Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

some butter cakes to the hospital once In a
while? 1 can't have 'em hot but they
might remind you your good old break
fasts in here"
Lottie declared she would be delighted to
get butter cakes at any time, and when she
got up to go she assured Jimmie that ne was
an awtully good fellow.
"Well, my little wife 10 about your age,
Lottie, dye see," said Jimmie, can 1 know
she'd like some one to think of her if she
was in your luck. ="
Lottie smiled as she ooughed out a reply
to this.
your wife, Jimmie. never could have
my sort of luck"
AS the wretched girl went out into the
dark frosty air. Jimmie stood contemplating
her, and when she had disappeared in the
gloom he observed to himself:
II wonder if it's whooping cough?'
Going back to the table where the girl
had sat he noticed that she had eaten a
small section of one butter cake and drank
half of her coffee.
1t was only yesterday that talked with a
Fifth avenue married belle aged 49, She
was beauty as to the symmetry and health
of her body; so much so that begged her
to tell me how she had so handsomely pre-
served, if not developed, her shapeliness
and vigor.
IMPROVING THE FIGURE.
For improvement of the figure" she
said, there is nothing so good as swimming.
The muscles about the shoulders and chest
and back are all exercised-the arms and
the hips and knees. Rowing fills out the
arms, but it is hard on the hands. Dumb
bells and Indian clubs are likely to make
one rather muscular above the elbow. OF
all things swimming seems the best, for
lungs, skin and muscles, too; but ask your
doctor. Washing every morning above the
waist in hot water, rinsing in cold water,
and driving briskly will keep the skin hard
and white, and cultivate the pretty blue
veins that are ready to show about the
shoulders and neck. The hot water clears
the skins pores, the cold shuts them up and
makes the texture firm and elastic, and the
rubbing sets the blood in motion.
IF all this is done once or twice day
your skin can hardly help being nice, can
it? Of course, if you can stand it. a bath
all over OF this kind is good; but believe ne,
better not indulge too freely in the tub, ex.
| cept with your doctors permission. 1t is
very English and all that to take a cold
'bawth in the mawning,' but it may be jolly
bad for you all the same, and no one but
your doctor can give you advice about
bathing"
CARRYING THE BODY.
The lady gave some information which
may be of practical value to growing girls
if not to matured women ''Your shoul-
ders," she said, will not be pretty if they
| are not we'll poised. They will probably
not be well poised unless you stand so as to
give the proper curve of beauty down
the back. What you want is al
absence of sudden, ugly, outward curve
just below the waist-line in front
that ugly effect that makes the chorus
| girls in the Amazon march, so many OF
them, look very tubby when their figures
show in profle-that unfortunate fullness
which the dressmaker tries to counteract by
an enormous bnstle, and which, when the
hustle is in place, makes woman look like
bust of herself set on hogshead. Have
said enough to make my meaning clearf
"Well, unless the figure has been ruined
by tight lacing, proper poislng of the spine
will do away with this unsightly line In
front, and give it to you in the back, where
| it is graceful and beautiful
CLARA BELLE