The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-23
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WOMEN TIGER HUNTERS.

WOMEN TIGER HUNTERS.
The wife of the Governor-G General
OF India, Lady Mimic, and her daugh-
ter. Lady Eileen Elliot, have been
distinguishing themselves as tiger
slayers. Shooting at Kolabari, Lady
Eileen and Lord Mimic killed a tigress
and two cubs one forenoon, and out
OF four tigers accounted for in the
afternoon. Lady Mimic and her daugh-
ter each shot one.-London Standard.
WHERE OUR WOMEN EXCEL.
The American woman, according
to Lady Henry Somerset, is better
read and usually far more cultured
than the English woman of the same
class. She is more agreeable COM
panion, and she has firm belief that
she owes it to herself to make the
most of her mental powers; and these
qualities make home life more at
tractive than many meals and much
spring cleaning.
THE ENVIRONMENTS IMPROVE.
Men and women are constantly ris-
ing to prominence whose parents
We're not prominent, says the Moth
er's Magazine, and we know it, too.
Men and women are becoming highly
cultivated whose parents were not so.
Men and women are every day enter
ing into spheres of life and proving
effective therein, whose ancestors
never did their kind Of work or
moved in their sphere. We are
justified, therefore, in working
hopefully both in the home and in
our labors for humanity. We are
justified in accepting the general
proposition that lettering the envir-
onment improves the individual; that
the education of the mind, Of the
heart and of the conscience will
prove, in a great majority of in
stances the dominating and control
ling force of the life in the long run.
THE REVIVAL OF KNITTING.
Knitting is to be the pastime this
season, and embroidery frames will
be tucked away in the attic for a
while. 1t will not be confined to nit
tens, hose and socks, as was the Gus
tom when knitting was necessity
instead Of a pastime, but all sorts of
delightful and fascinating things are
to be manufactured from flying
needles. The most ambitious women
actually are taking knitting lessons
that they may know all the complex
and difficult stitches. Amber or
wooden sneedles are used, and sweat
ers, shawls, scarfs and fascinators are
to be turned out in large quantities.
Numerous things are knitted for the
baby's wardrobe, such as sacks, car
riage robes, bonnets, mittens, soarfs
and even lace trimmings.
The art has been revolutionized,
for the principal stunt of the present
day knitting craze is not learning
how to turn heel or round thumb
properly, but how to make the pop
corn stitch, the bricho stitch, the bis
cult stitch and the coffee bean stitch.
The manufacturers of yarn have rec
ognized the craze by getting out yarn
in all sorts Of colors and shades, so
that all manner Of color schemes may
be carried out in these knitted arti-
cles.-New York Press.
SOCIETY APPROVES OSTRICHES.
You would be amazed" said Miss
Augusta de Peyster recently in con-
versation with an acquaintance, who
has not hesitated to quote her, ito
learn how many of the ostrich plumes
worn by the most fashionable women
are grown in America. Miss de
Peyster did not make any admission
as to herself in that respect, but, as
she is credited with plenty Of patriot
ism. it's not impossible she prefers
domestic plumage to the imported.
She visited, few months ago, Cal
ifOrnia ostrich farm whence thou
sands of the beautifully curling feath-
ers are shipped, and SO deeply was
she impressed by the excellent condi-
ton of the birds she saw there that
she bought a goodly number of the
plumes, to see how they would wear.
AS matter of fact, there is said to
be no reason why Africa should excel
America in ostrich farming. The
climate Of the Southern Pacific Slope
is asserted to be admirably suited to
the health Of the ungainly giant fowl,
and that they can exist even in this
zone has been shown by the ostriches
in the Central Park Zoo. Now that
the plucking, shipping and curling
Of the plumes has been learned as
fine art by American ostrich farmers,
there is thought to be. small danger
Of Miss Columbia being dependent on