The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-09-09
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Jackets are shorter.

Girls who clerk In stores in America
are paid but small wages.
The summer handkerchief is cut on
the edge to represent leaves.
There is rumor that furbelowed white
petticoats are coming in again.
"College Songs for Girls" are now to
be had-a pleasant collection.
All the women of the Vanderbilt fam
lily are notable for their good looks.
Women are rapidly making their way
into the faculty of medicine in England.
The women in Prussia, according to
statistical reports, far outnumber the
men.
Miss Frances f. Willard, the temper
ance advocate, says she always rises at
in the morning.
The polka dot isn't round any longer.
Through much use it has become fat
tened into an egg-shaped ball.
There is a good deal of talk with re.
gard to the possibility of a feminine or
chestra in New York next winter.
1t is said that the girl type-writer
stands better chance to get married
than any other working woman.
Gardening, pieno-tuniug and sanitary
engineering are some Of the occupations
women are taking up in Great Britain.
A Bond street tLondon) jeweler says
that at drawing room the Queen
wears at least $3.50, 900 worth of jewels.
1t is shown that, besides matrimony
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cupatons have been assumed by Vassar
college graduates.
A hired girl in Maine invariably puts
pin in her mouth when it is necessary to
peel onions. She says it prevents her
eyes from watering.
An artists rule as to color in clothes
is: Choose carefully only those tiuts of
which duplicate mag be found in the
hair, the eyes, or the complexion.
Professor Harriet Cooke, of the chair
of history in Cornell, has taught ln that
college twenty three years aud has a sal
ary equal to that of the men professors.
Mrs. Henry Clews is by many people
considered the prcttiest woman in New
York. She has lovely face, with bril-
liant eyes, fine complexion and shining
dark hair.
Turquoises are the most fashionable
stones of the day. For hair ornaments
they are intermixed with diamonds, and
half dozen little pins go with each hair
ornament.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is greatly in-
terested in the education of the children
of the poor. Mrs. Cleveland is Vice
President of the New York Free Kinder
garden Association.
Though it is only twenty-five years
since the first college in the United
States was opened to women, there are
10000 women studying in the various
colleges of the country.
Blondes look fairer and younger in
dead black like that of wool goods oil
velvet, while brunettes require the sheen
of satin or gloss of silk in order to
wear black to advantage.
Never before has simplicity been
studied with such artful results. Many
of the charming gowns one sees are ab-
surdly plain and yet despairingly difficult
of achievement by any but the very smart
est mantua- m alkers.
The Princess Stephanie is said to be
fast losing the beauty that made her
famous at the Viennese Court when she
married the Crown Prince Rudolph ten
years ago. She has never recovered from
the dreadful shock of her husbands sui
eide.
More than 5000 ladies in England are
competing for the prizes offered for a
design for the best cycling costume, the
best shooting costume, the best golf cos
tune, the best walking costume, the
best tea gown aud the best outdoor
cloak.
"Shirley Dare" the author of count
less practical articles for housekeepers,
looks more like a poetess than what she
is-a journalist and a writer On domes-
tic topics. She is fair, with soft eyes
and golden hair, and is gentle and pen
sive in manner.
The Sultan has issued decree pro-
| hibiting the ladies of Constantinople
from perambulating the streets in the
Paris costumes they have adopted of late,
which his Majesty condemns as depart
ing from Turk ish tradition and from the
prescripts of the Koran.
Concord, Mass, hal woman guide.
She is Mrs. l.. +. Brooks; has a WELL
equipped livery stable, personally at
tends,all parties, knows every point OF
interest about the town, knows the
genealogy of everything aud everybody,
and makes a most charming guide.
Duck ks.foot yellow is the odd name of
the newest and oddest shade In gloves.
1t is worn with gray gowns. Ducks
egg green is another new shade, the
London taste at the moment running to
ducks exceedingly. Pale helIotrope, pale
pink aud lemon are worn with evening
! gowns.
The salaries Of women clerks in the
public service at Washington are, with
few exceptions, equal to those of men in
similar positions. Two women in the
, Treasury Department, Miss Van Vran
ken, of New York, and Miss Seavy, o
Tennessee, receive $500 a year, which
they have earned by twenty-five years o.
> service. Miss Tanner has the same sal
ary, and five others in the same depart
/ ment receive $1,000; three have Sl400
, a hundred have from 5000 to $1,000.
No Paupers in Servia.