Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03

physical, for those who deem themselves IN
society,"" and who try earnestly to do all
that should be done by society people. 1t
isn't likely that many of the washerwomen
in town have, during the past three months,
labored harder than the young ladies in that
| limited but conspicuous faction which sets
| itself about the job of being truly fashion
| able. The matrons stand the wear and tear
very we'll. They are Injured to it. Even the
young wives and the older maidens are not
SO visihly fatigued. But the girls who are
just finishing their first season out are weary
indeed. Their pretty faces are not so smooth
ly fair as they were last autumn, thevivacity
in their manner is sensibly forced, and they
| waltz with appreciably less vim than they
| did at the outset.
| LENTEN RECUPERATIoNs.
But the exertion will be over with the
final dances Of Monday and Tuesday nights,
and then for six weeks comparative
quietude will last. There are plenty of
amusements fashionably permissible in
Lent, but these do not include dancing as
semblies of any kind, or ceremonious re-
ceptions. The Lenten'diversions are large
| " recreative in the way of mildly athletic
games, horseback exercise, and other things
| to the physical good of the participant, and
so suppose that our bellies will be COM
pletely rehabilitated by the time summer
brings another annual change in their occu-
pations.
1t was particularly swell-looking girl.
with a trim, graceful figure and piqusnt
face, whose fatigue came so near to pros
tration that couldn't help inquiring about
her. imagined, from the neat tastefulness
| Iof6 H., fha Iaip ,no1itonocc of
her department, that she was a daughter
of wealth who had overworked voluntarily.
"You are not quite right in your conjec-
ture," was the reply to my query. THAT
girl is hired waltzer i'll several dancing
academies. Look in the advertising columns
| of the newspapers and you will find the
announcements of 20 or 80 dancing masters,
who offer lessons in waltzing at very low
prices, and specify that female partners are
| provided.
WANT THEIR MONEYS WORTH.
'"The pupils are fellows intent on getting
| their moneys worth. They demand con-
slant activity during the hours tor which
they pay, and the tuition consists largely of
setting them to dancing with experienced
girls hired for that duty. The one you are
now contemplating is engaged with three Of
these academies, and their combined re-
I-QulTem6nLS Keep u6T WdlbZlQg pTctLy cOQ-
stantly six or eight hours day. You were
right in presuming that the dancing season
had completely tagged her out, but she has
been under the additional strain of doing it
for a living instead of for fun
Then 1 talked little with the girl her.
self. She said: "Yes, it is precious hard
work and I am just about done up. So you
thought was fatigued society belle?
wish I were. Then would at least have
had reasonably good partners, instead of the
awkward novices who are such dreadful
trial to me. The beginner doesn't know
how to hold you, and is afraid to when he is
shown how. His gait isn't regular and
easy, but irregular and jerky, so that you
are pulled and yanked numerically. But
his worst fault is that he steps on your feet
Nobody with corns should think of becom-
ing q professional partner in a waltzing
academy. But even with feet as sound as
nuts, the mischances of the novice's tread
will before a winter is through reduce them
to anguishing tenderness. When a new
pupil gets hold of me 1 don't try to guess
whether he will step on my feet, but how
many times he will do it. Yes, indeed, it
isn't an easy occupation, and $40 a week
wouldn't tempt me to stick to it..
A woMAN's AMBITION.
'"Then why do you keep at it?"
"Well, 1 don't mind telling you. Among
the many pupils who learn to waltz with
me, shouldn't there some sday be highly
desirable man who will fall IN love with
me? So ara getting good living for the
the future"
1t was cold and windy day. The signs
on the buildings creaked, the horse car
drivers ran along by the side of their horses
to keep warm, and the crowd of shoppers
hurried as fast as they could for shelter in
the stores. A coupe ratified up to the curb
stone, and stopped. The door opened, and
figure bundled up in a long fur cloak
stepped to the sidewalk. Just at that in-
slant the horses of the coupe gave sudden
jump, and the alighting figure was thrown
to the pavement. And then there was an
apparition for the passers-by. A strong
gust of wind had caught the cloak worn by
the girl, and bore it straight into the air for
ten feet or more. Now this girl was not
dressed for promenade. She was in full
ball costume, and in her fall her fluffy
skirts were blown in precisely the opposite
direction that they should have taken.
There was howl from the small boys, and
| a rush by several men. The latter helped
the young lady to her feet, and there she
stood with her jeweled neck and arms
catching the icy wind, while she .ried to
|
A CoNTRETEMPs.
A gentleman had captured her cloak and
lady helped her to wrap it about her. Her
long blonde hair in the meantime, being un-
covered, had been entirely disarranged and
was blowing in all directions. Red with
| modification and cold the girl ordered her
! driver to take her home stepped back into
the carriage, slammed the door to and was
taken away from the large collection of
smiles that were turned toward her from all
sides.
There was some wonder about the reason
for the unfortunate girl being costumed in
such peculiar fashion by daylight in busi-
ness street, but looked up at the building
before which her mishap had befallen her
and saw that it was a photographers gallery.
She had desired to preserve her lovely ap-
pearance for future reference, but as has
been seen, her commendabIe little plan was
I blown to pieces.
The subsistence of dancing activity for
Lent will not give to Ward McAllister any
vacation. He will puzzle over and arrange
for the ball to be given on April 20 as q
feature of the George Washington Centen-
nial in this city. The new President and
his Cabinet will be here, and if McAllister
had in his presumed mind any question
about admitting these mere officials he set
tied it in the Affirmative Indeed he has
assumed control of this occasional ball with
view to showing that he can go outside of
his four hundred when he chooses. and dis
tinguish himself in doing so. But the prob
lem that troubles him is the formation OF the
opening quadrille. He sits for hours at his
task, with sheet of paper spread out before
him and pencil In his hand, endeayorine
to lay out the plan Of that set. He con-