Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-06

doctor IN YER suite.
Do not wear veil just below the
nose if the face is long.
Nine. Modjeska, the tragedienne.
has educated and named five nephews
and nieces.
One of Mrs. Hicks-Lord's fans, with
its gold and ivory sticks, has lace
mount valued at $1,000.
Mrs. John Sherwood, the New York
department authority, says that her
favorite heroine is Portia.
Mrs. Bart, of New York City, has a
bed carved by her own hands. There
is not another like it in the world.
| Mrs. Austin Corbin's drawing-room
in New York City is lighted with cleo
trio lights, shaded with pink globes.
Mrs. William Walter Phelps, wife of
the ex-Minister to Germany, has
crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixty-five
times.
An elderly bride was recently mar
ried in Grimsby, England. Her name
is Mary Benton, and her age is 102
years.
Mrs. Mary Hall, attofney-at-law,
conducts class in "Civil Govern
ment" at Woodside Seminary, Hart
ford, Conn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess,
has invented dress which has no but
tons, hooks or eyes, strings or any
other fastenings.
The s'foot corset" which is becom-
ing popular in Paris, enables the
wearer to readily crowd a number four
foot into number three shoe.
Miss Mary Redmond, the Irish
sculptures, whose colossal statue Of
Father Mathew was recently unveiled
in Dublin, is only twenty years of age.
Miss Helen Gould, daughter of Jay
Gould, spends much time at her Irving
ton IN. " estate, where she has one
of the finest Conservatives in the coun.
try.
The Queen of Italy is said to be one
of the best patrons of music in Europe,
and many young aspirants for musical
honors receive encouragement from
her.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton, wife of the ex-
Vice-President. has a preference for
linen of the whitest, finest and softest,
without lace or color for the dinner
table.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York City, uses altar of roses, which is
said to cost $50 per ounce, one drop
of which is a veritable benediction to
the senses.
The primrose Is very soothing to
those who suffer from excitable over
wrought nerves. Two or three hand
fuls of blossoms should be thrown into
the water of the bath.
Nearly every day flowers and fruit
are, sent by Mrs. John Rockefeller,
wife of the Standard Oil king, to st.
Luke's Hospital, in New York City,
across the way from her house.
Two Boston ladies, Miss Laura Lee.
an artist, and Mrs Flower, wife of the
editor of the Arena, are said to have
determined to do their calling in dress
reform costumes of the bloomer type.
The ex-Empress Eugene is said not
to put trust in French medical men.
When she fell ill of sore throat in
Paris, not long ago, she telegraphed
to England for physician to attend
her.
Mrs Ormiston Chant, the well.
known preacher, says that she has Off
ciated in churches of every creed ex-
cept those of the Church of England
and the Roman Catholic denomina.
tions.
Miss Eleanor Baldwin, who graduated
from the Harvard Annex in the class of
1892, has been appointed to teach
literature and composition in the new
English High School at Worcester,
Mass.
Miss Sallie Pierson, a compositor.
has been appointed State Organizer OF
the Federation of Labor for Indiana.
She has supported herself and mother
by type setting since she vas sixteen
years of age.
Doctor Julia Washburn, of Licking.
ton, KY, is in charge of bureau in
the Kentucky State Medical Society,
and will deliver the public address
this year, at the meeting of that body
IN Danville, on women in Medi
cine"
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has
taken to underwriting, /" and a work
on the philanthropic work of women
throughout the world, shortly to ap-
pear in London, will be entirely under
her editorship, and partly the work Of
her own pen.
Benjamin Constant, the French
portrait painter, says he prefers paint
ing American women rather than those
OF any other nationality. They have
more faith in the artist than the
Parisians possess, and allow him to
pose them and surround them as he
thinks best
The largest New York ssprovider''
employs two women detectives-Len
Vorsemer and Eva Peyser. They are
both mere girls. They receive high
salaries, have the run of a lavish ward
robe, and completely change their at