Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-19
FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK


Not Approved Of in Pit.sburg for Fashion.
able Dining Out-Ladies Decline to Be
Present and the Function Becomes q
Stag Afair-Monday's Chatter.
AN important meeting was held in Sc
wickley last night and its result will proba-
bly, be the erection of q handsome clubhouse
at that place by an organization which will
be known as the sewickley Recreation Club.
The matter has been under discussion for
considerable time, but last nights meeting
was the first formal action taken. There
was remarkably large attendance of the
representative men of Sewickley, and the
interest shown augurs we'll for the future OF
the organization. Frank Semple, the bank
er, called the meeting to order and was
made Temporary Chairman, 6. +. Muller, OF
the Bulletin, being named for Secretary.
The gentlemen present entered into q
thorough discussion of the proposed club,
the advantages it would afford to the town,
the convenience and pleasure 1t would be to
those holding membership and the eligible
sites that could be procured for grounds and
clubhouse. 1t was finally decided to ap-
point committee OF IL members who will
investigate the subject and report to meet
ing to be called by the committee. A tract
of IL acres of land and a clubhouse to cost
$1,000 is a part Of the proposition OF the
new organization.
SUNDAY entertaining was inaugurated
fortnight ago in this city, but with scarcely
f1attering result. The bull was taken by the
horns, so to speak, and no less than 6O
invitations issued for dinner upon the
Sabbath day by prominent woman. one OF
our most successful and frequent hostesses.
The men promptly responded in the affirm
alive; but, it is said, not lady invited
accepted or was present. Probably after the
consequent gaSping from this polite shock
is over, society will begin to ask itself: why,
in the name of all that's sensible, did it cut
of its nose to spite its face.
A LOCAL artist expresses wish, voicing
the sentiments OF his co-laborers at the same
time, that Mr.. Scaife may be persuaded to
repeat his lecture on Florence in the near
future for those not fortunate enough to
hear him last week. vt is said that he has
another illustrated talk, the subject OF which
is Greece. that is equally interesting and
which received much commendation when
given short time ago in Johns Hopkins
University.
IT is a mooted question whether going to
q dinner before q ball is not calculated
rather to refresh than tire the debutantes
The girls contend if they try to rest until IL
O'Clock comes they are far more fatigued
than when they are dining. One girl tells in
support of this theory that she tried one
evening taking a nap before beginning to
dress Having been continually in the
tired than she knew. The nap heightened
into a heavy slumber, from which she re-
fused to be awakened. Tine next morning
she refused to be comforted for having lost
the ball.
IT is definitely decided that Mime. Marie
Geraldy Del Sartc will spend January 2s, %
and 81 in Pittsburg, being entertained dur
ing her stay at a fashionable house in the
East End, the mistress of which is issuing
invitations for two causeries at which Nine.
Del Sarte will preside. In New York draw
ing room entertainment is by Madame are the
most proper fad, and she is engaged there
every day It'll Wednesday night OF next
week, when she leaves Tor Pittsburg. As
well aS the two afternoons mentioned Nine.
Del Sarte will have several private classes
i'll which she will enter fully into the most
approved methods of Delsartism as applied
to the polite world.
SOME of the papers have got it into their
much mistaken heads that, in this depart
ment, last Monday evenings dance was as
serted TO be failure. Nothing of the kind
was either said or implied. What was said
and what is perfectly we'll known Is that the
Monday evening dances have ceased to be
to the Pittsburg Club set "a comprehensive
though hardly accurate term) what they
once were, and that the small dances are
likely to oust them before many seasons. 1t
is scarcely possible that the face of society
could remain the same when there is so
much internal change. The most superficial
reader OF Pittsburg's social chronicles can
not fail to understand the signs of the times,
especially when they are by no means
phenomenal. The odder things will come at
Il luter time.
On Dit
NATURAL GAS is said to have increased the
size of women's feet in Pittsburg. The
average length has gone up half inch and
the last has broadened by one letter. Ladies
are much alarmed and private drawing
room causeries are being held for the pur-
pose of deciding if the high temperature