Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
From Fog TO Mountain Top-An Old Jest and
n Bad One-Siaus of Dress Reform.

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Bad One-sisns of Dress Reform.
WHEN white fog is covering the city and
the valleys hereabouts densely every night
with counterpane that the sun cannot uplift
and roll away before it has climbed good way
up the sky, it is almost exasperating to hear of
the clear, crisp, invigorating air Of Colorado.
And still it is pleasant to catch the descriptions
of Colorado scenery, with its snow-capped
mountains, its pine forests, its wild canons and
noisy torrents, fresh from the lips of an enthu-
| siastic tourist.
Nothing in the world can be more lovely
than Echo Lake, for instance, IA miles from
Idaho Springs, which party of Pittshurgers
visited this summer. 1t lies between the knees
of snow-capped mountains not far below the
timber line. 1t covers some AZ acres, and
drains a watershed of about ten times that
size A few years ago the gentleman who
knows Echo Lake stocked 1t with Eastern lake
trout, which have fourished and multiplied
! there exceedingly. 1t is now so well stocked
that few weeks ago, in the course OF one
hour, an expert angler caught u fish OF a
pound weight or more.
The lake is fed by springs, and has neither
outlet nor inlet The trout take to its waters
most kindly, and it is said after reaching the
pound mark, increase pound year thereafter
some talk of making the lake fishing resort
for Eastern sportsmen, and now that the South
Fork lake is gone forever, there is chance
that Pittsburg capitalists may buyit.
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AT last Colonel Shepard, the astounding
editor of the New York Mail and Express, has
won for moment the sympathy of newspaper
men in general. The reverend editor offered
prize for the best acrostic describing
the merits of his numbering journal, and among
the replies he printed an acrostic of grossly
indecent character. Neither he nor the sharp
eyed Managing Editor Coates saw the foulness
in the poem and it slipped into print. There
has been howl going up among the select and
sanity congregation to which Colonel Shepard
appeals. Several Superintendents OF Sunday
schools and other immaculate mortais have
ceased to subscribe for the paper.
The acrostic in question is not even new, hav-
ing been published in Pittsburg in 1868 or 1869
in the Sunday Mail and afterward republished
in several country papers, Whether the Mail
knew the nature of the acrostic l don't know,
but 1 do know that certain paper of Youngs-
town republished the verses unsuspicious of
any evil therein.
So Colonel Shepard is entitled to the SYM
pathy of all decent men in the profession. The
same trick has been tried with occasional sue
cess on almost every editor. The cowardly
scavenger is beneath contempt, as he is beyond
reach of punishment.
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CAN it be true that Mrs. Jenness Miller's
ideas as to dress reform having taken root
came up and blossomed before a week has
flown since she sowed them in Pittsburg?
Without making any search for such things, l
observed on Fifth avenue, and again on Fed
eral street, altogether, three women having
the outward appearance of adherence to Mrs.
Jenness Miller's system of dress. There were
the high wasted dresses, devoid of gathering
at the belt, plain and free from superfuous
drapery, and in the walk Of the wearers there
was something that suggested an unusual free
dom in the exercise of the limbs. Two, who
were as near being old and ill-shaped as any
women can be, did not appear to advantage in
the garments of reform; but the other one, a
young, lissom creature, though far from
pretty, looked extremely we'll
Probably there is the rub. The Jenness Mil
Ter dress is well enough for the well-shaped
woman, full of vitality, but is hardly the thing
for her who is -, well, not SO.