The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Blue and black is fashionable combi-
nation.
The Duchess of Fife has a reputation
for making butter.
There are women on school boards in
six cities in Norway.
Mrs. Watts Hughes has made a dis
covery by which the voice can be photo
graphed.
Mime. Patti, it is said, has an iusatia-
BILE appetite for stewcd prunes, which she
eats for her complexion.
Alpaca gowns are made up with jacket
bodices which open over very full vest,
and with plain, straight skirts.
Two rows of satin piping folds, of the
old-fashioned kind, we're noted upon
recently imported London gown.
Two hundred thousand unmarried
women and girls are said to be employed
in various trades in South London.
Among the recent importations of pas
sementeries are skirt fronts, petticoats,
borders, Figaro jackets and sleeves.
Mrs. Emma p. Ewing, the lecturer on
cookery, says that Americans are sadly
ill-educated in the philosophy of the
table.
Some very handsome tiuts of heliotrope
have appeared among the lightweight
woolens, faced cloths, fancy suitings
and silks.
A novel finish noted upon the edge of
a large hat of white Italian straw was a
buttonhole stitch embroidery in black and
yellow silk.
Flat gold braid or galloon, from one
third of an inch to two inches wide, is
used TO trim many of the new gowns of
velvet or wool.
The new parasol is made with a hollow
handle which serves as a receptacle for
hairpins, a powder rag, vinalgrette, pen
Gil and what not.
The newest capes of black lace have a
yoke and Medici collar of velvet or ben
galine, of any preferred color, from
which the plated lace falls nearly to the
waist.
Mrs. T. Sheppard, of Ventura, CAL,
is successful florist and seedswoman.
She has been in the business seven years,
and now has over five acres in seeds,
plants and bulbs.
The fact that the Princess of Wales
wore a gown of a beautiful shade of
golden olive at the Queens recent Draw
ing Room will be likely to render yet
more popular this favorite color.
Skirts of Scotch plaid silk, in quite
gay colors, are being imported. They
have two pinked- out frills at the foot and
may be worn as petticoats, or as matinee
skirts to wear with fancy jackets ol
blouses.
Many new foulard gowns have the
sleeves and part of the waist of cream OF
back guipure net or embroidery, the leg
of-mutton sleeves being either trans
parent or made up over silk of the pre-
vailing color of the foulard.
Miss Elaine, one of the Goodale sis
ters, has been made Superintendent of al
the Indian schools in the State of Soutf
Dakota. She has already had al
abundance of experience at General Arm
strong's school at Hampton, Va.
DR.. Helen E. Webster, of Lynn, Mass.
has been recently called to fill a vacanc!
in the English department at Vassar
She is one of the three women who havI
received degree of doctor of philos
ophy from the University of Zurich.
Among the new handkerchiefs are t.
be seen some very dainty ones made Q
hemstitched, Vienna cambria, one corne
having the appearance of being turne,
back, and on this piece a disk resem
bling large seal is wrought in white o
colored silk.
About 6,OOO,O 900 of women are er
gagged in British India in some descriI
ton of classified work-roughly, littl
less than one-third of the entire femaI
population, which includes, of course
an enormous proportion of infants an
young girls.
Ladies who are fond of novelty wi
wear cloth coats of gray blue, light ste
green or the delicate Parma violet shade
with garnitures of gold, copper or silvC
braids, ana either metal or pearl buttons
the latter being used to fasten the ga
ments, instead of serving as mere orn
ments.
The foster-mother of the little King
Spain is Maximina Pedraga, handsol
brunette from the province of Santana
When chosen from among the thousar
who competed for the post she was
poor that the natives at Heras, her matt
place, had to subscribe $40 for her jo
ney to Madrid. She is now worth
fortune, presented to her by the ro
family.