Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1888-07-26
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Very new hairpins have heads of am
Der.
The Queen of Sweden is an excelleHI
cook.
Russian enamel is the very newest craze
in jewelry.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania has
written a ballet.
Although deaf, the Queen of Denmark
is fond of music.
Pink takes the place of heliotrope
among summer tints.
Queen Marguerite of Italy is very fond
of American literature.
The fashion of wearing corsage diff
ferent from the skirt Is in vogue.
Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, is
the only woman's college in Scotland.
The mother of General Lew Wallace
lectures on woman suffrage and temper
ence
Miss Kate Kavanagh is a successful
ranchero IN the Ceur d'Alene country of
Dakota.
Queen Olga, of Greece, has made and
embroidered national costume for her
husband.
White and copper promises to rival
white and gold as favorite color COM
bipation.
White braids will be in vogue on dark
sateens and on velvet and silk they are
also fancied
The Empress of Germany tastes por-
tons of every article of food intended
for the Emperor.
Gray and green are very stylishly
blended together in some of the new
hats and bonnets.
Silk-fowered wooden lace looks rich
and elegant as trimming for summer
challies and lustres.
Full bows of ribbon, with stiff quill
or two, are the only permissible trim
ming worn for travelling hats.
The Princess of Wales is setting the
example OF displaying as much jewery
as possible on court occasions.
Miss Frances E. Willard, the temper
ance organizer, says the doll teaches
little girls to be vain of dress.
If Queen Victoria lives a few years
longer she will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage OF history.
A garment that is a basque at one side
and upon the other a we'll defined polo
naise, is among the latest caprices
Gray with yellow-the bright, brassy,
buttercup hue-sns one of London's afro
cious combinations for evening gowns.
About the prettiest of new rustic hats
are made of fine cora husks, delicately
braided and neither bleached nor colored.
Real silver hooks and eyes are seen
upon the corsages of some of the summer
gowns, and are ornamental as we'll as
useful.
popular for house gowns, is merely the
old time alpaca in new tints and printed
patterns.
Isaiah Walton, farmer living near
Byron, Ca, says he has five married
daughters whose aggregate weight is
over 1000 pounds.
The University of Zurich, Switzerland,
has conferred the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy upon Miss Frances HI. Mitch
ell, of Philadelphia.
1t is stated that so great is the demand
for green hats the present season, that
dealers find it at times almost impossible
to keep them in stock.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with a
picture of Marshall Wilder, the humor-
ist, on one side of her and a mirror tied
with ribbons on the other
Striped fabrics, when used for corsages,
are made more effective by being made
to taper sharply at the back forms, and
to slope diagonally to point in front
Thousands of hands are now busy on
the trousseau of the future Empress of
China, and it will be the greatest ever
made. The wedding will not occur until
1882.
Among the most attractive of the sea-
sons bonnets are those of straw lace,
which are nearly as delicate as some of
the silk and thread hand wrought
guipures.
Sleeves are made of two materials to
be very stylish and are very becoming
Two full wide puffs with wide bands be-
tween are very pretty, and bows to finish
at elbow and wrists.
There are in Asia 200, 900, 900 of Bud
dhist women not one of whom, according
to her religious belief, has any hope of
immortality, except, perchance after
transmigratlon through many animals,
their spir t: may enter some boy infant
1t is said that the new god braided
and bordered white camels hair capes
are called Bulgarian simply because they
had to be called something, aud the
name Marie Antoinette had been
stretched about as much as it would bear.
DR.. Sarah Hackett Stevenson said at
the Woman's International Conference in
Washington. that the women who went
to all quarters of the globe as physicians
did more missionary work than the
church missionaries, because the doctor
appealed to nature.
Cheese straws are "a new wrinkle at
dinner parties. The cheese comes in
long sticks like macaroni, and one end is
tied with q narrow strip of ribbon.
These cheese straws were first introduced
at the five oclo k teas two seasons ago,
and now find their way to the fashion
able dinner table.
Albert cloth, among the best of new