Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13

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There is no need of deformity, infrmity oil
age. Die we must, and find the curse
changed to privilege, but live, heavy witt
lmbecility and disease, we need not Ag'
is the penalty of physical crime.
Do we not owe it to our children to trair
them in their bright-eyed youth for sum
mer that shall have no dark and noisomt
autumn of decay? clad" said a mother
to her boy as old age in its dreariest form,
passed before them, 81 have spoken to you
about health already, but now you can
have no peace from me till you learn how
to keep from such miserable end as this. u
Can you bear TO think of supple, smooth
checked boys with sunlighted eyes, chang
ing to rheumy, offensive decrepitude Faith
ers and mothers, why do you not train your
children for perennial health, to delight in
themselves and the world they live in.
There is no necessity for their becoming
weakly or diseased, or for their ever grow
ing old and losing all vigor and grace.
That they should so lose their birthright is
witness against those who ought TO watch
for their interests in the beginning.
NEGLECTED BOYS.
The neglect of boys training in things
physical and polite is surprising. If half
the care given to girls about manners and
toilet were bestowed on the boys of a family
it were better for both. When a boys long
curls are cut close, and he is turned into
Jacket and trousers, gOOd-by to petting and
pleasant personal cares. He has his hair
cut once a month, and plasters the front
locks down to his liking with plenty of
cosmetiQue, though have known him a sad
poacher on bandOiine bottles. 1t requires
the domestic police to enforce anything like
brushing of teeth, and his hair brush looks
as if il were kept under the bed in the dust.
He generally needs fumigating, and
his warmest friends prefer CONVEX
sation with him at SAFE distance. He shirks
his weekly bath, and writhes under the ne
cesslty of getting into clean undershirts, nay
a clean starched shirt is penalty. He goes
in swimming five times day in July, yaca-
tion and Saturdays till frost, but he makes
up for it by stunning the ight OF q bath as
far as possible till spring. He perspires,
and throws his clothes in heap as be tosses
himself into bed, and forgets to open
window In time his cheviot suit is satu'
rated with personal odOrs and it is best not
to take the wind of his nobility. This pecu-
liarity sometimes lasts into later boyhood,
aud it is difficult to persuade grown boys %
and 40 years of age that wOolen cloth is a
dire absorbent Of stale Odors
wrote myself out of favor once with a
divinity student in nv teens, when after the
manner of young persons we had made
serious compact to tell each Of any faults
perceived in the other. He really was very
good and worthy, but his black coat, hang
ing in a close closet with unwashed shirts
and socks, smelt anything but nice, and l
really thought be would wish to correct the
defect. Why is it that the worse and more
conspicuous an ofense, the more hotly the
offender resents being told of it? Ought
Young man to resent it when his second
cousin tells him that his coat wants airing?
Dropping red-hot stone in a pail of water
is q faint image of his wrath, however.
SHOULD LIVE IN A TENT.
The average boy should live under tent,
or else keep all his wardrobe not on his
back outdoors, airing night and day, to in
sure a tolerable presence. But it is his
parents fault more than his own, if he be
neither so comely or so cleanly as he might
West Point cadets are taught bv the strong
arm of authority, backed BY all the force of
arrest and punishment. to keep themselves
and their belonging neat and becoming a
gentleman and an officer We want West
Point discipline in homes, with all boys, and
nowhere more rigid than in toilet matters,
which ought to be ingrained into lad sskin
and bone, literally.
A boys hair, though short, need not be
bristly. If he is taught to shampoo his
head and use a clean hair brush vigorously
five minutes morning and evening, his hair
will be soft as the fur of a mole Farther,
this practice in youth prevents badness in
after life. By bringing the blood into the
capillaries of the scalp, it deepens and
brightens obnoxious pale hair. You seldom
or never see well brushed hair white at the
roots, as in some raw, sandy compilations.
The troublesome, stiff hair, which starts up
at the crown of the head, must be reduced
by thick bandoline, made by stepping gum
tragacanth in water, and boiling slightly.
This not only keeps hair in place but softens
it when washed out, so that it learns to be
smooth in time of itself. Stiff, bristly eve
brows should be rubbed over night with this
bandoline, washed off next morning and
brushed with cosmetic. The boy with
white eyebrows may make them presentable
BY wetting them with amber Lavender, and
smoothing with warm fingers after the rest
of the toilet is done. This does not blacken
but gives darkish amber tint, in harmony
with the rest of the pale colOring.
TO MAKE A BOY GROW.
When the mustache begins to grow, and
razor is necessary, doctors say it is a sign
that lad has reached hisgrowth in stature.
If you would have him tall, and well groxn,
bring him up in the open air, with plenty
of food and manly sports, neither working
him at books or business till he is q.
know very well that this advice will not be
received with favor, since the idea rules
that merchants will not take lad into bus
iness later than IA. as he cannot be trained
TO good habits afterward. Let MIN be used
to discipline, taught to obey orders to the
letter, when given, taught dexterity, thor
oughness, adaptability from his first lessons.
and he will enter business ready to be use
full with half the breaking in which busi-
ness men find necessary with raw lads from
grammar school.
1t is hard to teach boy that grubby
hands and finger nails are unnecessary, even
in his busy, well-flled life. Amateur car
penters and gardeners must learn to wear
gloves with the finger tips cut off when at
work to save the skin from knocks and
CRIME. Gloves are as necessary for the
hands Of workingman asshoes for his feet.
He can get more use out of supple,
comfortable hands than from stiff,
horny, bruised ones The best out
fitting shops sell csseworn gloves of
castor and dogskin for Is cents
pair, for this very use. Woolen mittens are
not preservative of good skin, and supple,
ciOse-ftting llsie or leather gloves are
always to be preferred The nails and
fingers should be soaked il warm water,
with little oxslic acid in ii, before |
trimming the nails, to soften them. Water |
purified with alum, which is the supply in
many towns, is hard for the hands, fixing |
every trace of CRIME, deepening the cracks |
OF the skin and burrows of the nails. Bows |
Will have chapped, raw hands, in using
such water unless they can be persuaded to