Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Boas arc things of thopast.
Colonial chairs are the rage.
Brocadcs are very little worn.

very uSht-iittinS gloves arc not FASH
lonabc.
Ribbons for usc on spring hats arc all
borlcrcd.
~ Chicago woman can speak ten differ
ent languages.
There are sixty women dentists in tho
United States.
Yellow is the color of many of tho new
summer gowns.
Amclic Rivcs- Chanlcr has the face of n
Greek goddess.
None but American ladies put OH thcir
gloves i'll the street
Opols are now comntcrfcitcd, it is said,
SO ms To defy detection.
There arc two women in command OF
Mississippi steamboats,.
Turkish women cat roso leaves with but
ter to secure plumpncss.
The Empress of Austria is said to bo very
fond Of speaking English.
India silks will figure in every well sup
piled summer wardrobe.
Each year i'll England fifteen out of
every 1000 persons marry.
Bonscs Of wash surah silk will be a
feature Of summer toilets.
The female graduates of Cornell beat
The males by sixty per cent.
| Velvet ribbon has taken the place of
moirc ribbon for trimming.
Archery clubs will bc the fashionable
fad during the coming season.
Those ladies to whom thcstylc is bccom.
ing are wearing their hair low again.
Embroidered collars and cuffs should bo
made separate from summer dresses.
The total value of the gems belonging
to Mrs. Thomas A. Scott is $500 900.
Fomr-buttoued kid gloves with heavy
| stitching on the back are worn for walk,
ing.
Shocked ginghnms will make some oI
the lavoritc morning dresses for the sum.
mer.
rarasos with long handles will be
more generally worn Than they were lasi
year.
White and gold hrocadcd silk purasols
will be much used for hotel piazzns and
carriages.
Architecture is new department in
which woman's work is beginning To be
recognized.
A Belfast (hIc.) lady has entered II ma.
chime shop, and is learning the machin.
lists trade
The women Of Denmark to the mum
Der of 10000 have pctitioncd for In,
right of suffrage.
Celia Logan, who after twenty years Of
quiesccncc, has just blossomcd out into +
novelist, lives in New York
The two Misses Armour, Chicngo, nrc
snid io he worth in their own right and
proSpcc;ivcly So, 600, 600 each
A favoritc lncc hat will be of black
dotted net with border of fine black
Chantlly shirrcd upon silver wire.
Mrs. ii. v. Alexander, wife of a law.
yer and dnughtcr of Charles Crockcr, i:
worth S6, 000, 900 in her own right.
Mrs. GriswoId Gray, widow, of New
York, is worth $4,000, 900. She is th,
daughter Of the late Richard Irving.
The wash silk, now so much used fol
underwear Of both big and little people
is Il full yard wide, and sells for ST d
yard.
An authority declares that to be stylish
you must first buy your parasol and match
all the rest To il, both in tint and in out.
line.
The new high ncckcd bodice, whicl,
has made its appearance mt the Queens
| drawing room, is called "Thc Nurcm-
burg"
For thin stulfs the French round waist,
shirrcd in the neck, back and front with
out darts or side forms, is the favorite
bodice.
"Thatch" bonncts of grass have bou.
qnet of poppics or morning glories for
their only trimming. They are odd
rather than pretty.
Robe dresses of white or light wool
heavily embroidered in colors, arc pretty
to look mt, but more pronounced than
distinguished to wear.
The Court of Queens Bench Inns dc.
cidcd that women arc not eligible to
membership in the London County Coun.
Gil. The ladies will appeal
AZ the examinations in descriptive and
practical anatomy, held by the Irish Royal
College of Surgeons, two lady students
have taken the highest prizes.
The newest fabric for skirts and skirt
ing is called marine cloth, worstcd cloth
with watercd face. II is very stylish.
There will be great run on it.
Hair dresscrs say that if women persist
in dressing their hair on top of their
heads there will be larger percentage OF
badness than has ever been known before.
The Empress of Austria sits alternately
on either side of her horse, and she has
saddles made in both ways Several
Englishwomcn have also adopted the Gus
tom.
The bell with which Mary Washing
ton, the grandmother of her country,
summoned her family to meals, is now in
possession of Mrs. Johnston, of Grafton,
w. Va
Some Washington ladies adopted an
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