Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09

rosemary water or elder flower cream,
and rubbed your joints and your back softly
till you fell asleep. Regularly, barrels OF
sea water were sent to the house, for the
ladies' use, and you have no idea how strong
and supple one feels after having the spine
and limbs well rubbed with rosemary tine
ture and salt water mixed. 1t puts one in
| the finest dancing trim imaginable. They
are the very baths of youth. An English
maid can do more to keep one in natural
good case than any other, but the. French
women do make up the face to distraction.
There was Lady Alice Plongeur, q
Wears daughter by the way, brought up as
SO many English middle-class girls are, to
the horrors of cold rooms, cold baths, meager
fare and long, stiff walks varied by endless
lessons, the rest of the time which brings
out the acid, very tall. genteel sort of girls
predestined tobe old cats. By dint OF better
looks than ordinary and lively manner,
went in for the fastest kind of respectable
life, and there isn't so much between the
two as you think.
HOW FRENCH MAIDS PERFORM.
AT 35 she was sight to see, scraggy,
raddled, her hair thinning, and crowsfeet
around her pretty eyes. Some one at Scar
borough persuaded her to take French
maid who knew her business, and being on
good terms with Lady Alice, she didn't
mind my chatting with her through her
toilet devotions. To see Anastasia perform
was treat. First there was a linen rug
about six feet square spread to keep the
carpet nice, and my lady put on huge
linen peignoir and sat at her ease, with
footwarmer at her slippers if the day was at
all chilly. That footwarmer was part of
Anastasia's system to keep a good circula-
tion, and she fed her mistress every hour
or two, delicate cups Of bouillon, or choeo-
late, or fresh egg beaten up with wine
jelly to induce flesh on those lady-like
bones. In the morning the face was
sponged of, and while wet, busted with fine
Dorax powder and left to dry. This
refined the skin and stimulated fresh
growth, besides bleaching it. The powder
was not washed off and answered for regular
face powder, besides bleaching and erasing
most of the wrinkles A paste of borax and
glycerine was wonderful for softening the
face, and after this was eff the maid sponged
the face with salt water and brandy to tone
the muscles and keep the cheeks from
dropping in the horrid middle-aged look.
When your cheeks dip ever 50 little below
the line of the chin goodby beauty and be-
witchment. After the salt bath, for ten
minutes, all the deep lines of the face had
little thick cream and rosewater rubbed
softly into them, with care not to touch any
other part of the face. Anastasia said fuss
ing over the face too much brought down
out on the cheeks, of which she had great
dread. You know Mrs. H, the rich
Colorado woman, who had such fearful
downy face and tufts of hair on the chin?
All that was taken off by preparation
which left the skin like an infants, and the.
growth never appeared again. It took three
months time; but it was worth the trouble.
1t has to be used verv carefully, so as not to
skin the face entirely; but it is very differ
ent from the arsenic depilatories in common
use.
LITTLE TOILET WORK AS POSSIBLE.
''Did she powder by day2 Yes, spraying
the iace first with rosewater five minutes
and touching when just moist enough with
bit of moleskin dipped in the Velvety
powder which only Dorm makes to perfec-
tion. No paint, but the amber fluid which
turns pink on the cheeks delieately applied,
not on the cheekbones and around the eyes
which makes one look hollow-cheeked al
ways, but lower and delicately shaded into
the white and a touch put on the ears.
Don't you know how people used to admire
the pink tips OF Miss Schaumberg's pretty
little ears when she was the belle of Phila.
delphia? A French maid knows enough
not to neglect these coquetries of nature,
and reddens the curve OF the ear and the tip
of the lobes as artistically as she shapes the
cleft, or the dimple in the chin. For even
fbo oks 1ba.
face and neck were covered with lint
dipped in hot milk, left ten minutes to
soften and fill the tissues. The marsh-mal-
low paste worn at night did away with the
wrinkles In few weeks, and the Vichy and
the pepsin and the grape cure, with maps
out of doors in summer had restored the
woman to second youth. The triumph of
Anastasia was to send her mistress out ra-
diant with as little toilet work as possible.
COLOR WITHOUT PAINT.
"a touch of ginger extract from the vapor-
izer will bring the color to the cheeks and
lips, my dear, without paint, and the blood
in the face brings fire to the eye, without
belladona. The eyebrows were colored with
seal-brown dye, ,.Once a fortnight, and the
lashes touched with Ianoline and cajeput to
favor their growth The hands and arms
were soaked in basin of warm milk to
whiten and nourish them after patient
massage. The pistache cream heightened
their fairness, and made the flesh delight
fully supple and fragrant. You will find
the whole battery in the cabinet bottles, the
almond paste and cream, the pistache and
the mallow paste and powder, the borax and
glycerine in that Greek jar of white pottery,
and the lily mucilage for the face in that
lovely vase of Italian ware. Every paint
and paste, powder and pastille worth
naming is on those shelves, and my Murauo
and Florentine pieces are put to good use in
holding them. That is my fad, but 1 don't
pretend to use half of them"
SHIRLEY DARE.