The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-03-26
WOMAN'S WORLD.
All sorts of Items Pertaining TO the
Epircr Sex.


Horace Greeley used to say that he
had rather see m old woman take snuff,
than to stand before the finest painting
in the world.
A wealthy Buffalo lady Of sixty has
inst married her own widowed son.ln'
law, and the children Of two families
are now puzzled to settle their relation
shin.
The Empress of Japan received call
ers on New fear's-dav. She had pres
ence of mind not to dress, as dd many
of the ladies of her court, in European
STYLE, but continued a Ia JopOnaiSc.
Tortoise shell buttons, both plain and
carved, are announced Mt the fancy
stores rs likely to superscde the metal
buttons now used. Cnt steel buttons,
it is said, will remain in fashion.
The Polish Princess Caartorvska has
made over the whole of her immense
fortune and vast landed possession to n
Roman Catholic convent at Posen.
The Marie Stuart ruff, very high,
very full, and haring, 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 Medics.
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 oren oyelet-work so
fashionable few years ago.
cnn,nyl ~
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, aud
destined to become very fashionable.
WHEN married man goes to roost on
an ash. barrel under the stooN from one
o'clock u. m. until daybroak, 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: "a band of Ohio
women gathered in front of lawyers
office by mistake and prayed and sang
half an hour before they learned that
they had been throwing away time. 1t
is calculated that their prayers wouldn't
have had any effect under eighteen
months"
The Duchess of Alexandrina, niece
of the Emperor William, has demanded
n separation from her husband, Duke
William of Mccklenburg. aud great
family council will be held accordingly.
II appears that the duke has attracted
so much attention bv his intimacy with
a fgurantc of the Thcater Royal, Cas-.
sci, that it was thought proper to recall
him to Bcrlin--aud to himself.
Russia has costumes, both male and
female, of the most picturesque do
scrption The touloupes, or shcepsItin
coats of the poasantry, the cattaus OF
the merchants, and the low-crowned
hats of the 1svostchiks, 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 gloritied ar
rangemeut of satin and lace, tinseI and
seed pearls--is not precisely a turban,
and not exactly Il crown, but something
between the two, and may perhaps be
akin to those Ground caps like the
moon" against which the Hebrew pro.
phet testilics strongly, The kakoschnik,
in I'LL it's glory, is now very rarely seer
in St. Petersburg, save on the heads OF
the comcly peasant women who come
NJ from the provinces to act as nurses.
The old style of combing Tho hair
over the ears has ben revived. This IS
supposed to prcsage the revival of the
old style OF wearing original home made
| hair.