Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
FAIR IN THE FACE.
The Spring is O Good Time to Look
After the Complexion.
VALUE OF A VEGETABLE DIET.
Care Of the Hair and Cures for Red Noses
and Oily Skins.
| FEW SIMPLE HERB MEDICINES
WRITTEN FOR THE prspArcH.i

to his daughter, and they are the advice o
q Gallo Chesterfield to the sex which woul,
profit by it most. Nowhere does its piauan
shrewdness betray more forcibly the traine,
man of the world than in the words to tn
daughter on her marriage: "To the worl'
you must be Always your husbands wife
but to your husband you must forever be hi
mistress, to retain him."
That is the secret of love, life and beauty
which SO many have missed, and, failing q
keep it, ask wearily is life worth living
The mistress in the poetic sense, the woman
beloved and idealized, who holds sway owe
a mans inmost fealty, reverence and desire
knows little of winter, age or decay. Sh,
keeps always some charm IN reserve, hal
some new delight to learn and disclose, som,
trait Of fresh and. sweet affection to detair
love at her side. Is there any sameness il
spring. in the new growth of grass along
the meadow sides, the pearling of white
clover in the sward, the gleam of blue
in violet haunted corners? Women should
and may have their renewals Of FRESHNESS.
and beauty, to suit with bright dancing
leaves and boughs, blossom-laden, fexile
and swaying in the wind. Treat yourselves
well, mesdames, and see what sort of face
looks back at you from the mirror.
BEGIN WITH THE SPRING.
Early in the year secure such thorough
ly good condition of nerves and blood as
will defy heat and depression. Now is the
time to begin course of medication to
ward off wrinkles, freckles and sunburn in
A11s- .G - L.
women's beauty are seventeen air,
warmth, sunshine, rest sleep, food and
whatever stirs the blood joyously and fully.
be it exercise, love or enthusiasm. These
last may any of them be dangerous stimu-
liant, and over each one must write the
word control" Sunshine one may have
even in the city, in these happy spring
moods OF air, when night frosts purify it
and the first beams warm it.
Then women should turn out and keep to
the sunny side of the way, two hours or
more. In doors let the chosen seat be in the
sunny window, where the warm light draws
chill and distemper out OF ones frame, and
charges it instead with life and stimulus.
If one would keep blonde locks bright, now
is the time in bleaching spring sunshine to
sit hour after hour and day after day in the
south windows, giving the hair and brain all
the latter can bear. If you would keep dark
hair from turning gray submit it to the same
treatment. Have the writing desk. the
easel, the type writer, the sewing machine or
the workable set in the sunny window, and
submit yourself to the great developer of
growth and color. If can do nothing more
than to persuade my country women to make
friends with the sun my life Is not without
avail.
THE PROPER DIET.
If the sun makes one ill, with gidd;ness
and headache, it is from vitiated blood and
disordered digestion, which needs prompt
attention. Diet will do much, but few or
der its changes to effect necessary good. Meat
three times day for desk workers, with the
occasional orange or salad, is not right liy-
ing. The old English use of vegetables
deserves to be followed in our time. 1t was
the corrective which saved the nation from
extinction with scurvy in its wholesale use
Of salt provision and hearty meats. The
burghers were wise enough to bring cab
bages and onions from Holland, as is done
in Boston markets to-day, where you may
find Dutch cabbage which has crossed the
of a solidity, flavor and freshness
which justifies paying three prices for it.
1t you want color in your hair, and clear,
brilliant cheeks, keep the sulphur-yielding
vegetables on the table the year round. To
serve them in spring, follow the good Ger
man fashion of cooking them in earthen
jars in their own steam. Shut the cabbage,
onions or turnips in q stoneware pot in the
oven and leave them two or three hours
They will be worth the attention of an epi-
cure, having a tenderness, richness and high
flavor, albeit not rankness, which will
place them in first flavor. Instead of hav-
ing a boiled dinner once aweek, with its
healthy profusion of vegetables, make the
courses of rich roots, carrots, parsnips, tur-
nips, the salads and brassica generally, a
principal part of dinners and lunch, or the
hearty American breakfast for which hard
early-sleeping people have we'll
grounded esteem. Following the English
custom, we find that lettuce was supper
dish, very sensibly, as it tends to excellent
sleep, better than chloral can give. Capers
in salad, boiled in oil and vinegar, are
capital restoratives for overdone people who
[eel heart and lung failure imminent.
VIRTUE IN WATER CREss.
One would not miss the trace of eschalo1
rubbed on the meat or salad, for it has the
virtues OF assafetida in quieting nerves and
.oning the stomach. Water cress was be-
lieved to restore the bloom to young ladies'
cheeks, which it still does most etfectually
when they walk a mile or more to gather
them from country brooks. The family
which does not provide bushel of cress for
its table in the course of the season, fails to
be kind to its young people. None of these
hings are to be forced upon one, but pro-
vided so frequently and attractively that |
hey are temptation not to be resisted. |
The action of water cress or any cress in |
purifying depraved or weakened blood and |
bringing brilliant color to the eyes and |
complexion is traditional and just as strong |
Is it ever wBs.
If the overwrought and valued workers |
Fho are sent South every spring to pick up |
trength against summer could only have |
rood country air. great deal of fresh water |
'ress, high-favored oranges and delicate |
altering in the way of salads. fresh fish and |
iainty cookery, they might save on the pass
.ge money. Why should you depend on |
loses of medicine, three or four tablespoon
uls daily, when one can be so much more |
medicated by the food of which |
lie takes two or three pounds daily? When |
ppetite fails for hearty meals and cereals, |
is time to take vegetables piquant and |
elishing, which being largely water do not |
log the system, but rather work off its |
lumors Only do not lose their value by
'oiling most OF the goodness out, in the |
ommon way of cooking them.
CLEARING UP THE COMPLEXION.
Even the nice girls complain of little red |
pots and coarseness of their compilations.
With perhaps a sallow shading which NAV
ook well in MI. William Chase's pictures
f black haired women in pink dresses, but