Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24

| A SOCIAL WATERLOO.
Breezy Gossip on the Impending Up
heaval in Washington Society.
OLIVE LOGAN ON HANDSOME MEN.
Mrs. Cleyeland's Plans When She Leaves
the White House.
MRS. HEARSTS FAMOUS COLONIAL BALL
| CORRESPONDENTS OF THE DIsPATcH.1
! WAsHINGToN, February 20, 1899.
ERCULANEUM and
| ES:E-- Pompeii were lucky in
| MNyIQ LS one respectfully did
| ES2 1X not know the doom
/ NNHE&MHlH that was impending.
| WlEIhfWEM Now, in Washington,
NENMa the upheaval which is
ME}l TJmS to occur less than .
Ni fortnight hence is pat
EN ent to all. A certain
| v ~ tone of pathos mingles,
therefore, with gay
notes of music and light phrases of ofcourtesy.
TRere is positive analogy between the
nfApDt cooial oir onI fbof or r..
memorable ball which took place just be-
fore Waterloo, that festive occasion when
all went merry as marriage bell. On with
the dance Let joy be unconfned cry the
/ leaders Of the haut ton. On the 4th of
March President and Cabinet meet their
Waterloo. Until that time their wives and
families seem resolved to chase the glowing
hours with flying feet.
HANDSOME CHAPPIEs.
The social event of the week has been
Mrs. Hearst's Colonial ball. Our bellies
can talk Of nothing but of the enhanced
good looks OF our men in powder. Wha.
charming fellows must have been extant
in Martha Washington's day, to be sure!
Would that we had lived then!' cry some
OF the more romantic. Now my own opiE
ion is that no men ever existed who were
handsomer than those of the present gener-
alton. If the style of dressing to-day is
less flattering than it was in olden times, so
much the more reason have we to admire
the good looks of our eotemporaries. who
make a fine appearance indeed, albeit their
wear is rough cloths instead OF Velvets and
satins.
The colonial dress is remarkably becom-
ing to women of all ages. From the girl in
her teens to the grandma of three score
there is nothing prettier than the style
which prevailed century ago.
The floral decorations OF Mrs. Hearst's
lovely ball surpassed anything which
Washington has seen. There is no use 10
catalogue the details of the splendid array.
Any mere enumeration of objects howso-
ever beautiful is dry reading; nevertheless
let me mention one tairylike effect in green
ery-portieres OF smilax, looped back with
wreathes of roses Can you imagine any
thing more Watteauesque?
Boucher, who so loved to entangle his Gu
pids in garlands of blooms, would have rev.
eled in the delIneation of various of our
American vines, the erochet-work OF fairies,
without an excreseence in them for yards
ABAY WINDOW ROMANCE.
Have you a bay window? A pretty thing,
but like many a good looking acquaintance,
not always to be relied on. know French
lady who worked for 20 years to save money
enough to buy certain house near Paris
which she had coveted in childhood, as
Dickens did Gadshill She bought the
house at last, and the first time she sat
down in her bay window il detached itself
from the edifce and emptied the unfortu-
nate lady on the ground. The architecture
of the present day is free-handed with its
bay windows, and nowhere more so than in
Washington.
In the room where Mrs. Hearst's guests
danced at the Colonial balbthere was bay
window whose artistic decoration was much
admired. A net, like unto those used BY
fishers, but with silks and crewels, was
stretched across bay window, in the vacant
space was placed rare collection of exotics.
The dancers were prevented by this device
from testing the staving qualities OF the bay
window, and the imprisoned flowers added
a note of beauty to the animated seene
You have heard Of Mrs. Cleveland's first
waltz? Weber's last one is hardly more
celebrated. She INDUCED IN it because she
was leaving the White House. Gossip
never wearies in its discussion OF Mrs.
Cleveland's probabilities for the future.
"She is coming" said the ebon naisd of the
Turkish baths to me yesterday, ''here to
have baf, soon as she leabes de Wite
House."
WHEN SHE DoFFS THE PURPLE.
Fancy the etiquette-burdened First Lady,
her sebaeeous lollieles unrelieved by the
action Of intense heat in Turkish bath for
four long years, counting the hours until
she NAV literally doff the purple and don
the Turkish bath.sheet!
Like unto the winding sheet itself, the
peplum of the tepidarium reduces all
humanity to the same level. Mrs. Cleye-
land and pretty Treasury girl; the wife of
q millionaire Senator's wife, and female
newspaper correspondent; are equally with
put a pocketbook in the coffin, and the
You know that wise saving, can un-
ievout astronomer is mad" 1 think an
Washingtonian is, of all
persons in the world. the most likely to end
his days in madness. One must needs euI-
tivate the calmness of philosophy here if
1ne does not wish to pace the halls of q
unatc asylum. On the one hand such
amazing wealth; on the other, such pinehed
/ grant that Washington ex-
1ibits no such painful extremes as one NAV
zee in London. where the palaces of Bel
yravia and the slums of Westminster are
lbsoIutely contiguous; but, like Mercutio's
though not so deep as
we'll nor 50 wide as a church door, served its
atal purpose-so the sharp contrasts Of
,pulence and poverty proclaim trumpet
ongued in Washington the unwaIranted
liferentia between man and man. l saw