Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-20
GRANDMAMA RECALLED.

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Daughters of the Revolution Spend Some
Eours in the Archives of Their An
cestors-A Woman Traveller in Pitts
burg Monday-Mrs. Langley's New
Club.
THE patriotic American woman was out
in force yesterday ut Mrs. Robert Meningitis
house, where u reception was given to
commemorate the first birthday anniversary
of the Daughters of the Revolution. People
with grandmothers crowded the parlors as
thick peas i'll pod or acre princes in
Germany. Well dressed young women Sat
taking in their history lessons with as much
contentment as they afterward drank Mrs.
Meningitis excellent chocolate. The re-
ception of course partook of character
purely its own, excepting that it was nearly
the same set of faces to be seen in parlors
every day here, of something quite novel to
Pittsburg. Literature, hand in hand with
love of country, and music having the same
bent, formed what are popularity known as
the features of the occasion. Among the
papers read was an article on the Block
House, the sole remaining evidence
of the old fort days of Pittsburg, and
which is now rearing its head
best it can, in one of the dirtiest parts of the
city, while doing double duty as q grocery
shop and tenement house. Miss Julia
h1rQinE gave Il preliminary reading OI ncr
paper on early Days in PiTtsburg," pre-
pared for presentation at the National Con-
vention i'll Washington next week, to which
the lady is Il delegaIe. Miss Harding IS a
representative of a Pittsburg amily, here
when Pittsburg wIs a very small place, and
which has since become intermarried with
other lending families. Having the use o.
their records, her paper was most valuable
contribution to the social and historical
chronicles of the days upon which it
treated. s.
gramme, heightened by tea drin king. the de-
liciouS beverage being served by 4 number
Oh the juvenile members of the order,
'of them having just crossed the Rubi-
con OF the Order-their 18th birthday.
MADAME ALICE D. LIE PLONGEoN,
among the most noted travellers of modern
times. in response to an invitation from the
Woman's Club, of this city will lecture in
Old City Hall on next Mondav evening
Yucatan and its ruins. to the exploration OF
which the lady gave her most untirins
energy, will be the subject upon which she
VIII speak: and those who have heard the
lectures say that she invests her description
with IL wonderful amount of interest.
Madame lie Plongeon has had the honor OF
addressing the Sorosis, of which she is q
complimentary member: the New Century
Club, of Philadelphia. and the New England
Womans Press Association. Even con
servative Paris, with its narrow notions of
woman's FORK. has recognized Madame lie
PlOngeon'S ability and requests have come
to her for her photograph to be placed
among the celebrated travellers in the album
of Lhe Geographical Society of Paris; q com
pliment duly appreciated by the lady. Dnr-
ing the necessarily short stay of Madame lie
P!on2eon in Pittsburg, Mrs. Max Becker. OF
Ellsworth avenue, Shadyside, will be her
hostess.
EDGEwooDvILLE has become the center
nT tar l1b hrr MrS
Langley, who got club notions into her head
by the pleasure she found in one at Ann Ar
bor to which she belonged during Prof
Lanqley's connection with the University.
The local one is to be patterned after its in
spiring cause. Meetings. held every week,
will last two hours. one-half of which will he
devoted TO home affairs and the remaining
time to every matter under the sun that is of
moment. The club is not to he worried with
rules, and it has but two officers Presi-
dent, Miss Lyman, and Vice President,
Miss Jean McCraig. The members will de-
vote their time to studying Alaska. Next
Friday the club will meet at the house of its
founder on Franklin street, Edgewoodville.
A PLEASANT parlor concert was given last
night at the residence of Mr.. Z. j. Lloyd, of
Edgewoodville, at which over 1CO people
were present. The object o the concert, in
addition to its pleasure--iving motive, was |
to raise money for the new PRESBYTERIAN
Church on Swissvale avenue. Thanks to
the clever people on the programme. the en-
tertainment completely successful.
The concert opened with quartet, "The
Bloom Is on the Rye" bv Miss Elizabeth
Corey Mrs. Nettie McFadden Hunter, Mr. !
Henry Gerding, Jr., and Mr. c. f. Harris. |
After a wellexecuted pianoforte solo by
Miss Lille Schleiter and bass solo by Mr.. |
Harris, Miss Corey and Mr.. Gerding sang |
Lucatoni,s "A Night in Venice" THE |
Flower Girl'' was rendered by Mrs. Hunter !
and then Mrs. Emma Binoler- W ollie gave |
Pinsutfs beautiful ballad, "The Touch of a |
Vanished Hand" Other numbers were a |
from "salvator Rosa" by Miss |
Corey; "The Pilot Brave" dashing uuet, |
by Messrs. Gerding and Harris, and the !
ballad. Answer" by Mrs. Wolfe. A beauti- |
full serenade by Franz Abt, sung by the |
quartet, brought delightful evening to |
a melodious close. The concert was given |
under the auspices of the Dorcas Society. !