Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-02

noticed on the top of his head, In which
vicinity it had been agreed upon several
previous occasions that an ominous thin
ness was growing very apparent.
eyes" he said, "that is good growth OF
hair, but it is stuck on with gum"
Struck abaek, I asked him for an explana-
ton.
"That is q toupee," he said, t'and am
wearing 1t because the hair has been burned
off the top of my head"
He then drew receipted doctors bill
from his pocket. 1t was close to 81 1000 in
amount.
"That," he said, SIS all for vain attempt
to secure, some new hair. / have been
through what about half the men in New
York go through sooner or later. Everyone
seems to be growing bald nowadays. Some
thing in the atmosphere must cause 1t.
Don't you notice how hair restoring shops
are springing up all over town? Well,
wouldn't take any stock in nostrums, but
went to regular hair doctor. 1t cost me
Just that thousand dollars, and it didn't do
income bit of good, Finally took the ad-
vice of a young woman with perfect golden
hair to 60 to an old Indian herb doctor over
on Sixth avenue, who, she assured me, pre-
served her hair when it was fast falling out.
A CONFIDENCE GAME.
I could want no better proof than her
head provided, so off to the Indian went l.
He mixed me liquid and directed me to
apply it when retired at night. did so.
Luckily rubbed it only over the top Of my
head where the hair was thin. The next
morning 1 found what little hair had
gloried in sprinkled over my pillow. jump
ing up gazed at myself in the mirror.
was as bald as a white cfockery door knob.
Now. 1 wear a toupee. My hair Is growing
in little nss thick than it was before.
When it gets back to point so my friends
won't howl at me when heave in sight
will dispense with the toupee."
Ii is really fact that baldnessis the bane
OF the young men in New York at the pres
ent time. Any number of women are max
ing fortunes out Of hair restorers, and there
are five shops on Fifth avenue now where
nothing else is sold, besides the many on
Twenty-third and Fourteenth streets. Twas
highly edited the other day over the serious
discussion by party of elegant young men
as to the merits of sage tea as preserver of
the hair.
81 have tried everything and find nothing
equal to sage tea," said q gentleman with
out a good dozen hairs on his crown.
"What do you use, Jack2" he asked of one
of the party whose hair was as black and
hard as shoe brush.
Nothing but soap and water" replied
Jack. my hair is tied in by nature, and
you bald-headed fellows can just stop sage
teaing yourselves, because there's nothing
in its
And If can Judge from the pstes of
those who have expended every effort to win
back their tickle curls without success be-
lieve that Jack was right. But that hair is
flying and the patent remedy business is
fourishing in New York at present there is
no doubt whatsoever.
FASHIONS --LATEST FAD.
Society has the yellow fever. Not the
scourge, but an Unsuitable ttase for the
color. The fancy has been raging for some
time, and still the cry is more. Palms are
displayed in windows, corners and Railways,
and in nothing but yellow jardiniere is
the beauty of color and foliage so effectively
brought out. No cabinet is considered re-
heved without bit of yellow porcelain,
and drop lamp or pedestal burner of or
ange china, with trimmings of blackened
iron, is considered the very acme of artistic
taste Then there is the kings blue candle
stick, with the candle of gilded yellow wax,
the graceful form after the Greek In man
DARN ware, and how can you imagine q
bunch of mignonette more poetic than dis
played in a smooth bowl of underglazed
yellow? These craze colorists, who are law
unto themselves, go 80 far as to worship the
marigold, "that molten thing Of beauty"
which the florists are obliged to force, and
which bring as good returns as the queen of
flowers, the rose. But think of putting yell
low marigolds in a yellow bowl, and then
rav yrho dictates in chromatics
Finger bowls Ia Russo are to be found in
some of the most ostcosmopolitan dining rooms,
and the struggle with the crystal basin and
floating mouth mug is something unforgeta-
bic. The bowl half filled with clear water Is
placed on the usual doylie-covered platter,
and in it is tiny glass at sail. containing
q couple of spoonfuls of peppermint or
wintergreen favored water with which to
rinse the mouth. Now, almost any pupil,
pet or protege of society can lave her finger
tips, but the manipulation of the mouth
glass is feat that only the dextrous can sc-
complish. Either the well-fed guest is nice
or nasty about il, and if not nice there is
danger to the delicate spectator of losing his
dinner on the spot.
A DIFFICULT OPERATION.
The only way to manage the mouth-bath
is to ''choose laugh" and take and expel
the draught in an instant. Like kissing
shy girl, 'the operation must be done be-
fore body knows it has begun" and il you
get caught by even q single pair of eyes,
swallow the glass rather than offend the
taste. A native Russian discussing the SUBJ
ject at an Observation-Disclosures in New
York salon, said: foreigners, as @ rule,
make disgusting work of the mouth glass.
The secret is speed. We simply empty the
glass at gulp and empty the mouth behind
the little glass, and that is all there is to it.
The idea is not to clean the teeth and gargle
the throat, as I have seen Americans do,
but simply to remove from the mouth the
taste of the food. AS rule the last courses
are sweets which cloy the taste. Now, sip
of anything spicy or aciduous will be re-
freshing, and if one can't use gill of water
without disgusting those about him. he can
eat lozenge of mint or winter berry, or bet
ter still, go off with the taste in his mouth
to the toilet room"
A single object lesson is better than
term of theory, and from the lovely Prin-
cess Marthe Engalitehef, of Moscow So
ciety, students have mastered the Russia
finger bowls, and Notwithstanding hours of
secret practice, these progressive matrons
and maids juggle with the mouth glass,
finger basin and DOYLE as daintily as they
do with huted china and the brasses and
teapots about samova.
Pertinent to things Russian it may be edi-
fying to some of the students thereof to state
that the common everyday tea procured at the
corner grocery will not suffice for tea la
Russo. You must get near the heart of an
importer or get an order to St. Petersburg
or an Odessa tea merchant for supplies. The
caddy must be a mixture of black and
flower teas, half and half. Provided with
the staple boil fresh water and brew the tea
with one cupfull. Then in serving pour the
individual cup one-fourth full and add hot