Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-22
THE QUIET LENTENTIDE

Preserves Its Outside Sanctimonious Char
acteristfcs-Bus Ips Said That hosts Of
Small and Eariys Occur Behind Closed
DoorLThe Days Social Footprints.
THE chef de cuisine of the Hotel Du-
quesne and his entire culinary corps waited
in person with bated breath while four eggs
were being boiled hard for the use Of
Madame Sarah Bernhardt's- pet canary.
Next came an elaborate bill of fare for
Mr.. Asp; and finally, when the rawlings of
the inner man among the lower animals
had been satisfied, the divine Sarah sat her.
self down to q whole chicken. A little care
full culling among statistics indicates that it
costs much less to keep Sarah than to keep
Sarah's menagerie.
THE young woman who would be au fait
must wear lilies Of the valley nowadays.
An au fait purse is an absolute desideratum
also under the circumstances.
To arrange violets artistically is to take a
stem point of view of them. Violets have
been flltreated in punches much longer
than any other blossom, for it is only very
lately that any art has been displayed at all
in their makeup A PittsbuTg florist in
making them into lunches catches the
stems evenly between his forefnger and
into the blossom end of the stem, which is
the perfection of art in q bouquet of violets.
ONE of the final acts of the Rev. DR.:
Purves' piritual administration at the First
Presbyterian Church will be the organ1za-
t1on OF the French Mission OF Pittsburg and
Allegheny into q separate and distinct body.
A meeting for this purpose has been called
BY DE- Purves for next Wednesday afternoon
at O'Clock. Atthat time board of trustees
and the other necessary officers will be
selected and the rules adopted. 1t is said,
enough only mere rumor, that the Rev. DR..
Holland, Chancellor of the Western Unfver-
SHY. Will pc rendered the position Of Prest-
dent OF the Mission, a selection which is
looked on with favor by all who know with
what yigor DR.. Holland always pushes his
fostering care. The circular closes with an
urgent appeal for the attendance Of all in
terested people.
The woman who has knocked Queen
1sabella's dead and gone nose out of joint so
far as the Worlds Fair is concerned, Mrs.
Potter Palmer, struck the Congressional
Committee of heap in Washington during
her present visit. The gushers over her
describe Mrs. Palmer as a sort of mental
combining everything that
Is "ladylike" with all the qualities we are
accustomed to look for in the male sex only.
The committee of whom she asked an ap-
propriat tion few days ago is being para
graphed widely because 1t publicly voted
her thanks for requesting from them n
money appropriation. 1t is to be noted
though, that their votes went for the thanks
and not for the money; for Mrs. Palmer Is
yet unportioned.
MRS. h. E. MONROE, who has been lee
turing in Pittsburg for the greater part of
this month. will leave in few days for home
adelphfa-expecting to return to this
IN T,d tao
during her visit, and she appre-
clates our good taste to such degree that
she has promised to give several other ad-
dresses later In the season. Mrs. Monroe Is
Episcopal Church in McKeesport, the SER
mon was laid on the table and the lady and
her lecture requested to replace it. 1t is
scarcely necessary to say that the audience
was delighted
A CORRESPONDENT writes: Mrs. William
Schoyer, wife Of one OF the propriesors OF
the Pittsburg Post is making the Chalfonte,
1t Atlantic City, her home, where she will
stay for some time to come. Mrs. Schoyer's
fatner, the Rev. I. Hammett, of Meadv1lle,
Pa, and Miss hammett, are also of the
party. MI. and Mrs. Schoyer have been
going to Atlantic City for the past 20 years.
MRS. WILLIAM H. HOUSE, of Center
avenue, is visiting in Philadelphia.
EVERYBODY doesn't know that Charlotte
Smith, editor of the Wome,s-l Inventor, who al
most talked her bonnet of her head in con-
;roversy with Madame Yale last week, has
been most aggressive feature in Washing
;on life for more than 90 years. Mrs. Smith
las something of Kate Fields pungency. but
n a less polished plane. She deals rather IN
'langy colloquialisms, which are largely
because of their unexpectedness.
For instance, Mrs. Smith pitches into Kate
Field. because that lady chose to talk in a
amiliar strain about King Solomon's horses
Ind horsemen. Her quip Is quite womanish,
IND concludes with this: However,
Miss KatS Field knows more about them
han We do; for it was long
before our time" In spite Of their attacks
in each other Madame Yale and Mrs. Smith
ire the best of chums, Madame looking after
he steaming OF Charlotte's face and Mrs.
smith occasionally roasting cosme tics and
the enamel face worn by Mrs.
'otter Palmer, of Chicago.