Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
A COLUMN OF SMALL TALK.

| FOh THE DfSfATCH.I
A picturesque girl of limited means has
found a charming substitute for the usual
expensive nightgowns that are loaded with
fine embroiderieA Hers are studiously
plain, hanging In soft folds about her, with
the throat cut away slightly into V, about
which is set an Elizabethian ruche in full
boxpleats. The elbow sleeves are similarly
finished. The completed effect Of this
unique gown is that of transforming the
wearer into quaint picture Of the Mary
Queen Of Scots period.
It isn't the women who dress conspicu-
ously, or who talk in loud tone Of voice,
| that men care to escort about
Women can get out of bottle-and, alasl
many of them do-the auburn hair that has
now ''come in" to the utter routing of the
golden locks SO fashionable for many sea-
sons past By the way, that popular actress,
Agnes Booth, found the transition stage
between these two colors trying one; her
hair just there became vivid green. and it
was only after considerable coaxing that it
acquired the correct hue. Although chang
ing the complexion of ones tresses to order
NC q ouu suiuS W w,
still it is possible. But the latest mandate
that has gone forth to the effect that to be
in vogue woman must be tall is quite
different thing. How, forsooth, is diminu-
tive miss to lay hold of the requisite inches
that are to make her ''the thing?"
The other day at a ladies' lunch party a
young girl said: II admire Rudyard Kip
ling so immensely can't help regretting
that he finds so much in us Americans to
sneer at-our voices, our dressing and all
that" A second young girl interrupted
excitedly: "He find fault with our personal
appearance, indeedl 1 boarded at the same
hotel with him when he first visited this
coun try, and used to often meet him in the
elevator Why. girls"-here her voice
sank to an impressive whisper-"wouldy you
believe it, his finger nails were always
dirty, his complexion was greasy and un-
pleasant, while the least said about his
teeth the better" A solemn hush fell upon
the adoring company, which third damsel
broke by remarking, sentimentally: erich
ard Harding Davis is my hero among young
fiction writer's. I am sure he must be an
exquisite himself, he always writes with so
much assurance of ultra-swelldom. A de-
mure maiden in the background made a
slight rustic of disapproval: 81 chanced to
cross the ocean on the same steamer with
him recently. He was sunburned to hor-
rible red, set off by butternut-colored coat,
and-well, take him all in all, he looked
like comely butcher" she said.
Women nowadays are busy looking for q
photographer who can invent q name bad
enough to suit the man who never steps
anywhere else when there is the train of q
gown handy. :,
With the difficulty of securing competent
servants intruding into every American
home it is a matter of surprise that more
judicIous care is not taken to instruct en-
bryo housekeepers in domestic duties A
young Philadelphia woman, recently grad.
uated from q feminine college where
"house ewifely study under competent teach
ers" is supposed to be speciality, declares
that she was kept during four years course
making blanc mango, that now being her
sole accomplishment along the line Of do
The youth she is about to marry
says ruefully: Imagine on cold winters
sitting down to a breakfast of
blanc mango instead OF fragrant mocha and
hot rolls, with q commendable effort to
4 4
A good clergyman says that he happened
70 overhear a conversation between a young |
French girl, whom he was preparing for |
and her mother: "This is |
rer' solemn occasion, Thereser" said the
older woman. II will wear my black silkp'
the other, with animation. "But,
rherese, you don't seem to understand; it is
YER solemnP' 81 will year my electric
,lue" cried the girl, decisively.
\
Most women are troubled at some time or
'ther with falling out of the hair The
Princess of Wales tries extreme measures
or this calamity. Her royal scalp is rubbed
With slice of onion. Scarcely less dis
.greeable remedy is vaseline vigorously ap-
'lied. 1t is sticky and nasty to use, but it
loes the work. RUTH HALL.