Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
GOSSIP FOR TIE FAIR.
WRITTEN FOR THE DrsPArcH. !,

| minutes at q restaurant table the other day
the serious question, ''Does woman los,
caste to assist publicly her husband or neal
male relative in putting on his overcoat?'
The talk started in the speech of one o.
them who had spent the summer near tht
cottage of prominent public man and ha6
much admired his wife, 'even though she
did help her husband into his over
Goa" Whereupon opinions were
vigorously exchanged on this subject.
The woman who was shocked was South.
erner, one of a class whose ideas of mas.
culine Difference are known to be more ex-
acting than those Of their Northern sisters.
This woman was shocked at the presump-
tion Of the man in permitting the service,
and at the unbecomIng weakness of the
| woman to offer it The other woman, who
couldn't see that the offense was SO very
serious, boldly confessed that At several
times in their lives they had done this
thing, one of them asserting that once, even
in an opera box, she had given her husbands s
coat an assisting pull betweenlthe snoul-
ders! 1t was an outgrown coat. she explained,
however, and he was making spectacle
of himself trying to worm into it "You
made greater spectacle OF you both by
ern woman. fMy husband would as soon
think of kissing me with his hat on as to
let me get him into his coat"
And then a silence fell over the party
while the other women pondered and won-
dered whether their husbands were guilty
of this count in the indictment or not.
Fortunately the waiter came with the order
just then, and the subject was put aside un-
settled.
Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox has in her
summer home on the Sound a peculiar
chair. 1t is rocking chair, somewhat after
the model of a Boston rocker, and it is fash
ioned entirely Of corn husks ingeniously
and gracefully plated together. The posts
are wound with the husks to look like
heavy twisted carving. It was the gift of
some friends and admirers in Meriden,
Conn.
AT arecent wedding six pretty girls served
as bridemaids, wearing silk gauze trocks of
pale mauve looped over petticoats of silver
brocade. Their big white hats we're loaded
with Neapolitan violets and they carried
huge shower bouquets of the same flowers
Win mlgnonette.
"watch the way your children shut
their teeth" says New York dentist
''The lower jaw should close inside, or at
least even with the upper. Many do this
naturally, many more must be taught, and
the sooner the easier There is no fact in
artistic dentistry more important than this.
To retain the true facial lines is one of the
chief efforts of the profession in its present
advancement, and this shutting under is a
great art preservative.> A forerunner of ad-
vancing age is the heavy lower jaw
which settles more and more as the
muscles of the face weaken and relax
with years-a tendency which is long
deferred if the jaw is trained Co be held
back beneath the upper Such will be the
case if the teeth close together properly.
Watch your children and yourselves. an
if you have been shutting your teeth the
wrong way for 40 years begin to-day to re-
FORM"
Two women were overheard discussing
third in an elevated train the other day.
"She enter.ains elegantly, am told" said
one. ''Entertains!" repeated the other
with fine scorn, s'she gives functions"
n
Get your glove maker to make you pair
Of winter gloves tor shopping and general
use of cspc leather, which is the material of
which mems gloves are made They fit
,early as trinity as the finer kid, and with
he big buttons which this autumn demands
ire a stylish hand covering, while their |
lbllity to stand daily wear Of three
months is net to be despised by the econom- |
cal woman.
,ell skirt has been struck in the new toilets i
hat are beginning to show at church and |
IN the promenade. They are worn by
yomen fresh from Europe, but the dress
makers in New York confirm the evidence
hat their new costumes are modelled in the
anne way. The Partisan skirt has slightly
re also slightly gored like the old-fashioned
kirts.- The back breadths are two bias ones,
auged on the band. The back is lined
Nth crinoline to flare out stiffly and the
eep pleat is held in place bv two straps
nderneath. The skirt is walking length
Or the street, training slightly in the
ouse.
"And want large sheet of black court
laster," said young woman at a notion
ounter the other day, (which" she pro-
eeded to explain to friend at her side, ''is
~ chief mending implement I always
send gloves with court plaster, using black
r the light tints according to the shade of
be glove, turn the glove inside out and
t the plaster over the rent, first, of course,
rawing the edges together as a surgeon
oes q torn skin. It is much neater than
ewing and lasts longer. Sometimes get
n ugly three-cornered rent in gown. NV
ourt plaster case mends the rent, leaving
ractically no indications OF It, I mend
ms, slippers, lace-everything, almost,
ith it.
The becoming fashion of wearing the
ell over the brim Of the hat and drawn
ssily below the chin, which suits nearly
very face, is being superseded somewhat
y return to the old plastered style. The
ell is fitted below the brim and drawn
ose over the hair. II women will adopt
lis ugly method again at least cut the veil
ssue or net on the bias, which adds grace
i'd deftness to its adjustment and prevents
le unbecoming slip to which strapped wells
item resort.
A light riding whip is the best of dust
hippery for curtains, cushions and small
lgs
Improved tin boxes for bread or cake
ave perforated shelves, which permit a
zee circulation Of air and prevent stale or