Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-07
FRUSTRATED PLANS.

Lady Henry Somerset's Widely Advertised
/ Lecture VIII Not Come On-Hera1dry
the Most Popular Study in Carnegie IL
brary = Pointed Photographs PrettiIy
Printed.
There was great CONSERVATION Yesterday
In W. c. I. U. circles, when it became known
that Lady Henry Somerset would not be
mere today. Late in the afternoon, upon
her return from Osborne, Mrs E. D. C. Mair
was advised by wire from Cleveland that
Lady Henry's engagement in Pittsburg
was unavoidably deferred until De-
cemDer. The why or how of il
not being contained in the telegram, her
ladyshlp's expectant hosts are at loss to
explain her reasons. But they expect let
Ter tomorrow. What completes the result
ing embarrassment is the thorough, though
necessarily hurried, advertisements which
nao been made of her two coming lectures
on sunday. Everywhere throughout the
mill districts, posters had been distributed,
ana lntlmation given where it was thought to
pc most enective. 1t is feared, then. that
there Will be no time to acquaint the general
public with the change, and that many
will be disappointed on Sunday evening.
Inere is also q general feeling, though it
nnds little expression that LADY Henry will
naroiy De so enthusiastically received when
public has its curious interest ungratified, it
is apt to grow indifferent. The lectures, of
course, are indefinitely postponed.
APROPOs of Lady Henry Somerset, who
will not visit us to-day, it is curious to note
the interest that the democratic people of
America have in nobility and gentry. 1t
may be that we regard them somewhat as
we do the curious animals in a menarerie;
nevertheless Americans are not Indifferent
to them. Somebody inquired the other day
at Carnegie Library what was the most
widely read book on its shelves The as
tonishing answer was "The Genealogical
and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peer-
and Ireland" compiled by Sir
Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms and
containing the pedigrees of the nobility
down to baroDs, royal family and those in
the British service, etc, etc. The book is
bound in red, and is about six inches long.
By right it should be in the alcove, but for
the 1nquisitiye PittsDurgers benefit and the
ease of the librarian. it lies on the desk.
What the average man or woman wants
with the book Is mystery. And wouldn't
Andrew Carnegie be shocked to know the
nature of the literature his library unwit-
tingly encourages?
The return to Pittsburg Of Mrs. J. S.
MacConnell as the bride of George S. Young,
of Parnassus, was marked by an agreeable
reception given by Mr.. Young's sister, Mrs.
W. j. PEBBLES. great many people from
town, especially parishioners of the late
Rev. Mr.. MacConn ell, went up on the even
ing train to Parnassus to present their con-
gratulations to the newly welded pair.
When Mrs. Young was pastors wife, she was
greatly beloved by her husbands congrega-
tiOn, that of the Lawrenceville Presbyterian
Church; Among the guests were: Rev. and
n Mr Mrl N
Mr.. and Mrs. George V. Millixen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles B. Seaman, Mr. and Mrs. A. G.
Foster, Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Fox. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Scoville, Miss Mamie Gillespie,
Mrs. Mollie Permar, William Gillespie,
Charles Ramsey Pittsburg: Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Lane, Mr.: and Mrs. II. W. Clarke,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hills Campbell, Mrs. G.. w.
Glass, Miss Name Glass, Miss Campbell,
Miss Millie Kerr, Mrs. William Logan, Miss
Sue Becker, Miss Bradt, Miss Dougan,
Miss Enwer, Miss Senour, of New Alexan-
Hugh Logan and Mrs. Frederick Knowland,
of Logan's Ferry. Mr.. and Mrs. Young will
be at home henceforth in Parnassus, Allie
gheny Valley Railroad.
INVITATIONS were issued Yesterday by
Henri Rollen Parker for the French mission
services in the First Presbyterian Church
tomorrow afternoon. The services will be
even more interesting than last year, being
supplemented by the singing of several
good vocalists. Among them are Monsieur
N. Laperstetn, who spent the summer in
Paris, and whose singing was much admired
year ago, and Mr.. NJ. d. Darlington, a
member of the Glee Club of the Western
University. Carl Retter will play the organ
and the sermon as usual will be preached by
Rev. j. Launitz. The New York Tract So
ciety, recognizing the good work done last
winter, sends the mission 1000 tracts, and
the Allegheny Bible Society contributes to
1t 16O French Bibles. DR.. Parker thinks the
outlook encouraging.