Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01

"After dinner, rest while" The repose
under the taole, of which in the good old
DAYS that are gone we hear so often, when
| men drank hard and deep, seems much more
| in the order of things. The dance after a
dinner is often a punishment of pleasure.
The dinner dance is only a reception with
several bostesses instead of one, and the
| eating preceding instead of following. 1t has
brought about one change. Ii one must dance
| one must have dancing legs, consequently
young people must replace their elders
| at the festive board and they naturally well
! come the change with delight. To be in
vited to dinners is an advance TO a certain
grade of social distinction and recognition
for which debutantes hope and to which
| they look forward. A dinner has become
much more an affair of amusement than it
| formerly was. No longer do the "buds"
| add to their litanv, From a dinner deliver
u.s." They want to be asked to dinners; the
invitation implies a selection. They feel
they are recognized as women with minds.
Most older people like the leavenipg of
youth. They no longer wish to be left on
the shelf of reverence; they want to reach
back and assimilate themselves with youth
and be youthful. One happy change the
dinner-danee has brought about-the meal
can no longer drag itself wearily along by
the hour; it must stop some time; it must
have reasonable limit.
Fashionable women no longer care for
silk underwear. When actresses and the
world at large take kindly to a thing,
mllady begins to look upon it with disfavor.
Miss Clara D. Forsterer makes an excel
lent living in the uncommon industry of
mending boiling cloth, precious and del
icate fabric, good as gold in any market.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie mas several spoons,
both English and continental, of consider
able antiquity One of these is carved in
bone and ivory and has pear-shaped bowl,
with an acorn affixed to the point of the
handle. Two others in silver do not differ
greatly in form, but are surmounted, tine
one by the device of pomegranate, the
other by the bead and shoulders OF
maiden. All these are attributed to the
period before the English restoration, per-
haps to the time of Charles 1. They differ
from the modern type in every particular,
and their ornamented character is quite in
harmony with the decorative and artistic
fashions of their time.
IA man can smile and smile and be vii
lain," and woman will kiss a sister and
with the same lips defame her character an
hour later.
We are threatened with an invasion of
the Louis XIV. coat, which appears in many
varieties, the long close shape, however
being always preserved. A superb one de-
signed for stylish brunette was of plum
colored velvet; it was slashed in three
pieces and narrowly faced with Persian
lamb, as was also the front and the high
fIring collar, which reached almost to the
ears; above the fur border was a narrow
gold EN- mbroidery, studded with amethyss;
two curved ornaments in the shape of con- |
ventional flowers swept away on either side |
of the bust, and were repeated in a smaller |
pattern upon the mousquetaire cuffs. Some
of the coats show tendency toward slight |
fullness, being shaped to the hips by few |
gathers, and in some instances flat plaits. |
Many of them are formed by having the |
skirts set onto pointed waists, and oc- |
they end on each hip, the bodice |
being quite short in the back.
The sweetest thing to put in the scent |
bottle is lavendar salts, whose fragrant odor |
is very grateful in crowded theater or ball |
room.
Mrs. Thomas c. Platt has a great fond |
ness for cats. says the New York Times, and |
her family of these pets is numerous and |
They are kept at the old farm |
near Turner's, on the Erie road, which is the |
Platt summer residence. Some of them are |
remarkably intelligent, and one will sit at |
the table with admirable manners. striking |
the bell when it desired to summon a serv- |
ant. Not long ago an interloper in the shape |
of dog, sent oyer by an English friend, |
created havoc among the pussies by going |
mad and biting several of them. Rather
than lose her pets, Mrs. Platt sent them to
Newark to be treated, and no bad results
have followed.
The purse glove is the latest novelty. 1t
is simply clasp purse fastened in the palm
Of the glove. 1t is thin and neat and in no