Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20

shoulders. This can hardly be helped by the
child who, like Louisa AlcOtt, resolves 20 pay
all the family debts, fix the house, seno SISTER
to Italy and keep the old folks cosy, Brave
heart! But the time comes when we nave our
lives in our own hands to guide, and 1t oeiongs
to no ones duty to work as Miss AIcott worked
at cold weary house-cl eanlngs ana Crossings pc
cause others would not do their duty ABOUT such
In the first place, nobody is compelled to live
in unhealthy conditions. Concord, WIN IT., io3
dampness did for this gifted woman what
Scotch mists and London fogs did Tor Jane Gar
lyle-sowed the rack in every nerve and turned
life into horror for years. Thousands OF women
safer from the same cause, lose pioon anu
beauty and all that makes life worth living, go
on suffering, when change OF climate, perhaPs
to the other side of the yown or county, "oulu
set all right. have known the opening OF a
window in cellar and a wide easement ABOVE
turn most unhealthy house into sate, 4elIght5,
ful one But the bane OF women's health ana
looks in Northern towns is the wretcheu PRACTICE
of living all winter in houses where all the an
for the furnaces or heaters is drawn from
close cellars, being the air that mas nltereo
through soil reeking with the refuse OF sewers
and sour with standing moisture, double ois-
tillate of putrescence and disease. during the
last winter nowhere have the cases OF epluehllc
been so disastrous as In close houses WlthouU
fireplaces, where all the celar ar was uL@"L W
into each room from the heater, instead OF
through an air shaft opening out OF doors. me
next worse conditions are those OF tightly corkeo
country rooms heated by common stoves or hTe :
places draughty and uncertain as those IN the
Concord house, where Louisa Alcott TOOK the
neuralgia which ruined her life. Equal IN as
comfort is the life many ambitious women Ieet
compelled to lead, of which the Beacon street
hotel is a type. Haven't been through
it, with struggling ARTISTS FSsss T aPG nre
sented a fine appearance, ''eating in marble
cafe and sleeping on sofa beds that we nnlght De
genteeI:'' where the fittings are so poorly put IN
as to work continual uneasiness, where steam
will not heat when needed nor furnaces behaVe,
and a gale chills the genteel rooms worse IMAM
the tenement house, where thank ne~y M :
families keep snug by their cooks toves? The
marble cafe sends delicate women away Always
hungry or half satisfied, and the sofa PEG anu ~
! thin covering is a coldframe for the growth OF
rbeumatics. The women must have hundred
| dollar gowns to sing or read in. and genteeI
! any comfort or not. Or they hve IN SKY
parlors, where thev sew, write stones al
| IS and $40, act q little, or nurse niue,
| and teach a little like Miss Alcoto, and treat
| their internal economy as she did, planning a
stony while she ate squash PIE from the
bakery. and falling to write il as soon as sns
out as long as they did, and that so few people
| generally die of neuralgia and meningitis, when
| thew Law themselves out to invite these dlspen-
/ Eatious Women abuse themselves and thell
| own families frightfully, and do not know ~
! Then they wonder, as Louisa ana at FANNIE g
| Kemble. how a creature can preserve spirit and
| attraction when she is over forty. tannle
| Kemble had worked and suffered. but she hao
| known how to care for herself through II all. II
! Miss AIcott had laid down the law for herself,
| that as an imperative necessity she must have
| nourishing food when working hard, good
| and graham rolls, not cola, sonIaIHH
! SQUASH pie that she must throw down her WORK
| and rest in a warm, fresh room, when weary
| though creation went to rack or threatened L
| MEANWHILE she might have been living now. tc
| delight the world. One must stand the reproacf
| of being fussy and hard to suit. bearing 1t fo
| conscience sake and making it up to society il
| kindness and sweetness when the martyr Spirits
| are waspish with indigestion. Nothing is more
beneficial to the world than enlightened selhsn
How do you expect to keep your good look
and be pleasure to friends by neglect ana over
doing? + fit of strong mental worry When Tn
blood is out of order will throw its irritation Il
the surface in an eczema which may take year
to cure. The rhematic state from living in
chill damp house viii rob your move
ments of grace, your eyes OF light
and give you the complexion or ooiIe'
| corpse a vigorous comparison not my own, bu
! heard from keen-eyed gentleman this evening
| If you are chilly these changeful spring days
India silk with silk knickerbockers and stock
ings. Thus cased y GU are proof against suddeI
| chils. II your circulation is poor, make you
sleeves come over the wrist, as fashion fortu
| ustely allows, with trimming of fur, swansdowl
| or feathers. Englishwomen are sensible. The
keep fur jackets out to wear the middle or jun
| when q turn comes, tCrs never feeling 5
| good as then, when fires out. Do not b
above carrying one of the little Japanese hand
| warmers, its lighted carbon smouldering in
| tin-case with cloth covering. The whole thin
| with fuel only costs twenty-five cents. an
can be carried in the pocket like porte
monnaie. 1t is an advantage TO person
with weak chests to carry the case i
the bosom, raw days. The warmth is $
mild and constant that il keeps the clothing DIR
from perspiration without oyerheating. Th
| difference IN color this invention makes wit
: some cadaverous women is remarkable, and
[ which is greatly aggravated by cold air, food c
! Delicate women, writers and sedentary per
sons who feel chilly even in summer, shoul
| never sit without foot warmers or fur-line
; slippers if at all chilly. Mental exercise e1
: | hausts the bodily heat. You remember no