Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

quiet enough place so
| far as outside observation reveals, and its
mahogany blinds and screens hide from
feminine eyes, ordinarily, whatever goes on
within. But yesterday afternoon 1 saw two
swell ladies and a gentleman, members of
one of our proudest families, alight from a
carriage at the side door of this saloon.
That portal is labeled Family Entrance" ="
and into it I see many children 60 with
pals and pitchers, and subsequently
emerge with the froth of beer visible above
the edge of those receptacles. believe the
common people call this working the
growler."
Ny exquisite acquaintances from Fifth
avenue gave quick glances up and down
the street, and then stepped in a little
hurridly,as though just bit afraid of being
seen. was astonished at the sight. With
in few minutes another carriage load of
modest bellies and beaux did the same thing
and within an hour score of that sort of
folks had entered the drinking place. All
this was on account of Lent.
A LENTEN DIVERSION.
speedily found out the explanation.
basement under the saloon for the evening,
and therein played a series of games with
the balls and pins. Bowling is regarded,
for some inscrutable reason, as permissible
diversion during the Lenten season, and
Fifth avenue people are not only using the
alleys connected with the big athletic clubs,
but are fashionably sanctifying the alleys
connected with the beer saloons by
ocin mol artio lar
occupants are guarded against the intrusion
of the ordinary customers of these places,
and are quite as exclusive as though
gathered in their own homes.
The other singular sight is that of the
Salvation Army lassies entering the resi-
dences of the rich and grand. Young Mrs.
Booth, wife of the army's General in Ameri-
ca, is a pretty woman, with nice manners,
excellent education, and-what is more to
the purpose of New York fad-she speaks
with the right London aceent-not the
broad cockney dialect of Whitechapel, of
course, but exacGly the speech of West End
drawing rooms. She has undertaken to ill.,
terest swelldom in Salvation Army revival
ism, and has lectured several times infor-
mally to assemblages of women of wealth.
How deep an impression she has made on
them is question for surmise, but she has
at least got their passing attention.
SwEET-FACED SALvATIoNIST.
On her staff are a dozen very agreeable
young ladies, who wear the quaint costume
OF the army, but are not of the vociferous,
rough-and-readv type of evangelists usually
found in that garb. On the contrary, they
are gentle-mannered, Sweet-faced creatures
who wear their uniform without being
ridiculous, and even with coquetish touches
of stylishness about it. They are sent by
Mrs. Booth to residences of influential ma
irons, whenever requested. there to talk to
few invited guests, to explain to them the
purposes of the movement, to make
as good an impression as pos
sible and to collect money contribu-
tions. That is why you nowadays see Sal
vation Army lassies vending their ways
among the stylishly dressed ladies of the
avenue ahd entering or departing from the
mansions of that thoroughfare 1t is the
transitory whim to regard these evaDgelists
as almost saints, and photographs of Mrs.
Booth have largely displaced those of the
professional stage beauties in the boudoirs
of our girls.
An attempt at modesty of raiment COM
bined with expressions of captivating piety
is noticeable in the fashionable observers of
this season, called Lent. Churches are now
being made usually interesting by the pres
ence of beauty holding player books and
curving-its eyelashes to heaven.
IT IS A FAD
and there is no religious disrespect in saying
so. Society demands one at every season.
The opera gets to be bore, cotillions dance
themselves dizzy, and late suppers fail to
digest. If it were fashionable to keep it up
it would be done until death ensued. But
fashion steps in and institutes relief for
herself by observing Lent. This acts like
Turkish bath upon the jaded constitution,
and the fatigued angels fold their wings to
rest, so they may be able to come up smiling
and rosy at the mountains and seashore next
summer ready for anything, even to con-
templating matrimony. Like cure like, but
excitement doesn't cure shattered nerves.
These demand sleep, fresh air, and whole
some food, articles that cannot be got in So
ciety until Lent lends its aid.
But when look at our girls here in New
York 1 am bound to admit that, in spite of
their feverish manner of living, they are
remarkably bright and healthy. Driving
through the park of an afternoon the spark
ling panorama of fresh-faced young women
perched high oh the seats of T carts and
Stanhopes, or more often on the back of a
galloping horse, is inVigorating to the mind,
and a guarantee for good future race. I
know several girls who have been dashing
in the surf of the seasons pleasure regard
less of everything but the delights OF the
moment, and now that the storm has spent
itself, bless me if those girls aren't as radi
ant. as so many peonies, and SO full of life
that electricity fairly crackles in them as
they move.
DAsHING NEW YORK GIRLS.
There appears to be a sustaining energy
in the air of New York. and I am being
constantly assured by men and women who
have lived in various parts of the world
that, taken all in all, New York is the
healthiest spot they ever found, Be this as
it may, 1 feel sure that the London girls,
the Paris girls, or the Boston girls, never
came out of the maelstrom of season in
better form than our athletic daises now
show as they course round the park drive
on their thoroughbreds, or foot it off to
church in the dust and cold OF these blus-
tering March mornings.
The new President of Sorosis, Ella Dietz
Clvmer, once had her spell on the stage
Her career as an actress was brief and inglo-
rious. Although she is prettier than her
sister Linda, who has continued acting, she
did not prove valuable on the stage. She
was stepdaughter OF Dr. Hallock, a verv
bland and genial physician, now dead and
gone. She moved in literary circle, wrote
pleasing p'.etry, had considerable skill as
an elocutionist, and INDUCED in q dramatic
ambition. In those DAYS Augustin DAILY
was tempting fortune in all sorts of WAYS,
and was the lessee of three New York thea
ters. His operations soon afterward made
him bankrupt, but just at that juncture
he had many projects on hand.
WOULD AN ACTRESS BE.