Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-08-10
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In Asia women are yoked with oxen.
The Princess of Wales is very deaf.

ire WORKING Tor wages.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton imports nearly
all her wardrobe from Paris.
Stylish suits for women are those Of
white duck, made in Elton style.
Mrs. Joseph w. Drexel, of Phila-
delphia, has some fine emeralds.
Bamboo furniture for cou ntry houses
is evidently at the height of fashion.
Sailor hats for women have higher
crowns and wider brims than last year.
Fewer colors are introduced into
one costume than were used last sea-
son.
The masculine girl is becoming more
and more in evidence as summer adj
vances
Glove trees, which do for gloves
what boot trees do for boots, are being
widely used.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston wears beauti-
full slippers, and she buys great many
pairs of them.
1t is said Of the Leghorn hat and
plumes that their effect depends upon
who wears them.
The Infanta and Eulalia fashions
and styles increase in way compli-
mentary to the Spanish Princess.
A young English woman has been
appointed lecturer on fruit growing
before the Derbyshire County Council.
Old-fashioned cake should surely
come back with the revival of the
silver cake basket of our grandmother's
time.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, on the
occasion of her silver wedding day re.
ceived among other things over %, 600
begging letters.
Mrs. Theodore Sutro was the vale
dictorian for the first grade gradual
ing class of the University of New
York Law School
Mrs. M. T. Van Rensselaer,, of New
York City, well known as a writer
upon architectural subjects, is tall,
slender blonde, with an interesting
face
An obnoxious mole, too prominent
for beauty spot, may be covered
with wax and powdered over. A light
yelling may be draped over scars or
bruises.
Mrs. Magnusson, the Vice President
for Iceland of the Worlds w. G. 7. u,
has founded girls School in Iceland.
1t is the only one among 10000 in
habitants.
The first public appointment held by
a woman in Ireland was bestowed re-
Gently on Miss Fleury, M d. She
was made clinical assistant to the
Richmond Asylum.
Mrs. Henry Willard, wife of the New
York financier, and her daughters
speak German as well as English. Tho
home life of the family is very happy,
very simple and very charming.
One of J. D. Rockefeller's daughters
was educated at Vassar College, and
instead of spending her allowance on
herself, the daughter of the Standard
oil king, paid the tuition of country
girl.
In stationery fashion tends to the
use of oblong envelopes, instead of
square ones. The paper folds but
once. Extraordinary colors, such as
deep orange, willow green and mauve
are in vogue.
The wealthy dame sometimes carries
fan worth $500 ofpale amber tortoise
oh oil To-
lace and spangled with diamonds, with
most likely a slender monogram on
the outside stick.
Mrs. Judson, the widow of ssNed
Buntline, +" a once popular author, is
an inmate of an New York State aims
house. Thepoor old lady is a paralytic,
and so far superior to her surround.
ings that her life there is doubly hard.
OF fifteen physicians recently ex-
amined in Baltimore by the State
Board of Medical Examiners, in which
is vested the authority to grant licenses
to practice, Miss Ida Pollock took the
highest rank, making an average Of
92s.
The Queen Regent of Spain is fine
swimmer. Every day in the season at
San Sebastian the seashore is thronged
with spectators to witness her remark
able feats. She is always accompanied
by two men in boat, who watch her
closely for fear of accident.
Miss Mary E. Culver, senior partner
in the firm of Culver & Edwards,
Peoria, Ill, is well-known and sue
cessful business woman. For the last
ten years she has been in business for
herself. For fifteen years she has
been Notary Public.
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, OF Boston,
who composed jubilate for the CO.
lumbian celebration, is authority for
the statement that between the years
1915 and 1885 women composed 1913
musical words, including fifty-fve
serious operas, six cantatas and fifty
three comic operas.
The Queen of England in recent
years has found the singing of the
yellow-coated birds too strenuous, and
at present her canaries have given
place to bullfinch and linnet.
These follow her everywhere, there
being special provision for their COM
fort in the royal train, just as there il