Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-16

am led to the opinion that these missions
are a good thing for the better classes, at
least.
1t is comfortable in the city mornings.
while the Jersey freshness is in the air. to
90 around to the Twenty-third street rooms
to have ones hands dressed by clever
manipulators. The value of these nice per-
sonal cares can hardly be exaggerated for
tired persons, nervous women and brain
workers The surroundings are adapted
for pleasantness, the long parlor, taking up
the entire depth of the house, lets in all the
air going, with its three long windows at
each end hung with fine lace, the carpets
are handsome, the walls in ivory, rose and
gold decorations like that of Carlsbad
china, and the whole in scrupulOus keep
ing, agreeable to tired senses.
In front near the lace-shrouded windows
are little polished tables, set out each with its
gobelin blue plush cushion, with its dainty
napkin and the toilette of silver repOusse.
These silver services are made expressly for
the establishment and look tempting, the
big Golfer OF salmon tinted pumice, slightly
perfumed, and the tiny vases of amber and
earmine pomades, with dainty little ivory
brushes, one brush dipped in crimson as il
it bad been used for coloring Lady WashS
ington geranium over night There is q
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shelf Of late books for those who wait, but
we are early and there is only a gentleman
having his hands cared for by nice girl,
chatting leisurely with her as if he enjoyed
the process.
ANOTHER NICE GIRL,
with smooth complexion and fresh en-
broidered white apron, comes with a silver
bowl of warn perfumed suds and tells YOU
to soak your right hand few minutes. This
is to soften the nails. Presently she seats
herself at the other side of the little table,
brings from the drawer a set of dainty i'm
plements and fine emery paper slips and
polishers. Your hand is tenderly dried on
a soft towel and laid on the plush cushion,
The little round blade loosens the skin at
the base of the nail till the white crescent
shows, the fine curved scissors pare away
every line of superhuous skin and the ag-
nails are cut close. The nice girl chats
pleasantly and says she knows no method Of
treating agnails but to keep them cut as
soon as they appear. The acidulate6 water
cleanses the hands, for few people
she says ever have clean hands or face with
out more care than most of them think
necessary. The little wooden skewer is
dipped in acid to cleanse and whiten the
nails after they are trimmed, they are poll
ished with finest emery, tinted with the
little red brush and polished, till they como
out like the pink and white shells you find
on the Mexican coast, and one realizes what
a finish well-cared-ior nails put on respect
able hand. The nice girl says that nails
crack most in cold weather and it is quite
clear that soaking them in hot oil tends to
soften them and prevent breakage. A good
scrub of the hands in warm water and soap
in one OF the painted basins at the side Of
the room, your hands are carefully wiped
dry and you are at leisure to admire the i'm
provement,
KEEPING THE HANDS SOFT.
There is one simple way of keeping hands
nice while making them useful, and that is
by rubbing them with cocoa butter or cold
cream, and wearing long-wristed kid or cas-
tor gloves with the finger tips cut off while
at work. We put gloves on for dress, when
we ought to wear them at business. Men
should take more care oftheir hands, even car
penters, who would find leather gloves with
the tips off convenient to handle nails, while
saving thousand bruises by work. A man
is Just as com Portable if he sits down to read
his paper with smooth pair of hands free
from CRIME or callus or blood bruises, and
he is just as honest and manly for being in
trim so that no STRIPPING counterjumper
holds any advantage of him in good looks.
A Boston firm OF fashionable outhtters
keep a regular supply OF kid gloves for
housekeeping at 10 cents pair, and smooth
hands are worth dollar or two year to
sew and tend sick folks with No other
way OF keeping hands from being freckled
has been revealed than wearing gloves in
summer, not kid gloves to be ruined by
perspiration, but cool, serviceable thread
gloves with long wrists, which keep the
hands from dust and sunburn. The silk
and linen tafetts gloves which the dealers
insist upon providing exclusively for US
this season are insufferable. for they heat
and draw the hands and a weeks wear
spoils them. Nothing is so good for the
skin in warm weather as the smooth thread
glove or the real Isle, finished like bal
briggan underwear. They keep the hands
cool, and can be washed often, for who
wants to put on pair of gloves or stock
ings a second time without washing in warm
weather. Ones gloves sho1ld be as fresh
and clean as the hand within it.
AN EXPERT ON COMPILATIONS. - -
When asked what was the leading COM
plant of correspondents making cosmetic in-
ouiries, had to answer "Coarse open pores
and greasy faces" Consulting the first der
in America, specialist so de-
voted to his profession that he refuses to
make money outside of it by writing for the
he said that the trouble with
such faces amounted to disease, an en-
largement of the fat glands of the skin, and
needed thorough course of treatment. Il
is impossible to prescribe any treatment, as
constitutions vary greatly. The best ad-
vice to be given is purify the blood by char
coal and laxatlves, reform diet, and treat
the skin with drying lotions, not the pastes
and creams which suit a delicate skin.
What is best in each case can only be found
by experiment. Alcohol, resourcin, cam
phor spirit, CASTLE soap, carbolic dilutions
may all be tried with safety for few days
till the right thing approves itself. Borax
is useful, but in some skins brings on ecze-
ma. The course of sulphur treatment in
which Jealous persons indulge in hopes of q
fair skin, must be condemned as unsafe.
The sulphur poisoning brought on by free
use of sulphur internally is difficult to heal
and disfguring. The idea of taking a table
spoonful Of sulphur three times a day, as
some persons do, is enough to make a ply
sician's hair gray by the risks involved. A
OF sulphur each morning for
three mornings, and teaspoonful each third
morning thereafter for fortnightis as much
rs the average person Will pear. LaxatlVeS,
il not purgatives, should follow the third
lose, so that all the impurities need not be
thrown off by the skin alone.
FOR THE LAST TIME.
In answer to many inquiries, the diree-
ions for charcoal and taraxacum treatment
Ire given tor the last time, this year at any
ate. The first dose of powdered charcoal
nay be dessert spoonful, freshly mixed in
water, milk or syrup, taken on rising, az
oon as the teeth are brushed, which should
We one of the first operations Of the toilet.
This gives the charcoal time to ahsnrh i'm