The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Tho Princess of Wales wears q No.
shoe.
Buckskin undervests are lined will
satin.
Pearl and tan CATERS continue to b.
worm.
Very small handkerchiefs are all the
style.
P%ocketbooks are almost square in
shape.
Black silk has returned to popular
favor.
Luxurious petticoats are on the in
crease.
Cape wraps of fue cloth are highly
favored.
A fantasy has sprung up for necklaces
Of colored stones.
There are dainty little fobs especially
provided for ladies.
The Lady Guide Association in Lon
don is a great success.
The collection of spoons is a recog.
nized taste of the day.
Oklahoma has decided to allow women
to vote at all elections.
Five women Health Inspectors have
been appointed in Chicago.
The catogan braid is a favorite for
mula in artistic hair dressing.
Two-face satin ribbon is used for pur-
poses Of household decoration.
Seven American girls are in residence
at Newman College, England.
Some of the new steel-blue shades are
very trying to the complexion.
Gray aud canary yellow are a new CON-
bination and a very effective one.
Salem, Oregon, boasts of a girl eight
years old who weights lao pounds.
The Queen of Roumania is writing a
story for a syndicate of newspapers.
A 'peanut party" is one of the latest
entertainments invented in Canada.
Tortoise shell hairpins, set with dia.
monds and turquoise, are fashionable.
Senator Quay's second daughter has
gone to Berlin to complete her educa-
ton.
Twenty-eight per cent. of all the stu.
dents in the University of Michigan are
women
Even watches are put into mourning,
the works being transferred from gold or
silver to onyx.
The Marquise de LAMA is reputed to
be one of the best dressed literary women
in the country.
Pretty Pompadour ruchings retain
prestige with ladies who appreciate their
becomingness.
Mrs. Plat, wife of the ex-senator of
New York, has 16, 200 photographs taken
with her kodak.
Watches run small to medium in size,
and there is a marked tendency toward
decorative cases.
B~lue-gray and leather color are oddly
combined in visiting dresses of bengaline
and camel's hair.
Coral pink is one Of the prettiest
shades IN millinery. 1t combines well
with black velvet.
The bridegroom's wedding ring is be-
coming of quite as much Importance as
the brides from a fashionable point of
view.
The number of women who avail them
selves of the co-educational privileges
offered by Michigan University is con
stautly increasing.
Tea balls are bidding for favor. One
little moss-like marble is tossed into the
teapot and hot wator poured 10, in o
jiffy there Is tea for two.
The coming button is said to be one
of cloth or passementcrie, aud a Berlin
authority predicts that it will monopo-
lie the market in the spring.
Miss Laura Burns, of Martinsyille,
Ind, has a head of natural HAIR seven
feet in length. Miss Burns herself is
only five feet three inches tall.
The stylish new coats are what are
called the three-quarter ones. They are
military in effect, being tightly fitted
and trimmed with frogs aud cords.
Among watch chatelaines the novelty
is a small affair that expresses itself in
form of a flower or other motif, and
which is fastened at one side of the cor
sage.
Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott and his sis
ter, Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, have
undertaken a full account of the life and
education of their fathers deaf, dumb
and blind pupil, Laura Bridgman.
Blanche Wakefield, who with her sis
ter, Ethel, has been playing with sue
cess in Paris, recently performed on
the violin on the highest platform of the
Eifel Tower, and was heartily APP
plauded.
A shoe dealer says that girls between
sixteen and eighteen have bigger feet
than after twenty-four. The foot is
feshy at that time and large, but as years
ONE the foot decreases and the muscles
grow more firm.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde, Mrs. Alma Tadema
and several titled ladies in London have
an organization to supply tasteful and
well-made outfits for children and u
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