Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-04-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

women ''semi-angelic.
Many of the new sutings brought out
for tailor gowns have fringed borders in
a contrasting color ON one sewage.
Straight sashes Of three-iuch padded
silk and angel sleeves Of gauze are char
acteristics of very novel house or party
| dress.
The Juror for plaids this season re-
ceived its first impulse from the tartan
cloaks and gowns made for the Duchess
| of Fife.
The directory styles, with some varia-
tions and accessories, will be as popular
this spring as they have been for the last
! two seasons.
. Pretty cotton, merino and challie
cloths have printed borders along one
selvage that will work up neatly for
house gowns.
The late Empress Augusta left Queen
Victoria a splendid gold bracelet con
tanning the words "For ever" set in
| precious stones.
Iowa is the banner State for women
| educators. Fourteen of the State Su-
perintendents are women, and four fifths
of the teachers are women.
Barred, plaided, checked, and striped
mohairs and alpacas come in all the color
combinations seen in the wool tartans
and zephyrs of this spring.
The new mohairs and slpacas are more
iustrous than those of last spring and
they come in all the new colors that are
seen in other spring fabrics.
Miss Louise Meyer, of New Orleans, is
the latest Southern writer for the
Magazines. She is only eighteen, but
shows talent of high order.
Mrs. Marshall Field, wife of the Chi
cago dry goods millionaire, keeps lady
| secretary, whose sole business is to dis
pense the private charities of her mis-
tress.
Mrs. Stanley Brown, who was formerly
Miss Mollie Garfield, is now living very
quietly in Washington with her husband.
The only house she visits is Secretary
WINDOWS.
Street gowns grow more and more
quiet and Puritanical in effect. The re-
verse is seen in house gowns of all kinds,
| for dinners, teas, at home in the after
Moons or evenings.
The Dowager Empress of China takes
great interest in the development of
the Celestial Kingdom. asd spends a
great deal of her time in consultation
with railroad projectors.
Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, wife OF Ohio's
new Senator, was before her marriage
teacher in the public school at Terre
Haute, Ind, while Mr.. Brice was strug-
Cling young lawyer at Lima.
A woman who, like Charles Dickens's
Jenny Wren, made her living by dress
ing and repairing dolls, recently died in
st. Paul, Minn. Hundreds of her little
friends are mourning for her loss.
New cheviots have dotted stripes and
stripes of broken lines IN clustered
effects. Then there are tartan and striped
cheviots in all the clan tarlan and new
fancy French tartan combinations.
Lady Paunceforte, wife OF the British
Minister, is setting the Washington
women an uncommonly good example in
the matter of walking. Perhaps she may
yet make exercise and health fashionable.
light ladies' cloths, camels' hair serges
| and nuns veillngs, of heavier quality
than those worn last year, flood the retail
dry goods counters and are selling
| rapidly.
Mohair glace in two tones or two
colors will be more worn this spring than
! last, while those in pure shades of Eiffel,
gray, biege, reed green, navy and deep
sea blue suede and tan viii be as popular
| as ever.
Heliotrope and black arc introduced
with fine effect in new fancy tartans Of
French importation, the other colors
ranging through all the rust aud Eiffel
tower reds, the new greens, blues and
yellows.
In Houlton, Me-, lives lady who
never wore an article of jewelry, piece
of lace nor collar, even in the days of
(, courtship, which experience she has
passed through more than once, having
married twice
The Misses Emily and Georgina Hill,
| oil London, have opened school for
women journalists. The Misses Hill edit
the Westminster and Lambeth Gasttts, and
are among the very few journalists of
their sex in Europe.
Mrs. Davis, wife of the Senator from
Minnesota, and one of the prettiest
women in Washington, has hazel eyes,
brown hair and a brilliant complexion.
She is graceful equestrienne and an ac-
complished linguist.
A doll show for the benefit OF the new
| hospital for women is about to take place
in London. There will be prizes for the
best dressed dolls in the different classes,
] and afterward the dolls will be sold for
the good Of the cause.
New taffeta silks, black and in colors,
shot and with self-colored grounds, have
small peas, dots, leaves, flowers and tiny
geometric figures, broche on the surfaces,
generally in the same color, but OCCASION
ally in a contrasting tint.
1.-THE world grows weary praising men,.
4 And wearicd grows Of being praised"
But never wearied grows tho pen
Which Vn.tes the truths that have a1uaEed