Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-13

are in the city OF Paris, AT least l think
there are as many; for although there is not
q wine shop or cafe in the French capital
which is unsupplled with one of these highly
interesting objects of decoration and use,
still the Partisan public continues to exist
without soda water, while the enormousness
of this business with US. lady cashier going
to each fountain, swells the domestic aggre-
CATION of lady cashiers to incalculable pro-
portions.
The finest soda water fountains and the
finest soda water lady cashiers in New York
are grouped within a comparatively small
area about the City Hall square. There are
wonderful places in the shopping district up
town, of course, but in point of size and
magniicence the downtown fountains are
unparalleled, and
THE LADY CASHIERS
who handle their enormous revenues are un-
speakably more distinguished than the best
specimens that Sixth avenue and upper
Broadway afford. sat half an hour on
settee yesterday and studied ore of the
specimens.
use the word distinguished" advisedly,
as the lawyers say of hard name when
they want to rub it in. Nearly all lady
cashiers are beautiful, but when it comes to
language, bearing, facial expression and all
that, there are lady cashiers and lady cash.
iers. The City Hall Square lady cashiers
I may use the somewhat clumsy term for the
purpose of lucid differentiation-have
hauteur, London accent, and manicured
finger nails. They are duchesses, every one,
~ 4l,ots sea i g.
do not think that they are really English.
breeding has been accomplished upon the
most unmistakable and to-ploitiest English
lines. 1t is quite terrible for difident
man to be obliged to pass in the price of
glass of soda water to them as they sit so
wonderfully and awfully in their splendid
wickerwork cages. 1t seems SO bold, so
vulgarly intrusive and offensive to lay a
nickel down upon the glass plate before
them and shove the mean little thing in
upon their loveliness and privacy. I sus-
pect that many poor devil has given up
his soda water drinking through sheer lack
OF courage to face the terrors of this sort Of
thing.
PROUD AND PEERLESS.
Do you know, oh difident male reader,
precisely the sensation? Have you not felt
the panic stealing over you as you have
stood before the soda-water lady cashier and
handed in your cent piece? To see her be-
hind her vase OF deep red roses, cslmly read
ing novel printed in large text in broad,
pure margin; to behold her attention dis
tracted by the base click Of your paltry
coin; to suffer the slow contemptuous sweep
of her eyes from her book to your money,
and the somewhat spatulous digit behind it;
to hear the deliberate music OF her bangle as
she YEARLY lifts her hand; to see her own
ROSY, taper, perfectly cared-for finger de-
scend wearily and fearfully upon the money,
as though it had the smallpox, and send it
with quick, sharp flip, jingling into the
drawer, and then to observe her renew her
novel without even so much asA glance at
your interesting face-Go you know any
thing, oh difident reader, that has ever sent
you down further and with, colder and
more hopeless humiliation into your boots?
and you scrubbing your mustache with few
erish zeal all the while in order that when
the proud and peerless creature looked you
over she might discover no froth upon It'll
SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE 1T.
"I'm sorry, madam, but it is impossible"
"Are you sure?"
SIT is absolutely out of the question,
madam"
A slender, rather fresh-faced young
matron had left her carriage in front of
Fourteenth street establishment where
times ravages upon the beauty of the
female face are repaired with neatness and
celerity and was discussing certain matter
al IL Il ,oha
"But it would become me SO much, don't
you see?"
"Unquestionably it would, but it cannot
be DONE"
"Are you sure of that? saw Mrs.
Brown yesterday with the loveliest gray
hair ever saw and she amt day older
than am"
s'She wore wig"
81 don't believe it"
"But it is true, nevertheless, replied the
clerk, land I know it, because we made it
here"
After the young matron had left the shop |
the clerk turned to the writer with sigh Of |
relief and observed:
"That is the tenth so far this week."
''Tenth what?" asked.
MIRACLE SEEKERS.
"Tenth miracle seekers. You have no
idea of the craze there is for gray hair. |
Young women, especially those with fresh
are absolutely wild about it.
It gives to face that is not striking GER
tain effect that must be seen to be appre-
ciated. 1 don't wonder that the women all
envy the owner OF fine head of gray hair.
But craving the hair is beyond the hair
dresser's art. We can make hair yellow as
gold, red as copper, black us ravens wing
and as brown as the coat of deer in win
Ter, but gray is out of our power. We can
,ften make wigs of gray which would DEFY
detection. You remember the late Matthew
Arnold's visit to America? When he was
IN Washington he said, with his accustomed
,andor, that he had met there the hand
,omest woman in the world. She was the
wife of ex-senator Joseph A. Macdonald,
If Indiana. Mrs. Macdonald is slender
woman with flashing dark gray eyes, a COM
,lexion of peaches and cream, and has a
wonderful head of whitish gray hair. She
would be an ordinary looking woman were
/ not for her hair"
SIS there no way of grazing the hair BY
lrtifcial means?"
'sYes, but the artifice is transparent.
Women can use powder sprinkled over the
lair after it is arranged, but unless they
rave black or very dark brown hair the
fleet is bad. The man who can invent
onie other method has fortune within his
,rasp."
WHAT HAIR IS WORTH.
He opened few boxes that he took down
rom shelf They were filed with tresses
If various colors and OF various lengths.
"Here is fine head OF yellow" he said.
1T is worth $40. Here is one of brown that
I will sell for half that sum. But for one
pound oil gray or white hair ! will pay $500.
There is not one woman out Of thousand