The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Velvet Is much used.

Velvet Is much used.
Loose-ftting gloves are the latest.
Turquoise jewelry continues fashion.
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Brooklyn has a new colored woman
doctor.
England has a woman's Agricultural
School.
The honeysuckle is a popular design
in silver.
victoria's crown jewels are worth
$4,000, 900.
Electric pins have become a fad of
English women.
Chicago colorcd women have formed
a Worlds Fair Committee.
The daintiest brooches for summer
dresses arc those which take the form of
flowers.
Bracelets to the number of three or
four are worn, not as bangles, but close
to the wrist.
Green leather card cases and purses
are fashionable, also dull red any color,
indeed, but black.
Finger rings showing threo rows of
gems, five in each row, give, when en-
the finger, the impression of three FIVE
stone rings.
A favorite bracelet with horsewomen
consists of curb-chain, ornamented
with pair of snafflos and diamond
horseshoe.
A taste for the exquisite china and
wide, shallow cups affected by the EN-
press Eugenie has come in with the En-.
pire gowns.
An attempt is being made by Nine.
Bclloc in London to establish a home for
the dying poor, who have now no shell
ter save the workhouse.
A collection of 1000 butterflies, all
bred from eggs, has been given to the
New York Museum of Natural History
by Mrs. NJ. Schuyler Elliott.
Rare specimens of the orchid, faith.
fully represented in enamel and mount
ed in gold or silver, are worn in the
hair or used to fasteu the corsage.
There are in the United States, Canada,
England and Scotland thirty-four
women's missionary societies, and they
have 1897 missionaries in the field.
The new gauze parasols destined for
anything except to shade the face have
gilt frames. One of green gauze has
heavy cluster of roses dropping at one
side.
The Queen of Denmark is an expert
dressmaker and q good pastry cook. Her
daughters also are all clever needle.
women, and so is her sister, the Czarina
of Russia.
Copper bronze is to be the fashionable
shade of hair this season. What it will
be next season cannot be safely an-
nounced until the new colors are de-
cided upon.
, Mauve and silver gray are being we'll
worn for evening in place of the tan
shades so long popular. Two-button
gloves are finished with short stiff
gauntlets about two inches long.
The colony f-'raod by the followers
of folktoi in Russia have been reinforced
by anumber of ladies of high rank, who
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and live like tho peasants around
them.
The popular red parasol, effective,
dressy and bright as it is, has decided
drawback. While it gives a most becom.
ing tint to the cheeks, it adds the same
rosy tint to the nose, which is not at all
desirable.
1t is reported to be fancy of the
fashionable girl that after wearing her
long suede gloves three or four times
she takes them to a shoemaker and has
made from them pair of slippers for her
chosen admirer.
Hesrt-shaped brooches, the Stuart
heart pierced through with an arrow and
the Douglas heart, are the dearest love
tokens in the world, and, If they are set
in frame of diamonds or snowy pearls,
perhaps the costliest.
Virginia is to have woman's college.
A real estate syndicate OF LynchburR
has offered the Randolph Macon College
twenty acres of land, with $40, 900 cash
and $50, 900 in bonds, provided an en-.
dowment fund of S100,0 900 is raised.
That