Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17

charges for that a certain percentage. A
man with moderate means cannot crafty
his daughters vanity by sending her to one
of these schools, for, besides the regular
charges for board and tuition and the neces-
sary extras there is the expense of a sitting
in fashionable church, of tickets for the
opera and the symphony concerts and beside
these birthday and Christmas presents with
out number, fees for the servants and con-
tributions to school entertainments, all
backed up and set in reliet by the most
fashionable toilets. In all these schools an
English (not Cockney) accent is culti-
vated.
COSTLY LESSONS.
The things a woman cannot learn in the
beauty parIors of New York, where Nine. de
Cosmetiuue lolls about in scented hair and
clinging silk, are not worth prosecuting,
But it isn't every Lady Jane who can get
the entree and the privilege of being robed
@sthetically. Regular patrons are asked
to be chary about recommending new people
and unless the would be- is properly pre-
sented, she "can't be" and that ends the
matter.
But the sweet ways patroness can be
taught Shade of the guileless Martha
Washington. There's the piccadilly walk,
for instance, that requires free leg from the
three-quarter side advance-as the lesson
says. Master the formula, and you save
$40. Then, there's the hollow back. which
is as hard to master as table of logarithms.
1t will be remembered that the hustle was
dropped like flash, and all of sudden the
rubbers were unbuckled, and away went the
extendors, leaving the style fat, the gown
fatter, and the girl the hattest thing in
clothes. For awhile she was afraid to sit
back in the cars. But that didn't hurt any
body's eyes. The trouble began when she
stood up or walked about. Madam puts her
patron in training for week, at s. an hour,
walking first in her night gown. and by de-
| grees through and into her clothes, rounding
of with full evening dress.
Another costly lesson is the stage laugh.
warranted to sound we'll, to ring musically
and to prevent wrinkles. It has been proven
that merriment and hearty laughter is more
productive of wrinkles than care or the
cruel touch of Time. The instructress does
not pretend to remove the burrows already
plowed about the eyes of beauty, but she
does claim that her method will keep the
face in repose, and while it remains SO the
creases will be insignificant. She gives the
pupil a handglass, seats her in q mirror
lined corner and commands "a quiet face"
Then she gets a funny paper, from which
the very cream of visibility is selected, and
as she reads the listener is expected to look
in the mirror and laugh, if at ALL with the
lower part of her face. "Move your lips and
chin, and open your mouth if your teeth are
good, but keep the muscles of your eyeIids
rigid" The expression produced is simply
fiendish, and ii the laugh is not vocal
shudder it is of the cylindrical sepulchral
sort with which all theater goers are
familiar. In the training it is necessary to
bind the cheeks and temples with strips of
court plaster, and the mockery of it all would
be ridiculous if it wasn't so serious But
there's good even in humbuggery, and loud
laughs are cut down, harsh voices sweetened
and gratuitous advice given in making
faces" tinting ears and lips and dyeing
hair. At the rate of SIS sitting. madam
can afford to be magnanimOus.
A CANINE CHRISTENING.
There's nothing newer on the tapis than
the dogs christening party, one of which
entertainments given a few Sundays ago
convulsed Sorosis. Cards were sent out be-
torehand with the usual r. S. V. P. affixed,
The hour was o'clock, and alter the re.
ception the portieres of the library were
drawn back, and the beautiful new-borns,
four in all, displayed in crystal and white
kennel. etched in tracerv OF gold and lined
with blue tufted satin. The box rested on
center table; near by was a square piano
stool to be used as sort of prie dieu, and
about it the curious guests grouped them
selves. All the brutes had bang-up pedi- |
gree. The mother was a sister ofthe cham |
pion TERROR of London, and the father came
from the kennel of the Mikado OF
Japan. Instead of ducking or sprink- |
ling the beautiful little creatures, at
q signal from the host each hoped out of |
the glass house, saluted the company and |
took his place on the piano stool, sitting
through the whole ceremony. There was a |
a long speech written in dogology, purport- |
ing to have come from his canine majesty |
the father, and read by the hostess. Then |
followed dog dance and canine quartet,
with piano accomplishments by virtuoso, !
and with the bestowal of the name of each |
pampered pet, which was decorated with |
tricolors. The ceremony ended, the Chris |
tianized quadrupeds mingled with the COM |
pany and performed all the tricks they had |
been taught and number that were strange |
to the mistress. Then came supper, consist |
ing of a variety of Japanese delicacies,
among which was a siX-sided loaf of cake |
made BY native for the occasion, which
the father of the dogs went through the form
of cutting. This marvel of pastry was to all |
appearances a mosaic OF nuts, and not a
great deal easier of digestion than slices of
cobblestone.
The dog presents were not as varied as
bridal gifts, but quite as numerous as a
popular bride might expect. In the display
were dog brides made of fancy cord, beaded
rope, giIded twine, steel, jet, rhine stone,
plate and sterling silver; there were blankets
enough for all dogdom superbly worked and
embroidered; there were pillows to battle
rest with their sense. of ease and comfort;
there were leather and silver collars, collars
with bells and bangles, and many ladies
sent bracelets of real value and great beauty
with the date inscribed; there were toilet
sets consisting of comb, brush and tooth
brush, mounted in she'll, ivory and silver;
there were feeding spoons of solid silver,
drinking cups of crystal and plate, and the
big porcelain bowls for bread and milk, the
trays for juicy bones and the tiny cups for J
medicine would fill any ordinary china
closet from bottom to top shelf All the
guests received favors. There were fan pins
for the ladies to wear in their hair, and the
men received natural bugs, belonging to the
Empire, gold mounted. And so fashion
smuses and is amused. CLARA BELLE,