Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02

on occasions The chatter of freckle-facea
and captivating mink revealed this Isc'
quite vfvidly.
''That's as bad as Miranda's slump" SAID
she, when someone spoke Of an engagement
that had been suddenly broken When tne
others had gone the mink was asked wna'
she meant BY "Miranda's slump"
my sister," said she, "has always mao q z
theory that to get the best effect out o.
beauty you ought to contrast it with ugh
ness She's pretty fine locker, you know,
though she isn't half as fine as she thinks
she is. Well, it has been her plan every
summer to invite some of her girl friends 70
visit her here, but she took good care 70
have girls with faces that you would nave
to spank to make sleep. In this way she
got all the attention when men came to tne
house. The scheme worked very well 1or
time. Miranda had everything her own
way all last season. But this year she askeo &c
Efhe B. to visit us for a few weeks; Ehe
isn't bit pretty, you know: She mas
freckles worse than have, and her nose 40
turn-up Of the worse sort.
FORGOT ABOUT PERSONAL MAGNETISM.
"But she's got magnetism, has Ef6e, and
Miranda didn't take this into account.
There was a ohap-I won't mention names
that Miranda was gone on. He is a
winner in every way. He has good LOOKS
and money, and ell the girls have chased
him. for years. There is no doubt that
Miranda had all the best of 1t last winter
and spring, and she would have still, if she
had not tried to contrast herself with Ethe.
Efie came, his nibs saw and was conquered,
and now Miranda Is the maddest girl In the
mountains She Is go desperate that she
hassssent to Nahant and asked Maud W. to
come and stay with us. Maud is one OF
the handsomest girls in Boston, 50 guess
you can put 1t down that Miranda has gone
back on her theory and will henceforth play
an open game IN the great matrimonial
gamble"
You must know that the Franconia Notch
is place where loud girls are not much
favored. The bad manners Of Long Branch
and Saratoga are very rarely seen here. A
dancing party in the big hall Of the Profile
House, may be composed of young people
who are strangers until two days ago, and
who may never meet again; but the average
Of their department is so high that they
don't hesitate to make the occasion sociable,
and well-bred politeness is seldom broken
in upon by gaucheries.
GETTING AHEAD OF A RIVAL.
Cute girls, therefore, must make their
Z
Maud should never have said Kate's shoes
were small, and put such an emphasis on
''shoes," without mentioning the feet in
them. At least she should not have let
Kate hear her. Kate pretended not to hear
but in moment she limped and said, pout-
ing prettily:
sob, dear, there is gravel in my shoe.
'Take it off and I will shake 1t out, I"
urged her escort.
Down on the rock sat Kate, and off came
the dainty shoe. Obi but the stocking was
| delicate, too, and the little toes that showed
through the fine mesh of the silk were-if
you will permit me-daisies. Of course
Maud and her beau had to wait, and the
man was interested. The shoe was shaken.
To be sure, no gravel seemed to come out,
but what of that? With just flash of a
glance up under her lashes at Maud, the in
genious Kate pushed her wee foot into the
shoe, oh, as easily as ever you can imagine.
Maud could have killed herself, but it was
q chance for Kate, wasn't it?
SCENERY THAT HAS FEW EoUALs.
Scenery Why that is what the Franconia
Mountains were made for, and they are full
of it. Have you been through the Catskills
and tried to become enthusiastic at the
Kaaterskill Fall by recollecting Bryant
poetry and Cowper's romances, while the
proprietor let about barrelfull of water
drizzle over the rock for % cents7 Well,
the streams of Franconia Notch are not dry at
, this writing. They tumble noisily here,
there and everywhere, and cascades are in
multiple. You have heard of the Flume?
1t is one of the things that White Mountain
tourists take coach ride to see. 1t is slit
in the rocks 700 feet long, 80 to 20 feet
deep, with walls as plump as masonry, and a
creek running swiftly through it.
AT one point a stream falls into the
Flume making remarkably pretty cascade
Another place that we walk to is the Pool,
where the Pemmigewassett drops into a
deep, dark basin surrounded by preclpitous
hills. So we take exercise afoot pleasurably,
in highly civilized wilderness, and even
when we are lolling somebody is sure to be
doing something in sight that amuses u.s.
By looking out of my window, this very
minute, see woman trying to mount and
sUBDUE A CANTANKERoUs HAMMOCK
Not one woman in hundred can get into
q hammock gracefully. No one in short
dress should attempt it unless shawl be
first spread in the net. The sides or a corner
of the shawl is then drawn across the feet.
Far be it from me to quarrel with the pretty
glimpses of slipper that a pose in ham
mock may show, but woman must be able
to regulate that show. 1t must seem an in
advertant revelation and not an awkward
expose The average girl had really better
avoid a hammock, or at any rate be always
sure shawl lies in it first. There should
be plenty of pillows, too. You don't want
the under side of hammock to describe an
ugly sag when you are in it, as though you
weighed 200 pounds.
Oh, hammocks are difficult means of
grace. They are not so romantic or sensa-
tional, either, as they look in pictures.
Thus far in this paragraph have written
with the example out there on the lawn.
Suddenly the girl has arranged herself in
the swinging couch. Her efforts are over,
and at length she reposes so prettily that
as sort of postscript-I must add that she
would photograph we'll
HORSES IN THE MOUNTAINS.
The narrow gauge railway ends at the
Profile, and from that point parties in stage
coaches trundle to the Flume and in other
directions. Other horse-drawn visitors come
through in su manner of vehicles from one
horse buckboards to six-horse coaches. Some
of the latter are dashing affairs, top-heavy
with merry passengers, and showing as finely
matched teams as could be found in city
coaching parade. The last to pass by was
tasteful as well as ornamental equipage.
The six big, spirited bay horses were all
alike in size, shape and color. The coach
was harmoniously brown, and its deckload
consisted of 1S young men and women,
dressed appropriately for summer outing
They blew horns, waved handkerchiefs and
hats, and hurrahed at us as they passed.
This is a great region for good, fat horses,
which are bred in adjoining Vermont.
There seems to be no need of Bergh society