Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-15
NEWS AND NOTES FOR woMEN.
In England thoro are SAT female black

smiths.,
Tho very latest thing is the plated
muslin bodice.
Cornell has liza students, 1872 of whom
are young women.
Pale shades of blue arc second in favor
to the all prevailing greens.
Tho Presbyterians have decided to
have an order of deaconesses.
Long, fingorlcss mitts arc novelty.
They arc worn with dinner gowns.
Nine. Hess. of Paris, has refused $1,000
for her hair, which is six feet long.
Cloth gowns are made up in combina-
tions of cream white, brown and green.
A Brighton (Mich.l woman digs forty
five bushels of potatoes day and comes
up smiling.
BIink-tail trimmings are used OH gar.
mcnts of mink or sealskin, furnishing an
effective contrast.
En- Empress Frederick has bought n
site at Stcglitz for 100, 900 marks to
build hospital for orphan girls.
A now trimming of dark green, blue or
brown dresses is an embroidery of silver
threads on bands of scarlet cloth.
A new collar for the corsagc is of tho
high military style, over which falls two
broken points, usually in q contrasting
color.
Black costumes are meeting with so
much favor just now that they may be
said to be restored to their old time popu-
larity.
Buttons in tho form of good-sizcd
paddock fitted with n key were very con-
spicuous upon recently imported cos
tune.
Gray and fawn color was the color
combination recently noted in cloth
costume. Although odd, it was very
effective.
Most of the new sleeves have trans.
verse or longitudinal puifs, or are gathered
into deeply pointed cuff of velvet or
embroidery.
The authorities of Vanderbilt Uni
vcrsity arc considering the propriety OF
admitting women to the privileges of
tho University.
Novel earrings are in the form OF
oyster shells, held together by dia-
mond or pearl, and having slender gold
wires attached.
lower middle portion of the crown, from
whence they are brought around and tied
under the chin.
There are still living six wivos of
Presidents, VIZ: Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Garfield
and Mrs. Cleveland.
A new make of hosiery Ia double
faced, being of spun silk on the outside
and Balbriggan underneath. They are
said to be very durable.
Whistling girls arc springlng up all
over the country with II promptncss and
spontaneity that indicate an appalling
and altogether unsuspcctcd amount oil
previous practice.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, has be-
come fascinated with the American game
of poker. AT her house in Paris she holds
poker parties which are exciting enough
to satisfy even an Arizona cowboy.
Something new in furs is the sealskin
pclcrinc, square and short Mt back. with
its fringe of tails Just reaching 10 the
waist, and square and so long rs to como
near the knee, and give the effect of
stole.
The cause of womens rights in Franco
has progressed to tho point of the intro.
duction of bill to grant to trades women
paying licenses the right to vote at
election of Judges of the Tribunal of
Commerce.
In his speech Mt Edinburgh recently,
Lord Salisbury. the Prime Minister, dc.
ciared himself in favor of woman suf-
fringe, and said he hoped the day was
not far distant when women would DO
allowed to vote.
In collars and cuffs pretty novelty is
n hnt. n,,l, Il IL, 4 ~
per one narrow and cncirclcd with a
band of sntin-stitched embroidery. They
are sometimes in colors, pink turning
over blue and so on.
new foreign fancy is the wearing of
black neck iichus in place of wells. Tho
widest part is draped over head and
face, the ends cross the back, and then
come under the chin. and the effect is
wonderfully soft and pretty.
A Spanish Genersl of Barcelona has
bequcatcd 5000, 600 to found n refuge for
the orphan daughters of poor officers, n
prOviso being that each must be beauti-
tiful in face aud form, ''bccause the m ore
lovely woman is the more she is cx-
posed to danger in this world.n
Philadelphia has large training
school for colorcd teachers, and its head
is Miss Fanny j. Coffin. one Of tha-i,oSxi
notable c5lSFcd Women in the country.
-Sire is n graduate of the Rhode Island
State Normal School and Obcrlin Col
legc, and has taught since 1865.
Mime. Le Ray contemplates another
voyage of exploration. This intrepid
French woman, who have travelled all
over Asia Minor, is about to start for
Tcheran, from whence she intends MAX
ing excursions into the least accessible
portions of the Persian dominions.
A correspondent writing from New
York says that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
frequently prepares the dessert for her
family, and that Mrs. Sloane is said to
have no rival rs n salad maker. Mrs.
Colonel Ingersoll is noted for her choco-
late buildings, and Mrs. Sherwood can
cook tenderloin steak to perfection.
A good many influential women are
considering whether it would not be we'll
to start some sort of ribbon society for
temperance in dress, just as there is n
blue ribbon society for temperance in