The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-29

Mrs, Cleveland rarely kisses her
friends,
Nine. Patti, the singer, WINS 100
canaries.
Emeralds are the favorite stones just
at present.
Queen Victoria's favorite instrument
is the harp.
Paper dresses are being worn at even
ing parties in Paris,
Braid takes a most important place in
the world of trimmings.
Purple catalsysas are Mrs. w. K.
V%anderbilt's favorite flowers.
The poke bonnet is said to be among
the new spring fashions in millinery.
The fashionable fardingales of 1860
were twenty.six feet in circumference.
Queen Margarita of Italy possesses a
coral necklace which she always wears,
day and night.
Mink is in high favor, its soft shade
of brown mingling readily with most Of
the colors In vogue.
Large, light. colored felt hats have a
charming effect trimmed with feathers
and shaped to suit the wearer.
The extension of width in shoulders
grows and grows, giving, in some
cases, a winged aspect to the wearer.
Triple capes edged with fur are very
becoming to slight figures, but over a
sack. back coat we consider them a fail
ure.
No better or briefer description of
Mrs. George NJ. Pullman can be given
than the mention of her resemblance to
Patti.
Mary E. Bartlett, Of Cheyenne, Wy
oming, is the first woman to receive
votes in a State ballot for United States
Senator.
The fastest typesetter in California is
said to be a young woman who is en-
ployed in a newspaper Office at Santa
Barbara.
Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage makes her
husbands pastoral and social engage
ments and all his lecturing interests are
in her hands.
Purple wells are a daring innovation.
A clear, good complexion stands the test
well; but pale faces look deadly masked
in the royal shade.
Mrs. NJ. A. Anderson, Assistant Ser.
geant-at-Arms of the Arkansas House,
acts as doorkeeper in the absence of the
Sergeant-at-Arms.
Lady Evans, wife Of the late Lord
Mayor of London, was a housemaid at
the Oaks Hotel, Seven OAKS, England,
prior to her marriage.
All London Is admiring Jan Van
Beers's portrait of Duchess of Marlbor-
ough in a white muslin frock, holding a
red sunshake over her head.
Florence Nightingale, the famous
nurse, is seventy-two years old. She
takes her baptismal name from the Ital-
ian City in which she was born.
Miss Mary Conant, living near Roch-
ester, N. Y, has managed her fathers
farm yer since his death, som four
years ago, and made it pay well.
Electrotype reproductions of rare
pieces of silver, such as are found in
museums or valuable art collections, are
among the latest fads of the aristocracy.
One looks With JOY upon the arrival in
the domain of fashion of the tight-ftting
velvet pelisses. Nothing could be more
fitting or stylish for the new spring cos.
tunes.
Magenta is a very popular color, aud
is combined largely with golden brown
or light gray. Eminence purple is also
a peculiar one which is much used in
millinery.
Annie Louise Cary Raymond sings in a
New York church choir. The purity of
and strength of her vocal chords are as
fully retained as when they did service
in Faust" "Trovatore" and ''Lucre'
tia"
Flower garnitures Tor party gowns are
beautiful. An especially dainty COM
bination is of narrow stem green ribbon,
at regular intervals of which is fastened
a bouquet of lilies of the valley tied with
a knot Of the ribbon.
A Denver (Col.) housewife has an In.
dian princess doing her homework. The
young woman is the daughter of a
Pdwnee chief, aud her name in English
is Rose Howell. She was a student for
many years at the Carlisle school.
Paris actresses, it is said, wear paper
lace, which by night looks as delicate as
the best of real lace, waile it costs but
a triie. To wear an expensive lot oil
lace, which may be ruined in one even.
ing, is considered the height of folly.
Plain fine serges have been succeeded
by the wide-ribbed varieties which show
to such advantage in the plain trained
skirts. In tweeds there is a distinct feel
ing for boucle effects, aud fully curls
break out of unexpected places in tn,
latest textures.
1t may be observed that as a genera
rule, skirts have widened at the top, aut
plaits and gathers contribute to this ef-
feet. In some very stylish example,
there are as many as six or seven breadth.
in a bell skirt, while five straight breadth,
are seen in round skirts made full.
Tiny girls in white cashmere dresse
and cloaks, with white leggins, large
whit5 hats with white or bright colorel
plumes aud snowy gloves, have beef
among the most attractive of the man
pleasing sights on the most i"ashionabl,
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