The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-27
WOMAN's WORLD.
SOIts Of Items Pertaining to the
Eairer Sex.

Fairer Sex.
Horace Greeley used to say that he
had rather see an old woman take snuff,
than to stand before the finest painting
in tho world.
A wealthy Buffalo lady of sixty has
Just married her own widowed son-in-
law, and the children of two families
are now puzzled to settle their relation
ship.
The Empress of Japan received call
ers on New-Year' She had pres
ence of mind not to dress, as did many
of the ladies of her court, in European
style, but continued a la JaponaiSe.
Tortoise-shell buttons, both plain and
carved, are announced at the fancy
stores as likely to supersede the metal
buttons now used. Cut steel buttons,
it is said, will remain in fashion.
The Polish Princess Czartoryska has
made over the whole of her immense
fortune and vast landed possession to a
Roman Catholic convent at Posen.
The Marie Stuart ruff, very high,
very full, and faring, will continue to
be made of the dress material. The
English collar with turned-over points
will also be used, as we'll as the round
ed Medicis.
English embroidery will be much
used for cashmere and silk during the
spring, and on the muslin and batiste
dresses of the summer. This, it will be
remembered, is the open eyelet-work so
fashionable few years ago.
Embroidered sashes are something
new. They are of black watered silk,
embroidered with black floss and fine
jet beads; or of black, embroidered in
colors. They are very handsome, and
destined to become very fashionable.
When a married man goes to roost on
an ash-barrel under the stooo from one
o'clock a. m. until daybreak, instead of
seeking his own comfortable bed, there
is hardly doubt of the fact that some
thing is the matter with his night key.
Detroit Free Press GA band of Ohio
women gathered in front of a lawyers
Office by mistake and prayed and sang
half an hour before they learned that
they had been throwing away time. It
is calculated that their prayers wouldn't
have had any effect under eighteen
months"
The Duchess of Alexandria, niece
of the Emperor William, has demanded
a separation from her husband, Duke
William of Mecklenburg, and a great
family council will be held accordingly.
It appears that the duke has attracted
so much attention by his intimacy with
a fgurante of the Theater Royal, Cas-
sci, that it was thought proper to recall
him to Berlin-and to himself.
Russia has costumes, both male and
female. of the most picturesque de-
scription. The touloupes, or sheepskin
coats of the peasantry, the caftans of
the merchants, and the low-crowned
hats of the Isvostchiks, or droschky
drivers, are familiar to all but ladies
have yet to become acquainted with the
sarafan, and especially with the kakos-
chnik, worn by the Russian women.
The last named article-a glorifed ar
rangement of satin and lace, tinsel and
seed pearls-is not precisely turbaD,
and not exactly a crown, but something
between the two, and may perhaps be
akin to those Ground caps like the
moon," against which the Hebrew pro-
phet testifes strongly. The kakoschnik,
in all it's glory, is now very rarely seer
in st. Petersburg, save on the heads of
the comely peasant women who come
up from the provinces to act as nurses.
The old style of combing the hair
over the ears has ben revived. This is
supposed to presage the revival of the
old style of wearing original home made
hair