Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
BEAUTY In ENGLAND.
The Making Of a Handsome, Lovely
Woman Begins in the Nursery.
ARTS OF THE MODERN LADY'sMAID
She Allows Nature to do Most of the Work
for Pretty Compilations.
AMERICAN TOILET BOXES THE BEST
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.l

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.1
''There is nothing on nv toilet not pro-
ducible before anyone, unless you object to
this rice powder, to take of flushed look
sometimes +"
The highly-bred American woman who
spoke lay in an easy Vienna lounging chair
before large marquise toilet stand. White,
gold and rose Worcester vases with silver
tops held choice French scents and essences,
slender crystal fagons of cherry blossom
and the new honeysuckle odOr perfumed the
room as their shoppers were drawn, and the
Rose du Barri powder boxes breathed still
daintier fragrances. Chemists will tell you
it is possible to get finer scents in powders
or soaps than they can secure in liquid ex-
tracts. A cabinet in rosewood with porce-
lain doors, and miniatures charmingly
painted disclosed in its velvet interior stores
of china jars and gilt and crystal fagons
and boxes of porcelain and onyx with screw
tops-perfumed, oh, how it was perfumed-
and drawer of the toilet table showed gilt
tering silver and ivory implements in ex-
quisite keeping, which would have won
collectors fancy by their finish and carving.
II can't bear to have anything common
about my rooms" the owner said, noticing
the admiration which complimented her
pretty setting. 'HThe money other people
spend on second-rate brac-a-brac and per-
sonal ornaments l spend on this altar to
vanity. Instead of hideous nondescript
gatherings of Chinese, Hungarian. Doulton,
Swiss and grotesque fancies, choose very
few things of the best design and coloring
possible for their places. Those pieces are
Baltimore porcelain, the most delicately ar
tiStic in America, and those are Cincinnati,
the best, you know, and worth all they cost.
That little turquoise-studded flask was sent
from Mexico, that cut-glass vase with strings
OF pink and yellow pearls is home manu-
tacture, of brook pearls from New England.
That tourmaline stopper is frcm Maine.
The work is by clever people all over the
country, for every village almost nowadays
has somebody who does nice things in out
of the way work. That carved pearl box is
by soldier on the plains. As to what is in
them, you shall know after awhile"
BUTTER AND THE COMPLEXION.
"We have the advantage here" she went
on to say, "that three-fo fourths of our people
have the chance fE plenty to eat and good
intelligence, which gives fair sort of good
looks to start with. But it isn't bred to last,
as Englishwomen are. Why, Lady Mary
Holland at 60 h4d the most marvellous
teeth and eyes like diamonds, and cheeks
beginning to wrinkle, but fair as an Ameri-
can wife at So. The work is done at the be-
ginning. We are not half careful enough
about girls eating. tell you there must
be difference between the complexion of
one who is sent to school and fed on the pas
try and biscuits and boiled rice and cheese,
which are the staples of boarding school
fare from Fifth avenue to the Hud-
son River seminaries; and an English
nursery table, where every morsel is
choice, the rolls and mutton and fruit OF the
best, and the butter sweet, creamy and deli.
cate. Did you ever realize what four-ffths
of Americans put into their mouths In shape
OF butter, and how much it has to do with
spelling the complexion? l never did till I
went to England and sat at the best country
house tables. think the fogs and the but
ter and mutton did as much for my COM
plexion as anything. tell you slice of
well-done English mutton is about the best
thing child can have to eat to make good
flesh and skin. They really eat more
fruit than we do, in the shape of
jam and compotes. Our children would
turn up their noses at the table
served at the Duke of H-'s nursery.
Thick slices of coarse brown bread-but how
sweet it was, and how Lady Mary and 1
used to like to go in for slices OF 1t after our
long walks mornings-cups OF creamy milk,
slipped slowly, not tossed off at a draught,
which the head nurse said made cheese in
our insdes; delicious cocoa sometimes, and
jam and marmalade and compotes and wall
fruit in plenty. If the smallest pimple or
redness appeared on the face of child Her
Grace was sure to call for an account; the
castle doctor was summoned, and diet and
salines prescribed till the spot was cured.
DYSPEPSIA FROM BAD TEETH.
each month the dentists called and ex-
amined the teeth of everyone of the family,
filing an edge here or touching the enamel
there with a preparation which kept off
decay and left no need of gold filling.
Wasn't it funny, by the way, about Prof.
Youmans, of the Popular Science Monthly,
who sent for his dentist the month before his
death and insisted on having his teeth all
attended to and new ones put in. Every
body knew he couldn't live, and the
dentist told him he was having a good
deal OF pain and trouble for nothing. But
the Professor intimaIed pretty strongly it
was his own business, and il he was will
ing to pay 500 for having good teeth to be
1dlu OuG III IAAC NShblob ACCuu
Do you know how many people are poisoned
by decaying teeth? They suffer with dys-
pepsia and bad compilations from nothing
else than the constant drainage of bad mat
ter from an imperfect tooth or two. Our
compilations depend upon our sromachs and
internal economy, and this a thoroughbred
English mother fully understands, or her
goVernesses and doctors know it for her.
We smile at the idea of eating FIVE times a
day, as the English do; but if we were out
of doors in all weather as they are, for their
tremendous walks or rides, we could eat,
too, and eat less after all than a middle
class American family at three meals.
'"rhen the baths are part of English up
per-class religion. Each child gets out of
its bed into bath, and puts on fresh clothes
daily from the skin out, and after 1 was
used to it you can't think how miserable it
seemed over here to see well-to-do girls put
on the same under linen they took off at
night. Like using the same towel twice |
over. Then all the family were out OF doors |
four or five hours every day for rich color,
or mist tor fairness, as the nurse maid used |
to say there was nothing like Scotch mist !
for giving a Scotch complexion. These |
maids, again, are treasures. The best ones
I mean. My face was rough after the |
steamer fare crossing, the FIRST time 1 went |
over. and the maid at the castle was quite |
distressed about it. At night she came in
with a poultice of houseleek, on linen |