Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-25

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read her character. In fact, 1T is better not
to, for women use their faces to conceal
their thoughts They "look" goodness and
sweetness and think" guile and roguery.
But get behind them and they are at your
mercy. You may read their characters at
your ease.
Where you must look? The nape Of the
neck is the place. Here nature gives herself
away. There is an almost infinite variety of
napes, and you mustn't expect to become an
expert in napiologY in single season. You
must select ladies in collarless or cut-out
dresses, and sit behind them, In order to
prosecute your studies; aud, if possible, you
should select those who wear their hair up.
The slouchy type of woman will not answer
your purpose very we'll. What you need is
down to the beginning OF the shoulder
blades. Classify your napes, for instance,
the aristocratic, the shoddy, the Vassar, the
cheap literary, the pious, the prudish, the
plebian, the dull, the insipid, the stupid, the
penitent, the hypocritical, the mercenary,
the maternal, the Magdalene, the trustful
and the audacious Napiology has great
future in all large cities where there is
material for the student.
A NEW OYSTER SPOON.
Ahi this is a time of erratic progress.
There was time when the "split spoon,"
as the fork of our day was called when it
first made its appearance, was ridiculed,
and it was many long year before people
could be brought to use it instead of the
knife in conveying food to the mouth.
Now rare indeed is it that anyone is old
fashioned enough to despise a "split spoon"
This is an age Of innovation, nay, of per-
petual motion, for it never stands still, and
is never satisfied with things as they are.
An effort has been made in some of our
restaurants to introduce an oyster spoon.
1t is an instrument intended to supplant the
oyster fork now in use, and from the tines
of which the slippery delicacy, especially
in the hands OF lady, SO often drops just
as it is about to disappear forever. The
oyster spoon is much the shape
of an ordinary spoon, except that
it's smaller end is lndented, or
scalloped, and the curved edge OF the nick
is made sharp, so as to cut the oyster loose
from the shell. The luscious morsel then
slips into the bowl OF the spoon, taking all
his liquor along with him. A great point
is thus gained, for it is the juice which gives
the delicious salty flavor to the animal. The
oyster spoon has much to recommend it,
and, should the New York ladies take
kindly to it, it will speedily become the
correct thing elsewhere. 1t will make raw
oyster eating by fair women far more at
tractive to fastidious men, who regard the
present operation as rather vulgar, you
know.
EVOLUTION OF THE DRUGSTORE.
In the way of women and nutrition, how |
is it that we take our daintiest drinks in |
drugstores, where things of horrid taste and |
smell are the chief stock? As is pretty gen.
orally known, these places in New York sell |
many things besides medicines. And now
Uncle Sam has located postal sub-stations
in them. You will perceive at thought
that the drugstore of the future will be an
important headquarters for the eccentric.
the rapid, the mysterious, as we'll as the
elegantly luxurious. For example, she may
not only get the needful dose of one
sort or another, but also receive and
post letters without having the ''peo-
pie in the house" know to whom the
missives are directed. or by whom super
scribed. The next step in the evolution
will be private offices for ladies where let
ters may be written, and then the ancient |
hall" will have become COM
pletely metamorphosed from an ill-smelllng |
and mysterious hole in the wall to ''love's |
postofice," where rendezvous may be ap- |
pointed, letters written, photographs re-
ceived and Uncle Sans postal facilities put |
to most charming uses. Cigars and cigar
cites are already here. All that is now
needed il dainty lunch counter and the |
morning papers. Hurrah for the drug |
store.
Perhaps many OF the beauties of society"
object to the publicity that thev OCCASION