The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-22
All skirts are now bordered.

Princess May OF Teek still wears
black for her lost iance, the Duke Of
Clarence.
From the memorandum book Of a
Gotham debutantc-''gloves flowers and
sweets, $500 a year"
Miss Mary Wilkins, who is at present
on the topping wave of literary success,
is a tiny, shy, little
The Queen of Henry w., of France,
on one great occasion wore a dress sewn
with 80, 900 pearls aud 5000 diamonds.
Mrs. LIE Grand Cannon, of New York
City, has a diamond tiara which Is con-
sidered one of the handsomest in America.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's boudoir is all in
white and gold, with panels of satin
cloth aud a mantel of onyx, iulaid with
gilt.
An Indian potentate, the Maharaja OF
Bettiah, has engaged the service of an
English woman physician for his woman's
hospital.
Baroness Hirsch, the wife Of the
banker. philanthroplst, has been struck
with apoplexy aud her tongue is par
tally paralyzed.
OUda has each of her ~favorite dogs
cremated upon its death, aud has a little
''cemetery" for them connected with her
home in Florence.
Here Is a new within In regard to auto
graph albums; Each contributor fur
nishes a personally approved cooking re-
cipe, over his or her signature.
The leaven is working everywhere.
Even in conservative Germany a little
booklet has been published, ''Darf die
Frau Denkenl" ''May Woman Think1"
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbi!t's boudoir
aboard the C~onqueror, the yacht which
is soon to cruise in southern seas, is
finished in rose pink satin aud mahog-
any.
Miss Sydney Rludle, of the Georgia
Normal and Industrial College, junior
class, has been appointed postmaster of
the House of Representatives of Atlanta
at 81 a day.
The cheapest dress made by Worth,
the Partisan milliner, even if of cotton,
does not cost less than $3.50, and this
he calls his ''pauvrette costume"-the
poor girls dress.
Lillian Russell, the singer, has a face
preparation for which she pays 81 a
pound. To it she attributes her we'll
kept skin, freedom from wrinkles and
good complexion.
1t comfortably preserves tradition to
notice that Green Victoria did not for.
get the inevitable Indian shawl among
her wedding gifts to her granddaughter,
the Princess Marie.
Something new in wells is made of
very fiue Russian net, borderel around
the 10 yer edge with three rows of very
narrow black velvet ribbon, tied in
front with three tiny bows.
The progress of the c~o-education move
~ment may be estimated from the fact
that of the 345 colleges aud universities
reporting to the National Bureau of Edu.
cation 204 are co-educaUional.
Boston's ultra literary elite has, about
thirty of it, started a new woman's club
the Ymerisn. This is not Sanskirt,
but Scandinavian, and the club every
other Monday burrows deep into Morse
mysteries.
"The Very Peculiags" is the objection.
ably significant title of a young girls
club in Leavenworth, Kan. Eccentri-
city in young women or in anybody, in
deed, except the always excepted genius,
Is not apt to be desirable.
England, especially in the large cities,
is in the .hroes of an agitation for aud
against the revival of hoopskiFts. 1t is
authOratiyely stated there that crinoline,
and very expensive crinoline at that, will
come in with the next season.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, of
Hartford, Conn, writes to say that she
thinks it would be a good idea to elect
a lady as George William Curtis's sue
cessor in the Board Of Regents of the
University of the State of New York.
Miss Louise Aldrich Blake, eldest
daughter of a Herefordshire (Englaud)
clergyman, has just achieved the high.
est distinction as a student in medicine
ever won by a woman. She has taken a
''double first" in the examinations at the
London University.
Lady Charlotte Schriber, who has
been presented with the freedom of one
of London's honorary guilds, is said to
be the only woman, with the exception
of the Baroness Burdett. Coutts, upon
whom has been conferred the distinc.
ton of being a "free woman" of a city
company aud of the city Of London.
The Wonan's College, of Baltimore,
enters 1913 with a new dormitory added
TO its lists of buildings. 1t is a splendid
brick aud granite structure and accom-
modates about seventy-ive students.
The long discussed question as to
whether or not the college shall adopt
caps aud gowns has been decided af.
frmatiYe.
The striking feature of the drawing
room in Mrs. Laugtry's luxurious house
10 London is a huge couch, occupying
nearly one side of the room, covered
vita superb skins, and with a~wonderful
array Of barbaric weapons displayed on
the wall back of it. The room is furn-
ished in heliotrope and green, with mos
costly and ornata lacoratfnnu