The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-03-18
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR

SHIRRED pointed bodices are very
fashionable.
JAPANESE colors and designs prevail
in all printed cotton goods. I.
FLAT tops and round tops for turbans
are equally fashionable.
FRENCH women wear bonnets that
are becoming, whether large or small.
THE turban is the bonnet of the pass
ing moment.
PLAIN red oil calico will be used in
combination with figured rouge Adrian
ople.
~ PARTISAN women have decided to
wear only Italian Tuscan straw next
season. ..t...t .........g ..r
New YORK ladies' are developing an
exceeding fondness for the violin. ...
LADIES belts have grown so wide
that the latest styles have arm holes in
them,
A LADY's train at a muddy crossing
and wash-day dinner are generally
picked up.
GIRLS in their teens will wear large
round colIarettes of cut work, Maltese
and antique laces.
The ex-Empress Eugene, according to
a London paper, inherited Sl5O,OO0 a
year from her mother. In. .....
AN Arkansas woman is now living
with her fourteenth husband, and has
only worked one county.
WOMEN in California have no fear
that their husbands will kiss the cham
bermaids. The chambermaids are
| Cinnamon.
An old maid who hates the male sex
vehemently, cut female acquaintance
who compIimentcd her on the buoyancy
of her spirits.
GRAPE Yeddo and French bunting, or
| fine camePs hair, form many OF the COM
posite costumes prepared for early
spring wear.
one female cook in a Wisconsin lum-
Der camp has already caused two sui
cides, one stabbng afray and lifty-three
fights.
TIE time that women waste in study.
ing the looking.glass, men more sensibly
employ in studying the dinner list of
eatables. .. ....
LEATHER petticoats are affected by
English walking ladies. They last for
ever weigh ten pounds, and are as lus-
trous rs satin.
IT is wise and provident woman
who can make a bed quilt from saved.up
samples secured while on shopping ex
petitions. ,.... ....... ~.
SUNFLowERs, jonquils, yellow mar
guerites, buttercups, crocuses, golden
red, and all kinds of yellow flowers are
in demand for corsage boquets and dress
garnitures. .... .... o..
A LADY, who edits newspaper in one
of the Western States says that the
popularity of her journal is due to the
fact that people are always expecting
She will say something she ought not to.
A CELEBRATED beauty in the time OF
Napoleon Bonaparte, Nine. Louise Lu-
cerne, has Just reached her Tooth year.
She was the friend and rival in beauty
Of Nine. Recambier.
WANTED. BY a maiden lady. "a local
habtaton and a name" The real es-
tate she Is not particular about, so that
the title be good The name she wishes
to hand down to posterity.
THERE are now six female lawyers in
the United States. They are Mrs. Lock
wood, Of Washington; Mrs. Bradwell,
of Chicago; Miss Phoebe Cozzens, of St.
Louis: Mrs. Foster, of Iowa; Mrs. Good.
ell, of Wisconsin, and Mrs. FOltz, of San
Francisco.
THE man who has not an enemy in the
world probably has not friend either
lie is the goody-goody man who is to
tally incapable of creating any strong
emotion, and if he is married it is due t
the fact that the lady of his selection
couldn't get anybody else. s.
"MAN," says Victor Hugo, "was tn,
c0nundIum of the eighteenth century
woman is the c0nundrum of the nine
tecnth century" An American edito
adds: eve can't guess her, but viii
| i"NNi SiNO hOi w INV hS'o''
OLIVE LOGAN, pen painter in ordinar.
to the royal courts CT Europe, says tina
Marie Christine is thin to the verge o
scrawnincss, but Skies alive! Olive her
self would get thin il her little man wa
to get shot AT every time she told tale
out of school.
A LADY of Evansville, Ind, who ha
, been grossly insulted several times il
, the streets of that place, finally drew
hatchct and sunk 1t in the cheek of tn
insulter, cutting through to the bone
This isone way to bury the Ratchet, an
il was pretty good one.
+ ONE of the New York boarding schoo
Keepers hires a detective to follow he
| procession Of pupils when they tax
0 their daily walks, in order to guar
, against any attempt at filtration. Unles
| the detective is Il saint, he will hav
c tSinty llrtations on his own hand
. within week
ONCE in Il while we glance from on
Office window and catch sight of cir
of the period sailing along the streets
with her hands in the pockets of one o
those jaunty little coats which are nov
i; 80 fashionable, aud yet the sight neve
+ pres nts itself that we are not reminde,