The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-10-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN.

Vests remain in favor.
Almost all skirts are worn plain.
Dallas, Texas, has women notaries.
Carmen Sylvia writes her verses in red
ink.
The Princess of Wales has thirteen
wigs.
Florence Nightingale has just com.
pleted her seventieth year.
The white wells of embroidered lace
are lovely to look at, but hard to see
through.
In Mexico young girls are called little
chickens, and old girls are named old
chickens.
Miss Ethel Griggs, a young American
lady, has achieved decided success at
Berlin as a whistler.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza
millionaire, has a string Of hawless dia.
monds two yards long.
England has a very large society called
the Association for the Assistance of La
dies in Reduced Circumstance.
In Antwerp, a woman has taken a
prize in Flemish literature, which is
offered by the State once in five years.
The girl who hunts has her sofa pill
lows filled with the plumage of birds
bagged by her own little self aud shot
gun.
Milking stools OF white enamelled
wood, mahogany and polished oak are in
great demand for parlor corners and
window seats.
1t is announced that a hospital for fo-
male patients will shortly be erected in
Bosnia, all the medical officers of which
will be women.
The chair of oratory in the University
of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, has been
offered to Miss Norman G. Crawford, of
Minersville, Penn.
Cotton tapestry is the best kind of
covering for couch that is in general
use, being clean, pretty and more dura-
BILE than many stuffs.
1t is rumored among the gay followers
of fashion that the chignon, which was
years ago necessity in ladies' hair
dressing, will again he brought TO light
this winter.
There is a great tendency to use fancy
feathers in trimming toques, turbans aud
capotes, which is probably the natural
outgrowth of the attempt in the spring
20 trim with wings.
It is not generally known that a crepe
veil may be with propriety worn with
handsome white dress. This is more
suitable for ceremonious wear than for
everyday occasions.
Mrs. Wauamaker, wife OF the Post
master General, is said to keep up a
regular correspondence with the $50
young girls who make up her Sunday
school class in Philadelphia.
Madame Rangoni, the famous italian
mountaineer, has recently made an as
cent to the highest peak of the OrlIer
Mountains, which has never before been
reached by female tourist.
The novelty in millinery silks up to
the present is shaded velvet aud satin
antique. Among the noticeable COM
binations are mousse green and laven-
der, and pink with dove gray.
In eighteen months Miss Kate Smith
rose from a 500 clerkship under the
Government to one with $1,000 salary.
She is the only woman chief of division
in the service of the Government.
: Laces are seen everywhere and arc
special favorites. They are found on
dresses, mantles, capes and parasols.
They make a nice border for hats, and
are used not only for trimming but as
chief material.
Mrs. Jennie G. Nixon, of Tennessee,
is professor of rhetoric aud belles-lettres
in Newcombe College, New Orleans. She
is a clever newspaper woman, and has
done much editorial work for the
Southern papers.
Rosettes about the diameter of two
shilling piece are mounted on pins for
the hair. These rosettes are made OF
narrower ribbon than the bows, whereas
the diamond in the midst OF tue double
circle of loops is often larger.
The daughters of the Empress Ere /.
erick, aud sisters of the Kaiser, are at
tractive young women, though not beau
bAAui' 1hOJ hhNO SOOb SDh lIlSAAOu'
and sparkling blue eyes, and resemble
their father more than their mother.
Lillian Cooke, VINO holds a diploma as
a doctor of medicine, has started fol
Corea. She intends to establish a eli,
cal mission for women and children a
Seoul, the capital. Corea is reported t
be showing a marked increase IN trad
and prosperity.
Miss Laura White, sister Of ex-Con
gresham j. D. White, is a professiona
architect in Ashland, Ky. She is a
graduate of Ann Arbor, and was the
woman who solved the difficult mathe
matical problem sent to that institution
from Oxford, England.
The Honorable Mrs. Craven, VIII
died recently in Paris, began to writ
when past seventy years old. After tina
age she made some very intcrestin
books and did newspaper work whic
would do credit TO the intellect of an
man or woman of any age.
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