Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-24
A. PRETTY SATURDAY.
Beautiful and Well-Dressed Women
Promenade the Streets.
PITTSBURG GIRLS THE PRETTIEST,
Says New York Man Who u Married
and Ought to Know.
BEwILDERING SCENES ON THE AVENUE

Pittsburgers never enjoyed more de-
lightful afternoon than that of yesterday.
All the elements seemed to have
united in one harmonious whole in
making the day agreeable, and Fifth
avenue for two hours looked as
though every handsome woman in the two
cities had crowded the popular thorough
fare to show her pretty face and to display
to an admiring world all the novelties that
go to beautify the fair sex.
1t was like rainbow of promise after q
storm, and many q man, prompted by ad-
miration and true affection for the beauti-
ful, stood at convenient points along the
avenue, and for season feasted his hungry
eyes on the bewildering panorama and
grand cavalcade that swayed up and down
the street.
The avenue was indeed picture, rare and
beautiful. The pretty women with their
fashionable costumes and the children deli
cately and artistically robed had the right
of way in the attractive procession, and
while they enjoyed the sun bath and seemed
conscious that thousands of admiring eyes
were following them, the men were content
with the cheerful picture that stretched it
self out before them during the entire
afternoon.
An Expert Opinion on Pittsburg Girls.
'Pittsburg's girls are the prettiest in the
world. j. h. REILLY, the furniture man of
New York State. said. He, with party Of
we'll dressed, thrifty looking gentlemen,
had been standing for an hour in a window
at Newell's cafe. 'The younger girls, it
seems to me, are the prettiest, although
many handsome girls of what might be
termed the older class are conspicu-
Gus in this crowd" he went on.
''They all seem to dress with rare
good taste. I am a married man myself,
and know shoddy from silk. think the
Pittsburg girls devote more of their atten-
tion to buying substantial garments than
they do to making big display at little
cost. Your women here, it strikes ME, have
better taste than one finds ordinarily. The
faces of all of them seem to be we'll formed,
and their beauty to me is certainly striking.
another thing that strikes me is the
pretty feet of the Pittsburg women. Moth
ing so completes pretty costume as we'll
made and shapely pair of shoes and have
noticed that all the women seem to appreci-
ate that fact. Look there" he concluded,
pointing to handsome woman of probably
25, arrayed in O delicately tinted spring
suit, the trail of which rustled like sheaf
of well-dried sea weeds. Two tots
of probably 8 and 5 years toddled
along one on either side of
who were thoroughly impressed with their
own appearance, turned admiringly to
watch the little ones as they were eau
tiously steered through the crowd while
they chartered gleefully to their attentive
mother.
The Prettiest Blossoms That Bloom.
And the children, bless 'em, they were
the prettiest blossoms in the magnificent
boquet that adorned old Fifth avenues
grimy corsage.
Lovely blue-eyed forgetmenots, every
one, from the curly-headed girl who tagged
tearfully at her mothers skirts to the fat g.
months-old darling that gazed in wide-eyed
wonder at this thing called earth and its
creatures, and little knew and, alas, cared
hat mothers tender arms could not al
ways caress and protect.
Old Sol himself seemed to have a warmer,
kinder glow wherever his rays pierced the
clouds and bathed the form of q child.
Where the little ones all came from nobody
knows, but where they all go everybody
cares.
The envious might say that pretty child
attracted attention in the great crowd for
the sake of its pretty mother, but the smile
taken BY a mother to mean other than it
does-a human fraternal thrill at the sight
OF an innocent babe>
The human bouquet was brilliant, per-
haps gaudy. There were the lilies, consid-
cred by all men, and there was the rose
without its thorn, and the poppy without
its bitterness, but above and yet below all
was the forget-me-not, "And q little child
shall lead thee"
Beauty in the City Parks.
But Fifth avenue was not the only place
in Pittsburg where feminine beauty and
childish innocence bloomed out like q col
lection of rare flowers yesterday. The
parks fairly teemed with girls and
thousands of handsome baby wagons
with their precious loads were
pushed about through the graded walks
and avenues. It was the first day of the
season in which the babies could remain for
more than few minutes in the delightful
breathing spots, and the mothers, the
nurses and the babies took advantage of
every minute of the cheerful day.
The weather yesterday was in itself a
otuuy. AZ uiSu uoou tue sun Dedmeu OUT
warm as fire. A half an hour later old Sol
hid himself behind a passing cloud for
few minutes, and breeze like the breath
Of refrigerator swept over the city. A
few minutes later the sun uncovered
itself, and for the rest of the afternoon
the air felt as though it had been warmed
BY mothers love before it reached Pitts
burg. The drifting clouds did not obstruct |
'he heat, but they kept the sun smiling and |
Frowning like Jealous lover.