Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-30

on the rings of the hair, If neglected, caus
ing difference in the shade of color.
A NEW YORK CHARACTER.
For the last Is years whenever a core
spondent was short of subject he turned
paragraph on Miss MILDLY Morgan, agri
cultural editor Of the Times. My reason
for writing Of her is not quite the same, bu
some recollections were brought up by see
ing her the other day at her desk on the
spacious editorial floor of the new Time,
building. The grand old girl looks 9
thought grayer and more gaunt than she
used, but shall always remember her BY
the splendid symmetrical modelling Of hei
figure in bathing dress years ago. Hei
neck and arms from the wide sloping shoul-
ders to the finger tips were perfection, and
the face above them, in its early days, was a
type of blue-eyed, dark-haired, thorough
bred Irish good looks. Well, being in
amicable conversation with this authority
on grazing once, 1 innocently asked her to
explain to me what was meant by "grade
cattle, +" phrase frequently used in stock
reports. "Oh, its NO use," responded the
daughter of the Irish rings, tossing her
head. "You couldn't understand it If 1 did
explain it" That was rather q taking
down, but 1 like plain speaking far too well
ties, and as 1 since learned without
peculiar effort of mind that grade cattle
have a definite proportion of pure blood, no
harm was done. Two years after I found
myself lame, dependent upon crutch at the
Erie depot in Jersey City in charge of a
great basket OF supplies going up country,
and not soul to help with it. The person
who was to meet me had failed to connect,
as usual, no boy was about when needed,
and those hong railway platforms take you
almost into the country before you reach the
cars. l was moving slowly and painfully
along, my crutch under one arm and that
40-pound basket nearly wrenching the other
out of the socket, when strong hand swung
the burden from my grasp, and that tall,
easy figure of demi-goddess in an old
waterproof dress glided BY my side with it,
as if carrying heavy baskets were the most
natural thing in life. She did not let go OF
it till we were safely cared for, talking
kindly and genially all the way, and that
was the last saw Of her for many a day.
How many times since in dreams that strong
kind arm has come, relieving my strain and
weakness like the sweep of some ready angel
in working garb. How many women could
help another 50 or would do it if they
could.
AdSW Effo III
Caryophyll wishes for list of entertaining
books suited to develop a taste for reading in
a circle of ladies and girls, who find much that
is recommended rather dull" OF course they
do. A middle-aged young lady lately told me
she had tried to cultivate taste for reading,
and began Middlemarch, but confessed she
found it so heavy she never finished it. She
might as well have begun to like reading by
taking Bishop So1ttfs sermons. Middlemarch
and all George Eliots novels are thoughtful
books for persons cs advanced taste and ripe
minds. 1t takes fine order of mind and ex-
perience to be good novel reader, one who
tastes with discretion and savors what he
tastes. People want something which appeals
to their own sympathies, and their own run of
ideas. always tell women unused to reading
to begin with Mrs. Gaskilps Crawford that
humorous sympathetic little story of women's
lives in quiet English village. They are
pretty sure to relish the story of the tea drink
ings, SO intensely genteel, and of the pussy who
swallowed the old point lace soaking in milk to
whiten 1t, and who had to take an emetic in
and of the COW that fell in q lime
pit and lost her hair and went about in blue
flannel suit her mistress made her, and all the
droll pathetic happenings deftly told by a
fine author. Then Miss Woolson's Castle
Nowhere" is a most poetic and picturesque
of stories, revealing the un-
interest Of our own interior
country and characters. That and Miss
Phelps "Sealed Orders" with its authentic
want to read over every summer. "villette,"
by Charlotte Bronte, is the best depletion of
feminine character in fiction, which in this
case is founded on fact, and the fiction Is SO
BY it. son a Cast'is one of the
very best later American stories, light, lifelike
and SO brilliant as to oblige one to read with
attention whether he will or not. Mrs. Oil
Dhant's Little Pilgrim" and ''Stories of the
5eyondn are sure 10 thrill and enchant every
'eader not cut from neither millstone, and she
llone brings some of the blissfuIness of para
Rose Terry Cooke has written and all Mary
Wilkins stories should 60 into the list and
Mrs Lynn Lynton's novels, the most forcible
md hne drawn of any woman's work
o-day, rich with exquisite. keen philosophiz-
ng. on topics which most interest women.
Herr is list fit to interest girl or philoso-
,her, as nearly perfect in literary merit as any
lotion to be named, and so lively that the most
hearer could be fascinated by them,
md if season Of such reading does not de- |
Telop a taste for something more advanced, 1t |
viii not be the fault of these writer's.
ers to receive one like that which follows. and |
10 able to help the frank girls trouble. Saw |
ng in all confidence that she is owner of good |
omplexion and is called pretty, she goes on:
! keeps on, and it is just this: When 1 60 out
n the summer my face gets as red as beet. /
sven in winter 1t is sometimes the same way,
ut in the summer it is terrible. 1t just seems
ny face. 1t does not come from overeating for
am very light eater. have beau, and he |
sked me to go on an excursion lately, but re-
used for this reason. but did not tell him So
am not 10 and father and mother both like
i'm. have plenty of friends and good clothes
nd play the piano. but these things are nothing
D me. am utterly miserable. If you can give
nything that will cure me will never forget
on =" man might well be proud of
he favor of a girl who can write such a sweet,
rank, honest letter. She must forgive me if 1
i've the world to read lines It will be the better
bra posy of sweet brier and sweet peas, with
be dew on them I wish all heart
roubles were as easy 10 cure. The deter
,ination of blood to the head in such cases
remedied by daily baths and rubbing all
yer, a dose of purgative medicine, say a des-
srt spoonful of EPSON salts, followed by
sidlitz powder before breakfast for week,
18th Graham bread, berries and cracked
heat for at least two meals day. Beside
1is, one should spend as much as possible of
very day In the open air, sewing, reading,
,unging out of doors on porch or lawn. Even
indow is better than being indoors. This let
,r is written on a back porch in a New York
rect, wh1chsahords glimpse Of red gerani-
ms, tree hung with fine new caterpillar
,nts. and q watt of fresh Jersey air from
cross the river, which shows how much of
atural sights and freshness are attainable be-
yeen city walls. "Marion" ought TO know
lat pulling superfuous hair out by tweezers
creases its growth. Better cut the hair close
the roots with sharp SCISSORS, then pull it
1T. The remedy for superfuOus halr is a se-
'et. Powdered magnesia or very fine chalk
'e good for oily skins, as the alkaline powder
sutralizes the oil. and as the ducts are
loked with over secretion of fat, the
'wder can do no harm by closing the pores
II the few hours in society, during which
,wder is worn. The face should be carefully
ashed with soap before and after using pow
n. There is q fine preparation of fullers
nth sold by a London chemist which is good
T greasy skins, and strong camphor is the
st thing for refining the large pores of the
,se and chin. Washing Titan colored hair
weak ammonia dilution, tablespoonful to
rec quarts of water and drying it in the sun
.htens the color.