Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

growth of rheumatics. The women must
have hundred-dollar gowns to sing or read
In, and genteel place to entertain visitors,
whether they have comfort or not.
MUST HAVE NoURIsHING FOOD,
Or they live in sky-parlors, where they
sew, write stories at S. and $40, act little,
or nurse a little, and teach a little like Miss
Alcott, and treat their internal economy as
she did, planning a story while she ate a
squash pie from the bakery and falling to
write it as soon as she had finished. The
wonder is her nerves held out as long as they
did, and that so few people generally die of
neuralgia and meningitis when they lay
themselves out to invite these dispensations
Women abuse themselves and their own
families irightfully and do not know it.
Then they wonder as Louisa did at Fanny
Kemble, how creature can preserve spirit
and attraction when she is over 40. Fanny
Kemble had worked and suffered, but she
had known how to care for herself, through
il all. II Miss AIcott had laid down the
law for herself, that as an imperative neces-
sity she must have nourishing food when
working hard, good brown beefsteak and the
best OF hot coffee and graham rolls, not cold,
solitary squash pie-that she must throw
down her work and rest in a warm, fresh
room when weary though creation went to
rack or threatened it meanwhile, she might
have been living now, to delight the world.
One must stand the reproach of being
fussy and hard to suit, bearing it for con-
science sake, and making it up to society in
kindness and sweetness when the martyr
spirits are waspish with indigestion. Moth
ing is more beneficial to the world than en-
lightened selfshness. How do you expect
to keep your good looks and be a pleasure
to friends by neglect and OVERRIDING?
WHAT WORRY WILL DO.
A fit of strong mental worry when the
blood is out of order will throw its irritation
to the surface in an eczema which may take
years to cure. The rheumatic state from
living in a chill, damp house will rob your
movements of grace, your eyes of light and
give you the complexion of boiled corpse
"a vigorous cOmparisoninot my own, but
heard from a keen-eyed gentleman this
evening. If you are chilly these changeful
spring days. put on a silk undervest and
chemise of white India silk with silk knick-
erbockers and stockings. Thus cased you
are proof against sudden chills. If your
circulation is poor, make your sleeves come
over the wrist. as fashion fortunately allows,
with trimming of fur, swansdown or feathers.
Englishwomen are sensible. They keep
fur jackets out to wear the middle OF June
good as then, when fires are out. Do not be
above carrying one of the little Japanese
handwarmers, its lighted carbon shoulder
ing in tin case with cloth covering. The
whole thing with fuel only costs % cents,
and can be carried in the pocket like porte
monnaie. 1t is an advantage to persons
with weak chests to carry the case in the
bosom, raw days. The warmth is so mild
and constant that it keeps the clothing dry
from perspiration without overheating. The
difference in color this invention makes with
some cadaverous women is remarkable, and
it has beneficial effect in case of heart dis
ease, which is greatly aggravated by cold
air, food or drinks.
THE CHILLY SENSATION.
Delicate women, writer's and sedentary
persons who feel chilly even in summer
should never sit without loot warmers or
fur-lined slippers, if at all chilly. Mental
exercise exhausts the bodily heat. You re-
member how George Eliot always was chilly
when writing, and many professional
worker recognizes the familiar feeling. Hot
taths with plenty Of friction afterward, get
up a healthy action of the skin, which
leaves the fair face and opal tinted hours
afterward. One of the most beautiful COM
plexions 1 know is kept by this practice,
Joined to care in eating. A compound of
borax and vegetable oil, with little bleach
ing agent, has the effect OF eating off the
outer coating of the skin, while an aIkali |
with it stimulates the capillaries by its irri-
tation. The eyes will be dark and bright |
after such bath, but if you want to insure
their brilliancy, pharmacist who studies
these things says one must eat freely of |
tomatoes for the sake of the atrophine or its |
quality they contain. Certainly |
wholesome tomatoes keep skin and eyes in |
good condition as far as food can do it.
Women need food very full of nourish- |
ment which will be the least tax on the |
digestion, and this is found in the new pro- |
cess bread or. rather cakes, baked by steam |
without yeast or baking powder. 1t Is very
odd to miss the discomfort after meals when |
taking this bread; one feels so satisfied and |
yet as if one had eaten almost nothing, |
while the craving which follows unsuitable |
food no longer afficts. a well-to-do woman !
might attempt a far worse charity than to |
send supply of such strengthening food to !
worn out sewing girls and school teachers. |
If anything lighter is wanted, it is found in |
the stale mullins baked crisp in the oven
and pounded to coarse powder, very salts
flying and delicate thing, of which three or
four spoonfuls answer for bread at a meal.
SHIRIEv DARE