The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-05-25

Three hundred and sixteen American
girls are teaching in China.
Ancient Grecian women had longer
feet than the average mah has now.
Women who sew for a living are
warned against the use of cheap Thin
bles.
Spring fashions from Paris show some
new departures and some "startling ef-
fects."
The most expert woman conductor of
music in the world is Miss Clara Novello
Davies.
Jettod wire aud jetted net are to be
used in covering frames for dressy bon.
nets and hats.
There are in London, so report says,
over ten thousand women "conn ected
with the press"
The famous singer, Christine Nilsson,
Countess Miranda, has been visiting her
childhood's home in Sweden.
Lady Sutton recently gave an enter.
tainment in London, at which SIS, 900
we're expended for flowers alone.
Queen Margharita, of Italy, has prom
ised the loan of her famous collection of
laces for exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
Queen Margharita, of Italy, though still
a very beautiful woman, is said to be
growing very fat. She has been married
twenty-four years.
DR.. Mary P. jacob, in New York,
and DR.. Mary Hoxon, in Washington,
are each reputed to earn $40, 900 year
at their profession.
DIR. Caroline Bertellon has been ap-
pointed visiting physician to that very
important college for girls, the Lycee
Racine, in Paris, France.
For the sombre taste in dress fashion
has designed a large variety of flower
in brown aud gray shades of silk to be
worn as bonnet garniture.
The newest feature in millinery is what
is called the "boulevard crown" Of
course it is very broad and very fiat, and
rather longer than it is wide.
Queen Victoria is Sc fond OF fresh air
that she is said to keep the temperature
of her apartments in Windsor Castle so
low that the rooms are unpleasantly chilly
for other people.
Little hats OF jetted wire are almost
covered by the full-blown roses and
shaded poppies used as trimming,
single flower often hiding all but the
edge of the brim.
Police matrons in New York aud
Brooklyn get $500. School teachers
begin on half that pay aud work four
teen years to secure tue maximum salary,
which is $3.50 year.
A distinguished Methodist preacher
once said: "But for the interest and de-
votion of the women of our churches,
one-half of them would die the first
year, and tie other half the second"
Antelope skin, which has been exten
slvely used for pocketbooks, photographs
frames, ETC., is now being employed fo
gloves. 1t is very soft and pliable, re
sembling the finest suede, and comes il
all the tans and light shades.
A new wrinkle is the wearing of col
ored ribbons as collar trimmings; some
are merely folded and set over or OF
the edge of the dress collar, and fastened
at the back with rosette. Ribbons are
worn in every imaginable manner.
Lady O'Brien, the wife of the Gov
ernor of Newfoundland, is much alb
sorbed in the wives and children of the
men engaged along the coast in the fish
ing industry, aud has organized small
society to work up material into suitable
clothing for her proteges.
There are many women registered a
the Patent Office in Washington as in
ventors. Their inventions range from
pillow lace to locomotive appliances
though they have been especially sue
cessful in devising ice-cream freezer
aud sewing machine attachments.
The Duke of Westminster has beer
recommending young women of the mid
die classes to train for teachers of cook
cry. He says that he is convinced, b,
careful examination of the subject, tina
there is "a good living for any woman
who will fit herself to teach cookery.
Senator PETERS wife is Pennsyl.
vanian, and she has been married Just
forty years. She is a woman of busines
ability, aud while her husband was il
the war she so husbande1 the savings h
sent home that when the war was owe
she had the nucleus of a snail fortuu
awaiting him.
The newest muddy-weather costum
consists of skirt, perfectly plain, ant
umbrella shaped. The lower edge i
bound with leather. The leather ex
tends up the outside of the skirt to fora
a trimming, and also lines it to the dept
of six inches. A short jacket like til
skirt, and trimmed with leather, is ais
worn.
Only forty-four women have beel
decorated with the blue cross of tn
Legion of Honor altogether. One
the youngest women who have ever re
, ceived the cross is Juliette DodI,
creole, and the cause was an act o
bravery during the Franco-Prussian wal
She is now an inspector of primar
schools in Paris.
The little maid who has been discreC
in choosing either a stylish mother or
sensible mother, is dressed in cloth
crepou, cheviot, or cashmere, and in tn
simple cotton fabrics, of which ginghar
is the prime favorite. Her skirts al
short and plain. Her bodices are gath
cred and frilled or made with jauut
. jackets over full silk waists.
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