Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-20
3 sG'9R WOMEN.

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Rosettcs made of ribbon are much
used.
Mrs. Parloa has written another cook
book.
The latest thing in furs is snowbirds
on muffs.
Loopings up have almost disappeared
in dresses.
Velvet and fawn color is an effective
combination.
Many of the newest sash ribbons arc
half yard wide
New Orleans has the only woman's
club i'll the South.
Donkey parties are still in favor in
many social circles.
There are 100000 more women in
England than men.
Mrs. Frederick vanderbilt's favoritc
jewels are sapphires.
Miss Kate Fields new lecture is on the
Gospel of the Grape"
Tho latest thing in church entertain
monts is q BUTTERFLY tea."
White and dull red are the preferred
colors for evening cloaks.
Yellow and white is color combina-
ton In high favor just now.
Mrs. james Brown Potter. the actress
wears neither stays nor hustle.
The Duchess of Westminster has taken
to chrysnnthcmum cultivation.
White is the regulation evening dress
this season for very young girls.
A hustle factory in Bridgeport, Conn,
has shut down for lack of business.
There are 5000 women employed in
tho Government departments i'll Wash
ton.
Some of the newest passementeries
are relieved by intermixed beads of cut
! coral.
Nearly 1000, 900 women voted at the
last election in England, Scotland and
Wales.
There are now about forty ordained
women ministers i'll the univcrsalist
Church.
Fur, passcmentcrie and fringes are the
trimmings of the season for out-of- door
garments.
Ladies in waiting to the Queen of Italy
are declared TO be the most beautiful in
all Europe.
Opcnfece watches arc now more
popular with the ladies than the closed
hunting case.
Some short jackets will make their
appearance II little later, made entirely
OF astrakhun.
Feather brims with soft crowns of
velvet compose some of the capotcs for
evening wear.
The newest underwear is shown in
silk-liRa qualities of Nainsook and
French linen
TUNED down collars and deep cuffs
OF Venetian guipure lace are in style for
evening wear.
Pure white gowns of cashmere and
Sicilliennc arc popular for dcbutantes at
an afternoon tea
The hair may be worn either high OF
low this winter, aud there are various
ways of drcssingit.
Some of the most elegant new dresses
are made in long, straight redingotes
over skirts of faillc.
The Womcn's Industrial Exchange OF
Leadville, Col, paid over $500 to
needy women during last year.
Evening toilets arc made up in white,
green, and rose. In some dresses Mi
these colors are worn together.
Some of the sleeves of the present sea.
son ale half open in the old style with
rich, flowing sleeves of lace inside
Ladies who find the style becoming
now wear their dresses rather low at the
neck, with turned down linen collars.
Silk marabont messy silk trimming,
is used To border the edges of the recep-
ton dresses for wear later in the season.
The skirts of street dresses arc worn
very long this season, especially by those
who wish to add to their appearance of
height.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetcss,
dresses her hair u In Clytie, but favors
the Empress Josephine in the cut of her
gowns.
The charitable and religious organi-
cation of the Kings Daughters, which
startcd only year or so ago, now num-.
bers over 30, 900.
Mrs. ELLA Dietz Clymer, an active
member Of Sorosis, carries her pretty
head as if she were always about to say
''prunes and prisms."
Miss Ellen NJ. Spraguc has been en-
ployed for twenty-thrce years by II
Chicago publishing firm as cashier, book
keeper and confidential clerk.
Sarah Bernhardt, the French TRACE.
dicnne, says there is only one person on
earth TO whom she has ever bent the
knee. That is her dressmaker
Out of fifty-two New York ladies vac
cinated by one physician only thirty.
four tainted away at the prick of the
lancet, and the doctor calls that wonder
full.
1t is the custom in Philadelphia to
send young ladies 10 dancing school up
to seventecn or eighteen years of age and
then turn them loose on society to learn
how to talk.
Mrs. Rood, Chicago woman. has
taken uut number of patents for build
ing furniture into the walls Of flats; She
utilities the space within the walls to II
great extent.
Patti, the cnntatrice, told an inter
viewer recently that she passes twelve
hours out of twenty four in bed, and
that plenty OF sleep" was the secret of
her bcuuty