Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-15
POSING WITH GRACE.

Mrs. Edmond Russell Talks TO Laues liz
an East End Mansion-A Peculiar Com
bination of Natural Beauty-Profits Of
the Southside Hospital Fair.
THE handsome music room. and the wide
staircase and hall at Mr.. and Mrs. Magee's
residence at Oakland, yesterday afternoon,
was literally packed with q fashionable
audience Alarge proportion of the promi-
nent society ladies of the two cities were
there. The magnet that attracted them was
didactic lecture on "The Art of Express
sion," by Mrs. Edmond Russell, the we'll
known exponent of Delsartism. For nearly
two hours the speaker held her listeners
close attention, her method of delivery, as
we'll as her subject, having the charm Of
novelty, as well as conveying q number of
useful lessons. She commenced with the
warning chat If anyone expected her to tell
something new they would be disappointed,
b er intention being to remind them of facts
that were familiar to them in their infancy,
but that they had long since forgotten. The
burden OF her talk was the beauty of
naturalness, quality that is possessed by
everybody until it is spoiled by supposed
civilization. "There is nothing more beau
tiful than baby" said the speaker, which
assertion she followed by calling attention
to the grace of movement of colored wait
ers. They are natural, as q rule, because
they have never learned to be anything
else. Going further. she said that savages
in their native wilds, and animals of all
kinds were usually graceful and picturesque
In their movements, because utterly uncon-
| scious of themselves. Humanity becomes
| sttffened and awkward by congregating in
| large communities. Mrs Russell gave many
| illustrations of the right and wrong way to
| walk; of the right and wrong way to do
| work OF all kinds, even laborious work.
| She showed the way to sit down gracefully,
| and to arise with ease. She said that we do
| not use enough muscles in our ordinary
| movements, but make one set do the work
OF three or four. She made the assertion
| that there should not be such a thing as
| awkwardness in the human frame. She
| does not believe in making the study of
either physical OF ment tai culture separately
| the work of our lives, but holds that both
should receive attention alternately and
| together.
The curse of woman's life is hard work,
| because it involves strain on one set of
| muscles perpetually-either washing or any
| other monotOnous work. This monotony of
| labor is not good for either man or woman.
| Reverting to her former statement, that
| there should not be such a thing as awk-
wardness in the human family, Mrs. Russell
| said that when she sees a dull, awkw ard
| woman she usually traces it to sin, sickness
| or sorrow. Her illustrations of the points of
| her lecture were much enjoyed by the
| ladies, and when she showed them in her
| own person how to sit, walk or stand there
was general rising of the assembly so.that
| not movement should be missed. The
| ladies seemed to like the seeing as much as
| the hearing. Mrs. Russell made very
| woman, and, as everybody in Pittsburg had
| heard that she was largely endowed with
| that gift known as personal magnetism. the
ladies yesterday afternoon were pleased TO
| find that she had not been praised unde-
| servedly. She was attired in white robe,
draped in classic folds, confined loosely at
| the waist with q white girdle. Her hair
hung in clusters over her broad, white brow
down Si6p9 ia n
model of grace in every movement, and was
said by many of the ladies to remind them
strongly of Nine. Bernhardt in her manners
and motions.
A GREAT deal of interest is manifested
in the tea to be given under the auspices of
the Ladies Society of the Allegheny Gener-
al Hospital to-day ut the residence OF Mrs. NJ.
b. Riddle, 2S7 Ridge avenue. Allegheny. The
proceeds will be devoted to the placing of q
young woman in the Home for Incurahles.
Mrs. Riddle, Mrs Z. H Boggs and Mrs. j. T..
Patterson are managing the affair.
GREAT preparations are being made for
the tea party in aid of the st. Paul's Orphan
Asylum, Wednesday, November IT, at La
fayette Hall. Supper will be served from 6
until IL clock, and there will be an attra c.
tive display OF all sorts of fancy articles in
gaily decorated booths, presided over by
the charitable ladies interested in the
asylum. The supper room will be beauti-
fed with flowers, pictures, etc., and it is ex-
pected that the whole entertainment will be
O remarkable one in point of interest and
beauty.
The ladies having it in charge are Mrs.
Oliver Jones, assisted by an Executive Com
mittee consisting of Mrs. Albert j. Barr.
Mrs. Jas. P. Quinn, Mrs. Henry Dallmeyer,
Jr. The ladies having charge OF the tables
are:
Table No. /. Red-Mrs. j. j. Torley, Mrs D.
j. Cullinan Miss Costello; aids, Miss Devlin,
Miss Smith, Miss Brophy, Miss Behan, Miss
O'Callahan, Miss ODonnel.
Mrs. R. D. Brent, assisted by Mrs. Daniel
Beach, Mrs. NJ. McCue, aids, Miss Annie
Briley. Miss Fannie Malone, Miss Maggie
Flanagan, Miss Lizzie Cahel, Miss Katie Nc
Avoy, Miss Mndge Byron, Miss Rose siebert,
Miss Grace Dashbach, Miss Camilla Brent.
Table No. 3, Pale Blue-Mrs. John B. Lar
kin, Mrs. John McNulty: aids. Miss Gsrvey,
Miss Bessie Pertzman, Miss Amelin Hermes,
Miss Sadie Totten. Miss Kate McNulty, Miss
Mary McKeever, Miss Minnie Buckley, Miss
Jennie Neban, Miss Alice Larkin, Miss
Katie Rice.
Table No. 4, Pink-Mrs. James P. Irwin,
Mrs. Sadie Rodgers, Mrs. j. H. Lanahan,
Miss A. Mckeown. Aids-Mrs. McCorkle,
Miss Hopkins. Miss Maud Barr, Miss. Auguste
Abel, Miss Jennie Callaghan, Miss Alice
Kelly, Miss Lizzie Coffey.
Floral Booth-Mrs. Albert j. Barr, Mrs.
George A. Wilson. Aids-Mrs. E. e. SchmertZ,
Miss Mary Barr, Miss Katherine Bremen,
Miss Grogan, Miss O'Leary, Miss Mcfarland,
Miss Marie Phelan, Miss Coletta Phelan,
Miss Lonegan.
Lemonade Booth-Mrs. Frank J. Wie1el,
Mrs. j. j. Flannery.
IT is expected that when all the accounts
are made up it will be found that nearly
$4,000 has been realized from the hospital
fair in the old postoffice last week. 1t is
intended to pay Off the debt of 81, 500 re-
manning on the ground purchased for the
hospital. and to make arrangements for the
building itself without delay.
A PLEASANT musical and literary enter
tainment was given last night by Encamp-
ment No. ], Nv. /. There was q large
audience and great deal OF amusement.
THE annual suppers of the Ladies' Mis-
sionary Society of the Fifth U. p. Church
will commence this evening and continue
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. AS
adjuncts to the suppers, there will be a
bazar, a fruit and candy stand, and CON-
mon sense booth. The ladies have made
careful arrangements, and the entertain
ments are expected to be as successful as
they always have been.
Mrs. E. D. MCCANDLESS and baby, of
BidwelI street, Allegheny, are visiting her
mother, Mrs. Cook at her country home
near Cincinnati. Mrs McCandless els a
niece of the late Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes.