Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A New Way TO Fnruish n Housc-Expen-
sive n Good Name for It-Chicag go's

| sive Good Name for It-Chica go's
Great Fent-Operntic Gossip.
GONE of the prettiest houses 1 was ever in"
| said Pittsburger who has just returned
from the Capital, II saw last week in Wash
| ington. IL was not in architecture OF anything
| of that sort that the charm of the house lay.
| Its furniture was responsible for the good
| effect of every room in the house. The family
| who live in it are not people of great means.
| Their moderate resources made me wonder
| how they had been able TO furnish their home
| so elegantly, SO richly, and with such variety
| and pleasing contrast. knew the mistress of
the house well enough to ask her to explain.
81 am not surprised that you ask me how we
managed to furnish the house in this STYLE
she said. Every stranger to Washington life
who visits me asks me the same question, which
is easily answered. When we first came to
Washington to live took furnished house.
and in that We stayed year or SO. Then 1
wanted to get house of our own-although
our funds for buying furniture were low-and
we finally took this house. We furnished it
piecemeal. When we moved in we had enough
furniture to meet IN ost of our absolute necessi-
ties. 1t the end of the session OF Congress
and the transient population of Washington
was moving out Households were being
broken up on all sides. and in every part of the
city auctions for the sale Of furniture. silver
linen and china were being held attended as
many of these auctions as 1 could, and bit by
bit collected all the furniture. tableware and
indeed pretty nearly everything there is in this
house. You admire the resultant it is true
the furniture, silver and china are all finer
than could have afforded to buyin the stores.
My husband admires the result also; he has
other reason-I saved him many hundreds of
dollars
1.-The opportunities at the rising of Congress,
of the sort have indicated are really wonder
full"
"OH, ma'am," said nursemaid to the
East End lady who employed her, the
other day, 81 made such a mistake this after
noon. l had Master Freddy out in the peram-
bulator, and Mrs. Jones stopped me and asked
what allied the child. l couldn't think of the
word the doctor used, and l says. says l: 'Heve
got expensive"
''Well, Mary" said her mistress. laughing, as
she thought of what an attack of eczema would
amount to in doctors bills. expensive is about
What it amounts to after all"
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cHIcAGo's GREAT FEAT.
The great feet of Chicago's fair
Have brought her fame doth glory
Await her greater feat? Nay, there
Her Fairs another story!
Several good points of the performance of
1.-THE Gondoliers" were passed over, owing to
the circumstances of first night criticism.
The orchestra's part in the evenings work had
great deal to do with the smoothness of the
whole performance. Sir Arthur Sullvan's
compositions perhaps demand larger Or
chestra than the travelling company can u.s.
ually afford to carry, but the musicians led by
Mr.. Adolph Liesengang, acquitted themselves
very well on monday night.
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THE following schedule in rhyme is contrib
uted by fair correspondent and may serve
to guide some of her sisters:
TO sPINsTERs ONLY.
Time for maidens, time in plenty
For to marry when they're twenty.
Free of heart they still may thrive.
When they've birth days twenty-five.
If at thirty they're unm arried,
Long enough they'll find they've tarried.
Should they single reach two score,
They'll rap hard at Hymen's door.
GILBERT & SULLIvAN's s opera of 1.-THE Con- |
doliers," now being performed at the |
Bijou, like all the previous works of those two |
talented gentlemen. consists of charming in |
consistencies coupled to melodious strains. |
While the Gilbertian philosophy is as quaint as
ever and as full of satire, it is perhaps deeper |
than usual, touching. as it does, in an off-hand |
way, tne soclallStlc question, WHICH IS now de- |
manding the attention of the statesmen of the |
world. The position of the dual Kings of
Barataria, who attempt to inaugurate radical |
monarchy, if such a term may be allowed, is
probably one of the most remarkable ideas |
ever introduced into an opera, and yet has a |
solid basis of common sense
Gilbert, perhaps unintentionally, has perpe- |
trated a little joke upon the play-goers who |
want to reach the sidewalk just as the curtain
goes. Toward the end OF the last act |
there is a tableau which might reasonably be
interpreted as the finale, but is followed by
several conceited pieces. Last evening, as
usual, about 2O0 of the Bijou audience started |
for the door as soon as the King came to his
own but hesitated midway when they saw the !
opera take fresh start. Several of them re.
turned to their seats, which they had no sooner
reached than the curtain went down, and, much
to their disgust, they had to fall in behind
long and slow procession to the street.