Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21
CLARA BELLIES CHAT.
Sir George NJ. Pullman's Luxurious
Life and Handsome Family.
DIAMONDS AS A LEGAL TENDER.
FOrtune-Telling by Cards the Very Latest
Lenten Fad.
NEW. ASPIRANTs FOR THEsPIAN GLORY
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE prspArcH.l

tcoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DrsPkTCH.i
NEW YORK, April 2o.-When in this
city, Sir George M. Pullman and his wife
are made to feel at home in the Hotel Vic
toria. Mrs. Pullman's private car il
stripped of all the movable dainty, deco.
rative things by her butler, who transfers
them to the hotel, and transforms the home
less apartment into a home-like abode.
Potted plants are brought from the flower
shop for touch of nature, and every morn
ing fresh roses and mignonnstte are placed
about the rooms for the bits OF color in
which the railroad magnate's wife revels.
No better or briefer description of Mrs.
Pullman can be given than the mention Of
her resemblance to Nine. Patti.
Her family consists of two sturdy, hand
some sons-twin brothers of IA, who are
dressed in jackets and kuickerbockers,
derby hats and worsted stockings, and who
vie with each other in Observation-Disclosures.
Unusual care has been bestowed on them by
an aunt, sweet. gentle creature of sense
and refinement, from whom they have
learned many charming things-poetry,
elementary botany, minerology, conchology,
ornithology and world of familiar science.
One son plays the violin and the other con-
siders the flute king of instruments. They
row, ride, hunt, do something in mechan-
ical way and great deal photographicslly,
often to the remonstrance and digust of their
beautiful sisters.
STURDY BOYS AND PRETTY GIRLS.
With all their culture they are boys, not
Fauntleroys, but right from the shoulder all
round, every day fellows, and, notwith-
standing his love for the beautiful, Master
Sanger frequently sends George NJ, Jr., to
the drawing room as blue and ruddy as a
Fifth avenue stage, compliment that is
returned in good season.
Just now the Misses Pullman are on the
continent studying music and the languages.
They have the chaperonage of Mrs. John
A. Logan, who not only planned the course
of study but selects their teachers, and is at
liberty to choose any route of travel or
place of residence for her charges. Miss
Pullman is fair pianist, and her pretty
sister sings sweet song, coquettes with
ribbon twisted banjo, and invariably gets
the hearts of her audience entangled in the
huttering loops. 1t will be very strange if
ton in the lizard tints of her marvellous
gray eyes, the exquisitely modelled head
and brow, and find the canvas on the line
and himself famous. But Mrs. Logan has
fnesse.
WAITING FOR A FRIEND.
A beautiful girl, with hair of Titan red,
with blue eyes and a lovely figure, entered
the restaurant of Broadway hotel, last Sat
rda of 0hoir hryh
at one of the tables. recognized her as a
young actress belonging to one of our stock
companies. She requested the waiter to tip
up the opposite chair to her own, evidently
expecting some one to join her later. She
ordered, in the meantime, her luncheon, and
then sat gazing from the window at the pass
ing throng.
After time the waiter brought quite an
elaborate luncheon for two persons, and
placed it before the young actress. The lat
ter's face was looking troubled now, and she
was visibly disturbed by the enon-appearance
of her friend. The minutes went by and
still the actress was alone with her lunch
con. She had eaten all she could without
making any great impression upon the array
OF dishes before her, and finally exhausted
her appetite. She had her coffee and then
sat back in despair to await the dilatory
friend. She now began to exhibit a great
deal of agitation, and was apparently much
troubled by her predicament.
NOT LEGAL TENDER
After an hour had passed she was tremb-
ling with excitement, and I could not help
pitying the girl for being neglected by some
young man she was fond of. Finally she
called her waiter and made some sort of ex-
PLANTATION to him. He smiled, shrugged his
shoulders and went for the headwaiter. The
! latter listened TO what the young woman
had to say, and noticed as she talked, that
she took diamond ring from her finger
and offered it to the waiter. Whereupon
he laughed aloud, and said something which
calmed the unhappy actress and made her
smile, too. She then gathered her small
properties together and left, with many
words of gratitude to the bright-faced
Frenchman, who showed her to the door,
She had no sooner gone than young man
sauntered in, glanced at the occupants of
the room, spoke to the head waiter, and
then handed to the latter bill Then he
started up Broadway in pursuit OF the
actress.
Perhaps the incident explains that all
actresses with expensive diamond rings can
not be drawn upon at sight for the price of a
luncheon.
AN EASTER FAD.
"You will marry tall, fair man. He will
propose to you soon, perhaps before Easter.
He will give you large house. Your lite
will be filed with happiness and you will
have very few tears to she'd"
A party of five young women were gath
cred around table, behind which sat a
seeress, young asher youngest querent with
a shrewd look in her keen gray eyes and a
slight wrinkle on her brow that betokened
the interest she took in the out-spread cards
before her. This was not in the darkened
parlor of professional fortune teller. On
the contrary, 1t was in as light and CHEEKY
drawing room as can be found on Madison
avenue between the square and the park. l
was one of few invited guests at Lenten
entertainment, which, though subdued
enough in its conduct to meet all the re-
quirements of the penitential season, was
still possessed of sufficient interest to drive
dull care over the Brooklyn bridge or down
the bay.
Fortune telling by cards is one of the few
diversions that comes within the Lenten
rules, and it is rapidly growing in popular
favor.
"Why didn't you tell me such nice things
about myself?" ruefully demonstrated a
pretty girl who had received a far less
glowing glimpse of the future.
ON A TURN OF THE CARDS.
because your cards did not tell it."
gravely responded the little witch. "Carrie's
life is going to be happy because the king
of diamonds came up first. That means a
tall, fair man. Next was the ten of hearts.
That shows that he is going to propose to her
soon. The ace Of hearts means a large
house, and the six and eight of hearts means
friends and pleasure, while the seven of
diamonds means money. Don't you see?