Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
METHODS OF BEAUTY.
The Green Room and Atelier for Pre-
serving Personal Charms.
BREAD AND MILK INSIDE AND OUT.
Wine Baths Of California and Violet Baths
of Philadelphia.
sUDORIFIC BEAUTY IN A BATHROOM
WRITTEN FoR THE D1sPArcH.I i

few words to the process. They understand
the art of being good to themselves. In the
first place they are very clean, that is the
pretty ones are. You won't see a really
charming woman in any class who isn't
given to personal cares more than the rest.
l went into women's meeting in the base
ment of city church the other day, out OF
curiosity, and if the truth has to be told on
the Testament, none of them would ever be
martyred for their beauty, and not one
looked as If she knew the virtue of hot
water and soap for herself. The only right
pretty one was flirting with the minister's
handsome son, who was usher In the infant
class room outside, by the big heater. To
match those women for homelinesS you could
only think of the girls in theater chorus.
The extremes of female ugliness are found
in the two collections of women. A smart
young man here says he thinks the home
liest women in America are banded together
under the name of Kings Daughters, but I
don't pronounce on the opinion because
never knew Kings Daughter by name. I
heard of one last night, maid of all work,
who scrubbed the front steps and made the
fire, tended the furnace and ran errands and
swept and cleaned, worked the machine and
carried coal up three flights for 81 30 week,
every cent Of which she saved to give an
aunt with drunken husband, while she
boarded scrap iron, rags, paper and old
shoes to sell to get few pence for herself.
She never could have paid dollar fee or
bought badge in the world, but she was
foif fuln ah
personifed, without any organization to
make her SO. I'm going to get up early some
morning and 60 round on Chestnut street to
get look at that girl while she scrubs the
steps. Balzac or Victor Hugo or De Mau-
passant would find heroine in that slave of
a char-woman. Excuse the depression. One
likes something to take the taste of cant and
cosmetics out of ones mouth once in while.
HOW THE BEAUTIES DO IT.
But how do the sirens of the stage attain
that peculiar melting plumpness, like Kitty
Blanchard, Nellie Stevens, Lillian Russell
and Georgia Cayvan2 You will see them
in the restaurants after the play, supping
demurely, or meet them full face on the
street, where their compilations show charm
ingly, as young society buds do not always.
The linen woman at our hotel, who used TO
be on the stage, took up the parable as fol-
lows: ''Stage beauties as a rule have pc
culiar training. Few Of them have enough
to eat when thev are children, and they
have to work hard till they gain success.
and then work hard to keep it. A girl who
has never known what it was to have too
much to eat, and who has run errands
after rouge-saucers for actresses or sewing
silk and button, for a dressmaker till
she is in her teens gets a thin skin which
ubo nfeha - nd uhon he
has little easier life and takes to the study
and fixes up little it seems like paradise
to her, comparingly. When the girls begin
to try to flesh up little most of them take
to bread and milk, with little of the least
as ever is in 1t, and they are always taking
physic if anything is the matter, they are so
afraid of being laid aside. The English
girls always take 'beechams,' but Amer
leans stand by caster oil. II they have q
cold on the chest, and their insides are out
of order, with the horrid board they have
to put up with, there's nothing brings 'em
right like dose of oil, anytime OF day or
night. It carries the cold of in two or
three hours and leaves their heads as
clear as bell. For compilations every one
of them has some device or other private of
her own. One takes the skin off of suet and
binds it on her face, another wears surgeons
plaster to soften it, but to my notion there's
nothing like bread and milk poultice used
regularly. More stage beauties owe their
compilations to this than you will ever get
'em to own. Take the crumb OF bakers
bread and steep it in milk and warm it just
as you put it on, with linen cloth over, and
you've no idea how fair it leaves the face.
It seems to plump the face, take out the lines
and whiten 1t just as you whiten chicken
by boiling it in milk and water. Sulphur
and milk or molasses clears the face beauti-
fully and keeps the flesh down too.
THE STAGE PAINTING.
"Its nonsense about the paint and powder
worn three or four hours on the stage spoil
ing the face If it is cared for other ways. If
you go to bed and sleep with it on, of course
it don't do any good, but actresses, as
rule, now know how to take care of them
selves better than they used to, better than
any other class Of women, really. They
wash the face and neck off we'll IN hot water
before making up, and while the skin is
warm rub it with cocoa butter or the grease
sold for the purpose, which is almost the
same; and powder over that, paint and add
the lines with a whole palette of crayons
that come for the purpose, with q big book
of plates for making up the face in charac-
ter. Then before you leave the theater this
is all washed of, the face we'll veiled-you'l
see the stage ladies very particular about
their Veils-and before they go to bed the
face ought to get another wash in hot water.
That leaves it fair enough, and the stage
paint don't amount to more than the cold
cream ladies sleep in over night"
Young ladies studping for the stage are
devoted students of the arts of beauty, for
talent is not always accompanied by attrac-
Tho V10u tho
DOwd gymnastics bring out the muscles bet
ter than the Ling Or Swedish system, of
which Dubois Raymond contemptuously
says: "a mere glance is enough to show
that they are q product of that miserable
natural philosophy, which for quarter of
a century made laughing stock Of German
science by its trivial dogmatic way" As
usual, the schools, which are enthusiastic
over theories of gymnastics, adopt the sys-
tenn which does the least practical good. It
is the easiest, and so commends itself to the
pupil, who feels noSinterest in the exercises,
and shirks work as far as possible.
VERY DANGEROUS EXERCISE.
BY singularly illogical process, these
school gymnastics are supplemented in some
families by the eccentric movements, de-
tailed by female lecturer, under the So
called advice of German physician. It is
only necessary to mention the pivot" ex-
ercises, in which the muscles below the
waist are twisted and souirmed about in
way to set the beholders in torture by SYM
pathy, practice said to obviate all weak
nesses of the hips, but which would bring
them on in most cases. Such violent and
unnatural methods bring on more displaee-
ments and distortions than all the house
and garden work Of which women are
capable.
After the exercises comes the bath, which
improves in luxury and efficacy year by
wear. A few favored beauties in California