Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
'Nl5 SOCIETY W.


The latest gossip about the young people
who form the dramatic club which has
given several very successful performances
In Allegheny is that they contemplate an
early presentation of Gas You Like IT,
under the trees on the lawn of the Park
Place Hotel in Sewickley. Society circles
hail the event eagerly. There is some diff
Guilty about having the role of Rosalind
filled acceptably since the young ladies are
much in the fair originals predicament
when she exclaimed upon hearing of Or
lando's presence
Alas, the day, what shall / do with my
doublet and hose?
They enjoy all save the thought of the
costume. The likelihood of performance
hinges altogether on this, and will come off
as soon as someone is found who is both
willing and able Miss Lucy Haworth is
one of the leading spirits in this club as
well as being q prominent member OF the
Tuesday Night Club.
1t is still strange though trite, how small
are the events out of which grow great ones.
The first year of Mr. Johnston's manage
ment of the Pittsburg Exposition he was
hurriedly called from his office to the aid
OF an old man lying near the tiny merry-go-
round, which stood beyond the hall; and
apparently dying Mr.. Johnston knelt
down beside him, tried his pulse and heart,
and even endeavored to make him talk by
gently shaking him, but the stranger proved
TO be in something akin to a comatose or in
sensible condition. Finally after brandy was
forced through his tightly compressed lips,
he managed to articulate to an eagerly put
question of the managers that he had been
riding on the merry-go-round and become
dizzy. 1t would not have been impossible
for the old man to be a great grandfather,
thoroughly patriarchal appearance adding
TO his venerable appearance though he
cannot have been less than 7b or 80 years
old. Mr.. Johnston tells this story in justi-
fication of an exceedingly fine and COM
modious merry-go-round now being erected
to replace the former unpretentious, not to
say humble affair.
am told that the Rev. Charles Edward
Locke is a favorite clergyman among young
people contempls ting matr1mony. Mr.. Locke
has a soft spot in a heart that has never
been called hard, and instead of iniIcting a
long-dTawn out lecture on the duties of hus-
bands and wives, presents the happy couple
with nicely bound edition de luxe, said to
contain pearls of advice. 1t is said to be so
p-ettily bound that even when there are
brides and grooms so ungrateful as to not
digest the contents they are always glad to
put it in prominent corner of the book
case TO display the binding. It's a fact,
though, that the book is pretty generally
read.
MIR. Gates requests me to make an explain
alton concerning Mr.. Harry Brockett's claim
levied last Monday evening on the receipts
of the midsummer night concert. MIR. Gates
SAYS that Mr.. Brockett understood perfectly
TO be held responsible for contract for sing
ing ia Lafayette Hall. Mr. Gates was merely
acting tor the carpet sslesmen of the Knights
laf ", and therefore does not consider
hlms,.. uahIs-sor ahv inability on their part
10 meet their engagements. Mr. Gates also
adds that he is very anxious to assist all
claimants holding tickets for the Kenmawr
midsummer night concert. |
Mrs. Hutchinson and Mr.. and Mrs. Will |
Kerr are chaperoning party at Ellwood to- |
day. The 90 guests include well known Sc |
wickley society young people, who are occu- |
pying the greater part of the rooms at Hotel |
oliver. They went up there last night and |
will return tomorrow.
party drove in the coach from the Ken |
mawr Hotel last week out to Keating's to |
sup of chicken and waffies.
Among all the more or less highly colored |
versions of Mrs. John Arthur's marriage !
with Mr.. Sullivan, the pre-eminently truth |
ful fact WAS the really remarkable attach |
ment existing between Mr.. and Mrs. Clarke |
and their daughter. Mrs. Arthur, always |
more devoted to charitable and phila nthro- |
pic work than to society, never enter |
tanned in great way more than once a year, |
and then always for her father and mother, |
who were made the central figures Her chief |
aim in life was their happiness, ana it is no |
exagCeration to say that their smiles were \
truly the sunshine of her days. The deep |
affection for each other of her parents was |
always Mr.. Arthur's pleasure and pride and |
on several occasions, at her desire, l have |
tiptoed to watch them sitting quietly, side |
by side, holding tightly hands together. |
7 mere theywould sit together Tor hours, never |
speaking, but perfectly content just to know |
that they were together 1t was staid /
house tor a woman as young as Mrs. Arthur
to fit herself to, but probably her romance, |
that none guessed at, was the silver lining,
though hardly even acknowledged by her.
self When she mentioned Mr.. Sullivan it |
was always in q matter of fact way that |
seemed to preclude any charge Of sentiment. |
Miss Porter, of Beech street, Allegheny,
will leave in q few days for Denver Col, to
visit friends. While there she will accept |
an invitation to join party of friends who /
intend taking a special train to travel all /
through the State and into New Mexico
Mrs. George B. Mckee, of Ashland. Ky..
will leave for home on Tuesday, accom-
panied by her sister, Miss Cora Ball, of Oak
land, and her cousin, Miss Nan Thomson, of !
Undercliffe.
Mrs. J. G. Carroll and daughter Edna, of
left last week for the mountains.
Mrs. NJ. B. Redman desires me to make the
acknowledgements for the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Southside Hospital: The
Ladies' Southside Hospital Association held
its regular meeting last Tuesday at the
Guild House. The ladies desire to extend
their thanks to all persons interested in the
late lawn fete, and who contributed in any |
way to its success. More particularly are
thanks owing to Mr.. and Mrs. Grimes for |
kindly permitting the use OF Knox Place to |
Allentown Turner's for use of chairs to |
Mandolin club for music, to Miss Grimes |
Mrs. W. B. Wolfe, Miss Semple. Mr.. Dermit,
Nr. j. BOYD Dun, for singing, to the Herald
for printing. 1t was a success financially, |
the association realizing over $500. Or.
Swartz, of South Sixteenth street, out
stripped all Others in his energetic sale Of |
tickets. He disposed of us tickets, besides
coffee, sugar and flowers. She
desires to extend her thanks to her East
End and Allegheny friends for their patron
! aoa nd pOn fl.l butiOn |