The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-06-26
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Bosnia has two female physicians.

Bosnia has two female physicians.
One-sixth of England's women work.
Three beauty contests are held in
Vienna each year.
The United States has 80, ,254,370
female population.
In North America there are 970
women to 1000 men.
Bicyclists among women of tho
'smart set" multiply.
Sheer white lawn blouses arc to be
very popular this summer.
The University of Chicago has glee
club composed of sixteen women.
Des Moines Qowa) women havo
adopted the bloomer costume quite
generally.
Wyoming has the smallest female
population, 5l,362; New York tho
largest, 3,020,960
On her last birthday Susan b. An
thony received purse containing
$500 from her friends.
Tho Congregational choir at Atchi-
son, Kan, is composed of fifteen little
girls about ten years of age.
Some of the leading society lights
of Cincinnati, Ohio, have fomed So
ciety for the suppression of gossip.
In all Christian countries the num-
Der of females who attend the churches
is far greater than that of the men.
Mrs. Lynn Lynton, the authoress,
never went to school. Her first book
was written at twenty-four years of
age.
1t is a singular fact that the queens
who reigned as soverigns every one
who reached middle life becams quite
heshy.
Mrs. Cowden Clarke, lthe compiler
of the CONCORDANCE to Shakespeare"
is eighty-ive years old, and resides in
Genoa.
Many women have excelled rs ex-
ecutants of music; no woman has ever
been great or even a mediocre com
poser.
In Paris the fashionable dressmak-
ers are using for berthas and in other
bodice adornments Venetian point
lace set with brilliants.
A woman with military nose and
prominent chin is certain to make her
mark. All female society leaders have
had such facial peculiarities.
What are styled garden capes are
already offered and prove to he mere
fluff and frenzy of delicate Dresden
silk cut into little picked frills.
Picture hats are finished about the
brims with great waving frills of
crust-colored chiffon, piped along the
edge with little bow of black velvet.
The board of elections Of Berlin,
Wis, refused to permit fifteen women
who had registered to vote. The
ladies now propose to make the legal
fur fly.
The Indianapolis chief of police has
formally given his consent to women's
wearing bloomers in tho street. He
says that they will wear what they
want to, anyhow.
Women cannot throw because of q
peculiar formation of the shoulder
blade that prevents the swing neces-
sary to the proper propulsion of O
stone on other object.
When spectacles first came into use
IN Italy women we're forbidden to
wear them, on the ground that as they
were very ornamental they would
stimulate the vanity of the fair sex.
The following appeal was printed
recently in a Scottish newspaper !:
"Wanted, Il good school for girls
where the birch rod, coming into
fashion again, is used in the old way.
Nine. Carnot, widow of the late
President of France, has detached all
the ribbons from the wreaths sent at
her husbands funeral and has dec
GRATED q small drawing-room with
them.
Miss Grace Chisholm, an English
woman, has been granted the degree
of doctor of philosophy by the Uni
versity of Gottingen, by the permis-
sion of the Prussian Minister OF Edu-
cation.
Miss Nellie Temple, Vassar grad
uate of the class of 'S2, has recently
| 'NNAA NA6eENb III haolnlALB IOlSbbOI
Ratzel, of the University of Lsipsic,
in a revision of his treatise on the
United States.
DIR. Helen Webster, of Wellesley
College, is the only woman who has
ever earned the title of Doctor OF
Philosophy. She went to Germany
and literally won the honor by hard,
unremitting labor.
The edict has gone forth that skirts
must be worn by women bicyclists,
according to Vogae's Paris CORE
spondent. Those who do not wear
them are not correct, although more
at their ease.
Some Partisan women are wearing
hand painted gowns Ole in which
a well-known leader in fashion in I'll at
city appeared was of duh white silk
and had over the Aariug skirt large
painted baskets loaded with flowers.