Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01

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seclusion by bordering trees and shrubbery.
Our oarsgirl is pretty creature, as gentle
as any Gwendolen, yet sinewy and strong;
and it is curious to see how she endeavors to
get the advantages OF outdoor exercise with
out losing her aspects OF weak femininlty.
She has brothers who row in knitted shirts,
so scant that their arms are bare to the tops
of their shoulders, and she follows their
fashion SO far as to wear sleeveless jersey
waist 1t Its her figure nicely, and is
clever adaptation. too, for it looks as though
it didn't girt her waist in the least
Nor does it. But be it known that corset
"a very pliable one, yet still corset-is
underneath that outer envelope. Her hands
are protected from callousness and abrasions
by see gloves, which reach to her elbows.
Therefore, when she drops the oars of her
summer outing, and takes up the fan Of her
winter inning, it will be with
FINGERS TAPER AS EVER,
and palms as soft. Besides, she can don
elbow sleeves, these August evenings, and
show the most delicate of forearms How
about the bare skin betwixt shoulders
and elbows, you ask? Ahl There is clever
ness. She is bound to row with her biceps
in view, as her brothers do, and she is proud
of the muscles that raise the smooth flesh at
each stroke; but she wouldn't like to ex-
pose at her first autumnal ballroom reap
pearance arms as tanned as sunburn would
naturally leave them. So she has obtained
q recipe, in which the principal ingredients
are cocoa butter, bismuth and lemon juice,
for obliterating the tan in single week.
During the nights of that period she will
sleep with upper arms smeared with the
uuguent, in order to bleach away the brown
which is now one of the charms of her sight
illness in boat.
But of all the sports known to women,
outdoors or indoors, city or country, none is
pursued with greater zest by its devotees
than that of bargain hunting. And OF all
the year round, now is the time for it, so far
as New York City is concerned. The retail
business is naturally dull In August, and,
in order to clear out old stock to make room
tor September's new goods, merchants seek
to enliven trade by loading their bargain
counters attractively. Women come in
from the near watering places to
HUNT FOR BARGAIN GAME.
Tourists indulge in the sport, and others
to whom the saving OF money is really OF
account 'throng the stores. These latter
frugal women are rather disdained by the
former pleasurable ones. Just as pot hunters
are despised by true sportsmen, and no
millionaire ever got more satisfaction from
hooking 10-cent trout than satin-bound
dowager can derive from the catching of a
dime bargain. She will spend dollar in
car-fares, and almost soak her old head off
with perspiration, in hunting down her small
game. Well, it is all right. The bargains
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the rich, and profitable to the dealer There
is occasionally a mighty funny episode, too
In the midst of the retail shopping district
is a luncheon restaurant for women. 1t is
jammed full during the middle hours of the
day. On central counter this week are
piled bargains in cakes tarts, crullers,
sandwiches and eclairS. They are marked
down." not because they are shopworn or
out of fashion, but through the proprietor's
desire to whoop up his trade. 1t is a sight
to see the crowd of women around that
counter, peering close at the viands, sniff
ing at them, poking them with their fin
gers, and treating them as though they were
articles to wear rather than to swallow.
They don't propose to be fooled, you know.
SHE FORGOT SOMETHING.
care these doughnuts fresh?" an old lady
asked, denting one of them with her gloved |
forefnger.
They're this mornings bake" the pert |
girl clerk replied.
"Sure?" and the bargain hunter took |
one up.
Certain, ma'am," was the curt answer
''It seems rather hard.' and the lady eau
tiouslY bit it.
tits perfectly fresh cruller"
80, l thought twas doughnut."
"No. 1t might be considered hard for
q doughnut, but it is soft enough for a
cruller." ;,
'But 1 don't want a cruller," and the
shopper laid it down.
She turned away, and then the salesgirl |
called after her: ''Madam-madam-d don't |
you want your teeth?"
A full set of false teeth, with gold plate
attached, were left stuck in the cruller.
The lady did want them, and in a tremend-
GUS hurry; but think of the bargain some
body else might otherwise have found in
that hunk of fried dough- AS it was, | |
presume the restaurant man had to mark it
down still lower on account of the damage
that the bite had done to it.
HOW BooMs ARE MADE.
A dramatic critic showed to me one davis
heap of letters that had accumulated on his
desk. 1 had remarked to him that it was a
shame how the newspapers gave publicity
TO the smallest doings of actresses, and how
the ladies must be annoyed by it. There
fore he let me read the chance collection of
missives, and among them were not less
than dozen cool requests by actresses
some of them renowned, and none quite un-
known to fame-that he should print nara
graphs which they inclosed. Among these
was one telling of the writer's griet at the
loss of a pet dog, another narrating an acci-
dent by which an almost fatal dose OF poison
was taken, third disclosed the constructive
secrets of feminine apparel, fourth was to
give currency to a matrimonial scandal in
volving the correspondent herself, and so on
through the lot. 1t was a revelation 10 me
of the anxiety amounting almost to yo-
racity of actresses to be exploited in
print. Right in the face of this knowl-
edge, but with the excuse that Lefty
Lind and Sylvia Grey have gone
back to London, there to stay for
a year or two at least l am going to tell a
story which, if they were still performing
in this country, 1 should not write for fear
of serving an advertising purpose.
GOT THERE, JUST THE SAME.
The London BurIesque Company, in
which these gyrators made us acquainted
with skirt dancing" was at the Standard
Theater. The towns contingent of addle-
pated msshers had deserted the comic operas
and 1ocked to this new allurement. That
degree of adulation was new to Sylvia and
Lefty, whose London vogue had been COM
paratively Insignificant, but they did not
permit themselves to be dazed by it, and the
Johnnies-that is the London nickname for
dudes who dangle after actresses-were held
of from familiar approach The fact was |