Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-08
FASHION DEGREES

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That Flowers Must Not dorm Dead Friends
-Epitaphs and Funeral Decorations
Hie to a Land Not Found on the Map
Pat Paragraphs.
FLOWER men are in a predicament some
| avhat since the death blow has been ad-
ministered to funeral work. 1t is no
| longer good form to smoother all that is left
| of our dear ones in roses and lilies and
carnations, the correct thing being never to
exceed a small spray Or tiny handful Of
the blossoms best loved in life by the one,
now cold in death. Cushions, volumes gates
Darling" "Gone Before" and the
other numerous peurile sentimental
grief have gone to the "bourne whence no
| traveller ever returns" They and the
epitaphs OF the faithful spouse, loving
mother and true friend are now enjoying q
| past usefulness, while their foibles and
| frailties Of taste are but gently dealt with
| by the generous touch of extenuation. In
| the meantime the florist is waiting and
thinking.
Mr.. WILLIAM JOHNSTON, of Main
street. who has been travelling in Europe for
the past three months, is expected to land
to-day in New York. His youngest daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles B. Seaman, who remained
with her mother during her fathers absence
abroad, is taking mp her own lares and pen
ates again. and expects to go to her own
home on Forty-third street this week.
The continued illness of Mrs Paul
Zimmerman has caused the date of the Mid
summer concert at the Kenmawr to be de
ferred again, this time to the 18th. The
1ni- 1ry Iyv1nu
beyond the circles Of the hotel, good many
people suffered keen disappointment last
night by finding after alighting from the
cars that the grounds were entirely De.
was perfect night and could the concert
have been given undoubtedly success would
nave waited upon it open handed.
Social Chatter.
Mr. j. HARVEY WArrLEs has arrived in
town from short European sojourn.
Mr.. AND Mrs. E. D. SMITH and their family
are en- route this morning for Atlantic City.
AT the Home for the Aged in Allegheny,
steps are being taken in preparation for
lawn fete.
TONIGHT the members of Shadyside Pres
byterian Church have a special song service
Ill commemoration Of Is years ecclesiastical
existence.
The organist of Trinity Church and not
MI. Charles C. Mellor will preside at the or
gan on the occasion next Monday evening of
Miss Rowand's marriage.
The Misses Jessie and Genevieve Emerson
leave tonight for Atlantic City, where they
will spend few days prior to an extended
summer sojourn at Kenka Lake.
ALREADY the date of the chrysanthenum
show Is on the tapis, and November Is to 10
inclusive decided as the time. The place
will be as heretofore, the Aul Itorium.
THE Misses George and Jennie McKown,
C0fa0nn1i9 of
for Indian river, Mich, to spend July and
August at the Argonaut Club grounds, Burt
Lake, Mich.
THE coming social season will be late,
not particularly brilliant, nor important.
This is the dire portent made by thoughtful
society women.
TO-DAY if the weather god gets out from
the night side Of his couch garden party
will be given by the Ladies' Association of
the Southstde Hospital in the old Knox
house in Knoxville.
MRS. GEoRGEV. MILLIKEN, with Miss Milliken
and the other small members of the family,
are sojourning in the country beyond
Brownsville for the summer as the guest of
Mrs. Milliken's father.
PEOPLE with the Cincinnati by boat bees
in their bonnets should not hesitate, as the
trip will soon be q lost one. The dry weather
will render the making Of the passage i'm
possible later than the middle of August.
UEoh9E A. LAsHELLy Esq, With ten COM
panions, left yesterday for Indian river,
Mich; in advance of the main party of the
Argonaut Club. which will leave on August
for a three weeks sojourn. They will go
into camp and await the arrival of the
club.
} BEAVER FALLS and New Brighton boast of
lot OF extremely pretty and smartly
frocked girls, who ride bicycles and play
tennis With all the vervre of the city girl,
and look just as fashionable and chic as
though bred under the very caves of the
metropolis.
THE managers of the Newsboys' Home
held their final meeting yesterday. and will
not be in session again until September
Mrs. Christopher L. Magee was appointed q
member of the Building Commission, taking
the place of Mr.. E. B. Smith, and with Mr..
Keenan, and Mr.. Kerr forming Committee
of Three.
The Hammond family, of Bellevue, are
permanently established in their town
home on South Negley avenue, above Mr.. |
Charles Donnelly's residence. at the corner !
OF Fifth avenue. The Bellevue residence
has been disposed of to DR.. Wylie, who is |
adapting it for the purposes of a private |
sanitarium, its beautiful situation and sur |
roundings making it most desirable spot |
for such an undertaking.
For the week of the Fourth, which doubt |
less they preferred to take in a milder man |
Ter than after the fashion of Schenley Park, |
Ellwood captured the following Pittsburg-
Earl, Miss E. N. Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Alexander Harvey, Mr.. Addison M. Irwin,
Miss Lizzie Dickson, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. |
Dickson, Miss Minnie Seidle, Miss Martha |
Holloway, Miss Thompson, Mrs. C. H. Nc
Kee Mr.. and Mrs. Giles chaperoned party