Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
A BIG BUBBLE OF AIR.
Shirley Dare Tells of New Mattress
for People to Sleep On.
P0IS0NS THAT STICK TO BEDS.
Some Recipes for Wsoing Beauty and Cur
Ing the rheumatism.
M'KINLEY AND SILK UNDERWEAR
MKINLEY AND SILK UNDERWEAR
wB1rrEs FOR THE prsp.TcHI

sisted by an elastic couch. That is the de-
cision Of all of US who are not sufficiently
young and plump to sleep on the soft side of
a deal board and find content. The way
springs yield as one sinks into good bed
seems to take the strain off wearied muscles.
A good hair mattress and woven wire
springs are considered the acme of bed fur
nishings. but they leave much to be desired
in cleanliness and ease of handling.
The 1000, 900 housekeepers who have to
put their own hands to the springs of do
mestic comfort; who know the weight of a
double six-inch mattress that has to be
turned every morning, and the amount of
dust it gathers in the course of a week, ap-
preciate this. To many the amount Of dirt
which may be in mattress is an unknown
quantity. for all women do not follow the
rule of nice English housekeeping to
beat the mattress with a rattan bat, and SO
dissiDate the dust after an all day weekly
airing. A mattress is a great collector of
fluff and dust of the most destructive sort.
CAUSES HAIR TO FALL OUT.
This dust it is which causes the falling
out of women's hair whether they ever make
bed or not. Ii they sit in room where
such invisible dust circulates-that is,
where the mattresses are not beaten-weekly
at least-they live to repent. You know
how much fluff gathers against the weekly
sweeping, and it is safe to say the mattress
contains as much more.
Each sleeping person gives off at least a
pound of waste matter in invisible vapor
which is absorbed by the bedding Ex-
anime mattress which has not been turned
for three days while slept on nightly and
you will be surprised to find how damp the
underside is with moisture gathered from
perspiration of the sleepers. This moisture
is an attraction for the dust, and the bed
becomes loaded in a short time with what
we had rather not sleep and breath over if
we know it. A clean bed means much care
beyond a change of sheets once a week. No
body but a thorough housekeeping English
woman knows how to secure clean bedrooms.
THE IDEAL BED.
Have you noticed how soundly and re-
freshinglv one sleeps in room that has been
just cleaned thoroughly? 1t is because your
lungs do not have to breathe over again the
$4,000 particles of fluff and dead matter
which usually form your nightly sleeping
draught All this is apropos of a Yankee
invention which promises to be the ideal
bed. Isn't the "air mattress" an inviting
title, suggestive Of pillowy clouds and float
ing rest? To confine ourselves to sober fact,
however, what do you say to double mat
tress, eight inches thick, which you can toss
over like cork doormat, and single bed
which you can walk off within one hand?
Doesn't that sound like a respite from toll
some daily duty in bed-naking?
Add to this that it is a bed that cannot
gather dust any more than the footboard,
that requires no springs under it, but lies
on a board foundation, that it is as soft as
downy pillows are, does not sag as wire
mattresses do in SIX months, and does not
lose temper like spiral springs. 1t is
mattress of rubber cloth with ticking cover,
which slips off to be washed as easily as a
pillow case, a collapsible bed blown 'ull of
air with a bellows. and is the softest, easiest,
elastic rest that ever tired mortal knew since
his mothers arms.
CHEAP, LIGHT AND COMFORTABLE.
1t is strong enough to bear heavy tossing
without danger OF letting the air out; the
children may play on it without weakening
it, and for rheumatic and old persons, with
frames which are thinIy covered and aching
bones, it is the greatest earthly comfort.
With a thin paIllasse of cotton or the
knitted mattress filling, under the sheet, it
cannot chill and it rests luxuriously. The
price is too high for common persons-S25
Tor single bed, s35 for double one-but
probably the makers will see their interest
lies in providing the same thing at less
cost.
1t is hardly expensive, as it requires no
springs, while the ease of handling and its
cleanliness make it cheap to those who scon-
suit comfort first and price afterward. These
mattresses have been known as hospital ap-
pliances for the reliet of surgical cases for
some time, and their worth has been well
tested in hard service. What is comforting
to the sick is just as good for the well, and
if we treated ourselves to a few invalid COM
forts they might conserve our strength so as
to prevent sickness.
DUST SPoILs BEAUTY.
Apropos OF dust, il is the great enemy of
health and women's good looks. 1t settles
in the skin, especially where there is a
little steam TO help it, the wax and oily mat
ter of the skin fix it till 10 ordinary wash
Ing will remove it. Wrinkles are accentu-
ated by it, as they have a deeper bed to
draw in the dust with the stylus Of time.
That is the reason so many women look
about ten years younger when they find
time to take their hot bath and the vapor
has fifteen minutes or more to soften the
tissues,
There is nothing like steam for plumping
up the skin and washing out the CRIME
which clouds every complexion not daily
treated to soap and hot water. Furnaces
are lighted by the time you read this, but
how many have the heating pipes cleared
of the years accumulation of dust? From
the pipe coils it is ready to enter lungs and
skin, and, being deadest OF all dead matter,
it is itself death to hair, to freshness OF CON-
plexion and general vigor. Listen to what
an experienced master plumber has to say
about this:
DIRT IN THE FURNACE PIPE.
'"The amount of dust and dirt that will
collect in furnace pipes can only be realized
by those who have had occasion to clean
them out. Most furnaces that have been in
use for some time become covered with dust,
and it is not surprising that when the fur
mace is heated to a reG heat some sort of
smell should be given out. The burnt
SMELL may be warning to US not to breathe
1t. When meat has not good odor we do
not'care to eat it, and it might be a good
plan not to breathe air that does not smell
as fresh as 1t should.
"The pipes should all be swabbed out
with large carriage sponge fastened to a
flexible wire that will 60 into the bends,
and the amount and quality of unclean stuff
it will bring up will satisfy any one Of the
necessity OF this cleaning. Ii 1t Is repeated
once a week through the winter there will
be little complaint to make about the dust
from the furnace, and the improvement in
the air will be noticed by everyone"
COMPLEXION PoIsoNs, LOOK oUTl
The number OF young women willing and
anxious to risk their lives for the sake of
improving their looks is remarkable, judg-
ing BY the letters begging for directions to