The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-10-14
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Danish gloves in four-buttou lengths
are in demand.
Twenty-Five newspapers In Kansas arc
edited by women.
Lawn tennis continues to lose favor
with English women.
Naples, Italy, has woman editor in
the person of Matilde Serao.
A dress reform crusade has been be-
gun by the women at Chautauqua.
Some of the models for dress bonnets
for next season are absurdly small.
Poland has produced some of the
brightest women which the world holds.
Women professors aud women lectur-
ers are to be added to the University of
Michigan.
A New York paper says tho perfect
woman should be five feet three inches
high and weigh 130 pounds.
A woman, Miss Ormerod, is tho con-
suting entomologist Of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of Great Britain.
There are to be two new plays brought
of them arc by New York women.
A hospital for women has been opened
at Sitka, Alaska, by DR.. Clarence TIL
wing. 1t is the first in that country.
Women iu Sweden have now obtained
official permission from the Government
to be received as pupils of apothecaries.
English women have returned to
square-toed shoes, but the Piccadill7
pointed toe is still preferred in America.
The young women who adorn the fash
ionable seaside resorts have become won
derfully proficient in the art of whis-
Ting.
The finest diamonds in the world are
owned by Nine. Andre, of Paris, and her
black pearls are also considered beyond
all comparison.
The day census in the city of London
shows that there are now so, ,416 women
engaged in the city during the day as
against Al, 179 in 1881.
The Polish Countess Branicka is called
the "Queen of Sapphires" because of
full collection in the world.
The Indian women in Arizona have
ceased to be picturesque since they began
to wear fashionable dresses, shoes, stock
ings and all the paraphernalia.
Miss Susan NJ. Duncklee, of Newton,
Mass, the only woman treasurer of a
bank in that State, has resigned after
seventeen years of brilliant success.
One of the largest dairy farms in Iu-
diana is carried on by Mrs. Laura D.
Wooley, of Ellotsvillc. Last year she
sent 10, 900 pounds of butter to market.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the famous whistler,
has demonstrated the fact that whistling
even is hereditary. She has four daugh-
tiers, each one of whom inherits her pc
culiar talent.
All women who have earned the dis
tinction of becoming notable personages
are to have their portraits in the Photo
graphic Gallery of the British Museum
of Portraits.
Miss Nanette Mcdowell, grand -daugh-
ter of Henry Clay, lives with her father
in the old Clay homestead of Ashland,
one of the most beautiful and romantic
places in all Kentucky.
Helena, Montana, boasts of young
woman who is made of the right sort OF
material. She is very successful mem
Der of the bar, and is also the secretary
of large lumber company.
Annie B. Saunders keeps a paint shop
in Eighth avenue, New York, and makes
q good living at the business. She mixes
the colors and oils, looks after the cash,
and takes orders, employing men to fill
them.
Miss Curzon, of the Toronto (Canada)
University, has been acting as assistant
public analyst since her graduation in
1889, and at the same time pursuing her
studies at the Toronto Woman's Medical
College.
Miss Mary Proctor, the daughter of
Richard A. Proctor, has inherited her
fathers tastes and aptitude for astronom-
ical science. and frequently contributes
articles upon those subjects to the peri
odicals.
Mrs. Richardson, wife of DIR. T. G..
Richardson, was given 500, 900 for the
purpose of building new medical col
lege in New Orleans, on site which was
recently purchased by the Educational
Board for S35, 900.
Fauleiu Kuutson was lately chosen
cantor, organist, aud bellringer in little
town named Holland, near Gothenberg,
in Sweden, by great majority OF votes.
Petitions were presented to the King to
declare the election invalid, but he has
finally confirmed it.
Miss Charlotte Nichols, of Empire
City, Oregon, can use rifle in way
that would do credit to any masculine
sportsman. She has a record of having
slain several deer this season, aud recent.
ly she shot a bear that crossed her path
while she was out horseback riding.
Among the old-fashioned colors which
are appearing again is snuff brown.
Maize-colored muslin organdie, and
chambery gowns are trimmed with snuff
brown laces, surahs or chiffons, and
gloves, hats and parasols are fast turning
snuff color, now that fall draws near.
a Vienna despatch says that "there is
q great demand for women physicians in
Bosnia, the Moslem women refusing tc
be treated by male doctors. The Aus
trian Government is engaging all the fe.
male graduates of the medical school at
Zurich to locate in Bosnia, guaranteeing
their income up to certain figure"