Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25

fad of the closing
season.
$50 over me again." said a young bell
to her maid the other evening, "and see
there is nothing more you can take of.
"Mademoiselle has nothing, absolutely
nothing" said the French tirewoman stand
ing back, "except her simple robe"
The maid spoke truly. Mademoiselle'!
dress was of soft white dotted tulle, which
hung in straight clinging folds about her
graceful form. There was not founce, 9
futter of lace nor flower visible. Out OF
the low bodice rose the shapely neck and
white throat destitute of ornament save
their own
LOVELY DIMPLEs.
The rounded bare arms showed no glitter
of gold nor fash of jewel. In the hair
drawn up in loose wads over the temples
and at the nape of the neck was no orna-
ment. She carried no bo ouquet, and her fan
was a mere bunch of feathers. Yet. as she
passed down the gallery few minutes later,
the radiance of her fresh young beauty
dazzled those who saw it. Even the man
ners of these severely simple demoiselles
match their toilets. Utter and complete re-
pose is their role. There are no jiDgling
! bangles nor diverting smelling bottles.
There is absolutely nothing detachable
about her toilet of to-day, except somRtimes
lorgnette. And what a weapon of destruc-
ton. what an instrument of torture, does
this bit of shell and glass become in the
hands of a skillful womanl No other ought
to be allowed to use it.
1 have seen clumsy, awkward creature
al ho~ L., 80 I'll.
his whip, describing wide circles in the air
with it and otherwise displaying it in ag-
gressive motions. The same woman would
rush her vinaigrette up to her nose and
draw a sounding inhalation. No so the
clever girl. Carelessly thrust in the bosom
of her dress, the lorgnette remains
dormant until at some unexpected moment
it is deftly drawn forth, languidly adjusted,
and leveled in remorseless snub upon some
presuming victim. Tender, too, as we'll as
pitiless, can the artful woman make her
weapon. How bewildering to the young
man when, as he leans over her chair,
the soft eyes suddenly shine up into his face
veiled by the pretty bauble which the white
hand so effectively and daintily holds. She
contrives to throw prettily pathetic touch
in the suggestion of weakness which its use
implies, although not one woman in twenty
who affects the lorgnette, needs it-this one,
probably least of all-that the already fas-
cinated youth finds irresistible.
GAY CROWDS AT SARATOGA.
The men and women of New York who
desire to see and be seen BY their livelier
and less discriminate fellow beings have
gone to Saratoga for the latter half of Au-
gust. They were at Long Branch in July.
Nowhere on this continent the wheel of
pleasure spins more gaily at the present mo-
ment than right there at New York's famous
spa. Everything is there by way of excite
ment, from the ever bubbling spring water
to Colonel Thomas P. Ochiltree and the
photograph. There are music, tennis, bowl
ing, riding, driving, dancing. walking, loll-
ing, posing, dress, gossip. racing, gambling
and dining. Years ago there was tradition
to the effect that Saratoga was a health re-
sort, and that people went there for physical
rejuvenation. No one thinks nowadays of
making any such excuse. The chief attrac-
tion of Saratoga is the people.
II like" said one of them, as she sat on
the piazza of hotel, 'just to look about on
SO many well-dressed people. feel positive
ly grateful to every woman here for her ef-
fective and irreproachable toilet"
She might have expressed her gratitude
to the younger men, too. If they keep on
with their bewildering and gorgeous novel
llcs VI dttATc Luey Will ueeQ q Jenkins OF
their own to do justice to some of their re-
markable displays. What with their swath-
ing Wristbands of soft surah and "blazers"
OF many hues and varied textures, their
innumerable styles and colorings in shoes
and oyer-gaiters, their hats with wells and
streamers, their silk caps and embroidered
waistcoats, the dressing room of a young
man of the period closely resembles that of
his sister. At the hops the young dudes wear
the most exquisite sashes of white moire or
satin. These are considered very youthful
and summery. For bachelors who are near
ing the thirties dazzling scarlet and glow
ing old rose are permitted.
AN ELIXIR JOKE.
The fun they haye had at Marasouan.
which is title bit of a watering place
over on the Jersey shore, beats anything
yet heard OF at the big resorts 1t was all
accomplished with Dr., Brown-Sequard's
ellxir which you have read so much about
as phenomenal sort of a tonic, and Miss
Qulsby, whom her acquaintances know as a
maiden lady of not less than go years. She
is typical old maid, with spectacles bal
anced prinly on her nose, and curls dang
ling one at side in front OF her ears. She
hates men-so she says-and her manner
does not indicate that the aversion is genu-
Inc. Well. she read that the Brown-Se-
guard discovery was being tried with reju-
venating effect on lots Of folks, and by her
eager inquiries the other boarders in the
small hotel somprehended that she was
aching for dose.
AT that Juncture a practical Joker came
forward. He got into discussion of the
new medical marvel, and he said he be-
lieved it was a mistake to make all the
trials with aged or decrepit subjects. Why
not experiment with normal. healthy,
merely mature person. Miss Ouisby was
inclined to agree with him. But would she
aid in any experiment? Well. te-bei she
didn't know. She might be persuaded.
And she was. Barring skinny wrist. and
submitting to hypodermic injection of
nothing but few drops of clear water. she
believed that she was downright deyotee
of scientific progress.
IT TOOK EFFECT.
1t was secret between Miss Ouisbv and
the joker-except that everybody in the
house knew of it, without her knowing that
they were on to it. They watched the
symptoms, which were we'll worth watching.
L. was just before supper that the supposed
elixir was injected. At table she eiprled
when the Rev. Abraham Smith passed the |
butter to her, and shrugged her shoulders |
quite coquettishly when DR.. Oliver Brown |