Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-21


bathing till full strength is regained to
washing the face. armpits and such parts OF
the surface as secrete the most. The hollow
of the bosom and between the shoulder
blades on the back are furnished with more
and larger glands for oil and perspiration
than any other parts OF the trunk, and need
a daily wash with soap whether a
bath is taken or not-always pro-
vided one is not chilled in the process.
Fastidious women must take notice that
cleanliness, priced as it is, is not so indis-
pensable as warmth to our vitality. 1
should feel very sorry II the stress laid upon
bathing and personal cleanliness in these
letters should lead any heroic girl to take
baths In a cold room or, what is almost as
bad, halt warm one, where she must hurry
through with her toilet to avoid getting
chilly. Better In cold weather, where the
luxury of warmth is not at its fullest, limit
ones personal cares to washing neck, arm
pits, etc., at night with a soapy cloth with
out wholly undressing, and take a dry rub
with woolen cloth or a silk sponge towel,
limb by limb, till glowing warm. This with
thorough-going hot bath once q week in
midwinter will keep one in good condition.
The cold lessons the action Of the skin and
throws its work on other organs, hence care
Is necessary to keep other functions perfect.
TAKING CARE OF A COLD.
There is nothing like little cold for max
Ing one feel utterly miserable and spiritless.
A trifing matter-yes, but worth some
trifiing care to prevent what is worse. If
you are chilly get warm, if you crowd the
hre to do SO; drink hot tea, lemonade or hot
clam broth, not by the bowlful as q PEN
ance, but half cupful every ten minutes
or every hour, to supply the fluids of the
body and to increase its warmth.
Are ices dangerous? In cases with irreg-
ular circulation and sharp neuralgia pains
they most certainly are not advisable, es-
peclally when there is any weakness of the
hearts action. Learn to know your own
sensations, to note cause and effect This is
part of the education of every man and
woman.
Miss K. writes that her eye was perfectly
well upon retiring the other evening, and
on arising was bloodshot, and remains so
much against her wishes. trust the eve is
well before the letter found its roundabout
way to me, but any such case is we'll treated
by hot lamentations half an hour at a time
three or four times or oftener q day, hot
foot baths and mild purgatives.
Sara finds that her blonde hair the last
year falls continually and grows much
darker. "She knows a bleach that many
girls In town use, and is strongly tempted to
follow their example. Would it cause her
hair to fall or injure it IN any way?"
Some weeks since / received letter with
the cipher and device of fashionable
druggist who enjoys the reputation of hav-
ing the showiest store in New York. It
conveyed this singular message: 81 intend
to use your article on toilet cerate for q
preparation OF my own," and added hint
OF some toilet novelties to be forwarded for
inspection. The coolness of this message
struck me as extreme. There was not the
shadow of request to use my article-not
the most distant hint of recognition that
might have some right or wish in the matter
simply the seizure and notice that he in
tended to use it.
CONSCIENCE oF AN ESSEX YANKEE.
Now 1 don't pretend to be above liking
pretty toilet things or at all Objectionable
as people here say to being paid five times
as much as anybody else gets, but what this
druggist overlooked from beginning to end
was that even a newspaper correspondent
might have sense of personal right and
property which not all his plate glass shop
and mirrors would count against. 1t so
happened that the name toilet cerate was
invented by me for preparation by Mas
sachusetts chemist, which has another trade
name. As the New York druggist owned
to the agent who wrote me- he never heard
of such thing as toilet cerate till my
article of October 19, when, not knowing
what 1t was, he got up something to answer
the name for inqulring customers. 1t was,
as he said, fine cold cream-as much like
real toilet cerate as sealing wax is like bees
wax.
He meant to do q big stroke of business,
to adroitly turn the article you all read into
gorgeous advertisement of preparation
he never thought of till be read
the article, and then get another puff for
his novelties on equally favorable terms.
Making newspapers pay for his advertise
ments instead of his paving them seemed a
luminous and perfectly feasible idea to him.
His circulars and advertisements for a
month have borne my name against my re-
peated protests through an agent, and the
last int1matjon was that he did not feel very
we'll treated because some notices of his
toilet articles did not appear in the papers.
DIDN'T KNOW WRITERS ARE HONEST.
That mere writer might have objections
to his peryersion of her work and the free
dom taken with her name, which could not
be soothed by present of fancy wares and
the prospect of profitable bit of work, does
not seem to have occurred to him. That a
newspaper which had bought and paid for
the article in question might object to hav-
ing 1t used as an advertising puff never
crossed his mind.
He must answer to his customers for sell
ing them cold cream under the name of a
totally different preparation with such an
Endorsement His example has been fol-
lowed by two or three other houses in New
York and San Francisco, who advertise
toilet cerate evolved from their inner con-
sciousness do not choose to be made
party to this performance. If purchasers
find the articles fall short of the
recommendation appropriated from my
language, I beg to assure them it applies
to totally different sortof thing. will
merely remark to this company Of toilet
frauds that they have against them chem
ist who knows his business and can COM
bine preparations of worth, and a writer
who can invent trade names faster than they
can steal them, which is claiming good
deal, but modesty must sometimes give way
to facts will close by saying to anyone
it may concern that persons attempting to
use these articles for advertising purposes
NAV get more free advertising than they e1-
nected. SHIRLEY DARE.