Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

the holly and mlstletoe VIII relgn 70 Tue
great delight and joy of old and young.
Christmas morning will be welcome indeed,
but with its revelations will cease the de-
lightful suspense, the joyful anticipations
and enhancing speculations that have made
life dream to SO many people, rich and
poor, for the last few weeks.
The Watson-Sproull nuptials on Monday
evening will fill stately old Trinity Church
with a very fashionable audience, and the
appointments of the entire wedding and the
reception which follows are decidedly
new and novel and in the very
height of elegance Several other
emnized during the week, and also that OF MISS
May Whitehead, of Allegheny, and Mr.. A Err
nest Siviter, of Williamsburg. VIII take pace
the evening of the 26th in the N. Z. Chureni Al
legheny. Invitations have been received in
Pittsburg to a wedding in Grand Rapids. Mich
igan, on the last day of this month, wherein
Miss Ada Byron Morton will become the bride
of Mr. William Ogden Hughart the son OF w.
o. Hughart, a long resident OF Pittsburg. Inc
wedding will be sOlemnized in st. Marks Epls-
copal Church of that city.
Miss Blanche PIayford. the daughter of Hon.
II. II. Playford, of Uniontown. VIII re-enter
the CAV world again tomorrow evening" a16er a
seclusion of two years, the family having been
in mourning. The young lady is tall, hand
some blonde and has been sadly missed oy her
large circle of friends and admirers. A recep-
tiOn tomorrow evening will once again MI the
family residence with joVousness and gayety.
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.
The Christmas pantomimes on the afternoons
of the 28th and 27th will be one Of the enjoy
able features of the week. A great deal Of
time and attention has been devoted to the re-
hearsal of the entertainment, and the petite
actors and actresses display considerable talent
The costumes are to be exquisite and some OF
hair fnr
the afternoons.
The great enjoyment of the week however,
will be the grand opera, with Emma Juch as
the stellar attraction. Good society likes 10 De
seen at the opera, it is the GROWING touch of
cultivation and fashion. as It were Pittsburg-
ers cannot have Patti or a palace like the Audi
torium in which TO hear her, but they will
doubtless receive their favor1te, Miss Juch,
with crowded houses.
1t is said that Miss Juch enjoys the distinc-
ton of receiving more attention from the real
blue-blOOded dWellers in the great cities on this
side of the Atlantic than ever accorded any
other lyric or dramatic artist. She includes
among those names enrolled upon her visiting
list the lady members of many of the
finest and oldest of the Knickerbocker fam
lilies of New York. and on her recent visit
TO Washington, was given tea at the White
House by Mrs. Harrison, who occupied a box
every evening that she Gang in the capital city,
and on every occasion would send beautiful
floral tributes TO be handed over the footlghts
to her favorite singer. This extensive but Sc
lect list is of great benefit to the fairI young
singer, but not infFequentlY prove a source of
considerable annoyance, as on the days when
she sings she has made it invariable rule to
rise early, breakfast and take long walk or
drive in some park or in the country, with no
companion but her mother When she is billed
TO sing in the evening. she viii not converse
with any one during the day, not infrequently
carrying this TO such an extent as refusing to
reply to an ordinary question, as she believes
that she is thus able to keep her voice iE condi-
tion to perform her best work.
Very little dissipation has been INDUCED in
during the past week, as the fast approaching
Christmastlde and the necessary preparations
for the festivities attendant upon the holidays
have excluded entertainments or being enter
tanned from societies tablets oi book rather,
for the increasing demands made upon the time
Of the maids and matrOnss in the social whirl
compel a genuine engagement book. The old
practice of jotting down engagements on a
card or placing various notes and cards OF invi-
ration in the houdoir mirror being found en-
tirely inadequate TO accurately inform a gay
belle or matron Just when where and how she
is obliged to spend the feeting days.
PLEASURES THAT HAVE PASSED.
Wednesday afternoon a delightful reception
was given by Mrs. ]. G. Pontefract at her love
ly nome on Lincoln avenue, and Mrs. D. T.
