Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-27

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@ man, with the cap o.
an amateur yachts
man on his head and a cigar in his mouth
He passed through the hallway into the bar
room department. He went to get lone
solitary drink, I supposed. The other was
an exquisitely dressed young girl. She took
the table across from me in the ladies' part
of the premises and said few words to the
waiter, who went out and returned with q
whisky cocktail. The girl tossed it off, laid
down the money with 10 cents extra for the
man, gathered up her tiny parcels and con-
tinued her walk up town. She did it all in
q perfectly easy manner, and utterly in.
different to my shocked look. Now, really,
why was it worse in the girl than in the
man to drink whisky?
1t is very amusing to observe the people
as they come in and try to get tables by the
/ avenue windows. OF course, these are the
| pleasantest seats, as one can enjoy watching
the stylish men and women who 20 saunter-
ing by, as we'll as be seen by them, which is
q source Of everlasting delight and gratifica-
ton. Frequently when every table in the
windows is occupied, and the middle ones
are empty, girl will call the head waiter
and anxiously converse with him in an
undertone. Heglances around at the differ
ent places, finds out how nearly finished
| some of the eaters are and promises to re-
serve the first vacant table. Leaving a gem
erous fee with him, she goes off contentedly,
returning after awhile to the coveted table
1t is surprising the number who do this
thing. They willingly seat themselves in
the hallway and patiently wait for an hour
for table where they may be seen by their
| passing friends.
FASHIONS IN CANDY,
All society is clamoring for green bon
bons. For q time it was violets. Then
came preserved rose leaves, crystallized
cherries and bits OF damsons in giace form.
Now the selection is as green as a spring
landscape, and the creams, glaces and fruit
drops match the gloves of the serpentine
girl that orders them. These green sweets
are composed largely of California grapes
and plstache creams. There are pistache
balls, cubes and squares in which fruits.
nuts and marrons are smothered. There
are the blocks of pink and white nugget
riddled with pistache nuts, and the green
grape like the charm of beauty is more
than halt concealed, scarcely half revealed,
by the mufaing of spun sugar or whipped
cream. Then there are lime drops and
lime balls, creams and scrolls of English
mint, and buried in sugar CRYSTALS and cream
dates you can get drop of maraschino that
will make your womanly knees very YIELD
ing. Over the whole candied leaves of
bitter sweet and lemon verbena are
sprinkled, and with the gilded tongs comes
q bill of 81 30 for the very smallest box
that ever measured 16 ounces. The sugar
plums for the bonbonnieres of silver and
ormolo are of the same exquisite shades.
Hundreds of women go to our most fash
ionab!e restaurant every week ia the wear
for the sole privilege Of prinking and pow
dering preparatory to a cup of boulllon and
a subsequent call or matinee. The toilet
cabinet where the new rich and the rest of
them meet is q small sumptuously furnished
room with couch of tnfted velvet, a wall
mirror that reaches from the floor to the
ceiling, long stationary table with a
quartet of marble basins, and a French
dressing table as
PERFECTLY EQUIPPED
as though it were a private affair. There
are scent bottles, filled to- the stopper with
perfume; ivory bound brushes, combs and
whisks; q cushion as big as a pillow filled
with pins enough to skewer the bonnets of
national convention of women, fasten their
bouquets and putin their mouths for all sorts
of connections; manicure instruments and
cosmetics; face powder for the blonde, bru-
nette and middle type; almond meal and
cold cream for chaps; rouge for the restora-
tion of vanishing cheeks and lips:
egyptian black for Strengthening brows
and lashes and perfect stock
of hairpins for blonde hair. black
hair, brown hair and copper-hued tresses.
On the washstand the visitor is sure to find
the most delicate soaps the market affords.
glycerine for the hardy and benzoin for
those who have a more sensitive skin. And
the towels, saints OF the laundry, what
towelsl Not i've nor dozen, but stacks
along the dashboard as high as the mahog-
any wainscotting, and the use to which they |
are put by the butterflies of fashion would |
make prim housekeeper gasp. One pirl |
wipes her shoes with three, throwing them |
in corner and helping herself to a fourth
to dry her hands and e fth to rub down |
her face Another takes her hs lr down.
pins one towel about her neck to protect her |
dress, and with another wipes awsy
the dust from the roots. The next has
mud on the bottom of her dress. and
if it cannot be removed with three towels.
then four, five or six linen napkins are
levied upon. 1 have seen these damask
towels used for powder Tags, rouge brushes.
manicure polishers, and soused with Der.
fumery to rub out spots from the fronts of a
dress. have seen them punched, folded
and pinned in dresses for hustle, and
time and again have watched negligent
chaperone fill a towel with crushed ice and
press it on the brow of the semi-insensible
girl stretchedat full length on the couch.
Now and then it does happen that q heady
wine will send a lady from the dining room.
and the Argus-eyed master who attends to |
everything gets restorative to the cabinet |
as soon as the victim.
Aside from the dresses, flowers and man.
nerisms of the elegant women who rendez- |
vous at this cafe about midday, locker on |
can always get point or two for personal |
instruction. For instance you will rarely |
see real swell put water on her face. The |
woman from out of town scrubs q gloss on |
her nose and cheeks, which she afterward |
smothers with pink or pearl powder, but the |
belle from up town, across town OF the
suburbs declares her cosmopolitanism at
once by the careful, cautious way that she !
brushes the dust from her face, rubs it down |
with gentle, caressing touches of the towel. |
and lastly lays on and works in the powder,
When finished she is not only in better,
prettier face than her country cousin, but |
cleaner. Then there is the girl who, instead |
of putting perfume on her handkerchief. |
rubs it in the palms OF her hands and pours
it over her coifure; and still another belle
who tips the scent bottle over her mouth and
vets her lips with the sweet stuff
PERFECTLY NATURAL.
What queer things there are in life to be
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