Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
Christmas Advice for Bachelors.

In fact, see no earthly cause
He should not pau~e for life.
Why should bookseller take advantage
Of having the public confidence to permit
such verses being disseminated as those
already quoted And in holiday book of
sll books, and at Christmas of all times in
the yearl Yet this is being done by a Pitts
burg merchant of the gentle book persua-
sion. He puts on his counter q
book bearing on its cover all the
glittering sllurements Of the illustrator,
gust as cook sometimes tries to kill her
bad cooking by drowning it in good sauce.
A man 1--WE know his fatal love for color
5ust as we know he has nose for sauce)
picks up this bomb loaded to blow up one Of
the most sacred institutions, that of matri-
monv, TO which ever woman has pinned
her faith He turns over the pages and his
eve lights on the fatal stanza Perhaps a
moment before he had been making up his
mind to ask some dear girl to give herself
to him for Xmas present At once he is
!n doubt He reads again. Then he dips
further. and here's what he is told not to
DO if he should be unfortunate enough
either to discard the advice in the stanza or
nOt to be in position to profit by it. The
cloven-footed and horned author next says
IS advice for married men:
Don't give petit soupers.
Don't bet on horse racing.
Don't frequent stage doors.
Don't have friend Of the family.
Don't think your wife an angel because
she looks like one.
Is il any wonder that girls are going
about unmarried, when such literature is scat
tered broadcast But what can one exnect
better of a bookseller who permits Ward
McAllister's Society as I Have Found IT,
20 lie covered with dust in a neglected
corner Of his shop, this blessed Christmas Of
1881?
Some Sewickley Society Events.
There will be no lack of social merry
making in Sewickley at this season, but
great many Of the dances, receptions and
card parties will be informal and more or
less family affairs The return of good
many Of the younger and livelier set of
men from college for the brief Xmas vaca-
ton is appreciated duly by their friends
Invitations for dancing and card party
st the Park Place Hotel, Sewicklev. have
been sent out by Mrs d. Reynolds Kerr
and Miss Pearson for December %.
A leap year party will be given by Mrs.
Fred S. Burroughs, at her pretty Sewickley
house on New Years Eve, and is is expected
that the lucky gentlemen who have been in
vited to the number of hundred or so will
find it an suspicious introduction to 1892
1t is not exactly a society event, but the
proposal 10 locate a keeley institute in Sc
Sickley is being talked about good deal
Just now. It does not seem to be settled
vet where the new institution is to be, but
Mrs Warden's residence on Beaver street
Is under consideration.
The rehearssls of THE Cricket on the
have seen the company's work predict that
the next entertainment OF the Valley Club
will be a very bright performance.
Since Miss Parloa visited the valley three
years ago Sewickley's cooking has gone
ahead without professional coaching, and
dyspepsia has not increased to any extent.
Now it is proposed to let loose some new
Ideas upon valley kitchens, and society is
taking up Prof II. L Bits lectures on
scientific fruit canning and preserving Mr.
Bits is going to lecture and exhibit results
Of his system at Choral Hall on January 8
next and a representative gathering of
sewickley housekeepers will be there to see
him.
Hide the Hand of Charity.
i don't wish to appear as a croaker over
the really good work that some people in
town are doing for the cause of educati N,
dAu particularly AOi thaI ueIo OF III repre-
sented by Vassar College. 1 don't even
know that the Vassar Students Aid Society
in Pittsburg had the privilege of choosing
Its own name. 1t seems to me, though, that
no woman of pride or of selt-respect would
care to accept scholarship from an organ
ization bearing such title. Who ever
heard OF men being the benehciarieJ
of aid societies in connection with
Harvard, Yale, Cornell, ETC., and vet men
are encouraged in the most practical
manner is endeavoring to obtain college
education. And why can't women help
their own sex in gloriously, generous
manner, and sugar-coat for them the ele-
mosynary pill? 4 young girl declared last
week that 1 would go to my grave Greek
less and Latinless rather than be pointed
out as poor student sent to Vassar by its
Aid Society,""