Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-30

further south the peasant mans dress Ia
of red calico, shirt ana pantaloons, the
shirt coming outside the pants and
belted at the waist, aud his feet are COW
cred with sort of coarsely woven straw.
shoe and his ankles are swaddled in rags.
The better class of poor people or the
ordinarily well-to.do men here wear
long coats, with top boots, and the Ma
tional cap is WON by nearly every
one. This is to large extent the
costume of the rich, though the wealthy
all over the civilized world dress much
the same as we do. The difference here
is largely in the quality of goods worn,
and st. Petersburg may be said to be
city where the people wear ulsters, caps
and high boots the year round, no mat
ter whether it be as hot as Tophet or as
cold as Alaska. These Russian boots
are worth looking at. They are about
the only cheap thing in Russia, aud you
dollars. The same leather and The same
work in the United States would cost
you twenty-five dollars, aud the finish of
the best leather is as fine at that of
portfolio or pocket book. These boots
reach TO the knees, and the best of them
shine like patent leather. The pauta-
looms are always tucked inside of them
and there is a fancy section about six
inches wide above the ankle of e7oIy
boot, in which the leather lies in
wrinkles with the regularity of wash
board. 1t takes at least twice as much
leather to make q pair of Russian boots
as it does an American pair, and the
same may be said OF the Russian over
coat. The droschky drivers wear moro
cloth than any other cabmen the world
over. 1t takes more of good cloth-for
the blue goods they wear seem to DO of ex-
cellent material-to make droschky
drivers coat than to make ladies'
trained ball dress, and this coat has 20 be
padded and quilted. This coat has long
skirts, and it is made very large so that
the cabby can stuff his body out, and
especially his back, to give himself the
appearance of prosperous fairness. Nine.
tenths of these drivers are padded in this
way, and no well-to-do man would own
q lean coachman. Lieutenant Allen, the
military attache of our legation here,
told ME yesterday that his coachman up
peared to be of dime museum fatncss
when he engaged him, and that he sup
posed his great frame was that of nature,
until one day he met him before he had
put in his pads and he was Us thin as o
rail aud looked so different that 1t was
some time before he knew him.
Speaking of Russian caps, the officers
whom you see here by the thousand all
wear them, and the most of the soldiers
have caps as part of their uniform.
Every servant or messenger wears cap
and the boys from the age of four wear
long visored caps and little overcoats
just like their fathers. Even the little
girls wear caps, and the favorite head
covering of the little maidens Of from
two to six or seven years, whom 1 see
running about with their nurses in the
parks, is a jockey cap of the brightest
red, blue, yellow or green silk. The
colors of the caps of the men are usually
dark, though they are trimmed with all
shades of borders and bands, and each
color denotes something. The police
men, as rule, have red bands about
their caps. Some of the private soldiers
wear caps of white. Others wear caps