Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-05
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


French percale remains a popular
material for serviceable wear
Mrs. Seely is eighty seven years old
and has just cast her first vote in Kansas.
Mrs. Theresa Fair of California, travels
on palace car with her own ste art and
cook.
French nainsook is The material from
which imported French gowns are
made.
Gloves having wide bands of stitching,
in self or contrasting colors, are still in
vogue.
Queen Olga, of Greece has made and
embroidered national costume for her
husband.
Dotted and figured jerseys are very
popular, but should be worn only with
plain skirts.
Imperial lawn, goodsl finished like
linen cam brio, is used for matinee
sacques and gowns.
Many beautiful jetted stuffs, are for
outer summer wraps, or for the con-
venient shoulder capes
Jenny June MRS. Croly) is 81 years old.
The first ten years she spent in England;
the rest in this country
The last letter Miss Alcott, the poetess,
ever wrote end ed with the word .'Shall
| never find time to die2'
The Women's Educational and In
dustrial Union OF Buffalo, N. Y, has
over thousand members.
Miss Leila Finney, of Covington, Ky.
sixteen years old, has made enough
squares to make $50 quilts.
Many polonaise costumes are noted
among the late importations. The polo
naise is usually of fine wool.
The wife of President Diaz, of Mexico,
has given $500 for public clock in her
native city of lula, Jamaupilas.
Vanderbilt once paid Miss May Tilling-
hast $50, 600 for inventinga new kind of
tapestry hanging for his house.
Emily Ricete, daughter of the late
Sultan of Zanzibar, has written de-
scription of Oriental harem life.
The plain Airts of plaid silk, with
satin stripes or bars make the prettiest
possible petticoats for young girls.
The materials used for trimming in
handmade French underwear are real
Valenciennes lace and French l.lces.
For little girls, from three to ten years
of age, white muslin frocks are made up
of open embroidery In all-over designs.
The jersey with velvet yoke is now
the most stylish of all jerseys. 1t has
deep velvet cuffs also, and fulled sleeves.
Mrs. James Waterman, of Sycamore,
H., has left $500, 900 to found and en-
dow school ''for worthy and aspiring
girls"
Nine. Carnot, the wife of the President
of the French Republic, has had seven
dresses made of the new color, absnthe
green.
Making pottery is the Queen of Portu-
gals hobby and she is quite an expert at
it, and can not only make the ware, but
paint and glaze it.
A young lady of Montgomery County,
Va, rode forty-two miles on horseback
in one day recently to make purchases
for her wedding outfit.
George M. Pullman, palace car
builder, has high opinion of women's
executive ability and pays them mems
wages for mems work.
The pretty fashion of combining flow.
is a very pretty one and something much
favored by French modistes.
Small black mantles of Bengaline,
silk. or embroidered cashmere, trimmed
with metallic cord passemcnteries, are
worn with dresses of all kinds.
White trimmings which are more
stylish than any other on this summers
hats are most becoming to the young,
who are those meant to wear them.
Short skirts and walking skirts are
shown in lawn and mainsook, with
trimmings of fine quarter inch tucks and
insertion and borders of embroidery and
lace.
Mrs. Cleveland is fond of flowers. II
is stated that 5000 camelias alone were
cut from the White House conservatory
in one month for use at State dinners
and receptions.
Silk gloves are made very elaborate
and are shown in every possible tint.
Embroidered backs, seams and wrists
may be found among them and the fit is
as perfect as those in suede or kid
Miss Richards, cousin of the late
President Arthur, has just married
quarter-blood Cherokee, tho son of the
tribal governor, of whom she became
enamored in the course of missionary
work.
Five native girls from Alaska have
been taken to Massachusetts to be edu.
Gated. 1t is the intention to return
them to Alaska as teachers, if they dc
not marry certain susceptible muscular
Bostonians.
The fashioa of wearing silk gloves is
one which is at last growing in popular
favor in this country and Is no longer
confined to English ladies, who were
the first to adopt this convenient and
comfortable style.
For evening wear the Diana bodice, of
strong silk, gloye-ftted, with drapery
of soft folds and lace going from the left
shoulder down under the right arm and
7mingling with the back drapery of the
skirt, is both new and striking.
A barber says that one of the few
kinds of woman's work that is not over.
crowded is working, cutting and man
aging generally human hair. Expert
hair dressers command as high as SIS
"a week. Hair workers get from So to
as n