Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14


pretty Kate Vaughn's skirt-dance was the
sensation of the day. Her dainty figure and
graceful movements became the talk of the
town, and sculptors and painters focked
with the heavy ''swells" to witness every
performance, that they might profit by the
Btatuesque poses which the figures of the
dance permitted. In a twinkling, SO to
speak, all was changed. Her former CON-
panions, who before were all pity, now
looked on with open-mouthed wonder and
said: "Well, isn't Kate Vaughn lucky
girl?"
-Four years of uninterrupted success went
by. The originator of skirt dancing had
many imitators, but none attained the per-
fection of the first one. Suddenly the report
went round that Kate Vaughn had expert
enced another streak of fortune in marrying
the Hon. Frederick Wellesley, heir to the
Dukedom of Wellington. Again everybody
wondered and talked about "the Vaughn's'
wonderful luck. A retirement for year
followed and then she returned to the stage,
continuing her former triumphs. Lucky
she was during the time mentioned, but no
one will accuse her of being superlatively
endowed by fortune when they learn of the
latest, and what is likely to prove the clos
ing episode of her remarkable career. A
slight sprain of the ankle had bad turn,
modification set in, and the physicians, to
save her life, amputated the limb a few
DAYS since. Thus closes Kate Vaughn's
eventful career. From the ranks she won a
position, not only in her profession, but out
of it Interest will now center on her fut-
ure. 1t remains TO be seen whether the
erstwhile stage beauty will appear as
charming to her dude" husband, now that
she is physical wreck and unable to add
her own earnings to the exchequer of the
Wellesley household. Time will tell
War of the Boards In Paris.
see by the cable reports that the "War
of the Boards" as it is called in Paris, is
developing in Importance every day. The
restaurant walters whose hirsute growths
have caused the trouble have now a news
paper, and as their employers, who issued
the edict against them, have also secured
one, the fight assumes more equality. 1t |
seems rather odd that in this plain, sensible, |
matter-of-fact nineteenth century days, an |
individual should demand authority over |
another's personal tastes. 1 will not admit
that the condition of employer and employe
dUefS InaIIeTS w n6u buo 1deeSI OoSs Iuo
work laid out for him to do satisfactorily,
his obligations end there, unless previous
arrangement has been made
One can admit the existence of some rea-
son for shaving in the case of religious or
ders. whose members are in some cases to
he recognized by the treatment of the
beard, or even more reasonable was AleXan-
Ger's command to Parmenio,' that all the
soldiers should shave on account of the ad- |
vantage which hold on a strong beard |
gave an enemy, in those days of fierce hand
to-hand conflicts But, the French walters |
are neither soldiers nor members of holy |
orders, and have therefore no more right to |
bear Distinguishing marks Of their trade |
than the chimney-sweep has to bearing on |
his nose a sooty splash or the grocer a car
rot in his hat-band.
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