Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-06

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lTHXJW BS~ msnts was music
NhSlNC16 riding. These affairs
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equestrian academies are largely attended.
A music ride means ride on horseback to
music. That is, people 60 to riding school
on certain evenings, get on their horses
and amble about the enclosure to popular
airs played by band. Meanwhile, their
friends sit in the galleries and look on.
Occasionally an aspiring girl, or possibly
a fat woman, falls off a horse and thus en-
livens the proceedings; but usually it is
simply monotonous circling around the
ring by those who like to show their riding
clothes and enjoy social intercourse with
their partners. An easy system of etiquette
prevails. Everybody talks to his neighbor;
and, as the pupils usually have to be
properly introduced at these schools, there
is not much danger of undesirable persons
intruding themselves. Once in great
while black sheep comes in and gives the
other riders something to gossip about.
Once her character is found out, however,
her tickets for riding are quietly withheld
by the management. She is told all the
horses are engaged, and the quality of the
music ride is placed beyond cavil.
A DUDES UNLUCKY LOVE.
A very young man with a light, goose
down mustache, pale blue eyes, No. II
neck and a large faith in his physical at
fractions has been haunting the front row
of one of our thesters lately in the vain
hope that a certain handsome girl in the
company would recognize what beautiful
example of masculinity he is. His con-
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punches of roses, met with a saddening sort
of silence, but still he did not despair, and
this week he outdid himself by sending
huge basket of flowers with the request
that, if his attentions were viewed with
favor, the idol Of his heart should at the
performance that night wear cluster OF the
violets on her bosom. 1t happens that a
bright little girl of takes part in the
play, and the callow youth was astonished
when he saw his bunch of violets at the
throat of the child. The woman and the
girl have colloquy together In one scene,
and on this occasion they introduced few
lines that were not in the authors text.
'Oh, where did you get those sweet vio-
lets, asked the actress.
ga dude sent them to me-" replied the
child.
why, you little mouse, /" replied the ac-
tress; "do you mean to say that you have
become the victim of dudes at your age?"
"Yes, indeed" said the child with i'm
mense gravity; land I am to wear these
flowers when go out with nurse so that he
NAV know 1 like him."
Then the regular lines of the play were
resumed. About that time red and white
young man, evidently hurrying for train,
was seen flying up the aisle of the theater.
HER PRIDE WAS ADMIRABLE.
Some young men are not so we'll informed
in the requisite formalities toward the FEM
mime sex as they ought to be, and it was one
of this order that put young woman on a
Bowery horse car after the theater, the other
night, and left her to get to Harlem alone,
while he went in an opposite direction to
Brooklyn. Seeing her safely ensconced in
the car, the young man thrust 5-cent piece
into the hand of the conductor and jumped
from the platform. In few moments the
conductor entered the car, and stood before
the girl awaiting her fare. She looked ques-
tioningly at him and said nothing.
Fare, miss" said the conductor.
The girl blushed. "Jimmy-I mean
didn't the young man pay my fare?" asked
she.
''He paid his own fare, not yours. replied
the conductor, grufflv.
"But he didn't take ride. He only put
me on the car"
''That's all right. He rode all the same.
want your fare"
The girl made movement toward her
pocket and then hesitated. Springing to her
feet, she murmured, as the tears came to her
eyes: LET me off, please"
what" exclaimed the conductor. "You
amt got the price Of ride. Oh, pshaw! you
kin ride free. then"
SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID.
But the meek little Harlem maid, with
her smart 50 hat and well-worn jacket, was
game. Her pretty mouth settled firmly over
her white teeth. you will stop the car
and let me off," said the girl, as imperiously
as princess.
Two men passengers offered nickels for the
girl to the conductor, who was now insisting
that he did not require any fare. The girl
thanked them. II wish to get off at once"
she cried, fixing her big, angry eyes upon
the conductor.
81 made mistake. Miss" said the latter.
'I don't want no fare"
The girl futtered out to the platform, and,
as gracefully and sure as bird, swung from
the step, while the car was dashing along at
a sharp pace, and vanished in the Bowery
crowd. 1 happen to know that she walked
home in the snow, distance of four miles,
New York surely has among its working
ranks girls whose pride ought to win them
coronets. A duchess could not have out
shone in dignity of poise this timid young
Harlem maiden.
RECEPTIONS THAT ARE BoREs.
The wit who affirmed that the only thing
he disliked about q concert was the music
would be inclined to find fault with after
noon and evening receptions, as they are
conducted in this city. Conversation is
simply out of the question. The hostess an
nounces one reader or singer after another
in such rapid succession that all one can do
is to submit to fate and be silent. At times
the lady accepts the performer on faith, and
the result is wretched amateur entertain
ment, to which the guests must listen in
respectful silence. Antiques who voted for
John Quincy Adams otter make their ap-
pearance at receptions, and offer to read
something. Ella Wheeler Wilcox lately
made the experiment of a French conversa-
zione. She required all her guests to con-
verse in French. 1t was comical. Her bus
band asked:
"Have you read the poem of my last
wife,"
To which the person addressed thus re-
piled:
"No; but 1 hope have read the last poem
of your first wife,"
A French lady present was asked her
opinion of the experiment. "Ze tour of
Babble," she replied with shrug of The
shoulder.
NOT THIS WAY IN PITTsBURG.
When will an apostle of taste arise and
preach in the wilderness peopled With blue