Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06
EC0NOMY'S GALA DAY.
Celebrating Wnitsuntide With Serv-
ice, Nnsic and Feasting.
VISITORS FROM THE VICINITY
Gather in the Quaint Old Village to Assist
in the Ceremonies.
But FEW OLD MEMBERS ARE LEFT

Economy was in gala day attire yester-
day, and so was everybody else out there.
1t was the grand feast day of the year, being
whitsunride or, in the language of the Har-
monites, Pfngstuntag, and everybody was
in feast day spirits as well as attire.
Pittsburgers, Sewickleyites, Beaver Falls
folk and the freckle-faced boys and girls
from neighboring farms thronged into the
quaint little village and filled its broad,
clean streets and the great wooden hotel
until good old Frau Breitenstein and her
worthy spouse, who attend to the require
ments of the inner man Of the guests, con-
doled with each other and then piled the
tables until they groaned most appetizingly.
A feast day in Economy means day such
as smoke-begrimed citizens seldom conceive,
and yesterday was a rare success The
weather was in its brightest mood, although
q couple of fleecy white clouds became in
volved in quarrel about noon and boxed
each other with much unnecessary noise,
and the vanquished one shed few tears, but
it only made the ground trife wet and
cooled off the atmosphere, SO the cutters did
not object very energetically.
The Bows and Girls Looked Pretty.
The bows wore their creased store clothes
and clean linen. The girls wore sweet, gala
day smiles and other pretty things that
greatly added to their charms of girlhood.
The men wore curious looks and prosaic
garb, the women wore spring suits
and wild flowers, but it was the
staid old Hsrmonites and Harmonitesses
who really gave the picturesque
aspect to the dav and to the village. The
garb of the women is strange and simple.
1t consists of garments of many hues and
the styles of a cycle of years ago. The
bonnets are miniature representations of
coal scuttles worn upside down and deco
rated with stiff ribbons and st1ffs trills and
most conservatively straight pleats. The
color of these bonnets is that of the
brightest green and the contrast they throw
upon the white hair so severely straight
and precise is most singular. Across the
shoulders is worn small shawl Of such an
excessively German odd commingling of
colors and shades, ranging from the deep
purple and bright green to the heavy black
and gaudy yellow, that they seem to bear
suggestions of stuffv old attics and oddly
smelling food and Captain Kidd stories of
hidden treasures, ct cetera adinfnitum. Their
dresses are of somber black and made with
out any waist whatever, giving the wearer a
strange aspect of squattiness that is pic |
turesque if not exactly artistic
Uniqne if Not Fashionable.
The male members wear their navy blue |
coats and home-cut trousers, both of which |
garments fapped and hung about the bodies |
ard limbs like the sack that contains a |
number of death-doomed kittens The |
headgear is also strange. A hat, tall, stiff |
ard forbidding, with a brim as wide and
curved as is the side of legendary cata-
maran, lends a weird appearance to the
strange asceticists beneath its shelter
But it was only al times that the curious
visitors obtained glimpses of the Harmon
ties, for they did not thirst for self adula-
tion or anything of that sort even If they
could get it, and they tarried not by the
wayside to smoke cigarettes and fiirt with
the city girls and boys certain other folks
did. They behaved themselves in a most
exemplary manner and endeavored by
means of various and sundry severe looks
of disapprobation to curb the festive frivol-
ity of the worldly youth who would not
curb to any great extent and as result sue
ceeded most admirably in getting them
selves disliked.
The day opened early. When the one
handed clock pointed in it's horizontal, en-
ratio way to the disagreeable hour of 8,
dozen or more of very sleepy-looking in
dividuals mounted the wooden steps lead
various shiftings and blowings and pufings,
began discoursing strains of brass band
music