The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-07-29


Tea color Is the favorite tint for fash
ionable laces.
Black and gold is favorito combina-
tion for small bonnets.
A birds wing Of diamonds affords an
effective hair ornament.
Blonde hair is improved by being
crimped little in the back.
Black melton is considered the best
and finest material for riding habits.
Miss Charlotte NJ Younge, in her
sixty-seventh year, is writing her 1O1st
book.
The summer bell skirt is wider and
fuller than the original model of the early
spring.
The tendency is again for gold Innings
in silver cups, bowls, cream jugs, aud
the like.
The eEmpress of Japan excels in play
ing the "koto,"a a japanese instrument
like either.
The Queen Of Italy docs the most diff
ficult pieces of Italian and German com.
posers on the piano.
Lady Macdonald enjoys the reputation
of being the most accomphsed converse
sionalist In Canada.
There is a startling rumor abroad to
the effect that beturbelowed white petti-
coats are coming in again.
Heavy cords and milliners' folds arc
used by French and English designers on
plain skirts of silk or satin.
The gifted Queen of Roumania is cell
ebrated among her subjects for her fine
playing on the harp and piano.
OF belts there is an unlimited variety.
Leather belts, Russia, crocodile skin,
and Suede, are In many designs.
The latest freak of fashion puts revers
and sleeves of shaded feathers on the
light cloth jackets for outdoor wear.
The new fashionable envelope IS not
only long and narrow, but very long and
very narrow, not at all pretty, though it
is stylish.
A unique finger ring is solid dia.
mond heart, surmouuted by diamond
crown. This double design also figures
as a brooch.
Paris milliners sell half dozen wells
with each hat. The newest fashion is
that of the tiny embroidered rosebud on
a black ground.
Emma Abbott's cremation dress was
$4,000 one, and the veil which covered
her face was SO strung with gold threads
that globules of gold were found in her
ashes.
Steel tape measures that coil up inside
a circular shaped silver case. and are
marked by 4 thumb slide, are numbered
with elegant little conveniences enjoyed
by both sexes.
Catherine Weed Barnes, niece of
Thurlow Weed, resides at Albany, N.
Y, and is recognized as the leading
woman amateur in this country in the art
Of photography.
American women are getting to have
a mingled look of English and French
women-the superb Indifference of their
English sisters and the exquisite trim
ness of the French.
There is nothing romantic about Ida
Lewis. She once saved the lives of two
sailors in storm at Narragansett Pier,
r. l., and received gold medal, She
now works in restaurant.
Mrs. Jenness-Miller advocates plenty
Of sleep for the preservation of womau's
youth and good looks. 1t is her custom
to take every fifth week of and do moth
ing but sleep, nap and lie around.
''Four things are required of a wo-
man, say the Chinese, "that virtue may
dwell in her heart, that modesty shine on
her forehead, that geutleness flow from
her lips, and that work employ her
hands"
Mrs. W. c. Whitney and Mrs. LcviP.
Morton have laces worth from $50, 900
to $4,000. The Belmont laces are al
most priceless. Mrs. Marshall Roberts
and Mrs. Bradley Martin have exquisitely
fine, choice and rare laces.
The eccentric Wall street operator,
Mrs. Hetty Green, who is popularity re-
puted to be worth something like S40,-
900, 900, has q daughter now about
eighteen years old. There is also son,
to whom, Mrs. Green declares, she will
leave the bulk of her fortune.
London now has number of women
of aristocratic lineage who are il trade
as milliners or dressmakers. The pioneer
of them all is Lady Granville Gordon,
who six years ago opened little shop in
Park street. Her capital at the start was
only $3.50, but she has been remarkably
successful.
So the doctors are rebelling against
skirts that drag. They say that women
and children are bringing all sorts of dis
eases into the house via the pestilential
train. One family physician recommends
that the dresses be thoroughly brushed
and disinfected after each wearing.
Miss Emily Dickinson, whose poems
have been published only since her death,
is said to have left 800 manuscripts of
complete poems and fragments of nearly
as many more. Her shyness amounted
almost to a mania, and her late years
were spent entirely in her own home,
but she loved children and had a habit
of lowering gifts to them from her win
dows.