Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-18
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
WHEN you purchase fish by weight the
dealer throws in the scales.


WHEN you purchase fish by weight the
dealer throws in the scales.
THE girls have entered newspaperdom-beg
pardon Journalism. They are in it gloves, bon.
net and hustle. They are in it to stay, too. OF
course, they are not welcomed with open arms,
for, heaven bless them, they won't have it that
way. But, dear! oh dear! they are dragging
fashion into it Just think! Style news
paper office!-fads in pencils. paper. penwipers,
paste, pads tabs. files, pastebrushes, scissors
and the other implementso of the craft Yes. sir,
the silly freaks OF the mistr ress who leads
women by their little noses has been or Is being
| introduced into the paper Uttered, PASTE
painted ink-stained work rooms of the news
paper makers. I see by gushing communi-
cations printed in a little 7x9 publication which
processes to teach Journalism" " that one petit
coated pencil destroyer on a metropolitan paper
has devised a dress with ten pockets SO cutely
| designed as to enable her to cleverly con-
| ceal her precious notebooks. Another has
| an ingenious contrivance which holds 26 en-
| velopes, each envelope marked. numbered and
| filed with the fruits of her feet and fingers
1 she evidently has no head, else she would store
| some of her notes there for ready reference
| Another-oh where will 1t end?-has perfected a
| tiny, wee, little duck of notebook, to which
| is attached a slender silken cord from which
| the ebony-cased lead cannot stray. Another,
evidently society reportress. pins her notes to
her toilet cushion. Still another files her
precious scraps of memory paper on a cunning
| little hook attached to her bangle board. what
ever that may be. 1t is to be, presumed that all
| the note-bearing articles are highly perfumed
and elabora tely designed. For heavens sake,
girls, don't pull out any of these weapons of
torture during interview. If you do you
will surely frighten your game. Stop this
nonsense. Don't let Fashion paralyze
your active little brains. The lead from the
bread-winning pencil and the odor of the In
spring but damp paper will not permanently
soil your taper fingers or cling to your workday
clothes Paste, hairpins, INK flashing rings
on finger and in ear, pencil dust and petticoats
will mix all right, but Fashion and hustling
won't, girls. Be PLAIN. OF course you can't be
one of the boys who do the work, but you can
be one of the girls just the same. The woman
who browses on the edge of mans pasture, or
who gets into the clover alongside him, must
drop her style, but not her dignity Those in
newspaperdom who hang their notes on bangle
boards and toilet cushions are not liable to
make much noise in the world.
THE more you pelt tanner the better he
likes it.
THE munitcent sum of SIS is offered as a
prize to the person who shall guess the vote to
be cast in Pennsylvania next month. This beats
the penny-for-your-thoughts scheme all hollow.
THE Bibles in great many homes are so
beautiful and costly that the young folk are
not permitted to open them.
KNOW an eye so clear and bright,
Itsparkles like an evening star,
1t shines for at noon and night
Love glances glistening from afar.
Its never changing light see,
Nor diamond bright its rays surpass;
And it shall ever steadfast be-
For it is made of choicest glass.
EVERY time the Delamater campaigners open
their mouth they seem to put their foot into
it. A few more imported speakers of the Sheri-
dan stripe will send Pattison's majority way
out of sight. Stop using mud for bait and an
swer some of the grave counts in the indict
menE gentlemen.
WIT and wrath are both to be found in the
wine bottle.
ANDREWS says his master has met every
charge, but as rapidly as he meets them new
ones are invented" A good soldier doesn't meet
a charge by lying down. and a good candidate
shouldn't meet charge by lying.
WHEN you sink into reverie you are merely
buried in thought.
THOSE who enter the last sleep clothed in
righteousness will be ABREAST of fashion in the
other world.
THE man who got the hardest bites
And cast the longest flies,
Halls with delight the winter nights,
When he'll unload his lies.
STANLEY will bring his wife and all her re.
lations. including his mother-in-law, to
America. The dear public will have to pay the
expenses of the party. of course. -.
SOME English editors think our Andrew
Carnegie is man of irony as well as man Of
iron.
A JAPANESE husband has married and
divorced 35 wives and is about to take another.
He is bound to be suited at all events
THE glass pool seems to be troubled. Per-
haps 1t will melt away.
LOVE is the same in every land
A glance, kiss, flower,
The pressure of little hand.
A hint about the dover.
AN American prowling about London has |
found the score of our "Star Spangled Banner |
dated II years prior to its advent in America
1t was popular old English drinking song
England is welcome to the air, but she can't |
have the words.
FROM the frequent rows in the W. c. T, u.
the uninitiated may be led to infer that the ab-
breviation represents the phrase, I'VE Can
Talk Ugly"
WINN has preferred charges against Fire
Chief Jones, of Allegheny, and his friends be-
lieve he will win the fight.
HE told the belle he loved before he gave her
the ring
A DRY hole in oil territory is called duster,
Probably because the speculators dropped
their dust IN it.
JUDGING from the numerous weddings cele-
brated, the summer girl did not 60 in bathing
for nothing.
AT least one person has profted by the awful
hotel fire at Syracuse. An actress who wasn't
hurt is getting heap of free advertising.
SINGERS and gamblers frequently lose their
noues on the high C's.
MAYOR GRANT demands a recount for New
York. Judging from recent returns the Gem
sus Bureau should grant his request.