Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-17
CAPTURED BY ST. LOUIS.

A Pittsburg Girl Plights Herself to West
ern Man-Too Much Jam at Home
Weddings The Daily Chronicle of
Society Events.
THE news of Miss Mary Ricketson's en-
gagement was made public ON last Friday
informally when she acknowledged the
tender imputation for the first time. Miss
Ricketson is the eldest daughter of John II.
Ricketson, Esq.,, and her marriage TO Mr..
Paschal Carr, OF st. Louis will be the second
nuptial of this season in the Ricketson
family. her brot Ter, as will be remembered,
having been married to Andrew Carnegie's
Iiece only a few weeks ago. Miss Ricketsnn
has been belle since her introduction into
society, while her influence is also
felt in the philanthropic and chari-
table world. Her maternal grandfather
is Abraham Garrison. Her nancee
is the Treasurer of the Missouri Safe Deposit
Company OF ST. Louis. He is the son Gen
eral W. c. Carr and nephew of Nathaniel
Missouri Republican and its practical founder.
Mr. Carr is about 35 yearSof age and is q
prominent figure in the four hundred of st.
Louis, where he was born and has lived all
his life. The time OF the wedding IS not yet
determined.
SINCE people are not being married with
so much frequency this month as last, the
other people who were not marry ing, but who
were at the weddings, are remembering
that a sort of inverse ratio existed between
the size of the houses and the number of the
guests. 1t is difficult matter for hostess
to make up her mind where to draw the dis
tinction between the guests she must ask
and those she only likes to ask. Usually
good nature triumphs, ana the we'd
ding night comes, finds L000 people
in the house. when there should not
be more than $50. Hereafter Judgment and
not affection, or whatever you may choose
to call it, must guide in the preparation of
an invitation for house wedding, or house
weddings will soon be as dead as Adam. The
rigid card admission observed at church
weddings in Pitrsburg this season has re-
suited in a good deal of satisfaction to every
woman who ha es to have her smart frocks
crushed and every man who has creases in
his trousers to nurse.
The Linden Club members held their
annual meeting Tuesday night and listened
to very satisfactory reports from their Off
GERS. The club is most prosperous both as
to membership and finances. President
Lloyd was reelected by reclamation, d. T.
Black was chosen Vice President and F. Nj.
Laughlin Secretary and Treasurer. The
Board of Directors is much the same as the
previous year, with Messrs. W. h. Wood
we'll and F. b. Laughlin as new members.
The Linden has now a membership OF over
300 and is still growing.
THE Roanoke Times speaks in this COM
plimentary strain of former Pittsburger:
Mrs. Porter's singing of IL Bacio' attested
the cultivated quality of her splendid voice
and its extraordinary range. touching high
D natural with precision and purity. All of
her numbers were encored." Mrs. Porter
will be remembered as an enthusiast on
music and foremost among the devotees to
the art in Pittsburg year ago. She is also
and what is rather rare, very conversant
with the history of music and musical
writer's.