The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-09-16
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Photographs come on buttons.
Poplin petticoats are novelty.
Dogskin gloves are having a run.
Belts of perforated silver are worn.
Black tea jackets are very popular.
The water-lily bonnet is the newest.
The serpent ring grows in popularity
Cotton dresses are to be seen in mum
bers.
Uncle Sam has seventy.fve women
lawyers.
Twenty women have become members
of Chicago bicycle club.
White embroidered dresses and Ro.
man sashes is a costume affected.
China crepe shawls are in summer what
the fur shoulder cape is in winter.
There are 270 women ordained or
licensed to preach in this country.
Startling changes in fashions aud
styles are now promised for next winter.
The only woman, with the exception
of Mrs. Grimwood, who has received the
Royal Red Gross, is Florence Nightin-
gale.
Miss Olive Buchanan, United States
Deputy Marshal at st. Louis, is the only
person of her sex now holding a position
of that kind.
Miss Hattie Porter, of Hartford, be-
comes the richest women in Connecticut
through bequest of 5000, 900 just re-
ceived under the will of Solomon A.
Porter.
The English Royal Princesses have set
the fashion for sisters not only to dress
alike when they are unmarried, but to
continue to do SO after having become
wives.
The longest hair in the world is said
to belong to a young woman in Gaines
vile, Texas. 1t trails on the ground
over four feet, and is of beautiful red
gold color.
The Empress of Germany is loyal to
the Fatherland to the extent of having
all her dresses made in Berlin aud Vienna.
She buys her hats in Berlin aud 'oaly her
gloves comes from Paris.
The New York girl who lost her en-
gagement ring in wash basin only to
fnd it two years latter in the gutter,
where it had been washed from an open
sewer, had meantime been married and
widowed.
Mrs. Mackay has fallen a victim to the
craze for hyphenated names. She is no
longer plain Mrs. Dhckay, known all the
world over without initials or prefix
she is now Mrs. "Hungerford- Mackay,
at which English people smile.
A novel and pretty thing in silks is
the sprigged mery--a black ground
which is powdered with tiny blossoms or
sprigs in colors; with one covered with
little sprays of pink heather piquan
little bonnet of blacklace and heather
might be worn with good effect.
Mrs. Ewing, an authority on cooking,
says that cooking pays women better
than many other occupations they fol.
low. "Half-a. dozen churches in Kansa
CITY," she adds, "each paid one for
course sum greater than the average
school-teacher can earn in year."
The ex-Empress Carlotta, of Mexico
now resides in large country house
near Laekem, the royal suburb o.
Brussels, where her brother visits hel
two or three times every week. He
chief recreations are reading and music
There is no trace of her former insanity
When the oldest daughter of the pres
ent Car of Russia is married she will
receive as a wedding present the superb
set of opals which the Czarina of tn
late Emperor Alexander II. always wore
she asserted, to prove the luaccuracy o
the old superstition that opals were un
lucky.
Nine. Leon Bertaux, the Frencl
sculptures, is one of the most arden
champions of her race in France. Al
of her leisure is given up to the wei
! fare of the female art world in Paris
|, The "Union of Women Painter an
Sculptors," in Paris owes its existenc
and prosperity to her efforts.
Mrs. Mary White Martinot, mother (
the actress, Sadie Msrtinot, has patente
) in seven countries steam washing mi
chine, gas stove, foot bath, an il
cream freezer and clothes dryer, and sh
uldkSS utI WIN OWh hhhh
e She has taken dozen first prizes an
y her inventions altogether have proved
great success.
1T Long, wide sashes of China silk,
y satin and of surah fall to the foot of Il
T. gown skirts in summer costumes. Th,
are fringed out at the ends, or hea'
p fringe is sewed on or ruffles of lac
o Roman sashes and scarfs are woT
:, Broad lace scarfs are used in mantil
style for head and shoulders or drap
is around the waist to knot and fall
/ sashes.
y New dresses of white English ser
- - for the country, for mountains and Sc
e shore alike, are very simply made, a
,s are kept white throughout. Their tri
= ming is white silk braid a third of
- inch wide, tubular or basket woven, P
" on in frogs, in disks or bombes, as t
- French say, or else wider white Here
u les braid is used in parallel rows
graduated widths.
One plan of the woman managers
the Worlds Fair is to form clubs in
large dry goods stores in the cities. ?