Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

M' MYkSM galety In New YORK,
NNhAfE" which it will few
ia &SSSlN t@S days hence, the pur
M6SSS$ - suit of pleasure Will
GS9S GeSNSeSN SeS5Ns;ip be q mad one in Fifth
Be- - SSSAGI avenue. Every wo-
ASOc---e@%SSSsIA man in swelldom is
counting the hours aud trying to crowd into
them the greatest possible amount of social
activity. When 1 saw girl friend lmbib-
ing milk punch through straw in that
one particular restaurant where usage seems
to permit of mild feminine alcoholism, re-
minded her that had seen her making the
same indulgence only the previous day.
"Oh, I'm taking one every day now" she
replied, because never drink them during
Lent"
Thus you see that religion tempers, if it
does not control, the customs of our modish
people.
The Astors and the Vanderbilts, or at
least the more socially consequential ones
among them, will sail away for Europe
next week; but, in the meantime, they are
giving dinners, receptions and balls at
furious rate. Chauncey NJ. Depew, you
know. is not only a business associate Of
the Vanderbilts in railroading, but he
mixes familiarlY with them in society. At
the opera the other night 1 heard Mrs.
William Astor remark: 81 do believe, Mr..
Depew, that you have been helping Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt to make out time
table. Surely, she crowds in more enter
tainments without collision than can sue
ceed in doing"
DEPEw MADE HER TIMETABLE.
ibid you ever see man making a rail-
way time tablet" Mr.. Depew loosely re-
sponded. ''Well, this is the way he does it.
A thread of a certain color represents every
train that is run over the line close to 9TH
ers. With two or three of these different col
ored threads stretched along the route, and
BY means of markings of their running time
he lays out the new schedule. Wherever the
threads have to cross, owing to the compare
tive slowness or swiftness of the trains and
their relative times of interfering with each
other, the lay out of threads enables him to
NJ the figures exactly and successfully.
Now, this is secret" and he glanced with
twinkling eyes at the group of dozen hear
ers. 81 spent two days laying out time
table in that manner for Mrs. Vanderbilt,
and if any of her entertainments should
come into collision she would hold me re-
sponsible.
There are two tiers of boxes in the Metro
politan Opera House in which the ladies
wear full dress. The lower tier projects fur
ther into the body of the house than the up
per, SO that any object falling from the latter
might readily strike person sitting in the
former. While Perotti, the tenor, was revel-
ing in his piercing high notes the other
night, a much bejeweled woman in one of
the boxes of the second tier CHANGED to lean
over the rail to gaze at the orchestra stalls.
The movement shooka
PIECE OF DIAMOND JEwELRY
from her hair, and 1t fell swiftly down into
the box beneath. Under some circumstances
the ornament would have been lost, but it so
happened that it found sweet and sale rest
ing place. A fresh, big-eyed beauty in the
lower box suddenly startled her friends by
clutching her pretty neck and exclaiming:
"Oh! think I'm stabbedP
Everybody bent solicitouslv toward her
demanding what was the matter. She tapped
her chest and gasped: 81 felt a sharp weapon
strike me here"
Her mother looked keenly at the girls
throat, but there was no sign of a wound.
OF this she strove to assure her child.
''It is lower down." whispered the young
woman.
At that moment gentleman entered by
the door at the back Of the box.
pardon my intrusion" he said, 'but my
wife in the box above dropped jewel from
her hair mbment ago. and she saw that it
fell in here. Have you seen anything of
it?"
The lovely girl who thought herself
stabbed sat upright in her char and looked
q trihe frightened. Then she dashed into
the back room, from which she presently re-
turned, her face wreathed in timid smiles.
"Here is the jewell" she said, holding
forth handsome diamond dagger.
YOUNG MEN IN CLOVER.
Among the products of modern society
there is none more remarkable than the iuv-
emile attendant-cavalier. A dozen rich and
highly respectable New YORK matrons now
provide themselves each with what she is
pleased to call "a useful boy" and, to do
her Justice, it must be acknowledged that
she eompels the young man to earn his quail
ifc$tions. The fashionable matron takes
much pride in the appearance of her cava-
lie1, and to qualify lor the position be must
in q measure be ornamental as we'll as use
full! Furthermore he must in no wise be
awkward. He must be able to put cloak
round Madam's shoulders as carefully as
her maid, and to adjust an opera hood with
out ruffling the hair. It being part of his
duties, too, to attend to fans, bouquets opera
glasses, programmes, dogs, and all'such i'm
pediments, it is necessary that he should
not indulge in the old-fashioned occupation
of wool gathering, while on no account must
he permit himself to cherish the usual mas
cbline aversion to shopping" for when he
Isl not dispatched alone to execute my lady's
orders, which may range from a box at the
opera to box of pearl powder, he is re-
quired to be in attendance when she makes
the rounds of drygoods emporiums.
AT THE RESTAURANT.
( At the restaurants he secures luncheon,
and being well drilled in Madam's likes
and dislikes, he thus saves her the trouble of
choosing her own fare, and the inflietion of
getting what she detests. BE is useful, too,
in finding the carriage after the thester or
afternoon party, and added to all these
serviceable, if not axactly intellectual quail
tiles, are the advantages that he can be
snubbed at will, that he never dare grumble
like husbands, aud that he never bores with
the wearisome attention Of older men. To
what end do these perfumed dsndyettes run
errands and act as footmen to other mems
wives if not to play at being gay Lotharios?
Their reward is that they get taken every
where and everybody has to treat them with
some degree of civility. Then they are in
the train of pretty or, at least, of a popu-
lar woman, a distinction which all youths
envy. They live on the metaphorical milk
and honey Of the land, they bask in luxury
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