The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-08
cd shoe Is gaining favor.

deri tea cups low anu Droau.
Flat, old fashioned, open faced
watches are stylish tor ladies.
Buffalo, N. Y, is one OF the most en-.
thusiastic of women's club centres.
Mrs. Astor. leader Of Gotham's 400,
never pays less than S25 for a pair of
shoes.
Miss Mary Moody, niece of the famous
evangelist, intends to engage in mission
airy work.
The most beautiful scarfs are the
. whole skins Of the Russian crown i'm
perial sable.
The Bombay Sorosis Of Bombay,
India, belongs to the Federation Of
Women's Clubs.
A Paris sculptor says that the day will
come when women will be ashamed oil
too small hands.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have bad
3004 dresses in her wardrobe at the
time OF her death.
The first woman lawyer ever sworn In
as a member of the bar, II Tennessee, is
Mrs. Martha D. Strickland.
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter Of the
late Senator Fair, is very young, very
musical aud a great heiress.
The buttons of the wedding dress of
a New York ~mlllionaire's daughter, re-
Gently married, cost 800 each.
In Japan, If a woman is not married
by q certain age, the authorities pick out
a man whom they compel her to wed.
Mme. Tel Soma, Japan's only woman
lawyer, is among us. She is ~lecturing
upon the necessity for missionary work.
Miss Jennie Rockefeller, daughter OF
John d. Rockefeller, the standard oil
magnate, plays the v~iolincello with great
skill.
The first private Gymnasium" (pre'
paratory school for universities) for
girls in Germany, is to be opened at
Weimar.
The girls of Tasmania are world re-
nowned for beauty aud there is no
doubt that they have nc peers south of
the equator.
A number Of leading women of Kan.
sas City have agreed not to wear out
doors any dress or garment that does moi
miss the ground by at least three inches.
Ladies' clubs in London grow in
number and increase in size, yet they
are very little heard of. One of the
largest, the Somerville, has over 900
members.
Worth, of Paris, ~pronounces emphati-
cally against a revival of the crinoline,
aud these two incidents seem to consti-
tute the death blow of the crinoline
movement.
When reappointed to United States
Government positions, the widows of
Union soldiers and sailors will not be
compelled to undergo a Civil Service
examination.
Mrs. Virginia Thompson, ex-Post-
mistress Of Louisville, KY, says that
women are peculiarly fitted to conduct
postofices, and that this fitness ought to
be recognized.
Evening novelties multiply. Among
these are conspicuous the very large
feather fans of ostrich plumes on pearl
sticks. Two feet is hardly an exagger.
ated measurement.
In Walkertown, Canada, a woman,
Miss Roether, is Superintendent Of the
Jail, and q very favorable report of the
Bruce County Jail has been rendered by
the Ontario prison inspector.
The pe~tticoated sleeve is new in three
quarter coats. 1t is large, full puff, and
caught in with a few shirrings just a
little above the wrist, and the lower part
is allowed to tall in u little frill.
Miss Maud Lorillard, the New York
beauty, rather changed the order of
things by first getting engaged to
''Tom" Sufern Taller, Of coaching fame,
and then making her debut IN society.
Miss Florence Bascom, of Williams
town, Mass, who will take the title Of
"Ph. D." next June from Johns Hopkins
University, will be the first woman to
receive such an honor from that institu-
ton.
Mrs. Chaloner, a Newmarket On
gland) woman, has a license from the
Jockey club, aud personally conducts a
horse training establishment, perhaps the
only one in existence that is run by a
woman.
The bang is growing ~perceptibly less.
When it is worn it is only a fluffy fringe
that softsns the face; but almost all wo-
men are ~ondeavoring to arrange their
coiffures so that an absolute parting will
be noticed.
Though round waists are the fad the
metal belts of last summer have been en-.
tirely superseded by narrow bias folds
of velvet finished at the back with a lit
tie trim bow with two pointed ends
standing stifiy erect.
The palace of the Empress of Austria,
at Corfu, is said to have cost 50, 500, 900,
and yet she spends little OF her time in it,
seeming to have more pleasure in cruis-
ing around on her magnificent steam
yacht, the Miramare.
Half a milton dollars has been pre-.
sented to Hamburg, Germany, by Herr
Won Bonner, a native of that city, &C
found a woman's hospital in honor Of
the woman physician, DR.. Nicholson, to
whose skill he believes he is indebted
for his wife's recovery from a dangerou
illness.
The incest materials for smart, tailo,
made gowns are the ''heather cheviots,
t.yir1on #vroaden ona fancv Maltone