Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
PRUDERY BY THE SEA.
Shirley Dare FavorsN Nature Uniform
for the Bath at the Beach.
THE SECRET OF GRECIAN BEAUTY.
EnglandS Dark Bathing Houses Are Bad
From q Health Standpoint
WOMEN NEED THE SUNSHINE AND AIR
IwRrrrEN FOR THE DISPATCH

rwRrrTEN FOE THE DIsPArCH.1
It is unfortunate, owing to Interrupted
communication between different states OF
being, that Solomon cannot be retained for
a seres of syndicate answers to queries OF
the curious public Solomon, however,
would find himself obliged to take post
graduate course in universal wisdom to
reach some of the inquiries which evidence
that their writers imagine information e1-
lists neatly done up in small packets labeled
for immediate dispensing. Of these Is the
woman who asks the name Of book which
will give her all the information needed to
insure perfect health and freedom from dis
ease. The book is not yet written which
contains this valuable compendium. MANY
experienced men have tried their hands at
writing it, but so far leave much to be sup
piled by generations to come.
Ny good friends, knowledge h not gained
as easily as you seem to think. You can't
gain it from handbooks like the lawn tennis
manuals which young ladies hold In one
hand as they play with the other, and learn
the rules in this hand to mouth way. To
gain any deposit of knowledge above the
small, well-worn quantity in general use,
you must read, or rather study, which Is
read to remember and compare with obser-
walton afterward. The first application of
what you read to facts will bring out points
on which the books are silent, and for any
thing bearing on these points you must fol-
low trails through years of uninteresting
a. -.
modest practitioner, perhaps, the point
worth all the rest of the book.
HOOKING IDEAS OF LIFE
The general reader will hardly havo tho
taste or patience for this study, but such is
the process by which men gain anything in
advance of the common stock of ideas Most
men are content to 60 through life hooking
ideas in business and social life, as when
boys they went hooking apples You see
this in any new invention, however trifing,
whether it is a new cosmetic or kitchen
article, that the original is hardly on the
market before dozen limitations spring up
BY men who want to reap the profit of other
minds without the trouble of taking thought
themselves. Imitation is confessed in
feriority, and the consumer wants to take
heed of this. Whether buying cosmetics or
medicines, always 60 for the original, which
will invariably be found inapproachable.
The imitation which improves upon it will
aim for an individuality Of its own. T
always feel that am defrauding myself in
taking an imitation.
To return to the subject Of health read
ing. 1t is remarkable how little of the sort
is found in town libraries It is considered
indispensable to have books on art and q
great many repetitions in history, besides
-,
novels; but dozen books on health are
large selection.
BOOKS FOE EVERY LIBRAKk
At least one-tenth the common town
library ought to be given to works on health
and sanitation-such boo ks as DR.. B. Ward
Richardson's Diseases of Modern Life"
and his eloquent essays on '9The Common
HEALTH" Sir H. Thompsons work on
Good" DR.. Anstie's several handbooks on
"Women's Diseases" and his Neuralgia"
DR.. Weir Mitchell's 'Wear and Tear for
the Overworked" and his doctor and
on Massage" and DR.. Taylor's on the
Swedish Movement Cure" and Edwin
Checkley's Natural Method of Physical
Training" with two or three good books on
nursing, beginning, of course, with Flor
ence Nightingale's Incompatible notes on
that subject, and ell such clear, thorough
and interesting handbooks on sanitary mat
tiers as that on "Potable Water" by Floyd
Davis, chemist to the Iowa Board of Health
Also two or three good books on the prop
critics of plants, which must be picked up
second hand, as they are out of print, and
some sound treatises on electricity in dis
ease, which, I fear, has yet to be written
for the laity.
There are hardly any of them new books,
but they are the soundest, safest aud most
interesting for the non-professional reader
Add to these the yearly compend of medi-
cal discoveries published annually in New
York and you have fund of practical infor-
nation on health which will result in un-
told good to communities and much saving
of life and morals. Nopossible teaching on
the latter subject can compare with the in
direct influence of physiology and medi-
cine. Were women especially better in
structed in the history of their own physical
life, bravely and fully, temptation would
become extinct. Not all the world has to
offer would weigh against the torturing PEN
alties of error, and what is more, intelli-
gence would prevent those terrible mar
riages which mean unavoidable and agoniz-
ing deaths to young mothers.
A sARCoPHAGUs IN THE HOME
Without lifting the wells OF the unknow-
able, it would teach the young women not
to lay the train for the sickening disasters
of little later life by colds, neglect and
over exertion. The passive congestion
caused by chilled feet and short-sleeved un-
dervests in change OF weather, or by danc-
ing, going journeys or prancing round Sum-
day school picnics when girl ought to be
keeping quiet at home, have laid the found
alton for many of those cases of fbroid and
cancerous degeneration which make profess
sional reading succession of Nightmares
worse than the Newgate calendar, and plant
in happy homes the living sarcophagus with
tine odor and putresceuce of death in life.
That cannot be spoken which hundreds and
thousands of loving families are called to
endure in the living, agonizing decay of
their fairest and dearest, who cry to their
physicians .'Cure me or kill mer' The
records go far to show that of every six
girls, beautiful. lively and adored, one at
least is certain of mutilated, narrowing
death, in marriage or out of it. And yet
one wise parent takes me to task for saying
that no book is yet written to teach girls
what they ought to know for the preserva-
tion of their health. He writes as follows:
'I'notice with surprise that you say there
are no books to teach modest girl in a
M 10 10 la 0f hnrCa1f for