Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-17
IN THE SOCIAL SWIM.
The Woodland Wild as Discovered
Yesterday in the Auditorium
TO AID THE SOUTHSIDE HOSPITAL.
Pennsylvania College Girls Practice Physi
cal Expression.
INCA IN PROSPEROUS CONDITION

AT 10 O'CLOCK Yesterday morning no tnor-
oughfare in Pittsburg was buster sight than
was the Auditorium Several hundred
women were there, besides a few men, get
ting in readiness the machinery that was to
put in motion the benefit for the Southside
Hospital. When the florists vacated the
Auditorium last Saturday they left behind
them the pretrily arranged ceiling of
autumn branches and evergreens and some
of their potted chrysanthemums. This
made a novel woodland scene Looking at
it in the evening it was not difficult to i'm
agine that the mart, busy with people and
traffic, had sprung up by magic, or obedient
to the call of the genii of Alladin's
lamp. And it was magic, but only the
magic of the nineteenth century hard work
earlier in the day. Then two sides of the
room were lined with the skeletons of the
booths for the sale of everything that comes
within the rather wide compass of a chari-
table fair. The women few about, and so
did the girls, and their tongues were all
flying, as well as the hammers whose taps
could be heard in every direction.
Arranging the Decorations.
The country store was standing vacant in
one corner and the goods for it were piled
up in another corner. The famous Miss
Flora McFlimsy was nowhere to be seen,
but her trunk, perched high on a box, was
the subject of much comment and inquiry.
A shrub, which in the evening bursts into
more wonderful fruitage than ever adorned
Christmas tree, was lying on
its side, not being even planted,
to say nothing of bearing. The
hut of the fortune teller had no
Everything was in embryo But stout
hearts, willing fingers whose owners never
once WINGED though these same fingers were
struck by the hammers as often as were the
heads of the tacks; and a few cool heads,
these were the genii of the lamp, and
from these sprung the magic that trans
formed the Auditorium by evening
By7 o'clock the Auditorium was ready
for the public and people began to arrive in
little parties until the hall was fairly well
filled.
Not a Place to Save Money.
The skeleton frames of the booths of the
morning were now in all the glory of gay
cheese cloth; and the busy workwomen were
become demure shop girls, whose business
it was with their bright eyes to lure every
man or woman who came their way into
their net. Ones purse came out at the door
and it never left ones hand until one got
it to the door again. Flower girls
insisted upon your buying flowers. Candy
girls, as delicious bits Of confectionery as
as their own sweetmeats, drew you to them
as the flower draws the honey.
Two old Gypsies read your hand upon
your crossing theirs with silver and told
you ''fair fortune and no favor" Miss
Flora McFlimsy held an at home, the in
vitations to which took the form of five
cent piece, and woman-like showed you
all her wardrobe, which somebody declared
equaled in completeness those of either of
the coming brides of the week. Baby Ruth
Cleveland lay in her cot Indifferent to the
fact that she was miles away from her own
mother, and that a cruel world was bidding
for her at 10 cents a bid. Bennie Mckee,
in a handsome black velvet suit,
apparently found the Auditorium in Pitts
burg much to his liking as White House
in Washington.
Another Case for Agent Dean.
Probably because it was first night, the
old woman in the shoe acted in a very un-
dignife6 fashion, and was actually seen
climbing out of her shoe. A little later she
was found eating an ice, while her poor
deserted children were trying to keep
warm by hdddling together in the
tip of the shoe and curling
its tongue around them for a
blanket. Dinner was not served yesterday
but begins to-day at II o'clock. The menu
for it is:
Soup-Ovster. Roasts-warm-Turke
beet. egetables-Potatoes, toma. oes
eorn. Salads Chicken, potato. Relishes-
Pickles, chow-chow, catsup, cranberries,
celery, jelly. Crackers and cheeee. Pastry
Lemon pie, mince pie. Bread-White
bread, brown bread, biscuit Tea, coffee,
milk
In the evening there will be an equally
appetizing supper from 8 to o'clock The
Southside ladies will be in charge to-day
and tomorrow.
1T is rather pleasant to learn that the dis |
couraging accounts rife about the Young |
Woman's Christian Association are hardly |
correct. To-day the association comes into |
possession of its new quarters, portion a |