The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-02-04
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Fans are always in fashion.

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on the lecture platform.
Some of the new steel-blue shades arc
very trying to the complexion.
Pretty coat scarfs 70 replace the silk
handkerchief are made of bright plaid
surah.
The Queen Regent of the Netherlands
has a face which is the picture of ami
ability.
A novelty in misses rings is set with
a pink heart. shaped pearl within a small
horseshoe.
Although not exactly new, spaneled
fans are shown in large varieties and will
be much used.
Biue-gray aud leather-color are oddly
combined in visiting dresses of bengaline
and camel's hair.
Perfectly plain dresses rule the street
and the sensible women protest against
the slightest trail.
Saturday is becoming the fashionable
DAY Tor entertainments, receptions and
teas In both Washington and New York.
Women have adopted as a permanency
the calf skin shoe, and now there is talk
OF starting a feminine boots in business.
There are now 200 regularly ordained
women preachers in the United States
where forty years ago there was only
one.
The Princess of Wales is the Oueen,s
iavorite daughter-in-law, and has ALWAYS
been most a~tfectionately regarded by her
majesty.
Mrs. Blaine is the tallest of the ladies'
of the Cabinet and Mrs. Noble the
shortest, the latter being only five feet
in height.
New bangles have a single large pearl
strung on a delicate gold wire, or three
or four smaller pearls threaded in the
same way.
Miss Helen Gould, daughter of jay
Gould, is an accomplished botanist and
owns the rarest private collection OF
orchids in the country.
Brown fur is much used for the small
fur garments, such as Henry ". peler.
ines, cape collars, with stole fronts, boas.
colicrettes and muffs.
Mrs. H. Mckay Twombley, of New
York, is said to own the finest furs of
any belle in that city. She has one
mantle of Russian sable which cost $40
900.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the New York
wall street operator, is a person re-
garded with respect, not to say SUPER
stitious awe, by every railroad magnate
in the country.
Miss f. A. Gray, who has taken the
degree of LID, at Dublin University.
IS one of the two women in Europe TO
De honored in such manner. The other
Miss Washington, of Belfast.
Queen Victoria is reputed to be worth
$40, 600, 900. She receives for the civil
annually from the nation the sum of
~, O95, 600, and once, some forty wears
'go, a kindly disposed subject left her
Il, $50, 900.
The first captains license ever granted
n Pennsylvania to a woman was received
few days ago by Mrs. Clara G.. Locke,
Linwood, who will now command the
team yacht Clara, which is owned by
Ter husband.
Miss Florence Pullman, the palace
magnate's eldest daughter, is a pref.
y brunette of twenty-five. She is tall
has a dignifed presence and bear.
lg. She speaks French and German
uently and is q fine musician.
Lady Florence Dixie, who is one of ,
ne most eccentric women in England. is ,
nd to have a head like a handsome bow.
lie mounts her horse like a man-no
ne can ride better-and carries he,
ress reform convictions into her draw, !
~ room. )
Miss Adelina Patti Baird, a god. .
lughtel Of the opera singer and daugh. !
r OF a rich English iron founder, has a i
ring of pearls collected from the DAYS b
her ~babyhood. One of her first gifts ]
a number of fine unstrung pearls, :
ID to these have been added Others
on time to time by parents and rela.
yes, until she now has a matchless
The great rage of the season is fol-
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e chin or hanging down the back in
'atlng streamers. Black ribbons and
llte ones and all the new malarial col
that would look like mistakes if they
'ren't so stylish. Collarettes OF piece
lvet, shaped to Git the neck and match
e bonnet, are worn, and are sometimes
nged with pearls or bordered with
amonds,
Queen Amelie, of Portugal, is now
nost restored to health. She is the
ettiest and most fascinating of the
ladies of Europe. She is tall
d has a graceful figure aud a charm.
ely expressive face, with a look of ~
illness in the eyes that relieves the i'm. "
sssion of strength given by the chin. m
+ ears and hands are remarkably OF
all. The Spanish have a proverb o.
ieh says, "Small ears, great mind" o.