Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-16
THE LADIES.
A SYMPOSIUM OF HOME MATTERS
AND GOSSIP.

Health and Comfort Chat War
Against Moths-About Fashions
and Good Coffee.
Let common sense decide as to corsets
weak, nervous woman, who feels best in
loose wrappers, cannot Judge for robust
girl who really enjoys the trim set of her
corset, and takes no harm from it. 1t is
painful, however, and unsuitable to see
active housekeepers going about morning.
noon and night in close-fttting dresses
and corsets. Women ought to
dress the lower limbs more warmly than
they generally do, wearing wool and silk
next the skin, and close flannel knicker
bockers or knit drawers, like those worn
by children, over these when going out.
Neglect of this care leads to some of the
most dangerous inhammations and neural
gias in women, who have little to choose
between such maladies and cancer.
There is difference enough between the
hasty "wash" and thorough bathing.
which deserves consideration. For Young
women in good flesh the cool bath may be
most agreeable and best. But in cases of
languor, pallor and stiffness of the limbs.
take the hot bath, quite as hot as the skin
can bear, and rendered more cleansing
with ammonia, borax or pearline Re-
main In it ten minutes, to let the skin
absorb the water, soaking off the old layer,
softening and stimulating the new growth
and supplying the joints. Keep the water
hot while taking thorough scrub with
good soap, then let it run clear, adding
lavender or any pleasant toilet water for a
refreshing lave. Keep the head wet in
cool water, if any sense of fullness there is
felt. The wiping should be with warm
towels, to lose none of the stimulating
heat which sends the blood coursing
through the veins, renewing worn tissues
and carrying away distractions.
No life is perfect or satisfactory which
leaves out enough daily labor to develop
the system and keep it in its best condi-
ton, and the men and women who amount
to anything have all found it out for them
selves. Imagine a man of brains content
to take his daily exercise in a gymnasium.
Bryant or Gladstone want the swing of the
ak against tree to assure them they are
doing something, not merely exercising
Let your girls do homework vigorously
mornings, or work, not potter, In the gar
den, dance or play tennis after 10 o'clock
and sing part songs in the evenings, and
do not let them shirk the interest, the de-
velopment that lies in real work. They
make such hideous invalids, these exempt
girls, who put forth as plea of their fee
bic gentility that they never had any hard
work TO do. Their bilious headaches,
their horrible breath and still more horri- |
bic unnamed disorders, which make their |
presence anything but that of sweet and
welcome womanhood, their suspicious, CO.
ercive tempers, their utter inadequacy to |
any of the burdens of life which other |
people do not carry so willingly as did the
fond mother these are the retribution of
the do-less woman.-DetroaJ Journal
BATTLE WITH THE MOTHS.
"Well," said the careless young person
resignedly, as she looked yesterday at her
seal-skin jacket and her otter-trimmed |
suit, suppose the moths will play the |
mischief with all my winter things before |
next season."
"What makes you think that?" de-
manded the good housekeeper
"They always do" replied the careless |
young person, in tones that indicated that |
she felt a certain sad pride in being singled |
out by fate as a victim.
That is nonsense, perfect nonsense" |
said the good housekeeper in most unsym-
pathetic tones. I" If you lived in prop
erly regulated house you wouldn't know |
what a moth looks like. | never have |
them in my house. How do | keep them |
out? by simply not giving them anything |
to live on or in. | don't make nests of |
WOODEN rags around on purpose for their |
accommodation. | don't have any wooden |
around in summer except things in daily |
use. l take up the carpets OF the rooms !
not In use, or sometimes | put down matt |
ing all over the house and put away the |
carpets or if they are down l keep some |
good moth powder and put it around in |
the less frequented corners
How do | keep them out of the carpets |
after have taken them up?
" don't know how I'd get them in I'M
less took particular pains to. There is |
no sense in the world in any one having |
anything moth-eaten. There are forty |
ways of preventing it, each easier than the |
last. To begin with, you can have cedar |
chest or cedar-lined closet if you live in
your own house. 1t costs something in the |
beginning, but nothing SO oppressive as
people generally imagine, and there it is
for the accommodation of your childrens
children"
''Pm afraid they'll never arrive to get
the good of my cedar chests" interrupted
the young person, pertly.
If you haven't chest" went on the
good honsekeeper, ignoring this side issue,
you can put them in an ordinary trunk, |
and put in ten cents worth of camphor, |
and defy all the moths in Christendom"
81 don't like my things smelling of cam
phor." objected the young person.
81 like my things smelling of camphor
better than having no things to smell of |
anything" was the satirical response; but |
you don't need to have camphor If you'll
Just do up you furs and winter wooens in |
cotton cloth, wrap them all up in one big !
sheet, you'll be perfectly safe--or you
would be if you had SC me one with grain
of common sense to do up the bundle for |
you. 1t won't do to tie sheet around the |
middle and leave it open at both ends. |
Il TIC ouSSt uluSt euWTdp your
things, with no loose corners or cracks. |
Moths won't go through cotton, and if |
they have no other way to get at your seal |
skins they'll go without it."
Il haven't any Sheet" objected the
young person, mischievously. She wanted |
to exhaust the resources as we'll as the pa
thence of the good housekeeper, but that |
lady was equal to the occasion.
Every WELL" said she "paper will do
Just as well. If you will save the big
sheets of wrapping-paper that your new
spring things are now coming home in you
can do up all your winter ones in way
that will battle the most enterprising moth
that ever wiggled."
But l think they have already got in
this jacket"
They haven't gene far if they have;
all you need to do Is to shake and beat it
out well and then sprinkle it well with
powder before you put it away The
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