Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14


pockets of the fiowery porcelain, and about
the mantel cabinet, along the edges of small
stands and fairly crowding the piano shelf
are shepherds and shepherdesses, trouba-
dors, peasant girls and court figures, no two
alike and each outrivaling the other in
gayety and color. Another feature of this
room is the splendid array of artificial
flowers, a variety of decoration. by the way,
that Mrs. Astor is very fond of.
AwEALTH OF FLOWERS.
violets, lilies, lilacs, feverlews, hyacinths,
buttercups and little wilderness of field
flowers are knotted together in clustering
bouquets and freight the wheelbarrows,
vases and jardiniers of Dresden china, while
in slender forms of crystal and jeweled ware
are roses, ssters, japonicas and magnolias Of
such remarkable composition as to chal-
lenge detection in flower show without
the assistance of touch or smell. The linen
blossoms were brought from France last
summer, and the sum paid for them would
have procured a very nice supply of cut
flowers for an entire season. All the hang
ings about the room are made of rich blue
silk canvas handsomely worked in silver
threads. The family crest, done on field
Of scarlet and white in silk, silver and gold,
and mounted in banner form, is the glory
of an east corner.
Mrs. W. W. Astor's callers are directed
to a little Pompeian room finished in black
wood and richly hung with crimson, the
silk twill covering not only the walls and
windows, but paneling the doors and drap-
ing furniture, table and mantel shelf. The
color is that warm, blood red that makes a
plain face pretty and q pretty face glorious
By means of large and beautifully en-
broidered screen, the room can be provided
with a snuggery, and it is here that the
lovely young mistress seesan intimate friend
who has only a moment to stop and a word
to say. The fireplace bas q delightful pro-
fusion of brasses, and among the furniture
is little tete-a-tete table spread with a
dainty china service where the refreshing
cup of vanilla cocoa or sweet chocolate is
brewed with jeweled fingers and discussed
with fragments of -Four Hundred reputa-
tion.
MRS. JAMES C. BLAINE, JR.
The wife of James G. Blaine, Jr., is med
itating'Whether or not to get divorce from
her husband. She has consulted with Rob-
ert G.. Ingersoll, and he has told her that
she could, in this State, obtain a decree of
separation on the ground of abandonment
and non-support. The word has been con-
yeyed to her, almost directly from her hus-
band, that there would be no obstacle inter
posed BY him. She has also been advised
to take such action for the sake of the pub
licity, because she is going to make her
debut as professional actress next autumn,
and she is now engaged in the usual process
OF preliminary self-advertising. She sits in
proscenium boxes at the theaters; she prom
enades Broadway leading a big dog; she
courts publication. and it is seemly, there
fore, to tell that she is q non-paying boarder
at Broadway hotel.
That she is a gratis guest came about in
this manner. Years and years ago, when
sne was a babe in arms, her father, Colonel
Nevins, made his home at the New York
Hotel whenever he was In town. Then the
house was the stopping place for most of the
Southern people who came to New York, and
among the cavalier-like men and beautiful
women one might easily fancy himself in a
little court. Here Colonel Nevins enter
tained, and here he made up hunting and
coaching parties, and made the rotunda and
the sidewalk wildly merry with his prepa-
rations and departure. The elder Landlord
Cranston is dead. The tide of Colonel
Nevins' fortune changed, but when few
months ago news of the distress of the SOL
dier's daughter reached the present pro-
prietor. the junior Mr.. Cranston sent
special messenger to the torsaken young
wife to inform her that so long as there was
a Cranston in the New York Hotel and so
long as Nevins needed a home, to the
slightest knock the doors would swing open
with the same warm welcome that greeted
the family in war days.
A WELCOME GUEST.
Sweet Mary Nevins Blaine responded in