Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-23

has been looked up with deal OF trouble.
He boards at fourth-rate house, and has a
dingy room in the attic; there isn't bath
tub in the house; onions and cabbage, etc.,
perfume the whole place. Yet he dresses
extensively and you know what fine horse
he has, and those lovely dogs"
THIS SETTLES HANDSOME JACK.
"Oh, he rides divinely!"
"Wait bit. He owns nothing in this
world but his clothes, that horse, his ring
and dogs, and those he got by pinching him
self in lunches and dinners. He hides him.
self in that boarding house for the sake of
making display on the street."
"Ohp "Ohp' Ohp' in chorus; then
"what shall we do with him, girls, what but
strike off his name?"
Each girl, thereupon, brings out a dainty
book with the mystic monogram, IN. NJ. l.
S." on the covers, and handsome Jack s
name is scored by heavy black marks in
every one of them. Then lists and notes are
compared, and one lucky fellows name goes
down on the books because it is found that
being determined to go through Yale, and
his old curmudgeon OF father refusing to
give him dime, he is putting himself
through and actually does his own cooking,
But one sly girl whispers: ''He is the heir,
you know, and his father is millionaire
two or three times over"
So the impression on the listener is that
the dear creatures are not wholly above mer-
cenary motives. That they mean business
is evident at all events.
GAY ATHLETIC GIRLS.
The athletic girls, however, are the girls
that garner iun, as the bee gathers honey, by
improving each shining hour" and when
the hour refuses to shine for walks or rides
or outdoor games, improve it all the same
with various devices Tor exercise and frolic.
A groupsof Jolly Girls" as thev cali them
selves, gathered one wet day in an up town
mansion whose young daughter has suite
of rooms fitted up to suit her especial tastes.
OF course they are as charming as her
charming self, but one OF them, the largest
and loftiest, might be mistaken at first for
her brothers room. Its furniture is all of
the sort dear to the heart of the athlete, and
such trophies as are won in athletic games
hang on the walls, in fact there is nothing
in the room to suggest feminine owner-to
one OF old-fashioned ideas of the truly fem
inine-except its exquisite neatness and
order. To this room the Jolly Girls gravi-
tated as naturally as the humming bird to a
sweet pea blossom where by some deft dis
robing they soon stood in
THE SUITS OF GYMNAsTs.
They were all college graduates, as you
would have guessed could you have seen
their performances on bars and ropes and
spring-board. When the Iun had subsidized
somewhat into a breathing spell, the young
hostess and her chum disappeared with an
air of Importance and mystery that excited
the curiosity they intended it should and
helped intensity the sensation they made
when they reappeared. One was arrayed in
rose pink and the other in robin 's-egg-blue
silk tight On their heads-drawn down
closely to the brows, covering every spear of
hair-were silk caps matching the tights in
color. The hands were also covered with
thick gloves, and each wore unique breast
plate, highly ornamented with figures sup
posed the goddess Minerva in helmet and
plume. Before the wide-eyed girls could
speak each had chosen second, had united
on referee and had taken positions
FOR A BOXING MATCH
Then followed the Counter and "cross-
counter" and straight counter" dodge
and all the rest of the things, from those im-
mense doubled-up fists, and the breast plates
resoundeG as these same fists battered and
banged and threatened to knock Minerva
and all her host sky high.
The excitement of the beholders was inde-
scribable. Once the contest came to a sud-
den pause, for Maud inadvertently gave
Grace blow on the cheek, and Grace and
her second cried unfair" and 1--WE said
we wouldn't do that, so nowP'
Then the girls focked about the combat
ants, and praised and petted and urged them
to go on. AS they posed second time one
creature cried: ''Now, Maudie,
do your best. or I shall lose my pearl
brooch; do your best, dear"
But she did not lose the brooch, nor did
she win its equivalent, for both contestants
tumbled over at the same instant and lay on
the floor ingloriously Laughing, heated.
flushed and not much the worse for all the
valor expended. But 1t was glorious funI
CLARA BELLE.