Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-11
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Ivory white moiro is immensoly pop.

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Stylish hats are still in plateau
shape.
Tho bell skirt still maintains its
vogue.
Hard times have notably affected tho
attendance at Yassar College.
Epaulettes appear to be quite as
much q feature of fashion as ever.
Lady Isabel Morgesson has devised
q woman's pocket that, she says, can
not be picked.
The English Queens Scoth jour
neys cost her S25, 900 q year for trav-
cling expenses.
Five men and woman recently ran
foot race of 200 yards in Henderson
County, North Carolina. Tho woman
won easily.
Edward Terry, an English musical
editor, says that women compose some
of the finest dance music and some of
the best songs.
The number of,unmarried women in
England and Wales exceeds tho num-
Der OF unmarried, mon by the majority
of nearly 100000.
At Fernclife, Mrs. John Jacob AS
tors place at Rlnnebecl, N. Y, the
fair chatelaine is often seen riding
about her grounds on a tricycle..
When Queen Elizabeth of Austria
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged
after her train seventy feet in length.
1t was borne by thirty-fvo pages.
It was after Miss Martha Lumpkin,
now Mrs. Oampton, that Atlanta, Gu,
WAS first named charlottesville, in
1843. Her father was Governor of tho
State.
Birds of paradise will be worn on
tho most costly and fashionable hats,
and ostrich plnmes will still be regard
ed as one of tho most effective trim.
mings. i
Velvet is to be much used MS n trim
ming for hats. Black jetted wings will
nlso DO popular. In combination with
black, sapphire and peacook-blue will
be SEEN
Queen Victoria is skilful and in
defatigable knitter. She and her
ladies in waiting have knitted many
quilts for the use of soldiers in tho
hospitals.
For autumn hats and bonucts tho
prevailing colors will DO black and
white. Eminence shading from tho
darkest to the palest shade of lavender
will also be proper,
The new winter coats are thirty
three inches long, mado with n very
tight waist, and tremendous sleeves.
Nearly NIL have cape effects about tho
collar and shoulders.
The most beautiful silk which has
appeared to tempt womankind this
season is of heavy satin, with Baya-
dere stripe in velvet. The combine
tions of colors arc simply exquisite.
Soft, rich tartans of nll wool, finished
with corded. silk blouse waist, COM
pleted by brotolles, sleove.pufrs, and
collar of velvet, are among tho pretty
dresses designed for miases' best wenr.
Tho autumn tints in dress take thoir
hues from the dying woods. Browns,
reds md yellows, with notifications of
soa green's, are tho tints of fall. Such
are seen i'll the gowns, such in tho
hints.
An old-time-looking dress has tho
skirt finished with seven ruflles, tho
lower one about five inches deep, and
ench one growing narrower, the upper
very slightly overlapping tho lower
ones.
George Pullman's daughters give
the names to the palace cars which
their father has built-very pretty
names they nre, too-and the very
pretty little sum of 800 is the fec for
the name.
Nine. Scalchi, the operatic singer,
has n collection of eleven parrots in
her home at Turin, Italy. Tho par
rots are eccomplished birds, and among
them speak NIL tho languages of mod
ern Europe.
Tho Albanian girl puts oil her for
tune into gold and silver coins and
mounts these on her high cap, TINT
not only the groom but all tho nsscm-
bled company can discern her value
at glance.
There seems to be reaction in
favor of high cut dresses for dinner
and evening wear. Some of tho most
exquisite importations of the year have
been dresses with square necks OF those
slightly cut away in V shape.
A pretty example of the gray hats is
turban with gimp crown. Gray vel
vet is folded loosely around the crown
TO form a brim and falls at each side in
an ear. White applique lace drapes
the velvet and the hat is completed by
steel ornaments.
Several men fred at cougar which
had been freed near Five-Mile Lake in
Washington the other day, but failed
to hit it. Finally Mrs. Glover asked
to be allowed to take shot at the
beast, and she brought it down dead at
the first discharge.
Black Hercules and other braids are
used with remarkable liberality as
trimming for cloth wraps. Jackets
hnYa the skirts trirnnad with ror,a of