Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30
THEIR BEAUTY GONE.
The Winters RigOrS Have Played
Havoc With the Gentler Sex.
PROCESSES FOR BUILDING UP.
Shirley Dare Suggests the Need of Fires
and Proper Underwear.
HINTS REGARDING FOOD PRODUCTS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH, .

what oil all things tnat monuments art
built in memory of, is most loved and soon
est forgotten? Is it not beautiful woman:
Who loves her for the beauty she once pos
sessed? Is there in all history figure SC
lonely and despised as that of the woman
who, once the most beautiful in the world
crept back into her native land withered
being?'
1t is true. Yet against this decree of age
and ugliness should not women set them
selves with all the skill their fertile brain
furnish? The hand has been put back
nearly 20 years on the dial of human life,
which lasts till the sixties, where at the be-
ginning of the century it was doomed to fail
at 40 Men have forced back death; should
not women outwit age and decay? These
are questions to be repeated and pressed
upon the consideration.
Women look less beautiful than usual
this spring. Many of them have had sore
struggle with the winter epidemic, whose
after-effects on those of sensitive physique
are as tedious as the sequele of scarlet fever
or typhoid, from which patient cannot
call himself recovered under year. 1t
will take many days basking in the warm
sunshine, many days breathing the deep free
winds which stir the blood, and many nights
OF sound sleep to restore the tone to un-
strung nerves. If the work is halt done, as
1t usually is, the penalty will be visible in
sallcw faces, lackluster eyes and dropping
forms. Women must perforce learn wisdom
FLY FROM THE CLUES.
Not few will find themselves forced to
simplify their social work and drop much of
the routine, useless duty which has absorbed
them. The woman who is a member of II
clubs, political, literary and charitable will
be Obliged to ignore them so long that 1t is
possible she may find existence more en-
durable without than with them. For the
! mere routine OF these woman's clubs makes
an enormous waste of time AS to the gilt
tering generality OF Shakespeare and liter
ary clubs, their usefulness is summed up by
brig hit young member, who writes that "a
set of old hens get together and pick other
people to pieces,' and another speaks of
them as gossip served on trays with Shakes
peare or Browning to float on the teacups."
So il you mourn that your privileges arc
cut off dear madam, by want of strength,
rest consoled that the loss is not irreparable,
either to the club or to you. The only work
worth mentioning In the world, the only
kind that lasts and tells is individual work,
whether of brain or hand. One can't object
to gossip on any reasonable ground-indeed
has not DIR. Deems recently christened it
with much insight "the humanities of con-
versation?" That is when it is human and
not fendish, for there is a human interest in
other people, affairs and an lnhuman one
But gossip weakens literature past tolera-
tion. Perhaps this is the reason why the
most prominenf woman's club in the coun-
try makes the melancholy confession in its
terest on the efforts of six of its members
the rest being content with taking no part
at all in its discussions. Now, a mans club
which depended on half a dozen members
would turn up its toes and die, out of sheer
decency.
BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES.
If you want an excuse for having a good
time christen your gathering gossip club or
the scandalmongery and try to live up to it.
There won't be any more harm tor the ad-
mission. Calling things by their right
names lets a flood of light upon their de-
signs sometimes, and club known as the
Old Cats or tina Backbiters' Own would
probably have as little of their name-yices
as is consistent with feminine nature. A
good, lively club of this kind might be re-
source for tired housemothers, who need
chat and fun, which nobody thinks of sup
plying them. People who work hard and
feel worn out don't want serious topics or
anything like study for while. They may
learn just as much in light way and re-
member it longer. But strike off the clubs
and coteries from your list as non-essentials
until you recover the strength OF three
women.
Buy spring dress ready made, rather than
bother with dressmakers, proverbially the
most perfdious OF their sex, and the worst
instructed of any craftswomen in the cities
and towns. Don't undertake to attend all the
Lent services or get up birthday parties or
golden weddings or anything which re-
quires outlay of nerve. Friends will be sure
TO say, 81 should think she might be able to
do just this and tha.," or they doubtless
will 60 step further and say, ''She might
if she wantei to!' But you must not mind
them. Life is too dear a possession to be
played with, and you only know you have
your strength when you don't spend it.
PROPER SPRING UNDERWEAR.
Every woman who values her health this
chilly stormy spring, true breeder of typhoid
pneumonia, should go into silk underwear,
vests, chemiserie, skirts and nightgowns,
if she has to economize on her dresses to pro-
vide them. Neuralgia and rheumatism are
flying round, fell brood O. the winter. scourge
and no cost can be considered dear which
wards them of. Flannel has not tie same
warmth or electric action on the skin. A
featherweght of silk garment has more
warmth than thick wool one, with the ad-
vantage OF lightness. The knickerbockers of
black silk in fashion are commendable when
spring winds are abroad. AT u sudden reel
of wind at a street corner, glimpse OF trim
black silk stocking and rose embroidered
black silk ruffies has far less the effect of an
expose than feeting show of white gar
ments. And the pink and blue slumber
robes OF India silk do so kindly keep off the
pains in the shoulder next the crevice of the |
bedciothes when the tail OF a cyclone is |
showing how full of drafts a $4,000 year
house can be.
Silk underwear doesn't mean combination |
suits in this instance, nor those poudescript |
attachments called "leglettes" by women |
with one lobe to their brain. AS one bril- |
liant woman says (whom you would all
know ii gave her away: Il wouldn't be |
found dead with 'em on!'' Kate Field tells
a witty and wicked story about an old
woman up in Vermont, whose only amuse-
meat was the village lecture course every
season, which led off with Colonel IngersolI
one week and Mrs. Jenness Miller the next,
when the old lady came home thunder
struck.
"No everlasting torment and no chemise!
What was the world coming to! For her
part, if both were to be done away with, she
didn't want to live in it any longer
MUST KEEP UP THE FIRES.
II you love lie and your families don't
stint fires this spring, if you have to keep
them mornings till the middle of June.
This season will decide many families to 90
into homes of their own where they can have
/ fire at pleasure, when the hotels have
shut off steam, and the boarding houses
have put the furnace out. They suffer, these
poor rich people, in their high-prieed hotels
or the simple comforts of lille. 1t gives a