Southern ladies' journal., July 02, 1887, Image 1

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®LADIES JOURNAL.
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CONTAINING TOPICS OF
HOUSEKEEPING, WIT, LITERATURE AND PROGRESS.
3" O "CT IX IT-A. L OWNED, CONTEOLDED AND EITTIEEL” ~XT LADIES.
VOL. 3, No. 39.
ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Alice Freeman has presented the
Christian Woman’s Exchange of New
Orleans with a set of views of Wellesley
College.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb is connected
with thirteen learned societies, including
the Clarendon Historical Society of
Edinburgh.
The rooms of the late Mrs. A. T. Stew
art at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga,
are tenantless. They will be kept va
cant all the season out of respect to the
memory of their occupant for so many
summers in the past.
The Queen of Roumania honored
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee by translating
Victoria’s journal into Roumanian, and
publishing it in a cheap edition.
Miss Marcia Marvin, daughter of the
late Bishop E. M. Marvin, has accepted
the position of matron in the Mission
School at Piracicaba, Brazil, and expects
to sail in July.
The Empress of Japan, accompanied
by a retinue of twenty persons, will visit
the United States in October. She will
land at San Francisco, stop at Salt Lake,
Omaha and Chicago, and return, after
two months’ sojourn, by the Southern
Pacific route.
The women of California are finding
profitable and steady employment in
huit culture, as they can easily do
much of the work, such as picking,
packing, making raisins, and canning
fruit. Crystalized figs and apricots, to
a large extent, are the products of the
labor of women, as well as jellies, jams
and marmalade.
A conspicuous leader of Athenian so
ciety is Miss Sophia Tricoupis, sister of
the prime minister. She is a slender,
fragile looking old lady, who lives sur
rounded with flowers. Her brother’s
friends, knowing her fondness for them,
send her dozens of bouquets every day.
She never “goes anywhere,” but receives
from 10 in the morning until midnight.
In Athens she is a power. As a corre
spondent she is indefatigable, writing
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LITTLE ROCK, ARK., JULY, 1887.
dozens of letters in as many different
languages every day. When she lived
in London with her father, the Greek
minister, she made the acquaintance of
Miss Susan Dallas, whose father, George
M. Dallas, was at that time America a
minister to the court of St. James. An
intimacy between the tw’o girls ripened
into friendship, and they have corre
sponded at intervals ever,, since. Miss
Tricoupis never married. Her heart, it
is said, is buried in the grave of a hero;
but she is the most devoted and affec
tionate of sisters, and much of M. Tri
coupis’ success is of her making.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says:
“There is abject poverty to an alarming
extent in many of the larger cities in
our own country; but while woman often
suffers here, there is a respect for her sex
which is found in every class of society,
and which protects her from the indigni
ties endured by her sisters in other lands.
Women are finding many avenues to
self-support opening to them in the
United States. They are more and more
in demand in the cities every day. Bet
ter wages are being paid them, because
they have demonstrated that they excel
in many kinds of work. With the law
so firmly on her side; with the best
schools open for her culture; with a
shield of sympathetic protection in the
manly sentiment of the country, and with
commercial enterprise extending its
favors to her, the American woman has
cause to be thankful.”
mFladWrobes.
The neck is dressed as high as ever, in
spite of the hot weather.
Yokes are in such great favor this
summer that even vests have yokes or
yoke-like pieces at the top.
The low-cut ties used for a walking
shoe this summer are cool ami comforta
ble, but much too hospitable to gravel
and mosquitoes.
The Pompadour style of hair is in
favor, but not for young faces. In dress
ing the hair black hairpins are no longer
used; gilded pins, large and small, and
small ones of blonde tortoise-shell take
the place of them.
For simple dresses the waist is shirred
at the neck and waist line in front and
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behind, and has a tu uM Bvron col
lar or a deeper sailo. ' ..J.' 011 l ---
skirt has an apron n i
material, with two bacn.
bunched at the top and reaching
floor, yet caught up it e middle to f* ’
in two points.
A new Irish lace called “Kells” is
made by Donegal workers. The thread
used is polished flax, and the lace looks
as if made of fine silk. A costume of
Donegal linen embroidered in Irish pat
tern and. trimmed with this lace, was
worn at one of Queen Victoria’s draw
ing-rooms the other day.
The latest traveling mat or dust
catcher is the Irish peasant’s cloak, made
of six or more breadths of surah, and
long enough to envelop the whole person
from head to foot. The whole fullness is
simply gathered to a deep standing col
lar of velvet. The peasant cloaks have
no sleeves, but the fronts are doubled up
to form sling sleeves. There is a belt
underneath to adjust the fullness slightly
to the figure in the back.
There are many kinds of sleeves in
wear this season. The full bishop style,
gathered into a velvet cuff, is growing
in favor daily. The pufied sleeve ap
pears upon many of the dainty summer
gowns, with insertions of lace between.
A new leg o’-mutton model has appeared,
with bead or silk embroidery at the top
end around the wrists. The real Italian
j sleeve is much used with artistic evening
dress, and also upon children’s pictur
esque gowns. Oriental styles also pre
vail in the making of gowns for high
teas and summer evening water parties,
and other fetes. Sleeves are besides in
Grecian, Syrian, Jewish and Turkish
styles. Persian colors are much em
ployed for indoor dresses, and the East
ern tissues are extensively used. These
i are combined with velvet withelegant
1 effect, the bodies and sleeves being the
; special point of decorative study.
Some of the shirts for lawn-tennis wear
are made with a new, or rather revived,
sleeve—tight to the elbow, and then full
to the shou'der.
The army worm is marching on
through parts of Mississippi. The plan
ters, however, say that the hot weather
is too much for the crawling host, which
simply nibbles where it used to devour.