Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
BEAUTY AND HEALTH.
How to Keep the Complexion Soft
During the Spring Wind Season.
FACE AND HAND BEAUTIFIERS
Some Studies From Life That Women
Should Ponder ever.
LATEST NOTIONS ABOUT THE HAIR
WRITTEN ron THE D1srArcH.1

very unkind in this climate. A dozen more
or less ask for the best all-around spring
medicine, and these may be answered to-
gether, for a purified skin will stand the
wind better than one which is irritated into
roughness and cracks from inward disorder.
Take taraxacum extract with mandrake
added (the druggist knows how to prepare
| it), for the most thorough and gentle anti
bilious medicine, and treat yourself after
this fashion: Brush your teeth and mouth
well on going to bed and getting up to keep
the acrid impurities from adding to the dis
turbance of the stomach, then take char
coal tablet, a teaspoonful of powdered char
coal in water before dressing to give it time
to purify within. Take the taraxacum in
teaspoonful doses after each meal, and char
coal-magnesia water or dissolved soda when
ever an acid taste forms in the mouth. This
acidity
RUINS THE COMPLEXION
and raises wrinkles and fine pimples. Wash
the face with hot water and tar soap, rms
ing well, and when dry rub in very little
vaseline, cold cream or fine oil before going
out of doors. Wipe gently to have mere
film on the skin, not to be seen. Last of
all, before leaving the room, ii the face
looks at all shiny, rub it lightly with a
piece of dry flannel, which finishes the face
as sculptors finish their marble of statues to
take off the polish. The face will look soft
as if powdered after this treatment. The
hot water and vaseline will keep the skin
SOFT spite of drying winds, and the taraxa-
cum and charcoal bleach it, if one goes out
in the sunshine two hours day beside.
Then wells must be worn windy days, not
dotted net Which hurts the eyes, but clear
tissue of the thinnest kind. A mask would
be better still if it were the fashion to wear
it.
Charlotte, Wyoming" asks for toilet
mask to wear at night to improve her face,
and wants to know if kid masks are advis-
able? Kid softens the face, but is oppress-
i've. A light mask is lately devised of elias
tic tissue, no thicker than the skin, which
protects the face perfectly and bleaches it
quickly. 1t costs 81. For whitening the
hands there is really nothing like long
wristed pair of gloves, loose enough to be
easily worn at night. Rub the hands with
cold cream, button the gloves snugly and
wear another pair with finger tips cut of,
by day as much as possible till the skin
softens and refnes.
Pray write again about anything, every
thing of the feminine toilet and don't make
excuses. am writing now to answer ques-
tions and tell people just what they want to
know. That's what am here for.
TO DRESS AND NOT TO DRESS.
Watch the throngs of women passing on
any uptown thoroughfare and count the
number who are either we'll dressed-or have
interesting faces. The rarity of such pre-
sentiment gives one fit of sympathy for the
human race. Aresmen doomed to pass their
lives with these dowdy, ungracious looking
women, and are children to reflect such faces
from their mothers? The well dressed women
look harassed, their daughters hard, self
satisfied and critical As you study their
faces you cannot help the conviction that
the average person is a hopelessly ordinary
sort of being after all, and the quality of her
mind spread out for sale. Shopworn, rusty,
frayed, sleazy and faded to begin would
hardly attract custom on a Scent counter.
Try these women with the question of the
week, What do you think of the diamonds
at Tiffany's?" and see how many answer,
"Well, don't know" to begin, and finish
their views by telling you which piece she
would prefer for present. Puerilities and
personalities are the fund of such women's
talk. Add to this the fatality into which
the average woman chooses the wrong thing
to wear, or, having good costume, manages
to spoil the effect by some inharmonious de-
tail, and you cease to wonder why men
speak lightly OF the intellect of women. If
she succeeds no better IN her toilet, the one
specially feminine interest on which her
future and present depend, how is she to
cope with anything less familiar.
STRIKING SAMPLES.
Z Take as a sample these observations.
actually made on Fourteenth street. New
York, within week. No. /, short, insig-
nifcant woman, green skirt and sealskin
sacque nearly to her knees too long and too
big for her; common black velvet bonnet,
red flowers, not good enough to wear with
such a cloak.
No. 2. Three stout women weighing
at least $50 each, in tight slate blue dresses,
no cloaks. A stout woman makes mistake
in crowding herself into her clothes and ex-
posing her embonpoint in full outlines. She
should wear as long cloak as posslbleo on
the street. of supple smooth cloth, with bor-
dered fronts to give long lines to the figure,
but no trimming on the lower edge to take
awav from the height, and the bonnet
should be rather compact in shape of the
same color as the costume. Women do not
know what a harsh trying effect is given to
the toilet by hat of different color, or what
a completeness it has when the hat CORE
spends. Above all, it increases the ap-
parent height when costume and hat are
one color, and stout figures should take ad-
vantage of this.
g. Stoutish young woman, looks as if she
held views on reforms, not a bad figure, but
rendered chunky by light chestnut direc-
tory coat, with tapping capes, and sharp
lapels, distressing ugly style, and spoil
ing to most figures. The clumsiness of a
costume OF good material was completed by
a stiff round hat, too young for the 30 wears
of the wearer, the brim too narrow for her
round face.
T. Young woman, tall and slim, Jacket
too Short skirt in straight pleats, so that
she looked as If mounted on stills. To accent
the steeple effect, her tourist hat with taper
crown had stiff bows several inches higher.
Such figure needs drapery, wide sashes. a
well proportioned coat, giving due length
Of waist, and a low, broad-crowned hat.
FACTS TO REMEMBER.
3. Stout young woman in fur cape, look
ing as if shoulders were a yard across
6. Expensiyely dressed woman. en-
broidered green cloth dress, black armure
cloak, snowy passementerie. tan gloves.
rather soiled. jet bonnet with red roses
Costume made no good impression it
lacked unity, looked as If she went to her
wardrobe and pulled out what came first to
wear, no fitness, things not designed for
each other; a dark green plush mantle and
darker bonnet, or black lace and velvet
one, with roses and rich foliage, gloves of
some dark shade would have made the toilet
remarked for its elegance.
z. Big young woman, clumsy in seal
clnak and large hat with five ,,iI.u,as ,.aI