Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

in the kingdom to match it, and I bemoan
myself, OH why did / not bring "my
things?" Why did lose the golden oppor-
tunity when every opportunity here sizes up
to diamonds in value, and if we don't Just
have to come down.
Still it is lovely for Ferdinand and me to
sit rocking inelegantly in our own wicker
rocking chairs in the reception room or par
lor, or one might even call it a drawing
room, if that sounds more grand and
aesthetic, and also costs nothing. And we
have all the other Rsthetics-what, if it
were not for art. we should call poverty
stricken. Straw mating on the floor,
washed-out papers on the wall, all sorts of
makeshifts christened effects" my lovely
felt table cover, really pretty though it is
aesthetic, lounges and chairs in goldy brown,
ost-bitten-fern-with-the western-sun-shin-
ing-on-it brown, scrim curtains, plain,
lovely quality, hemmed and drawn work
all by hand, to be looped with ribbons of old
gold (when L get the gOldD and all the
decent pictures we can muster. Our bed
room ought to be an elaborate parlor, but
we had not the elaboration, and we wanted
the airy, beautiful room to sleep in and the
view to look at when we awake-Punch
Bowl sweeping around Tantalus and Round
Top, queer and shapeIy. The sunrises are
beautiful in the mountains. Oh! every
thing is beautiful here. Ariel plays con-
tentedly on the verands all day long. There
are boar rds up to prevent her from falling
down the steps, so she can do as she pleases,
and in consequence she pleases to be very
happy about it
JUST TOO EsTHETIc.
We have nothing aesthetic here except the
scrim curtains, which are good deal scrim-
mar fbor fha otharS and I p,odo both r1airq
and bran fire new redwood "Cheffaneer," :"
the builder called it, but 1 call it a pretty
tough looking chest of drawers. 1t is GER
tainly ugly enough to be high art and cost
like everything, in this fair land-no not
everything, for each day I buy vegetables
and fruits at such queer little ''bits" of
prices. We get all the strawberries we three
aesthetics can eat at meal for 10 cents, let
tuce for 8, more than we can eat, and big
bunch of bananas for 8.
One dining room is too aesthetic for any
thing. 1t is Just Eastlake and Morris to-
gether, squared off for square meal. In
one corner is a sideboard, shabby but useful,
to be disguised somehow when get to it.
four dining chairs, homely but strong, a
chair for the angel, all the glass, silver and
china necessary to keep us from starving,
and such list of groceriesl Pickles and
pres erves mostly, for we did not know what
else to begin with and must lay in something
just for the look of the thing.
And now we wish we had "our things, I"
yet know we must wait months for them to
come sailing round the Horn.
Our inesIimable blessing is the good All
Chang, whom we took with the house, who
cooks plain things nicely. OF course 1 do
the fancyll Just fancy!!l There, I must
not waste so much ink on EXPLANATIONS
Besides, that is foolish feminine trait.
But if don't exelaim shall not punruate
at all, and like to make 'em III
The fact is, poor Ferdinand, whose house
hold gods are gone out and has no fire on
the hearthstone, is as happy as larkS with
his frivolous, good-for-nothing butterfly
Girl-of-the-Period wife. We are indepen-
dent and go-as-you- please and paddle your
own canoe and all the rest Of the slang. But
then we have our periods Of perfect pro-
priety. At fhe table it is:
"My dear, can't help you to some
beans?"
''Yes, madam, you can"
And then when sing out 10 eloeutionary
tones. "Ah! Chang" there is a mildly re-
proachful:
'My dear, the bell %
And I hasten to retrieve the error by
ringing vigorously in All Chang's face, who
seems to appear by magic, being barefooted.
GAIL HAMILTON.