Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01

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PRETTY MAIDS IN DEMAND.
When it comes to the employment and
treatment Of nurses, the utmost whimsical
ity is INDUCED in. and some of the nurse
maids find considerable fortune in their
pretty faces, for they get extravagant wages
if remarkable for beauty, and their occupa-
ton consists principally in sitting around
with the babies in their laps. One of the
New York intelligence offices makes
speciality of providing handsome girls for
this purpose, and charges fees ranging,
under one pretext or another, as high as $50
in one instance Tor veritable treasure-an
Alsatian girl of wondrously delicate and re-
fined loveliness. A mistake was made in
filling one order, however, although the
nursemaid consigned to the Tuxedo custo-
ner was comely enough. She was pink
and white blonde. "And how do you think
that sort of girl would make my brunette
baby look?" the mother wrote back. 81
must have dark-complexioned girl"
Laziness was never more fashionable at
any time or place than now at this park.
Even the coddled infants are no more inert
than many of the grown up residents. 1t
may be that the minds of the adults are
more active, but their favorite reclining at
titudes and vaeuous state of countenance
do not show it. 1t is only fair to say, how
ever, that the women are more active than
the men, and it is with the more youthful
males that we find a new importation OF
London dandyism. 1t is called
THE EARLswooD ToTTER,
and it consists of the familiar dawdling,
n of 1on iol
further into facidity by carrying the hands
dangling vest-high in front. You have
seen women carrying their hands in that
manner often enough, but for man it is
singularly effeminate and silly looking.
Yet it is a growing affectation, and the only
hope about it is. that the end of the summer
solstice Will finish it up, and that cool
weather will brace up the fabby muscles of
the dudes.
Within an hour I have seen the senior
and junior members of distinguished Wall
street firm, father and son, noted in the
financial world for the activity aud celerity
of their operations. We will call them
Smith and son. The old man sat alone on
the turf, dreamily smoking cigar, but
perhaps scheming away under cover of his
listlessness, and seeing tuturity of Wall
street success in the smoke which be sent
into feecy wreaths. The son lay on his
back on the same lawn, and was smoking,
too. But the smoke which he made hazly
enveloped pretty and eligible girl, and it
was supposable that his castle in the air had
her for its mistress. But she was wide
awake enough, and lovingly tanning him.
AN UNPLEASANT AWAKENING.
''If you should happen to fall asleep"
she remarked. ''at least you wouldn't be in
danger of the mishap that befell our friend
Clara the other Gay. She blackens her eye-
lashes, you know. You didn't? Well, she
does load them with black pigment until it
wasn't any wonder that they felt heavy.
She took an accidental nap in an armchair
on the clubhouse veranda, and, listenl she
didn't open her eyes when she awoke. She
couldn't. The heat and perspiration had
softened the black stuff so that her eve
lashes were just glued together, and posi-
lively she had to grope her way to the lava
tory to wash up before she could separate her
eyelashes." KAMERA.