
glued to her cheek or temple. Now La
Mode scissors a circular disk, which is
placed between her lower lip and chin as
near the center as it is possible to locate
it.
Though eighty-nine years of age, Miss
Aurora Ensor, of Withycombe, Devon,
England, continues to take class twice
every Sunday. She began teaching when
only fourteen and can hardly remember
missing a Sunday since the school has
opened.
A large proportion Of the plumes worn
by the ladies who attend the Queens
drawing rooms in London, are hired from
a shop which makes business of rent