Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-12
CLARA BELLIES CHAT.
A Feminine Whim Which Opens Up
New Avenue for PrOdigality.
GENERAL SHERMAEA SOCIAL PET.
A Glimpse at His Home Lifsand q Peep at
His Pretty Daughters.
HOW IEGERSOLL'S GIRLS ENJOY LIVING

prodigality is that Of the theater hatpin.
The hat, against which all the world has di-
rected its vituperation. has become still
more tightly riveted into the drama by the
last craze for magnificent pins, which are
stuck in the back hair 50 that the
edge of the hat can catch over the head
of the pin and thus be prevented from slip
ping backward. Within the last year these
little arrangements, which were originally
used as an unpretentious necessity. have be-
come so elaborate and conspicuous that a
mans eyes are dazzled as he sits in q
theater, and his attention distracted from
the stage performance. No manner of wear
ing an expensive piece of jewelry has yet
been found to compare with that of the be-
gemmed hatpin. Situated as it is, squarely
at the back of a woman's head, it can be
seen, if it is brilliant enough. by the greater
part of an audience. It is positively ag-
gressive and assertive in its Importance, and
I really believe that as long as the fashion
for it prevails there is no hope for the death
of the high hat in the theater. If you ask
present, ring or bracelet, she will surely
reply, hatpin.
COMBS HAVE THEIR INNING.
In addition to this ornament now growing
so popular. I find that combs are again
coming into fashion. They began month
or so ago, and are still worn quite small,
and are stuck sideways through the back
hair instead Of up and down as in the old
days. 1t is the favorite custom now for
young women to braid their hair tightly
and then wear it in a coil covering the
backs of their head. Through this lati-
tudinally is stuck the comb. At present
plain gold ones are most worn by girls on
the street, but for dress occasions richly
gemmed ones. sparkling with all manner of
precious stones, are utilized with lovely
effect. These combs are growing larger all
the time. They began as sort of hairpin,
with only two prongs and mildly orna-
mental head. They have already reached
the four-prong stage with elaborately
wrought crowns. At the theater this week
1 saw a. society woman with one
made of the most exquisite
tortoise shell, upon which was seated a
crown of delicately carved gold, and in this
antique beauty. Worn as it was, it attract
ed the attention of everybody, and there was
not girl in the house but decided to get
comb the very next day. All the jewellers
windows now display these combs more copi-
ously than any other article of their stock,
and it is easy enough to see that there is GO
ing to be run on them. Nothing is pref
tier as we get them now in their smallness
and concentrated elegance, but, according to
the usual feminine desire to push good
thing to absurd limits, doubt not that ere
long the comb, like the late hustle, will have
expanded like peacoek's tail, and between
us and the drama there will be instead of
the high hat u sort of gold fence with dia-
monds as big as hickory nuts set along the
ridge.
A GREAT LADIES MAN.
General William Tecumseh Sherman is
kept as busy as belle posting his social
journal, acknowledging books, prints, ham
pers of game and cordials, and accepting as
many of the cards of invitation as the all
too-short days will permit. Every morning
he is at breakfast by o'clock, looking as
fresh and sweet as a new babe straight from
the bath. There are always two or three
young ladies at the table, the guests of the
Misses Sherman, and the butler has trick
of serving the fruit, delicately Drowned
omelettes, sea food, rice cakes, rolls and
coffee so as to squander at least an hour and
half of the morning for the old warrior,
who breads being alone or with his own
thoughts. From the breakfast table he goes
to the library, seats himself in big, prune-
leather chair and with a tooth pick
between his lips, and q fierce looking
miniature scimeter between his fingers, cuts
his way through mass of mail of char
acter to move whole university of beaux
10 envy. There are letters from all parts of
the country, and from all sections of the
city, and 'all from girls" as he confesses
himself. He has pretty habit of sending
a rosebud, or q spray of mignonette, to one
lady by another, and in return is repaid by
a dear little letter of acknowledge ent.
The hotels alone keep him burdened with
obligations, for the invitations to lunch,
dine or see a play come from transient
friends and must be attended at once. Then
the local demands! Chesterfield himself
would have found it tedious to be punctual
even with his regrets. But the dainty notes
are read aloud to the little group who
ENJOY THE SMILES
That play about the soldiers face, often
without needing the favors that provoke
them, and when the last seal is cut one of
the daughters piles the open letters on
salyer and gives them to her father. who
goes up to his Office, where the secretary
awaits him. Here the two work till
luncheon time as diligently as any mer-
chant and stenographer in New York, and
in the afternoon, if there are no companies,
no receptions, no teas and no matinees, the
General busies himself on some reminis-
cences to be published later.
Just now," he says, "the work is being
shamefully neglected; but my friends i'm
perfume me so that there is nothing for me
to do but go. And why shouldn't play
now? Most people play first and work
afterward. But / worked first, and now
that the afterward has come 1 mean to have
my games.
At the Centennial banquet lady, when
told that Sherman often attended 10 course
dinners a week, asked how he managed to
escape gastronomic suicide.
81 do not eat 10 per cent Of the dinners I
go to" he said. 81 go to see the diners
and enjoy their enjoyment, which never
could do if was foolish enough to treat my
stomach disrespectfully. You see, it has
been too stanch friend to neglect. eat
to live, and am satisfied with the simplest
kind of food. Then, take great pains to |
give hunger a show, AMI while I believe
most thoroughly in the value of regular
hours Tor meals and rest, have learned ]
how to go through dining room without
eating a morsel without being detected,
and, above all, without hurting the taste of
the hostess"
MISS SHERMAN'S WORK.
During her lifetime, Mrs. Sherman kept
up most extensive correspondence with
church people, discussing by letter the gooC
and useless methods of government not only
in local asYlums, school cloisters and par
ish churches, but in remote and foreign sec
tons of the country. She was perhaps the
only American with whom Pope Plus TX.
and the present Holy Father regularly cor
and at the time OF her death the
letters exchanged dealt with living topics
the Henry George movement, secular educa-
ton and the spread of infdelity-anyone of |
which would be read with ayidity had the
permitted them to be published.
Mrs. Sherman was always careful student |
Of church litersture, and her exchange OF |
books, specials and reprint. made her name |
honorable in many of the converts and mon
lsteries Of the United States. In all this |
religious enthusiasm her distinguished hus- |
band took but little interest, reading moth |
ing, not even the casual contribu- |
lions of his wife To Catholic neriodicals /