The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-11
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Pond-lily is the latest tint.


The fan-shaped sachet is a novelty.
The bonnets of the season are small.
Jet nail-heads or cabUchons are sure of
being in style.
There is wOmau's brass band in
Glenville, Ohio.
Dona Amelia Cardia is the first woman
doctor in Portugal.
Hats trimmed only with ribbon de.
mand generous quantity.
Bleached cows tails are used for loop
ing back heavy portieres.
A single woman runs Bearmont
PENN livery and boarding stable.
Gold key rings are among tho little
favors sent to brides and grooms by poor
but elegant friends.
Brown University has decided to adj
NIT women to its classes ON the same
conditions as men.
Arizona has a woman mining expert
IN the person of Nellie eastman, a beau
tiful brunette, only twenty years old.
Oscar Wilde says that the secret of the
charm OF the American women is that
they behave as if they were beautiful.
A commendable tendency to tighten
the weight of wool fabrics is noticed in
the importations of winter dress goods.
A Kansas City man has been compelled
to pay a fine of $50 for kissing the hand
of beautiful lady who objected to the
familiarity.
Nine. de Valsyre, the noted French
advocate of woman's rights, handles the
foils with great skill and is fond OF
steeplechasing.
There are 10S ladies now serving
as poor law guardians in England aud
Scotland, aud the number OF women
elected to this position increases every
year.
In London a new wrap now very fash
ionable is the "mariue cloak" 1t is
made of blue, brown or black cloth, and
has three tiny capes edged with gold
braid.
Some new travelling bags are made in
fine Macintosh cloth, applied to firm
bYt lightweight leather. Fire gilt aad
brass trimmings are used instead of
nickel-plate.
The new cult known as the "Society
for the Promotion of Spinsterhood" is
fourishing in England, and is devoted
to proving the superiority of the single
over double blessedness.
Seven girls have passed the requisite
examinations at Brown University, and
i'll foir tl,o Il
under the privileges of the coeduca.
tional law recently enacted by the cor
poration.
Miss May Collender, a shining light in
New York society, enjoys in connection
with her social distinction that of being
the most gifted amateur singer in New
York, for such competent judges have
declared her to be.
Jean Ingelow is now a gray-haired
little old woman of sixty-three years.
She is kind friend of the poor, aud at
regular intervals gives them what she
calls copyright dinners" from the pro.
ceeds of her books.
Among the women's clubs in New
Jersey is one that has named itself "The
Sparrows," because the members live on
the crumbs that fall from the big clubs
tables. They have the second reading
OF the papers from two or three large
clubs in the State.
Young lady ushers were pleasant in
novation in concert room practices at
Maysville, KY, for Mile. Marie Decca's
concert. Mile. Decca was originally
Miss Mollie Johnson, Maysville beauty,
and the pretty ushers were her young
lady home friends.
The indiscriminate slaughter of sea-
'gulls which formerly characterized the
shooting season at Marlborough, the
well-known promontory on the Yorkshire
coast, is not so common this year, one
reason assigned being that the fashion
lof wearing sea birds feathers is dying
out.
Chill must be very expensive place
in which to live. A lady's board costs
from $50 to 500; dress silk from Sc to
$50 the yard, and the modiste will
charge you from $50 to $50 for making
it. As much as $12 a dozen has to be
paid for linen haudkerchiefs and S1S foI
a pair of button boots.
Women seem to have it all their own
way in a Sinaland parish in Sweden.
There is female teacher at the school, a
Ipostmistress, female organist and fe.
male secretary at the savings bank. In
addition there is female tailor, a female
bookbinder, female shoe maker, fe-
male butcher and female baker.
In Washington there is a young
woman who has hothouse in which she
finds not only play but profit. Last
year she sold 100000 violets, and OBJ.
tanned good prices for every one. This
year she hopes to be able to give up her
place as clerk and to devote her whole
time to raising these fashionable flowers.