The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-09
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male servants dress in knickerbockers.
Catharine Parr Trail is yet writing
books, although she is ninety.two
years of age.
Men no longer offer their arm to
ladies in handing them from dining TO
drawing room.
An active agitation is carried on at
Vienna, Austria. in favor of the higher
education of women.
A new fad of society girls is to col
lect the little bows from the hatbnnds
of their gentlemen friends.
Susan b. Anthony is not radical in
appearance. She dresses very quietly
and has very motherly ways.
Tweeds in varied qualities and new
stylish color schemes occupy promi-
nent place among autumn dress goods.
Violet and lavender holdstheir own
remarkably we'll as fashionable col
ors. The former continues to lead in
Paris.
The Princess Of Wales has tea SER
vice set of sixty pieces. and each piece
is decorated with photograph which
she took herself in Scotland.
New waists are made with very
short basque skirts that turn ont
abruptly from the waist.line and are
slightly ruflled around the edge.
Among the Colonial danes and
maidens embroideiing the family coat.
of-arms or crest is what may be called
fashionable fancy work in public.
Mile. Jeanne Benakcn, licentiate OF
philosophy at Paris, took her bache.
lor's degree at tho age of sixteen-al-
most an unprecedented feat in Euro
pean universities.
Artificial flowers are much the vogue
on dancing gowns. A Partisan frock
recently seen was of violet glace silk
with the short pulled sleeves made en-.
tirely of pink rosebuds.
Princess Stephanie, the widow of
Rudolph of Austria, is one of the most
daring woman mountaineers in Eu.
rope, and has made several extremely
perilous Alpine ascents.
The eightieth birthday of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton will be appro.
priately celebrated by the National
Council of Women at the metropolitan
Opera House, New York City.
Medium and lightweight crepons,
plain and with colored stripes and
dots, will remain IN fashionable favor,
but they will not reach the universal
popularity they enjoyed this season.
1t IS not correct to have pockets in
the up.to-date dress skirt. Therefore,
the pocket handkerchief is something
produced from the most unexpected
places on the person of the young wo
man.
! The mother of Mrs. Jack Gardner
the famous Boston society leader, i.
the second wife of Bierstadt, the ar
tist. Her first husband left her for.
tune, which he made in the candy
trade.
1t is said that Mary L. Wilkins has
an extremely immature, girlish hand.
writing, which was q great drawback
to getting her manuscripts accepted
when she first began to write for the
press.
A hat in a modified sailor shape is
, trimmed with loops of very wide rib
bon that stand upright on either side
of the crown. The entire front il
covered by q wreath of roses with
foliage.
Radical changes in tho style o
coiffure are predicted for the autumn
by Paris papers that have space fo
: such important announcements. And,
it is further stated, "false hair is com
! ing back"
Fans are much smaller than hereto
fore, and the most fashionable are the
pretty Empire air-givers mounted OF
: tortoise-shell sticks of yellow. Others
are embroidered very finely with baby
ribbon, in Louis XIV. styles, and il
/ Illuminated with spangles.
Very charming waists are develope 1
of the gorgeous silks in which are com
: mingled the French and Roman col
s ors, but they are not intended fol-
. women of forid complexion. Th,
y Oriental silk crepons of Eastern de
: signs produce very much softer an(
| prettier harmonies.
Pale green is a popular color this
season. Gowns and hats, cloaks and
s toques, evening frocks aud street suits
{ share the craze. The tint never ap
pears to better advantage, though,
! than when used as a foundation colo
= for the open work linens and lawn
= that enjoy favor equal to its own.
I New waterproof cloaks of red, blacl
and mixed colors are piped with white
4 giving an extremely smart effect. On
: quito perfect in its way is of fawl
color, piped with white. 1t is of nj
= sler pattern, with enormous armhole
- to its sleeves, and boasts a velvet col
lar and mammoth mother of-pear
= buttons.
: OF thirty applicants examined fo
= the position of library cataloguer an,
= clerk for the Agricultural Department
Washington, ID. c., all the men faile,
to pass while only five of the sixteer
o women failed. Secretary Morton Ia,
) appointed Miss L. b. Wales, of Chi
i cago, clerk, and Miss G. L. Leonard
/ of the Albany State Library, cata
. loguer.
s The first woman in America to de
= mand naturalization papers was Mrs
Elizabeth Cryer, who showed Ger
tifcate dated at Omaha, Nebraska