The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-13
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Spangles are the novelty OF the season.
Great use is made Of outlining gimps. |
Coats are becoming longer day by |
day.
The small girl is now wearing the large |
hat.
Mink is one Of the ultra fashionable
furs.
The lace overdress is fashionable this
season.
Belgium's Queen is a clever sleight-
of-hand performer.
Bottle-green aud turquois-blue are
used in combination.
The metal trimmings so much in vogue
last year will be sparingly used.
Women's clubs, mainly of social
character, are numerous in London, Eng
land.
The high, faring collar is worn on
everything by the long-necked sister
hood.
Velvet ribbon is used great deal, and
the butterfly bows are high, stiff aud
straight.
Mrs. Wilson, of South Paris, Mo-, is
Cashier of the bank in which her husband
is President.
Jeweled brocades in which threads of
for evening wear.
Fancy vestings, with dark ground,
patterned with spots or dashes of bright
color arc gaining in favor.
The girl who rides aud drives must
have driving coat built on the same
lines as the masculine garment.
English women are especially fond Of
Russian sable, and hand 1t down with
their family jewels aud "real" laoes.
Marie Van zaudt, the prima donna,
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y, where her
mother was singer twenty years ago.
A jeweler who knows, says that at
"drawing-room" Queen Victoria wears
at least seven hundred thousand dollars
worth of jewelry.
There are now in New York City 150,-
600 girls who wear the order of the
Kings Daughters and tryto edo the duty
which is nearest"
There are twenty-three widows and
daughters of Revolutionary soldiers who
still draw pensions, though the last male
survivor died long ago.
Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer,
is living in New York City at the age of
sixty-one years. She lost her sight when
sac was but six weeks old.
Felt hats have the brims duted in
fanlike punches, or pressed in fine,
straight crimping all round. The
crowns vary. Many are quite high.
1t is scarcely twenty years ago that
chrysanthemums were eatirely grand
mothers flowers, but now they are the
glory and the pride of the girl of the
period.
Froken Eva Maria Karlholm, who ap-
piled to the Swedish Government to Of
ficiate as organist, percentor aud clerk
to the church, has obtained favorable
reply from the Government.
Even lambs trotters are made to sub
serve to the purposes OF adornment,
three of them being set upright upon the
back Of hat of rich ponceau velvet, which
was bordered with Persian lamb.
Miss Connor O'Brien, Melbourne
(Australia) journalist, read paper BE-.
fore the Austral Salon, which is ladies'
club, to prove that ''woman is the equal
of man in almost every sphere of life."
Tho Empress Of Austria has ordered
that so, 900 rose trees should be planted
round the statue of Heine, to be erected
on her property at Corfu, on a rock over
two thousand feet above the level of the
sea.
The rage for blond locks has infected
Italy to such an extent that even the
childrens heads are blossomiug out in
golden curls. At this rate the raven
tresses of Italian song and story will soon
be misnomer.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York City,
is said to be the wealthiest woman in the
United States, with fortune of forty
million dollars. Miss Elizabeth Garrett,
of Maryland, comes next, with an estate
worth twenty million dollars.
The most popular Turkish poetess iu
Russian lady. Her name is Olga Lo'
vedoba, but she is known by her pseu-
donym, "Hulaere," to the Turks, who
delight to recite poems. Beside hel
original productions she makes transla-
tions from the Russian poets into the
modern Arabic.
The San Francisco (Cal.) Girls Union
which conducts home like boarding
house for self-supporting girls, has pur
chased property and expects to built
next year. Mrs. Senator Hearst ha
given $1,000 toward the building, anC
$4,000 will come to the corporation from
/ an unsettled estate.
So great is the rage for fur on dresse
that even the plastron aud girdle ar
, made of fur to match the foot-trimming
Headings of narrow fancy gimps, shil
7 rings aud borders of beads are use
= above the edge of fur. The high Mar
Antoinette collars on evening dresses ar
9 bordered with opera fur.
! The famous trousseau shops of Pari;
= France, are tiny places devoted to a sin
gle sort of garment. In one nothin
but handkerchiefs are sold, in anothC
= nothing but nightgowns. Some OF tn
smallest European shops accommodate bu
- one customer at a time, and in many
= is almost impossible to display goods I
!. advantage.
/, The Queen of the Belgians is yer
! fond nf travnlintr inpny and This fanc