Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

An Sorts of Gossip From Health and
Beauty to Fashions and Fads - Good
Looking Women Take Life Easy-Kiss-
ing and the Teeth.
, Try everything you read and hear about
for improving the looks and general health
and then try sleep. As Marie Jansen says
in the "Merry Monarch" when she throws
herself down on a bank of green tissue
paper, ga sound sleep is as good as din
ner." 1t is health and beauty for the body
and the very best preservative of youth,
next to contentment.
The industrial giants of the family will
scream laziness and declare that they would
just as soon be dead as asleep. 1t is the
fate of man to bear the burdens of life. He
has neither need nor use for beauty, and so
long as strength and endurance last it is i'm
material whether the king of the hearth gets
three or ten hours sleep. Woman's mission
is in measure dependent on beauty, bright
ness and freshness. Her duty is largely
that of the butterfly or the flower. 1t mat
tiers very much that she be worthy of the
queens crown, and to squander her delicate
strength, to waste the perfume of her young
womanhood. is form of prodigalitv that
she will rue. Brothers, fathers, husbands
and sons do not like to think of their idols
in a state of habitual inertia, but a wise
woman does great many things with her
right hand about which her left knows
nothing.
Sunday is well considered day of rest,
and if fair woman but knew it sleep from
Saturday night till Sunday noon will
smooth out ever so many lines and cares of
the week She will miss her coffee, to be
sure, and her church, too, out, saws the New
York World, there is more tonic in the rest,
even with waketul eyes, than there is in
whole coffee plantation. Not only do the
eyes brighten, but the warmth OF the flesh
produces free action of the glands, which
acts as sort of lubricator and imparts
health and freshness TO the skin.
Then there is the clearer mental vision
and the brushing away of the cobwebs of
the brain that nothing in all the pharmaco-
ppia can approach. The fair sluggard NAV
be prosecuted by envious and ancient rela-
tiyes and upbraided by spiritual teachers,
but all this can be endured in beauty's
name. A nap, superinduced by steaDling
hot bath, an hour on horseback, or 4 brisk
walk in the open air taken with the mouth
tightly closed and in a very light costume
just before going to party or a dinner, will
give woman a freshness of face and
sprightliness of manner that will be at once
remarkable and captivating. Sleep is
cheap. 1t is also an Invaluable agent OF
physical health, which is after all approach
able il perfect beauty is not
No girl can be really happy just now who
is not the possessor of i turquoise ring.
4
Who is going TO give the first bal blanc?
The cards, ii Of the proper sort, insist that
gowns must be pure white, cream being ab-
solutely inadmissible, and powdered hair in
sisted upon. The men want white knee
breeches and white silk stockings, and with
these coats OF pale rose, blue, yellow, mauye
or gray. richly brocaded and glittering with
steel buttons. The effect of such party of
cancers is more than picturesque, it is a
picture.
The gown shown here, says the New York
Sun, is to be worn at great dinner presently.
Straight and sheathlike the breadtbs of