The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-04-17
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Chicago ladies say the high theatre
Dat is sign of bad breeding.
Solid colored pique comes for
children's gowns, and is a thoroughly
serviceable material.
Colored dotted Swiss is popu-
lar, and is always extremely dainty
with unlimited possibilities.
Dull gold is the fashionable hue for
hair among Partisan bellies, so dark
beauties are busy dyeing their tresses.
Miss Hannah +. Mace, Vassar 80,
is now an assistant of Professor Simon
Newcomb in the United States Naval
Observatory at Washington.
Copenhagen, Denmark, is to have
woman's exhibition, at which works
of art, music, literature, ETC., by
women are to be represented.
Embroidered Swiss will be much
worn for children's shirt waists, which
are trimmed with lace, and are made
elaborately more than formerly.
Silk petticoats display a growing
extravaganza in material and trim
ming, which is very discouraging to
the woman with limited allowance.
Wash chiffon, which comes in blue,
pink, white and yellow, is one of the
novelties for children, and is prettiest
when embroidered all over with eye.
let's.
Goats hair crepons are in high
favor still. Combined with waists OF
chiffon over silk or satin for very
dressy gowns they are most effec-
tive.
Spangles are extensively used on
dressy materials; indeed, they have
been seen on dresses for street wear,
but are not appropriate for this pur.
pose.
Petticoats of haircloth made with
the fashionable godets are much in
vogue with those not wishing an inter.
lining for the skirts of gowns. They
produce the same effect.
Artificial flowers form stock collars
for wear with best dresses and show
rosebuds, daisies, violets, roses, lily
of the valleys and buttercups. Arti-
hSAoi hIo dlbO ustu.
On one cloth dress in a recent i'm
portstion the galloon was set around
the foot Of the skirt and also down the
sides in o Greek pattern so spread as
to cover almost the entire side cores.
A neat, new thing is an umbrella
handle long and narrow in shape and
made Of dark blue enamel, wrought
with gold tracery and the owners
monogram is skillfully worked in the
design.
A servants ball was given recently
by Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs.
Gladstone. The festivities commenced
by Mrs. Gladstone dancing with the
butler. Mrs. Gladstone is eighty.two
years of age.
Paris designers are working hard
for an entire revolution in costume,
working in vain, let us hope, although
we accept some of their notifications,
and adopt many of their ideas with
great pleasure.
Captain Charles Louis Reamont. of
the Royal Navy, England, who has Just
been appointed equerry to the Queen,
has an American wife. He was married
in 1888 to Miss Perkins, daughter of
Charles E. Perkins, of Boston.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a wonder
ful linguist, and is versed in Spanish,
German, French and Italian litera-
ture to marvellous degree. Her de-
lightful books are mostly written at a
farm near Haslemere, Surrey.
The Princess of Wales has means of
shopping that few know anything
about. Representatives of weli-known
establishments in London wait on Her
Royal Highness with samples OF their
novelties, which are laid out in the
Princess's boudoir.
Covert cloths of French and Eng
lish make are in high favor Just now,
so fashion has decreed. They develop
best in tailor-made gowns; neutral
tints have given place to dark tones
in green or blue and several shades of
brown and gray. Mixtures are, how
ever, the rule.
A very pretty mutton-leg sleeve has
appeared among the dressy toilets of
the season, which shows a delicate fat
embroidery in beads and silk in
pointed designs on the entire top of
the sleeve, and also from wrist to ell.
bow. A vest decorated to match is an
effective addition.
Most women become weary of the
conventional trimmings as purchased
in the shops, and are ever on the
lookout for something that they work
up in out-of'the-way stylrs, not al
ways objecting to something a triA,
eccentric, so that it is different from
the ordinary run.
Embroidered galloon is a popular
trimming. One costume has strips Of
galloon from the shoulders lust above
the sleeves extending down over the
bust, then slightly turning SO that the
points meet at the waist line. The
belt is of galloon, and the wide cuffs
have three rows as a trimming.
Many we'll dressed women now OBJ
iect to wearing violets because the cot
ton limitations have become SO cheap.
These women have taken up the dah-
liza, which cannot easily be repro
duced in a cheap article. Violets are
so pretty and graceful for millinery
trimming that they still appeal to
many.
The buckles which are sold separate
ly Tor the decoration OF stock collars