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

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can't saw tender-but smooth zrs
which lifetime Of work will vs..
whether it holds the plow b s..
helm of housekeeping. L-
Gloves for Working Hands.
Mittens of fine crash are indispensable for
Women's hands when housekeeping, yard
making half dozen pair which can be kept
clean for daily use. Dirty gloves and nit
tens iniure hands more than soap and work
together sometimes I am fain to believe from
observation. Have plenty OF projections
and help if you do your own housekeeping
or any part Of il. IF you save servants
wages why shouldn't you spend part of 1t in
being good to yourself? My hands are into
everything from carpentry to gardening, but
keep a dozen pair of gloves to work in,
and put on six clean ones day if required.
Why shouldn't woman about her occupa-
tions be as careful az a surgeon at his clinic,
and that is the acme Of nicely. A hospital
surgeon or aid will not wipe his hands twice
on the same towel or napkin. 1t would be
nice to treat ones home to the same dainti-
ness. With plenty of clean gloves or nit
tens and the right sort of dressing for the
hands at night one may work for ten chill.
dreu and have lady hands at 60.
Tender Feet and Spine Trouble.
I fully sympathize with "the mother of
ten" who writes her aversion to wrinkles,
and if she had only sent her address she
might ere this haye known how to avert
them. So with the teacher who wants some
thing to make her feet less tender. Feet
tenderness remains spite of bathing in salt
and water, alcohol, alum and all the rest
are 9 sign Of something wrong with the
spinal nerves.
This tenderness and pain of the extremi-
ties is often one Of the first symptoms of
serious spine trouble. Why won't some
rich woman who wants to really help SOME
body make it possible for teachers and shop
women to alternate q year behind the conn-
ter with a year out OF towns country year
of outdoor work, not vacation merely
where they could throw of some of their
ailments before they bad time to become
fixed? A resolute woman might change her
way of earning as it is if she would. There
are country homes which would be glad of
some one to help, to share trim work with
trim housewife, to help garden and gather
fruit.
The Phantom of Fancied Gentility.
But that would be too much like work for
shopladies, and SO they stay behind the
counters and In offices, and their hair turns
gray and their faces grow lined, and they go
off to hospitals with ugly tumors and vari-
cose veins and things which don't seem very
much better than working 10 the garden
with the fresh, sweet wind to breathe. the
oriole singing and the strawberry plants
laughing in their bright white and green as
one weeds them and the backache every day
growing less while the frame is strung anew
to comfort and vigor.
What stands in the way but the phantom
of fancied gentillty? Well, If people prefer
to die of tumors and ulcers and inanition
rather than sacrifice the genteel they can
have the privilege. But 1t Is a pity when
there are so many ladies in every sense of
the word who keep their Own fruit gardens
and greenhouses, not by the story book
method OF hiring man to do the work for
them, but by the infinitely more profitable
mode Of doing it themselves, and they are
all OF them precisely the sort of women that
gentlemen like to talk to.
These women's letters give one so much to
think OF. SHIRLEY DARE.