Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-01

tablespoonful of cologne in it. The usual
advice to keep hands out of dishwater must
be reversed in such cases. Asking pardon
Of your sensibilities for such subject the
water our cups and spoons are washed In
shorld not be dirty water in the least.
No manicure or hand bath will do the good
Of dabblIng in very warm soap suds for
those blue and red hands, and their owner
should take every chance of doing up her
own laces and little things. After this,
fencing or throwing bean bags or quoits
gives the exercise which aerates the blood,
and drives it through the extremities. If
there is no trouble with constipation or tight
lacing. the two worse foes OF the complexion,
this simple change of habits would not only
improve the hands but the health and looks
generally!
Dishwashing Made Nice.
While we are on this vulgar, but most
highly respectable topic, let me say to those
ladies who do themselves the honor of at
tending to their own housework, and conse-
quently have it done by ladies as to ladies'
| taste, that there is no need of spelling hands
by ever so much dishwashing if the right
| care is taken. 1t is the scalding water, the
hard water, bad soap and hasty half-drying
which makes hands so coarse. 4 little
soda, half teaspoonful or less to gallon
| of water warm enough to heat the china
well, but not parboil the hands, and decent
| soap, not the strong kitchen bar which ruins
skin wherever it touches, still less as some
would be refined women advise toilet soap
for this operation. The notion of scented
soap in disbwashing would bar the use of it
forever from most toilets.
The white cotton oil soaps, in which we
are sure of clean oil, aud no more alksli
than is needed and which will sell as
cheaply as any, should be used for china
and light washing. All stronger cleansing
should be managed with amop with q
handle 10 to 1S inches long, which few Of
the best furnishing stores have the sense to
sell, and which keep hands and dress
efectually from injury, while doing the
work with speed and sureness.
The Wise Choosing Of Soaps.
There is choice also in laundry soaps. A
laundry soap should never hurt the skin. If
itdoes it is not safe for clothes for our integu-
rnent can resist much more than cotton fiber.
/ am just delighted with fine laundry soap,
made from recipe given by Frau Won
Ritter (you know what famous housewives
these we'll born German ladies are) to Lola
Montez, who was notable in common affairs
as she was in cosmetics and fascination
the reason her reign lasted so long You
| needn't ask where the soap is to be had.
| made mine from the original recipe by favor
of a lady of the family, and quite approve
the Endorsement of La Montez that sit is the
only soap to be used near woolens."
am prouder of my soap making and tree
pruning than of anything else except my
carnations. 1t is so nice to have we'll
descended laundry soap, which you are sure
has nothing to do with fat from cattle dead
of pneumonia or any such pleasant con-
tagion. No matter if you don't see to your
washing farther than making out the laun-
dry list, who likes the idea of wearing clothes
that have soaked and boiled with such
soap, let alone the integrity of your shirts
at $50 the dozen, more or less, and your
white laced petticoats.
Working Hands the Prettiest.
Now the beauty OF this homemade Ger
man soap is that it not only whitens linen
beautifully, but saves the hands which use
it. There is everything in guarding the
skin from coarse, impure soaps and bad
water. Eightly cared for, I repeat, there is
no need of having hands grow stumpy and
thick with work. They were made to work,
and some of the hardest working races in
the world have the finest hands and feet
Mark what Mr.. Stanley says Of the African
pigmies who hunt and grub for living and
yet have the most beautiful extremities, as
do many of the savage tribes. The Japan
ese, the Hindoos, Italians and Firms work
and drudge, yet their hands are more
shapely and the skin finer thar 'l--s of
some of orr idle II
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