Watson was the guest Of honor. This is the
third reception given in Mrs. Watson's honor
during the yet young season, thus pr owing con-
cfus1Vely the popularity Of the charming young
matron. Las evening the entire Watson-Sprouil
wedding party, after rehearsal at the church,
son mansion on Lincoln avenue.
notable wedding occurred Thursday even
ing, when Miss Maggie NJ. Shaw, daughter of
MT. and Mrs. William A Shaw, became the |
wife of Mr.. J. Q. Doty, q prominent attorney
It was home wedding, simple and unostenta- |
tious, but elegant in every respect
Weddings are still, and probably ALWAYS will /
be, in the lead among social events, one hears |
them discussed from every conceivable point |
of view. The members of the Woman's Club |
at their meeting last Tuesday decided, with |
Grover Cleveland and other great bodies that |
marriage is not a failure, but bride of year /
sagely informs me that the happiness of mar
ried life depends largely upon the cook; and |
that if a dessert which was intended to be |
dream in pastry comes in simply reality in |
soft dough a bad temper is apt to be developed |
along with symptoms Of dyspepsia I came |
across queer bit of nonsense the other day |
entitled the Map Of Love /" translated from the |
French First is shown the lake uf'lndifference''
on the shores Of which are the hamlets Of "Ad- |
miratiOn and Respect" From these the course |
leads on to the villages of Notes of Invita- |
ton" "5ood Times" Complaisance". Sub
mission Attentions, +" "Assiduity," then the |
towns of ''Congeniality' and Mutual Appre-
ciation," situated in the same region with the |
city Of Tenderness which is built on the |
river of Inclination" which Aows into the |
Dangerous Sea- upon the shores of which is |
the "Haven of Rest" as marriage is desig-
mated. A very unromantic, unsentimental mat |
ter-of-fact procedure would be to carry the idea
still further. and from the 'Haven of Rest'' |
sail out in the boats of sIettshness'' or sIrrita-
bility'' into the river of ~ Unreasonableness - |
passing, with slight stops, the hamlets of Re
pentancen - ''Sorrowfulnessn andsForgiveness'i |
until the sea Of "Insensibility" is reached and.
on its shores the Haven of Unrest" where so
many, by their own willfulness and perverse-
ness spend the greater portion of their days
ICE CREAM AND ETIQUETTE.
Moralizing. as a rule, is not appreciated BY
the dear public, however so Pn pass on to a
more inviting subject and tell Of charmingly
unique innovation In the serving Of ice cream |
and adopted by some Of the ladies at their card
parties in the near past By the skillfulness Of
the inventor who has fashioned the molds the |
company not only play cards but they eat |
cards, kings, queens. and all and really, the |
result Of the various creams combined, in the |
designs Of the various cards, look awfully |
pretty, and haven't a particle of the wicked |
favor that has so often been attributed TO them
A note received from benighted young lady
q few days ago, asking If it would be perfectly /
proper for her TO visit in a family where the |
father and mother were 70 years old and the |
only child, q son, who had paid her some atten- |
tiOn but had not asked the momentous ques-
tion. has appealed 70 my sympathies to a won |
derful degree. For her sake and enligheen- /
ment I have obtained number of opinions on |
the subject, and viii allow her to select the one
which accords with herown opinion as q final |
answer. For il is an established fact that peo. |
pie who seek advice. after receiving it, always |
do Just exactly as they think best "Well, no; /
! should rather think it wouldn't be proper"
"Why certainly It would be proper"
II she has any designs upon the young man . |
visit might prevent fruition Of her hopes. |
It would be risking public criticism, but |
nothing strictly improper in such 3 visit |
Such a visit would be tribe "nerTy," but per- |
fectly proper and distraotingly enjoyable one /
81 the young folks are Just entering the infatu- |
ated state. Seriously, in my opinion, it is a |
question that must need personal considera-
tion and decision. Circumstances, TO GER /
tain extent. make things proper or improper. /
There is no written law against such a visit
but, generally speaking, it wo uld be Door taste |
or bad form. THolsEE BRANCH