Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-30
AN ASSEMBLY BALL

Given at the Pittsburg Club Last Evening
"A Pleasant Day for School Girls-AD
American Woman's View of English
Society-nlness Postpones a Wedding.
THE whole of the Pittsburg Clubhouse
was given up to the guests at the Assembly
Ball last evening" The occasion was one of
the notable social events of the season, and
the members of the club fully realized the
responsibility that rested upon them of
making the appointments absolutely per-
feet. The assistance of the florist was In
voked, and right well did that power exert
himself to cover up every suggestion of
angle and baroness, and convert the whole
mansion into vast conservatory. In the
theater the skill that can bring the gardens
and woods into the mouse was most conspic-
uous. The stage was set for a wood scene,
with rocks, ferns, ripping brooks and falls,
and glowing red blossoms here and there, as
If they we're growing. Such q pretty effect
is not often seen on the stage, and it was a
genuine surprise to the gay company that
gathered in the hall last night. At 9 o'clock,
the hour set for the beginning of the recep-
ton, the carriages began to arrive, and for
the next two hours there was constant
stream of guests who were ushered into the
house and received by number of repre-
sentative society people of Pittsburg. The
reception party consisted of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph X. Dilworth, Mr.. and Mrs. U. n. Frew,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank P. Sproul, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sewell, MI. Nathaniel Holiness. Mr.. Arthur
Holland, W. K Shiras, ESQ.,, and Mr. W. NJ.
Price. The music was delicious and the
surroundings perfect What wonder, then,
that the dance was a complete success!
Making Vacation Pleasant.
THE young school girls had another
pleasant day yesterday. Their afternoon
n hat taQ a
home of Mrs. Wood and another at that OF
Mrs. Hays, both on Ridge avenue, Allegheny.
The appointments at Mrs. Hays house were
very beautiful, the whole first floor being
thrown open to the young guests, with
large, beautifully-trimmed Christmas tree
in the capacious library. In the dining
room, which was handsomely decorated, tea
was served, and the pretty faces of the
young girls would have made the scene
delightful one independently of anything
else. They we're all in simple dresses, such
as become school girls, and that can hardly
be worn advantageously by anyone else,
and it may be truly said that a more charm
ing picture OF youth and innocence WAS
never presented in an American home, OF
anywhere else. The reception room, which
was furnished in dark mahogany, was
frightened up by flowers arCistically dis
posed, large bowl of pink carnations occu-
pying the center of the table and breathing
their rich fragrance to every corner OF the
apartment. Assisting Mrs. Hays in receiv-
ing were Mrs. Judge Hawkins, Miss Margaret
H. Hawkins, Miss Matilda McKenna, Miss
Agatha Jennison, Miss Mary Hays and Mrs.
4. NJ. Bowers.
The young people came and went between
the homes OF Mrs. Woods and Mrs Hays all
the afternoon, the same time being set for
both receptions. Miss Mary Louise Woods
was the hostess at her mothers house. The
afternoon was pleasant one indeed Tor the
young girls, and will afford plenty OF food
for conversation whom they return to their
studies in school, to wait 1or the next vaca-
t1On.