Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-26
HALF AND HALF.

Dirty Street Cars Cause a Decided Change
in the visiting Costumes of Ladies-A
Gay Basque and Dismal skirt-Re-
view of Days Events.
1T is said that New York dressmakers are
becoming agitated over the general dreari-
ness in which Pittsburg women now insist
upon clothing themselves. There was day
when Pittsburgers were the best customers
the metropolitan modiste possessed. They
liked nice things, could buy nice things and
did buy nice things But the-I had nearly
said natural gas, one gets so accustomed TO
kick in one direction-cable car and electric
car system has so threaded the town
that private turnouts are almost en-
tirelv gone out of fashion. Even for
aftern oon affairs street cars have to be pat
ronized, and one knows that street cars do
not encourage the wearing OF daintlly col
ored clothes Consequently dark or spoiled
dresses are de riQetr and since the first state
is preferable to the second, the reign Of drab
and sad-colored garments has begun, and
the social world seems to have donned
something like widows weeds for the days
that are not, long before the present system
of transit was born or thought or What
remains of former splendor are the hand
some basques; which are as pretty as ever,
and indeed are becoming even more gay
as the skirt gets the more demur. This state
or affairs was particularly noticeable at Miss
Tindle's house on Friday afternoon great
many young ladies had dropped into the
mission tea on the way home from after
noon functions. and nearly every one was
observable as wearing fancy waist with
plain street skirt If the street cars DO not
improve there will soon be an end to elegant
toilettes in Pittsburg excepting among
very few.
ONE feels disposed to pat Mr.. William
Stead on the shoulder, IL he would permit
appreciation to take so familiar form, on
nf q rtipIa in "
Rerie,us on Residential clubs for young men
and women The RsuieW describes both by
pen and pencil a Remington Park mansion
in process of building for the accommoda-
tion of young men who are living in London,
away from their families. 1t is to be got up
in a stupendouslv comfortable plan; and also
in more civilized one, since the bachelor
occupants are to be permitted to have
visit them their female "a well as
male relatives. After a good bit
of warm commendation the article
naturally switches off into an inquiry con-
cerning the unsatisfed needs OF young
women. Some of it IS worth quoting: Girls
need such clubs far more than men. The
solitude that oppresses the young man Is
absolutely nothing compared with the lone
illness which a young girl feels in London or
New York when she has no friends nor
home. We would not go across the street to
help establish residential club for young
men IL its promoters were not pledged to
follow it up at once by establishing
a similar institution for young women.
There are some homes Ior woIhen women
1t is absurd to say that young men may
come in at any hour of the night but that
young women must be at home at II O'Clock,
or be fined if they stay out after that
time If she cannot be trusted with latch
key neither can he
''The ordinary objection" the article con-
cludes, "of Mrs. Grundy, that if young men
110y yAh mi in
common rooms there will be no end of love-
making, Irritation and the like, may be ad-
mitted. There will be, no doubt, great
deal of Irritation and lovemaking. 1t would
be sour world in which there was nothing
of that kind of thing"
Will not the readers of this confess that
these are capital days for the sex When
she can carry latch key, without losing
any of her modesty: when she can keep late,
necessary hours without having her decency
questioned.
A GOOD story, and, at the same time, a
true one, is told about the hop at the Ken
mawr on Saturday evening. By some mis-
hap, which is not a pun, the misses were
sadly deficient in number and the WALL
flowers in consequence were all of the gen.
tleman species. Every young lady was
beset with admirers and everyone drank
that cup of happiness, to be successful
belle, to its very sweetest dreQs. Fortunate
stoical calmneSs and indifference bloomed
SO gorgeously along the walls OF the ball
room that one was almost converted into
imagining that TO be n wall flower was to
be very fine flower indeed
THE golden Wedding of Mr.. and Mrs F.
". Hollenbeck. of the Southside. was spent
agreeably at their home last night The
illness of the hostess dsbarred all others
from participating excepting members of
the family and connections, a state OF
things which was regretted both as to the
cause and consequence. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hollenbeck are ell known among the Ger
man residents of Pittsburg; they are the
parents of Mrs. c. Bayer and Mrs. Daniel
Goetz, the wife Of Mr.. Goetz Of the clerical
force Of the Duquesne Club.