Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
A MODEST TROUSSEAU
Penalty of Having a Princely Papa
With ExtraVagant Tastes.
A PRINCESS WEDDING GARMENTS.
English Girls Who Are Not Afraid of
Looking Bridal.
SOME ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS


have their eyelashes caught in the fall sew
ing, we must try to see through this pile o
correspondence which loads table and desk
We must spare time first, however, to glance
at the trousseau of the Princess Louise, o.
Wales, as told in London letters for repub
ican girls. Many a republican girl, how.
ever, spends more on her wedding gown.
than the Princess, whose trousseau cost only
$50, 900.
1t does seem a shame that a really lovely
Princess like Louise, who deserves the
name of nice girl, not markedly brilliant
artistic or fascinating, but just enough o.
all three to be desirable, should not have a
more brilliant portion, but such is the
penalty of having princely papa with ex.
travagant tastes which must be gratifed
1t is to be hoped she will find pleasure
enough in spending the revenues of Fife to
make for losing the state of princess. But
all women read with sympathy that she
gains young husband to whom she is de-
voted, and let us pray he will be as devoted
to her. She has some excellent lace. fit for
princess anyhow, fine Irish point, and a
grand devant or front of dress in reproduc-
tion of fine old venetian work, by the first
English laceworker, Mrs. Treadwin, who
has not failed in 40 years of contributing
an order to each royal marriage.
HER ARTISTIC TASTES.
The artistic tastes of the Princess are
shown in her choice of the palest colors,
shadowy pink, rose and gobelin tints for her
grand dresses, with some exquisite black
toilets to set off her fair complexion. The
going-away costume was the prettiest, a
gown of supple white sicilienne. q cloak of
white cloth, with Medici collar of white
ostrich feather trimming, which was carried
down the front, tulle bonnet and parasol
trimmed to match the bonnet with white
feather, the flower of good luck. English
girls are not afraid OF looking bridal, for
one rich girl goes away in q white cloak
lined with rose color, with white ne
apolitan bonnet, and another wears white
mohair gowns and white cloth jackets, with
silver braiding. Speaking of white gowns
which are seen so much at summer resorts,
the proper glove to wear with them is the
long white Beige kid, with loose wrist, no
buttons and only the finest stitching on the
backs.
To descend from princesses and Newport
and LenoX driving costumes, the French
glovemakers have done kind thing in fur
nishing assorted shades of thread for mend
ing gloves at 25 cents a dozen skeins in all
the modish colors, which is great help in
keeping gloves in perfect condition. Now
to the serious questions of lite on complex
lon, for every woman wants the complexion
ht for princess anyhow, aud one that will
not shame white gloves in the wearing.
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW.
Emma j. wants to know how to keep her
face and eyes from getting red and inhamed
in high wind.
Wash the face thoroughly in cold water
and dry it thoroughly few minutes before
going out, and wear shady hat and veil
till the eyes grow stronger. Probably they
are overused or do not have sleep enough to
rest them, or the system is in an infamma.
tory state, for which fruit and baths are the
best Corrective.
Newport Mary kindly reminds us that
Lait Antephelique, a French cosmetic, is a
sure destroyer of treckles, but alas! they
return, and asks for something to render the
skin incapable of rusting. A course of
tonlcs, cltrates, iron and beefsteaks. with
much outdoor life, will in time change the
blood with healthy coloring, but mean
while shady hats and wells sometimes are
the only preventive. The readers of this
letter will be obliged for her very kind sug-
gestlon OF anything to remove freckles even
at risk of their coming again.
y. L. a. is referred 10 the above item.
VIII some San Francisco or Oregon friend
tell her OF practitioner on the Pacific
coast who removes hair by electricity? The
blueness under the ewes can ouly be re-
moved by plenty of rest and outdoor air.
1t is sign oi exhausted vitality. For the
nushlng OF face when warm use aperients
like castor oil, rochelle salts or rbubarb
and hot toOtbaths daily till relieved.
ABOUT OILY SKINS.
L. c. writes she is the unfortunate nos.
SCISSOR OF coarse and very oily skin and |
asks for the lotion to refine it spoken of in |
these letters. Is it as good as the olive tar |
ointment for the same purpose? Now we |
must have serious talk over this matter of |
lotions and compilations. Women expect |
someone to discover some marvellous eos |
metc, which, applied to any and every sort |
OF rougnness, pimples, oily glands and SAL |
low coloring, will refine the skin by the use |
OF bottle or two. Every imperfection of |
the race is more or less a form of disease. |
the great dermatologists tell us, who have |
studied the skin year after year. Only /
coarse faces are caused by functional dis
order, Just as the saliva flows in waterbrash
or the eyes weep with inflammation. This
oYerseeretlon comes Of a clogged state of the
system, and l cannot do better than ouote
from a standard writer on this disease "It
was Hebra who first pointed out with clear
ness the fact that seborrhea is dependent
upon chlOrotlc or an3mic state in both
sexes. The patients have doughy COM
piexions, and are poorly nourished, and the
various functions of the body are deranged.
especially in women" In all cases there is
little or
NO CHANCE OF IMPROVEMENT
until the general health is set right Each
case will have its peculiarities which re-
quire modification OF treatment. The lotion
suitIng mild case of seborrhea which only
needs alkaline washes will have no
elect on coarser skin, where
the conditions of disease have become oh
stinate with years. The strong corrective
lotions required in the beginning to eat
away the secretion and the thickened skin
will in few weeks create Inflammation and
q netting rash. The cosmetic artists who
treat the complexion in the large cities 90
at the work in a heroic way One, as her
patients say, applies a lotion so powerful as
to crack and peel off the skin in three days.
OF course the new skin iorms under this
delicate as it would after a burn. but the
last state of that case is apt to be worse than
the first, and this clustering is pretty sure to
be followed by crop of down on the
cheeks. 1t will not do to say that YOU Lave
q coarse oily complexion and want face
wash as you might send Tor a paper of pins.
NO person worth trusting will risk advice
on such hint of a case. Such folly only
belongs to those wonderful healers who are
ready TO prescribe for a patient they have
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