Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13
BELLIES OF THE SEA
After Their Outing Are Enjoying the
Delights of Shopping.
COMING WEDDING OF A BEAUTY.
Young Ladies' Schools Are Now Teaching
the Art of Marketing.
THE ORNAMENTATION OF THE HAIR
WRITTEN For THE pIsPATcH.l ]

WRITTEN
There is something majestic in the way
in which New Workers sweep back to their
homes in the autumn. For the past week
people have been rushing into the city at
the rate of 10000 persons per day! If one
could be suspended sufficiently high above
Manhattan Island to gain view of the rail-
roads centering here for 100 miles out on
every line, what an interesting spectacle
to watch these professions Of steam wagons
slipping along to q common rem devious!
And the influx of this army has been accom-
plished with so little friction that, except
for the brief crowding at the city's gates
the ferries and the railway stations-the
domiciled citizens have not noticed this
stupendous Homecoming.
The streets of New York, however, begin
to show this mass of arrivals and the shop
keepers have discovered that goodly pro-
portion of their feminine customers are
with them again. And how eagerly lovely
woman begins the round of buying once
more! Fall shopping is one of her dear de-
lights. She has been for some time de-
prived of the pleasurable occupation, and
she has come home destitute-'not decent
gown left," she AYERS, though sne looks
very decent indeed as she trips from one
counter to another. She is the picture of
health from her outing, her eye is gratified
| with the gay autumn fabrics spread before
her and her artistic sense alert and stimu-
lated with the pleasurable difficulty which
a choice of their profusion offers. There is
| a subdued excitement in her mien. She
steps rapidly and joyously as if she were
| full of cheerful commissions, and she is evi-
| dpntlv varv clad IN he al hnma AGAIN
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Miss Sallie Hargous, the well-known
beauty of New York and Newport, who
Tuesday next will at the latter place be-
come Mrs Duncan Elliott, has enjoyed q
long and brilliant belleship. She is about
q, and, since her debut eight years ago, has
| had the fashionable male world at her feet.
It is said she has refused more titles than
any girl in New York society, preferring,
most sensibly, an American husband. Her
beauty is so purely Andalusan that she is
| frequently accredited with Spanish ancestry,
and the fact that her father accumulated his
fortune in the Mexican banking business
has helped this notion, but actually she is
French on her fathers side and Irish on her
mothers. While not one of the tremendous
heiresses of the day, she has about mill
| ion of money in her own right, and, as
|
| startlingly so, the pair will have enough,
certainly, to keep the wolf well away from
| the door.
| Miss Hargous dresses in exquisite taste
| and has liking for Spanish effects, white
and gold and black and white, with droop-
ing plumes and billowy laces The wedding
ought to be picture, as Mr.. Elliott is a
tall, fine looking fellow whose manly grace
should well complement the rare beauty of
his bride.
Fans, any of the flexible woven grass
ones, procurable at an art store, make pretty
hanging flower holders twisted into a cornu-
copia and fitted with tin pockets.
Toilet sets in white and gold with mono
gram in gold letters on the side
| of the pitcher, and at the bottom of the
bowl as well, in some cases are popular, but
not altogether pretty. Monogramming, if
one may be permitted the word, all ones
belongings is not considered good form.
| Table and house linen and the family plate
NAV show the combined initials, but it is
neither effective nor in good taste to repeat
them indefinitely throughout the furnish
ings.
| A much more beautiful and artistic toilet
set has mermaid in the bottom of
] the bowl, with sea grasses spind-
| ling up the sides of the pitcher, and for the
| smaller pieces groups of tiny shells in moss.
If one is skilled in china painting most
beautiful results may be obtained by pur-
chasing plain white set and reproducing
upon it some of the suitable aquatic designs
published by the various art journals.
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think and work for December fairs for their
pet charities. A cleaning from some of the
summer fetes offers profitable suggestions.
For a variation of church sociable Jap
anese tea is an attractive scheme. The idea
is not novelty. but its carrying out has
been so much abused that successful and
correct Japanese tea may be set down as
something new. A young woman described
one of these affairs last spring with more
| truth than poetry: 81 have been to a jap
| anese tea" she wrote; sit was a very Amer
ican supper with nasty little paper napkins
| to wipe our mouths with.
| But they do not all fit such description.
| If the s'tea" is to be in a private house the
parlor may be hung with large Japanese
umbrellas from which tiny lanterns hang
| ing, add much to the effect. Then beg
and borrow all the lacquer work cabinets
and tables, Japanese screens, panels and
hanging banners feasible, and dispose them
about the apartment. Coax the loan of a
Towering almond tree from friendly for
ist and in tall Kioto vases put punches of
the artificial flowers that any Japanese
store can supply. Put the assistants in
| japanese costume, serve tea in blue and
white china, and cakes and fruit piled on
lacquer trays. the japanese paper nap
| kins will have to do service, but BY sending
to some large center pretty designs in these
can be had, For limited private enter
| tainment beautiful cloths and napkins can
be made by the loosely woven monte cloth,
fringed and embroidered in red and blue
tracery A table for the sale Of pound
packages of tea, Japanese nuts and sweet
meats, fans, ivories and various bric-a-brac