Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04

Although the warm weather has prevented
the social season opening with the energy
generally expected in October, there were
one or two notes of warning last week. Per
haps the most delightful reception was one
for which no particular preparations had
been made, and which the host himself did
not anticipate until the guests BEGAN tc
come in and overrun his parlor. Postmaster
Mexican may plume himself upon having
held one of the first receptions of the winter
season of 1891 in Pittsburg,
ills private Office, which is really a parlor
was full OF beautiful plants early on the day
on which the postoffice department was
moved into the new building The Dlants
were followed by well-known people of the
city, with many that are not well known,
but VINO, finding themselves in the neigh.
borhood of Smithfield street, considered it
only the proper thing to drep in and con-
gratulate the postmaster upon the beauty
and convenience OF his new official home.
There was Il great deal of business trans
acted in the pOstoffice on that first day but
that did not prevent its being social oeca-
sion, allthe more delightful because entirely
lmpromptu. And everyone was welcome.
Weddings of the Week
1t has been a rather quiet week for
weddings. There have not been any import
ant marriages from a strictly society stand
pretty home weddings, the participants in
which are popular in their own circles
Among these that of Miss Janet F. Lowry,
daughter of the well-known editor and
author, is particularly interesting, both on
account OF her father being so prominent in
journalistic circles and OF the groom being
connected with one of the leading banking
establishments in Pittsburg.
Cards were issued last week Tor any num-
Der of weddings that will take place at the
end of October and beginning of November
and it is evident that with the disappear
ance of the golden-rod from the hillsides
Hymen will take Cupid hy the hand and
consummate his work in many q church in
this neighborhood.
The Fad of Good Cooking.
The cooking school fad that swept
through so many homes last year bids fair
10 seize the housel1eepers, and those who
may become housekeepers, this season with
as much virulence as in 1890. The dishes
that are discussed and the experiments
that are made are threatening to the di-
Eestion of the sterner sex, but since they
please the woman there is little to be said.
1t is to be hoped Miss Parloa will bring her
pupils on as quickly as possible so as to rem
der the probation for husbands and broth
ers as short as possible.
Women in America and Europe.
A lady prominent in educational work
in PIttsburS said the other day that she had
noticed, during her summer trip to Europe,
that ladies across the Atlantic have nothing
like the liberty they enjoy here. Said she:
ut is actually unsafe for a lady to walk on
the streets in the daytime without escort,
while at night it is positively dangerous. In
Paris and Vienna, especially, a lady must
not trust herself alone anywhere if she
wishes to escape insult. Another thing is
the habit of women of smoking cigarettes in
ZION md puv-IS in nnin Tf
is considered the proper thing there; but
American women cannot conform to this
custom, or, at least, they do not. 1t horri-
fed my party, apparently to the amusement
of the French and Austrian ladies, who
could not see anything in their own conduct
10 critlcise." IUCETTA LoRNE.