The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-12-07
Empire styles are creeping In.


Empire styles are creeping in.
Some Of the cloth cspes are lavish.
Plumes and curling feathers are again
seen.
The "Capucine" robe is a new cos
tune.
Colored lambs wool is one of the
fancies.
Large revers are one of the marked
features.
Ribbons Of all kinds are much used in
trimming.
Cut steel is coming once more greatly
into favor.
sloping shoulders are slowly but surely
returning.
The latest shoes for street wear are
white doeskin.
Miss Mary Anderson is said to be an
enthusiastic fisherwoman.
Rev. Mr.. Pott, an aristocratic New
Yorker, has a Chinese wig.
Three hospitals in Philadelphia are
managed entirely by m
Seventeen American women keep
boarding houses In Paris, France.
The best table for surgical operations
now in use was invented by a woman.
The long, slender, pointed foot IL no
longer considered a mark of blue blood.
Broad AlsatiAn bows of ''satin anti
q%ue,"a kind Of s%oft-haired plush, are
seen on broad brimmed hats.
The Queen Of Siam has the smallest
feet yet seen on a titled woman. She
wear one and a half in boots.
Squares and circles Of white silk
edged with a frill of Oriental lace make
pretty mats for small polished tables.
A three-cornered hat, ''the MARQUIS"
is the new fashionable headgear among
the women of Paris who set the fash
ions.
The Inventive Society of Paris has re.
comfy awarded Mrs. F. B. Mapp, of
Georgia, a gold medal for her invention
of a bread raiser.
There is a club in Boston composed of
women who are all fifty years old or
more. To be "between fifty and a hun
dred" is a condition of membership.
The ex-Empress Frederick of Prussia,
the Queen Regent of the Netherlands and
the Empress Augusta all hold the posi-
lions of regimental chiefs in Prussia.
Mrs. Langtry has returned to the
style of couture with which Americans
were made familiar on her first visit
the low, loose coil on the nape of the
neck.
All kinds of plaided woolens are
shown, besides the striped and corded,
and as for cancels hair, 1t will beyond
a doubt be very popular during the
tall.
In New York City there are $50, 900
women, exclusive of the domestic SER
vice, who are bread. winners and who
are obliged to rely upon their own efforts
solely for support.
The white felt hat with an indented
crown, and at the side a full bow of
white velvet, makes a very pretty shop
ping hat, and serves we'll for an after
noon promenade.
A novelty In wooden goods is q kind of
velvet cloth, which is chamois color and
looks very much like suede kid. In
dark tints it makes quite s~mart-looking
frocks, combined with velvet or satin.
Earrings are no longer fashionable,
and the best dressed women appear now
in public without even the solitaire pearl
or torquoise screw which was the grad.
ual abandoning Of the ornamental ear.
hobs.
The Bernhardt toque, a dainty style Of
headgesr for the fall, makes a very &C.
ceptable head dress for driving and Wis
iting. 1t is made in black velvet, with
colored gsuze twisted in, and quilts at
the side.
Victoris's maids of honor, who are
paid $500 a year for their services,
earn their s~alaries. They are obliged to
appear before theQueen in a new gown
every day, and to be in readiness to at
tend her Majesty at any aud every hour
of the day.
Police matrons in Chicago are re.
quired, by a recent rule, to wear uni
forms while on duty. The uniform is to
be of blue serge, with tight-ftting
basque, double breasted, blue serge but
tons and skirt underlined aud clearing
the ground.
Damask rose crimson aud a bright.
deep cherry color are the ~fayorite tintSs
for torsades, or BOWS of velvet, to brightly
en- up dark hats or bonnets. Pretty
combinations OF these colors are the
cherry with purple, and the Jacqueminot
with heliOtrope.
Rope picture frames are the newest
fancy. Take an old frame aud twist
around it fine hemp rope until it is en-
tirely aud completely covered. At each
corner coil the rope in small circles.
With a coarse thread and heavy needle
fasten the rope on the wrong side Of the
frame. 1t may be left in a natural state,
or bronzed OF gilded to suit the fancy.
A delightful material, and a useful one
as well, for winter petticoats, peignoirs
and little warm breakfast jackets, is of
narrowly stripped crepon-surah in old