Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-26
SUBURBAN sOCIABILITY
Shapes Itself Into the Formation Of q Select
Club at sewick1ey-Dress Reform In
Anuring Coiors-Melange of Current and
Interesting Gossip.

Chamber last night, but owing to the storm
the attendance was light and it was decided
to postpone the final decision as to the for
nation of the club until tomorrow night.
The movement to start a club in Sewickley
has proceeded so far that success seems
fairly in sight. At the meeting last night it
was reported that about $4,000 had already
been subscribed, and that there was rea-
sonable assurance that 50, 900 more would be
taken up by Sewickley residents. This
would be the necessary four-ffths of the
stock required to be subscribed by March l.
Another meeting Is to be held Sat-
urday night and it is expected that
the members of the committee will
then be able to report q subscription of at
least $4,000. II this amount is raised the
club will at once be organized, for there will
ditloDal sum required by the issue of bonds.
The Organization Committee contains q
good represen tation OF the solid citizens Of
tile valley, and among others the following
gentlemen: Messrs. Ezra P. Young, Joseph
Craig, E. B. Taylor, o. s. Richardson, Edward
A. Woods, 4. P. Nevin, Jr., Frank C. Os-
borne, s. W: Black, Frank Smith, William
Grafton and L. A. Miller. 1t is fact also
that virtually. all Sewickley 1s in favor of
club of some SORT and the only difference
there is of opinion is as to the location and
the peculiar characteristics Of the club
be located on the ground living between the he
tracks of the Fit. Wayne Railway and the
Ohio river, and adjacent to Quaker Valley
station.
The ground includes about II acres, and
has been found to be, after careful inspec-
tion, FULLY out of reach OF high water and
suitable in every respect for club purposes.
careful examination Of the river bank
proves that it will be, particularly well
suited for the aquatic objects of the club.
Although the exact amount to be expended
on the various portions of the enterprise
has not been settled, # is atpresent planned
to spend in the neighborliood of $4,000 on
the clubhouse, while the cost of the land
itself and necessary improvements will alb
sorb the rest OF the total sum which is to be
devoted to the formation OF the
the club is divided into $50 shares,
and the shareholders, it Is hoped, will
be taxed merely nominal sum in
of being shareholder as distinguished
from being merely member of the club
by payment Of an annual fee will be plain
when 1t is stated that members alone will
theater and the grounds for their own pri-
vate entertainments. It is intended that
the club shall include the present athletic
association in Sewickley, the valley Jra-
matte club and the lecture course which has
proved such a popular feature of social
amusement in Sewickley during the past
two winters. The club grounds will be laid
out for tennis and all other socially popular
will be lighthouses and the landing stage.
AS there are already a number of steam
launches and sailboats in the Ohio waters
in and about Sewicl1ley, the latter feature 1t
Is thought will be very convenient.
The Pennsylvania Company is disposed to
of the club accessible to Sewickley, and
carriage drive will be made under the rail-
road above the Quaker Valley station and
foot passenger bridge thrown over the tracks
at the station itself. 1t is also stated upon
good authority that the Pennsylvania Com
pany intends to subscribe for considerable
number of shares of the clubs stock. At
Saturdays meeting the result of the labors
of the Organization Committee will be re-
or not the Sewickley Valley Club shall be-
come one OF the most attractive features OF
that very picturesque suburb.
For the third time before Pittsburg
audience, Mrs Jenness-Sfiller presented
dress reform in its most alluring colors. In
the Alvin Theater, where she held forth yes
terday, there was good-sized audience, all
Of course; but, strange to say, the
majority were women who had left their
majority very far behind them. There was
nothing particularly new about Mrs. Miller,
excepting her baby, and it did not appear.
Even dress reform baby has some rights
and this baby asserted these by failing to dis
play the slightest interest in mammals busf-
ness a, engagements, and so Miss Miller and
Miss Miller's bonnie are living in q sanitarium,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Miller are busy travel
ing for the good Of the country's
babies. But the young lady's ward
tailed, and her picture, as she was at some
weeks, and still some moro weeks, handed
around to let every mother in the audience
see how far the live furniture of her nursery
fell short of modern 1891 baby a Ia Jenness
Miller. Mr=. Miller's dresses were superb;
but then Mrs. Miller's dresses are always
superb. She came on the stage in the richest
Of stuffs that couldn't have helped but look
the making up. When she displayed Paris
gowns of beautiful texture, ah, clever Mrs.
Miller every woman fell in love with dress
re-no, with dress as it is in Paris; and
wished, thereupon, to go and do likewise.
At the same time every woman vowed her
sell a dress reformer, forever.
Mrs. Miller is somewhat of a colorist in her
criticisms, just as she is in the harmonizing
Of her gowns. She is to be pardoned, though,
FOR the terrible figure which she cuts when
she says she is representing the modern
It's lesson with it into more subtle points
where it would be less apparent. But her
GOWNS! Well, Mrs. Miller knows a smart
rock when she sees Il, and she
cost of her wardrobe as shown yesterday
would have kept and does keep many fam |
ly flour chest in PittsDurg going for year, |
with side Issues like tailors and dressmakers |
thrown in. In street dresses Mrs. Miller has |
leyer looked particularly attractive, and |
lid not look so on this occasion, either. She |
Usually prefaces her descriptions of these |
With the statement that they are COM |
promises. Compromises" like sitting on |
he fence, are not successful, and truly Mrs. |
Miller looks neither elegant nor fashionable |
n her semi-tailor-made toilet. But when |
comes to asmatter of evening gowns, then |
drs. Miller is really at home, and looks dis
ingue, picturesque to degree and almost
iiller, or If it's Mrs Miler's gowns! The
lewest invention of the Miller dress re form
ystems, excepting the infants outfit, is
ikely to be II luxury that no woman will in
ulge in. 1t is q dress suitable for women |
vho work-teachers, factory workers, shop
iris, busy housewives, who look after their
wn marketing, and in fact, everyone who
compelled to be out OF doors in rainy
7eather. The dress was dark blue cloth,
he basque being made for common sense |
roman with a 27-inch waist and q 36-inch
ust, and displaying what Mrs. Miller calls
he side line of beauty, carried out also in
he skirt. This last reached only to the
nees, which was where its practicability
anne in, as even the mud of the streets of
airing enough to climb to such height
he completion of this garment had not ar
ived from the bootmaker, and Mrs. Miller
-as compelled to walk upon the stage
,g. 1t wasn't delectable sight, and
it is intended for the prototype of the
arb of the peasant woman of the older |
ountries, it will have to be deal changed |
.om what it is now. Let Mr.. Miller say on
is honor as an American gentleman, if he
ouldn't feel inclined to cut his own wife
cad If he met her ON Broadway i'll such
nise.
Mrs. Miller is an agreeable speaker, with
tile bit of humor that is rather attractive. !
ne is one of tile most self-possessed women
lat is on the American lecture platform of
lie present day.
DR. LANGE's forty-sixth birthday an
yesterday, made the pleasant