Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-01-19
ory white MORE is immensely pop

Stylish hats are still in plateau
shape.
The bell skirt still maintains its
vogue.
Hard times have notably affected the
attendance at Yassar College.
Epaulettes appear to be quite as
much feature of fashion as ever.
Lady Isabel Morgesson has devised
woman's pocket that, she says, can
not be picked.
Tho English Queens scoth jour.
neys cost her s25,0OO year for tray-
cling expenses.
Five men and u woman recently RON
q 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 danos music and some of
the best songs.
The number of unmarried women in
England and Wales exceeds the num-
Der of unmarried mon by the majority
of nearly 100000.
AT Ferncliffe, Mrs. John Jacob AS
tors place at RhinebeclS, N. Y, the
fair chatelaine is often seen riding
about her grounds on tricycle..
When Queen Elizabeth of Austria
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged
after her train seventy feet in length.
1t was borne by thirty -tive pages.
It was after Miss Martha Lumpkin,
now Mrs. Campton, that Atlanta, Ga,
was first named "Marthasville, in
1843. Her father was Governor of tho
State.
Birds of paradise will DO worn on
the most costly and fashionable hats,
and ostrich plumes will still be regard
cd as one of tho most effective trim
mings.
Velvet is to be much used MS q trim
ming for hats. Black ietted wings will
also be popular. In combination with
black, sapphire and peacocls-bluo 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 bonnets tho
prevailing colors will DO black and
white. Eminence shading from the
darkest to the palest shade of lavender
will also be proper,
The. new winter coats are thirty
three inches long, made with very
tight waist, and tremendous sleeves.
Nearly all have cape effects about tho
collar and shoulders.
Tho most beautiful silk which has
appeared to tempt womankind this
season is of heavy satin, with Bnyn-
dere stripe in velvet. Tho combine
tions of colors are simply exquisite.
Soft, rich tartans of oil wool, finished
with n corded silk blouse waist, com,
plotted by bretolles, sleeve-punfs. md
collar of velvet, are among tho pretty
dresses designed for misses' best wear
The autumn tints in dress take their
hueH from tho dying woods Browns,
reds and yellows, with notifications OF
sen green's, are the tints of fall Such
are seen in the gowns, such in tho
hats.
An old-time-looking dress has the
lower one about five inches deep, md
each 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 are, too-and tho very
pretty little sum of 800 is the fee for
the name.
Nine. Scalchi, the operate singer,
has collection of eleven parrots in
her home at Turin, Italy. The par
rots are accomplished birds, and among
them speak all tho languages of mod
ern Europe.
The Albanian girl puts all her for
tune into gold and silver coins and
mounts these on her high cap, that
not only the groom but all tho assem-
bled company can discern her Value
at a glance.
There seems to be reaction in
favor of high cut dresses for dinner
and evening wear. Some of the most
exquisite importations of the yenr have
been dresses with square necks or those
slightly cut away in V shape.
A pretty example of the gray hats is
a turban with gimp crown. Gray vel
vet is folded loosely around the crown
to form 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
have the skirts trimmed with rows of
braid in graduated width. Colored
cloth capes are overlaid from rear to
lower edge with black braid put on in