Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-31
POLITICS AND SKIRTS.
A Curious Combination at q Convention OF
To-Dsy-The Tyrant Of the Tennis Club
Curious Comments of q Captfous
Crific-Soma Small Shot.

To-Dsy-Tho Tyrant Of the Tennis Club
Curious Comm msnts of a Captious
Critic-Somo Small Shot.
ACCORDING to tidbits of drawing room
gossip, the Alvin Theater was selected by the
County Committee for the nomination of
Mr.. Dalzell (whose convention will be held
to-day at 10 A. NJ from philanthropic
motives whose basis is the sex which is
pining to and cannot vote. 1t is realized
that some day the franchise will be ex-
tended and women come to their own. In
the meantime the fact that the fair sex is
alarmingly ignoI ant on matters political is
pressing itself on the masculine mind.
Moreover the ladies are notoriously known
to be unable to preserve their
tempers in an argument, and,
worse, they are charged with being
utterly at sea in the ethics OF controversy
to say nothing OF an inability to wrestle with
the laws of logic. AS a step TO remedy all
this, the intention il to give them to-day
sort of gilt-edged introduction to the
mysteries of our glorious country's politics.
The talk is that there will be a large attend
ance OF women to-day at the convention,
when Mr.. Dalzel will have the qualification
of knowing that the women are doing all for
him that the law permits them to do.
The smart people who form the Pitts
burg Tennis Club know only one terror, and
that, by the way, is of their own forming.
The exact descriptive title Iy which it is to
be denominated is somewhat difficult to set
tie upon. In the first place, this terror is
man, which is the least part Oft. Next, he
is king, an emperor, cZar, Il despot, hav-
ing in his possession All inexorable veto,
more honored in the observance than in the
breach. These executive labors are Joe's
(ior there exist some who have called him
this and live) vocation: his avocation
Is the care OF the grounds and all that per-
tains thereto. 1t lies with Joe to say when
member may or may not play upon
court, and in the present disagreeable tenn
per of the weather his most potentship is
exercising his veto with alarming regularity.
1t mas been said that tobacco is the royal
road to occasional iavors, but that was told
to The DISPATCH by somebody who was told
by somebody else, who was told by some
body else-once removed, who was told by
somebody else's second cousin. and, there
lore, is only given here for what it is worth.
SURELY it is pessimism run mad that
sees in the crediable performance and alto
gether picturesque occasion of the Tuesday
Night Club at the Duquesne Theater on FRI
day last, the rock OH which that organiza-
tion will be sh pwrecked, We have heard
of women who have wept to put OH Il beau
tiful spring bonnet because it must wear
out, and they were afraid that so becoming
headgear could never be riyalled, let alone
outdone, in the summers to come! A fool
ish child once cried bitterly because she got
to thinking she might have daughter some
day, who, in her turn, might have a dau III
ter that would fall into the fire and get
burned, and therefore she proceeded to
enjoy present grieving for prospective
grief. 1t Is respectfully suggested that the
Tuesday Night Club should cease TO live to-
day for fear OF dying tomorrow.
Mr. H. S. STEVENSON, the young Pitts
burg portrait painter, is making prepara-
tions to spend part of the summer in
Algiers, North Africa, in pursuit of subject
matter for contemplated series of pictures.
What the nature of these promised canvases
will be is not generally known, hut it is quite
safe to predict that they will be studies of a
more ambitious chara C ter than the artist has
yet attempted. Mr.. Stevenson has grown
up with our own art fin Pittsburg and he is
particularly our own property. SO that his
success Is PittsGurg'S glory, and he is there
fore wished a hearty "godspeed' in his
journey to foreign lands.
DIsPUTANTE desires THE DISPATCH to
inform her if SIT is considered unladylike by
general society for lady to walk in a public
thoroughfare without her gloves?" General
society has no pronounced views OH the
matter, but the Four Hundred, or the 399
hanging on the outskirts of the Four Hun
dred, are charged with considering it n more
heinous crime to be ungloved than to break
every item of the decalogue. common sense
rules in the wearing of gloves as it does or
should do, in every walk in life. A we'll
bred woman would not go barehanded if she
gowned in n tailor-made froclS or a
Worth creation. IT, however, she has on an
outing suit, and time and place be pro-
p1tious, there is no reason in the world why
she should not take off her gloves-uness
her hands be red when she ought indeed to
keep them very much to herself.
urDnJNc, durino tho no,f uaal- - Z,
terest to many Pittsburg people, was that of
Rev. John NJ. Waddell, formerly of Shady
side now pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Dravosburg. and Miss Nellie Lee Storer,
daughter of DIR. r. S. Storer, oi Elm Grove,
n beautiful suburb of Wheeling. W. Va
The ceremony was performed at IL O'Clock
A. NJ, May 25. The maid of honor was Miss
BrowE, of Wheeling. The other attendants
were Miss Annie Waddell and Miss Boggs, of
Allegheny City; Miss Margaret Johnston
and Miss Virginia Hoge, of Wheeling. The
best man was the Rev. John Calhoun. OF
Connellsville, Pa. The ushers were: Mr.
Wheeling, DR.. Milton. Richards and Mr..
John Wilson, of Pittsburg. The ceremony
took place at Elm Grove in the old Stone
assisted by the Rev. DR.. Cook, OF Wheeling,
oficiated The bride and bridegroom left ut
2o'clock ?. NJ for q wedding journey in the
Dravosburg, Pa, about July l.
JANE MEADE WELSH lectured yester-
day morning on "The Making of the Consti-
tuition" in Miss Denny's house, 4l2 Penn
avenue. She is here under the auspices of
the Daughters of the Revolution, and pur-
poses dealing with important men and
measures in the history OF the Common
wealth since its formation. The complete
list of the series is as follows: Alexander
Hamilton Thomas jefferson" '"Thp War
of 1879" :" John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Jackson" "The Capture of d Common
wealth."
Social Chatter.
THANKS to the well-dispensed hospitality