Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30
A BADLY DISAPPOINTED CROWD.

was perfectly sure what it was they bore be-
tween them, said in weak voice, CULVER
ing, however, with emotion:
A BADLY DISAPPOINTED CROWD.
Ladies and gentlemen, 1 believe-I say
belieye-two men are now fighting toward
us through that field, and moreover that
they bear between them abe calm-a milk
canl''
There was wild whoop, and everyone
tore over to nv side and did fhe "little
Mabel" act. The car lurched violently, and
the weaker ones of the party were dragged
back to the other side and left there for bal
last. The rest of US. with straining eyes.
watched the progress of the two men with
the precious milk can. They were almost
at the fence when they struck into the field,
there began to dig. All, agony! 1t was
the roof Of a WELL They dug it free, forced
it of, let down the can, filled it with water,
covered the well and painfully plodded
back.
The entire party fell upon me tooth and
nail. Just then, luckily for me, some one
rushed wild-eyed into our. car from the one
ahead.
There's milk car stuck few yards
above us, and anyone who can get there can
have all the milk he wants, % the lovely
wild-eyed apparition cried.
There was bolt for the door. We could
have milk after. ALL Flasks, soap dishes,
cups were pressed into service. I stood on
the platform and took the vessels from the
men as they returned from the milk car.
Truth compels me to confess that took ad-,
vantage of the time they spent foundering
up the steps. and made inroads on the price,
less fluid. To this day milk gives me
pain and reminds me of the blizzard.
SOME WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES.
We had at o'clock supper of orange
peel, milk and the scrapings of the jam.
About this time we realized that probably
the weather had something to do with our
waiting. We were only few miles out of
Philadelphia, however, and it seemed to all
of us that had we been running the car our
selves we would have been in the city long
ago. At $50 we started and after nearly an
hours labored struggle we got to the sta
tion. Our friends had been waiting all
day. They screamed at us that we had been
out in the awfullest blizzard ever heard of,
and that we we're the only train from the
West in at all. We all braced up and be-
gan telling the wonderful things we had
done and the he ole things we had all been
ready to do. But the tact is we hadn't
known anything about the awfulness of our
position. Philadelphia looked good deal
more like blizzard than our wind-swept
hill; and the more uprooted telegraph poles
we saw, the more wrecked boardings and
sprangling wires, the more we felt we had
lost the chance of our life to be really inter-
esting and dramatic.
: Heavens, what stories we tell about It'll
My pet one is that wrapped myself in
berth blanket, slipped out Of the car,
walked three miles on the top of q snow
Nj a1 -; l.
a post and only just gotback In time to save
the entire tribe Of us from starvation. An
other story is that we made chicken soup
from the feathers in the pillows, and had
maron glace for dessert of broken window
pane and snow.
FASHIONABLE woMEN's FoLLIEs.
Writing of cold weather in time of hot
weather reminds me of fashions that come
into vogue in New York which are beyond
all explanation or reason. During the
evenings of all the recent hot spell OBJ
served that it was actually the custom for
the most elegant young ladies to wear their
fur capes. At sight Of the first tew of these
I was astonished that there should be girls
in the world capable of going out at all
whose blood was so thin that they required
furs to keep it in circulation while
the mercury was at 700. But when
l saw that many OF the healthiest
girls that one met arrayed themselves in
these fur capes made inquiries about it,
and am assured that it is thorough fash
ion at this moment. 1t Is very difficult to
say how fashion such ss this is introduced
and how it grows. I remember meeting q
solitary girl on q warm day about q month
ago wearing her cape, and pitied her. I
did not see another for several days and
then noticed q steady appearance of them
on the streets.
Last Sunday was a delightful day. not
hot, but no man found it necessary to wear
an overcoat even while driving. But took
the trouble to observe while going through
the park how man girls wore fur capes, and
saw full dozen, all girls of the utmost
fashionableness. I asked one Of them the
other day why she wore tur in warm wealth.
er, and she could not possibly give any rea-
son for doing so.
II only know" she said, "that it Is the
very latest thing going, SO I'm taking ad-
vantage of it.
These are the same girls who will sit
about in cold rooms throughout the winter
with their arms and necks as bare as when
they first came into the world.
G-- CLARA BELLE.