The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-04-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN,

Female BARRIERS increase.
Skirts are severely plain.
Irish poplins are in demand.
0mbre plaids will be largely worn.
New York City has a female lock-
smith.
The Empress of Japan is a scholarly
woman.
women's vests are to be a feature next
season.
There are 200 women preachers in this
country.
There are about los women to every
100 men.
Printed pongees will be largely favored
for spring wear.
Thirty per cent. of Americas females
are working
Blazers for women will be much more
elaborate than last season.
1t is all nonsense to assert that ladies
copy the fashions of actresses.
There are in China societies of young
women pledged never to marry.
There is only one sudden death among
women to every eight among men.
Martin C~hattoway, formerly custodian
of Shakespeare birthplace, is dead.
Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the ex-Presi-
dent, is taking lessons on the violin.
Spring fashions are promised to be the
most beautiful and stylish ever seen.
Cloth cloaks and gowns are much
trimmed with iridescent passementaries.
It is considered bad form in England
for women to do much talking at dinner
parties.
Czarina is the name Of a new, soft
shaggy cloth much resembling French
camel's hair.
A bath lined with Mexican onyx and
costing $4,000 is a feature of a, Baltimore
woman's house.
Feathers beneath the brim are to be
seen on some of the new hats, and very
pretty and becoming they are.
A titled English lady has set up a
laundry on her husbands estate in. Dor
setshire, and is doing a profitable bust
ness.
There is a girl at one of the London
Gngland) music halls who plays eight
musical instruments, including from
bone.
The women are in the majority in
Mexico, Mo. The census just taken shows
that the town has e552 m1es and 2703
females.
Among foreign dress fabcics for spring
wear to be introduced this year are
named toile d'emballage aud chevron
melange.
A number Of wealthy New York ladies
propose to establish sort of club house
which will receive women at all hours of
the night.
An adroit arrangement of hair prevents
the silver ines from exhibiting them
selves on the head of the beautiful Prin-
cess of Wales.
A bright little woman said the other
day that if she had to choose between all
the gifts of beauty she would choose a
beautiful complexion.
Straw mats are TO De OF EXTRAORDINARY
shapes and styles next summer One
begins to laugh already looking at adj
vance fashion plates.
England has more women workers
than any other country, in proportion to
the population; twelve per cent. of the
industrial classes are women.
Whether fashionable or not, the fact
remains that wigs and false hair are worn
now more than ever by women who are
to be CLASSIFIED as fashionable.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley's manner is
gracious and gentle, and her perception
keen. She exercises much tact in her
intercourse with men and women.
The Queen of Madagascar formerly
took the sacred bath, an annual cere,
mony, in the presence of the public, but
the progress of civilization has changed
the custom of the royal lady.
Mrs. Anna G. Fall, who was recently
admitted to the bar in Boston, Mass,
has entered into partnership with hus
baud, and they are now petitioning the
State Legislature to change the law for,
bidding contracts to be entered into be
tween man and wife.