The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-11-22

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Stylish hats are still in plateau
shape.
The bell skirt still maintains It's
vogue.
Hard times have notably affected the
attendance at Vassar College.
Epaulettes appear to be quite as
much a feature of fashion as ever.
Lady Isabel Morgesson has devised
woman's pocket that, she says, can
not be picked.
The English Queens Scoth jour.
neys cost her $50, 600 year for trav.
cling expenses.
Five men and woman recently ran
a foot race of 200 yards in Henderson
County, North Carolina. The woman
won easily.
Edward Terry, an English musical
editor, says that women compose some
of the finest dance music and some of
the best songs
The number of unmarried women in
England and Wales exceeds the mum.
ber of unmarried men by the majority
of nearly 200, 900.
At Ferncliffe, Mrs. John Jacob AS
tors place at Rhinobeck, N. Y, the
fair chatelaine is often seen riding
about her grounds on tricycle.
When Queen Elizabeth of Austria
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged
after her train seventy feet in length.
1t was borne by thirty-five pages.
II was after Miss Martha Lumpkin,
now Mrs Campton, that Atlanta, Ga,
was first named "Marthasyille, in
1S43. Her father was Governor of the
State.
Birds of paradise will be worn on
the most costly and fashionable hats,
and ostrich plumes will still be regard
ed as one of the most effective trim
mings.
Velvet is to be much used as trim
ming for hats Black ietted wings will
also be popular. In combination with
black, sapphire and peacock-bluo will
be seen.
Queen Victoria is a skilful and in
defatigable knitter. She and her
ladies in waiting have knitted many
quilts for the use of soldiers in the
hospitals.
For autumn hats and bonnets the
prevailing colors will be black and
white. Eminence shading from the
darkest to the palest shade of lavender
will also be proper,
The new winter coats are thirty
three inches long, made with a very
tight waist, and tremendous sleeves.
Nearly all have cape effects about the
collar and shoulders.
The most beautiful silk which has
appeared to tempt womankind this
season is of heavy satin, with Baya-
dere stripe in velvet. The combina-
tions of colors are simply exquisite.
Soft, rich tartans of all wool, finished
with a corded silk blouse-waist, COM
pleted by bretelles, sleeve-puffs, and
collar of velvet, are among the pretty
dresses designed for misses best wear.
The autumn tints in dress take their
hues from the dying woods. Browns,
reds and yellows, with notifications of
sea greens, are the tints of fall. Such
are seen in the gowns, such in the
hats.
An old-time-looking dress has the
skirt finished with seven ruffles, the
lower one about five inches deep, and
each one growing narrower, the upper
very slightly overlapping the lower
ones
George Pullman's daughters give
the names to the palace cars which
their father has built-very pretty
names they are, too-and the very
pretty little sum of 500 is the fee for
the name.
Nine. Scalchi, the operatic singer,
has a collection of eleven parrots in
her home at Turin, Italy. The par
rots are accomplished birds, and among
them speak all the languages of mod
ern Europe.
The Albanian girl puts all her for
tune into gold and silver coins and
mounts these on her high cap, that
not only the groom but all the assem-
bled company can discern her value
at a glance.
There seems to be a reaction in
favor of high cut dresses for dinner
and evening wear. Some of the most
exquisite importations of the year have
been dresses with square necks or those
slightly cut away in V shape.
The will of Esther Pomeroy, which
has been filed for probate at Spring
field, Mass, is a peculiar document.
1t specifies with great detail how each
article of personal property is be-
queathed, and even gives direction to
the executor 10 finish quilting bed.
quilt, that it may be in good condition
TO give to a relative.
Tght-fitting velvet coats are to be
worn in black, dark green; also in
plum color The skirts, or basques,
longer than short, but certainly not
reaching to the knees the new basque
is close-fitting round the waist, but
being cut out of material folded cross
wise, there is very considerable fulness
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