Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-31
BEAUTY AND BARGAINS.
The season for Securing More or Less
Useful Articles 1t Cost-Pastors Return
in4 Eram THAR Vacations A u. p.

Tho season Tor Securing more or Les
Useful Articles at Cost-Pastors Return
ing From Their Vacations - A q.
Church semi-Csntennisi-Socie Gossip
THE bargaiu-hunting mania is at higl
pressure just now. Next week the nev
goods will be displayed in drygoods stores
and the women who believe that there Is
tide in the affairs of the household that car
ries with It prosperity when taken advan
ia of by the notable housewife, is haunt
ing the stores in the hope Of procuring good:
at a cent or SO less per yard than she coult
month ago. The bargain counter is moi
always a delusion and q snare in spite of the
masculine impression to that effect. Silk
for dresses that will be desirable for next
summer, although the pattern will not be
the very latest. can be bought at one-hal1
the price demanded in the spring, while
very pretty dress material for summer wear
that we're 80 cents can be had now Tor q
quarter. These are the bare facts, but such
bargains are not always satisfactory. A
woman will never admit it, but very often
she has bitter cause to rue the
bargains that gave her SO much pleasure
buy dress goods one summer and
have them dyed for the next, only
to find when she is about to have
the material made up that she does not like
1t and would rather have her money in her
pocket that she might make tour of the
drygoods stores and buy something entirely
fresh for the season. And yet, MS soon as
more bargains are announced, she will
plunge into the whirlpool again, and will
emerge painting. but triumphant, with some
article for which she has not the slightest
use, but that was too cheap to he resisted.
Tne men get almost as much excited as
the women over bargains but for all oppo-
site reason. They are thinking Of the money
that may be expended needlessly, and wish
In hot ,, h..r-,S in vara oh
into kindling wood, and that the men who
write seductive Advertisements had never
been born. But then the woman comes
home and shows him what she aved to
get at the store, and how 1t was "a rem
nant," and therefore almost given to her.
and she is so flushed and delighted. and she
80 evidently wishes him to be plea Led too,
then what can he say or do? Bargains may
be q thorn in his side, but so long as they
give SO much delight to the woman, he
would not have them abolished, even il they
take every extra dollar he can raise.
VERY beautiful cards of invitation have
just been issued by the members of the
West Union United Presby terian Church
announcing their fiftieth anniversary ceIe-
bration which will occur Thursday, Septem-
ber 10. The exercises will open at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, with invocation and thanksgiving and
an address OF welcome by Rev. E. W. Kidd,
followed by "a Greeting From Presbytery,"
read by Rev. W. J. Robinson, D. D.. After
dinner Rev. R. H. Park will give delightful
talk on the History of West Union," and
Rev. d. F. McGill, D. D.. will give all address
on 81 he Country Congregation" This will
be followed by "reminiscences Of the Oldest
Members" and greetings fl ON former pas
tors. The event will be a very important
and enjoyable occasion to all concerned.
THE Birmingham branch of the Needle
work Guild OF America will arrange at its
next meeting for its annual ingathering,
which will be some time next month. All
the clothing, linen, ETC., that are taken in
this year will be turned over TO the South
side Hospital. The Birmingham Guild last
year wa under the direction of the ALLIE
gheny Guild, but 1t has since become an in
dependent affair and will now distribute all
the clothing taken In among the Southside
such help is needed generally.
The II ms Guild OF the Southside Pres
byteriun Church is now preparing Tor q
series of concerts to be given during the
win ter, the proceeds of which are to go into
the musical fund Of the church. The Guild
has Just been Organized short time, but
has done some very good work since it has
been in existence.
THE pastors of the two cities are return
ing from their several vacations. Among
those " ho got back yesterday are DR.. Nor
cross, of the Female College, who has been
in Paris and other European cities; Rev.
Joseph Horner, D. D., from Ocean Grove;
DR.. Taylor. of Beaver College, from a two
months sojourn in Europe; Rev. NJ NJ. Pat
terson. of Williamsburg First U. p. Church:
Rev. MIR. Thompson. of the Sharpsburg Pres
byterian Church; Rev. o. B. Milligan, of the
East End U. P. Church, who has been on his
NOON mK in s Ne. Y York; % Rev. . j. D. HerVev, I e Of
the Thirty-thirdrstreet U. p. Church,: Rev.
J. F. Patterson. Sixth Presbyterian; Rev. A.
Rev. DR.. Kennedy of the First Presbyterian,
from Ohio.
THE charity fair at Turner Hall, Forbes
street, was in full swing again last night.
There was large attendance, and the reeu-
lar amusements of such affairs we're enjoyed
by all. The fair is under the direction of
Colonel James c. Hull Post No. l5s, G. A R.,
and the receipts will go into the treasury of
the post, which will doubtless be consider
ably enriched by it.
HELEN, of Allegheny, wishes to lbe in
formed, through this column, whether it is
good form for hostess to give up her own
chair to a casual visitor. According to
books of etiquette, it is not. II
Helen il acting the part of q hostess, she
should provide her visitor with another chair
and then resume her own. This is one of
those arbitrary rules OF Dame Fashion that
are not easily understood, but that are de-
cided nevertheless.
A YOUNG lady, who has just returned
from Europe remarked yesterday that Pitts
burg was the same Pittsburg it had been all
ner life. The men ale using the streets and
fraction cars for cuspidors, and the girls are
coming to the assistance of the city street
cleaners, by sweeping the sidewalks with the
trains or their dresses. She says she would
'ecogniZe Pittsburg by these peculiarities
4 she had forgotten everything else about
t.
Social halter.
Mrs. ROBERT SMITH and son Joseph have
from a pleasure trip to Keiths-
ourg, i'll. They were absent seven weeks,
Visited all the surrounding towns and Iowa
oeniten tiary at Ft. Madison, Ia.
DIR. AND MRS. II. W. ARTHUR of Bellevue,
Iccompanied by their. daughters, Misses
henrietta and Mary. returned yesterday |
rom q two weeks sojourn at Brigantine |
Beach. |
The open air concert given on the Athletic |