The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-05-03
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Miss Ellen Terry, the actress, is an
amateur photographer.
The Maine Federation of Women's
Clubs has HOO members.
In these days the art of fine needle
work is in danger Of decay,
Steaming the face and then rubbing in
olive or almond oil IL a good thing.
The statement is made that women
who ride bicycles arc not graceful
walkers.
Pockets in ladies' dresses first APP
peared in England during the reign OF
Edward Ill.
The Queen of Italy seldom appears in
a hat, and her bonnets are small aud
close.ftting,
Mrs. Astor, the New York leader of
fashion, never pays less than S25 for a
pair of shoes.
Queen Victoria, OF England, is very
fond OF making omelettes, and it seems
has several receipts.
There is tendency in the new silver
ware to return OF the straight huted
patterns of the Seventeenth Century.
In these days of cheap stulfs the poor
est housemaid may wear dress finer
than that Justiniau refused to his Queen.
Henrietta Herschfeld, the first woman
graduate of the Philadelphia College of
Dental Surgery, is assistant cJurt dentist
in Germany.
A scientific authority has just given
out that womsn's beauty arrives at its
maximum only after she has passed her
thirtieth year.
Florence Nightingale, the famous war;
nurse, has started a health crusade
among tho villages of Buckingham
shire, England.
Miss Marguerite GJnbert has won her
degree of Doctor of Philosophy aud
Letters at Brussels, Belgium. She is the
first woman to do so.
On the authority of Miss Romans,
professor of gymnastics, the muscular
young women of Boston discard corsets
and high beeled boots.
The chignon, as we'll as the crinoline,
will undoubtedly be revived. NJ false
hair is worn with it, but If the hair is
thin, pad is placed under it
A sewing machine was included
among the presents the ex-Empress of
Germany gave her daughter, Princess
Margarethe, on her recent marriage.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the we'll.
known ornithologist, has gone on a trip
Park in pursuit of her favorite study.
Golf is going to be fashionable game
at Newport, r. l., this year. Among
the ladies who are now studying up the
sub ject are Mrs. Burke Roche and Nine.
| Lauza.
Princess Kaiulaui Of Hawaii is said to
have much musical taste anl to 5s fond
of playing the ukilili, an instrument that
is described as ga cross between the
guitar aud mandolin"
The latest club for women in London
is one tor the use of clerks, boolkeepers,
stenographers, telephone girls and Others
who earn their daily bread in this city,
but hive in the suburbs.
Miss Martha Jordan, of Dallas, Texas,
/ is the first colored woman to prepare
herself for practicing dentistry. She is
attending the Dental Department of
Denver (Col.) University.
Lady Haberton, tie originator of the
English Short Skirt League, is making
thousands of converts to her opinion that
walking dresses should be at least five
inches cf the. ground all around.
The Duchess of Marlborough is espe-
cially given to gray of the shade of the
inside OF doves wings. Gray velvet is
quite favorite of her grace, aud with
it she wears her wonderful pearls.
The purple or cardinal veil is now
supplanted by new favorite, the veil
which comes in dark shades of green.
This color is said to be becoming to all,
while the purple can only be worn by a
few.
The fashionable violet known as semi
nence," or ''pontihcal" purple, Is by no
means a universally becoming color, an /
women who have not really very good
compilations should eschew it IN all its
ramihcations.
The prettiest women in the world are
said to be the women of Northern Italy.
They are mixture of the French gentry
and the old Italian nobility aud inherit
the vivacity of one country aul Oriental
beauty of the other.
Secretary of State Gresham, like many
other men in public life, has a wife who
attends to a great deal of his corre-
spondepce for him. Mrs. Gresham is
fond Of Washington, but likes it best
when it is most deserted.
The old-fashioned gray haircloth is
offered at New York for dress Innings al
twenty-five c9uts to thirty-dys cents in
narrow widths. Its sticky prickly
edges suggest any amount Of discomfort
for those who handle or wear it
Miss E nily Faithful, the noted Eag-
lish social reformer, is endeayO.5ng to
organize in London a suburban home il
which worSiug women aud girls can
each have a small private room at low
rent, with the use OF common reception
and dining rooms.
Tle ex-Empress Frederick worked q
bit of carpet on which all her children
knelt when confirmed; tue late Enper-
or's coffin rested upon it; the present