The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1894-04-25
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Great Britain has 1s6 lady doctor

very important feature of summer out.
fits.
The italian Queen has the reputa.
tion of being the best dressed woman
in Europe.
New embroideries have looped
edges of color, with sprays of vari.
colored flowers.
The diadem of the Russian Empress
Anna contains 1886 large diamonds
and ruby valued at 5000, 900.
A girl is considered of marriageable
age at twelve in Switzerland, Spain,
Greece, Hungary and Portugal.
Thirty women are registered in the
Yale postgraduate department, an in
crease of seven over last year.
Headaches with women are princi-
pally due to physical weakness, and
show that their nerves need strength
ening.
Susan b. Anthony calls Senator
PETER, of Kansas, the most sincere
champion of womans rights in the
United States Senate.
Corded materials of all kinds will
be worn, not so much in the heavy
bengalines as in silks with distinct
and closely woven cord.
Moire crepes in all the new shades
are shown. Two shades of flame,
called vandyke, will be much used
during the coming season.
During her recent sojourn in Ma
deira the Empress of Austria used to
walk fifteen miles daily, her lady-in-
waiting and secretary accompanying
her.
The Duchess of Coburg has a mag
nificent girdle which is said to be of
incalculabls value. It is of square
emeralds, set in gold with cross at
the end.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt is having
her boudoir in the newly remodeled
Fifth avenue home, New York City,
fitted up in pink as to color and much
silver and satin wood
1t is the custom of many peeresses
of England to wear limitations of their
costly family jewels, the originals
being kept under lock and key in
London safe deposit vaults.
The most changeable period of fem
inine fashion was in France between
the outbreak of the Revolution and
the Restoration in 1915. During this
time 2S9 different styles are recorded.
The "gentlemanly girl" is shaking
off the French fripperies by which she
has been more or less submerged for
the last year or so, and now proposes
to come very much to the fore this
spring.
Hoop skirts, which came into vogue
in the year 1880, weighed between
thirty and forty pounds, but it was
the "fashion" and they were lugged
about by the bellies of the period de-
spite the discomfort.
There is a children's hospital in
Jerusalem, established in 1872 through
the generosity of Mary, Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburg Over 800 children
are sheltered and surrounded with
Christian influences every year.
1t is complained of English female
nurses who come to America that they
are altogether too genteel, and carry
their sense of superiority about with
them in such an offensive and con-
spicuous manner as greatly to impair
their usefulness.
Jewellers are fervently wishing that
the styles prevalent in France in the
tenth century might be revived for the
sake of business. Judith, the wife of
Caipuchin, wore a solid girdle of gold
that weighed four pounds, and all the
fashionable danes followed her exam
pie,
At the Winter Palace, st. Peters
burg, there is a room full of diamonds,
pearls and other precious stones. The
Empress of Russia is allowed to borrow
from this room after giving a receipt
for what she takes, and generally the
Grand Duchesses are allowed to borrow
from it also.
Mrs. Sophia b. Raeunlich is the
business manager of the Engineering
and Mining Journal, of New York.
She has just been elected life fellow
OF the British Imperial Institute.
There are only twenty other members
and she is the only woman member in
the United States.
The Philosophical Faculty of the
University of Heidelberg has resolved
that women students can be admitted
to the degree of doctor there. In
Gottingen, also, similar facilities are
permitted, and two English ladies, who
have already studied mathematics at
Cambridge, are attending lectures
there.
London journalism has Just admit
ted to its ranks the twenty-five year
old daughter of the late Lord Lytton
and granddaughter of Bulwer. Lady
Constance Lytton is said to inherit
the family talant, and has long been
editor of an amateur newspaper which
the Earl started for his children's
amusement.
Worth, the man milliner, is not the
dilettante that is generally supposed.
While he is not a robust man, he is
fond of manly exercises, and sperds
much of his spare time in a gymnasi-
um. He is arbitrary in his business
relations with his customers, and will
not permit the selection of any ma
terial that he does not think is "be-
oominon and will not reAact cradit on