Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19
THE GOOD PHYSICIAN.
Shirley Dare Finds Nature Clever
at Putting Up Remedies.
VIRTUES OF AIR AND SUNSHINE
Stepping Lively in the Kitchen and Toll.
ing Out in the Garden.
TOILET RECIPES AND HEALTH NOTES
WRITTEN FOR THE p1spArcH.l

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
Sunshine and a sweet sutumnal morning.
Such day as seemed to create new world.
A day when one could be out pruning the
roses and the pear trees, cutting the sage
and Lavender from the garden and taking
slips of the chrysanthemums and snap
dragons for winter Towering. A day to
range afeld, hunting after ashkeys and the
red aldeS berries searching for blue gentianl
and the feathery sprays of wild clematis,
tying punches of everlasting and bayberry
to sweeten the house all winter. Business
first and week of such uninterrupted out.
door life after promise myself
More interesting letters afford the text for
this weeks talk. Two-thirds Of the ques.
tions received ask how to remove coarseness
of complexion, oily noses, blackheads-
symptoms pointing to the same torpid func-
tions and want Of fresh air. These cor
respondents need to ponder the advice of q
celebrated physician in such cases: "Take
all the exercise possible in the open air"
HOW TO GET THE AIR.
Pure air has more to do with muddy,
thick compilations than girls are aware of.
Their outdoor exercise in towns consists OF
walk of an hour possibly every day, which
is as if they were restricted to one half slice
of bread for each meal. How this is to be
improved upon SO long as people Will live
in cities is not easy to say.
III small towns there is no excuse for want
of good air and sunlight, for every house
to be healthy should stand far enough from
its neighbors to have sunshine on all sides.
No house should stand where the shadow OF
any building can fall upon it any part OF
the dav, if the occupants would have per-
feet health. This would insure garden
ground for the women, and children to work
in. We will never have healthy, right
thinking, kindly race until the outdoor life
becomes habitual and the houses only used
for shelter. count every hour except those
of sleep that is not spent out of doors SO
much lost.
OF COURSE, PEOPLE LIVE.
The human frame adapts itself to nm
toward circumstances, whether in a dungeon,
an Office, 6ve-story brick dwelling wedged
in a block or an Esquimax hut but life
under these conditions is as unlike vigorous,
pleasant activity as the prison is unlike the
south windowed room looking on a garden.
know this way of looking at things is
scandal to many nice, particular house.
keepers who claim to be very much gentle
women, who really look on fresh air as a
medicine, and house themselves behind
roller blinds and plush curtains of different
qualities. They read St. Paul's injunction
ito be keepers in the house" instead of
"keepers at home" Sleeping with an open
window savors of Immortality to them.
They are excessively nice. pretty behaved
of society, but one needs to follow
their career through the road to its total
the horrible, nauseating, agonizing dis
die of, lingering in exemplary patience
through weeks and months. if not years. of
suffering which inspire disgust.
GOOD FAMILY DISEASES.
One would die of quick fever or infam-
nation of the lungs tar sooner than dropsies
md diabetes, cancer and the long disgrace
Ful condition which precedes the peritonitis
If different kinds, which are all "good
'amily'' diseases, born of superfne living
Ind stagnant airs. We must all die, but
We can save ourselves unmeasured suffering
n death if we choose The very things
sweet air, clean habits, we'll ordered food,
II sacrifices?
To tell the truth, half the young women
Who write to know how they shall clear their |
omplexions need nothing so much a exer- |
Use. Beyond walk or occasional game of |
ennis our girls, whether rich or poor, do |
little. The exercise a healthy |
roman really needs to keep her in high con-
lition of body and mind equals the exercise |
f doing a washing every day in the week. |
The is unfortunate if any disablement for |
ids her to accustom herself to this force and |
ctivity.
WORK Is NECESSARY.
We were born to work-to do a good deal |
f it in our lives, and whoever shirks the |
Universal obligation has Nemesis on his |
rack at once. The train of disaster begins |
Fith red. rough nose, face punctured with |
lackheads, pasty cheeks and breath to cor
espond. One never wants to sit too near a |
'erson with bad complexion, for the breath I
well, the less said about it the better A
urn at the toothbrush and draught of |
ONE deodorizing fluid is obligatory on such
ersons whenever they appear among hu.
1anity.
Some hours exercise out of doors or in a
unny house would be the chief cure for all
hese evils What does Edwin Checkley
ay in his physical Training" little
ook worth its weight in gold for the fresh,
ound opinions it lays down, quite in oppo-
ition to the modern fads OF gymnasium
raining. "One year OF good exercise will
o more for woman's beauty than all the
otions and pomades that were ever in.
ented. Exercise seems 10 have a particu-
arly immediate effect on a woman's COM
lexion. I have witnessed simply marvel
us changes in the complexlons, form
nd disposition of women under light
raining. have in mind one girl who car
led herself poorly and had an unsatisfac-
Dry complexion. In few months a re-
change had been produced.
he complexion was so clear one
ould scarcely credit the change"
STEP LIVELY ALWAYS.
Don't be afraid, my dear young woman,
exercise and work, downright work, leav-
lg you coarse. 1t will render you supple
you spring to it quickly, actively, and it
ill prevent your gaining a 30-inch waist
hen you are ten years older. 1t will not
o to step into hard work at once or hard
but drop your measured move
leuts about the house. Practice quick
citing around, not q clumsy rush, but light
witness, lady's alertness, not the heavy
lovements of a servant girl. Time yourself
/ everything, doing it with accomplished
elerity in the briefest space possible. In
lis you are only training yourself to.what
rnces and princesses are taught
I should like to see the petted darlings of
,mmon families trained to dress themselves
nd perform their morning duties with the
revity required for an Emperor's children.
.merican boys and girls would feel abused
the strict obedience and celebrity enforced
a princes were demanded of them. Yet
oung people with their places to make in