Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
Shirley Dare Tells How to Get Rid of
a Spring Affliction.
TAKE HOT WATER AND TOAST,
And if You Cannot Get Coarse Bread, Buy a
Little Common Bran.
RHUBARB AND CHERRIES FOR TONIC
rup1rrEN For THE DISPATCH. ]

Eye and breath alike take deep draughts Of
the ever new and pure delight. Nearer by
the knots of paper white narcissus in the
garden group themselves as if tempting
the hand to pluck and wear them; the flow.
ering almond shines pink cloud; the in.
tense clear blue of the periwinkle startles
one coming upon its blossoms in the grass;
calycand Missouri currant, favorites OF
childhood and not less of maturer age, take
the winds with sweetness, and sunshine
brings out the delicious scent of the wall
flower, which blooms "a mass of red and
gold fire. as some garden writer de-
| scribes it.
There are pink and blue forget-me-nots
blooming in sheltered place, and roots Of
old violets brought, long, long ago from
over sea, haunt the senses with their aroma.
There is much to be done of pruning and
training, and an epidemic of orchard
worms calls one up and out by 8 o'clock
mornings, with kerosene torch to burn them
out of house and home before they have
eaten the green off every bough, and left
apple trees as if fire had run through
| them.
What Women Want to Know.
At last time comes round for those talks
with correspondents, long promised, which
must do the work of thousand private
letters. 1t isn't time for the freckle ques-
tion to begin, but the present complaint
with girls appears to be what they call
'greeny-brown complexions," for which
they demand some wash or application to
bleach them white The greeny-brown
is a defect no cosmetic from javelle water to
May dew off violet beds can relieve in the
| slightest degree.
| All treatment for this unpleasant COM
| plexion must be from within. 1t is of the
bile, bilious, and tends to worse things if
not removed before warm weather I
never see q young woman with this 1ivid
| hue or spotty face without instructive de-
sire to take her in hand, with baths, hot herb
teas and tonics, fruit diet and outdoor exer-
| tion till she blooms like wild azalea. For
these execrable compilations are susceptible
| of becoming the finest with careful hygiene.
| Their sensitiveness leads them to throw all
| vicious matter to the surface and get rid of
| it, while some smooth, faultless face, envy
of all the women about, will belong to
stubborn diathesis which loads internal Or
gans with chronic disorder.
Babies That Are Unluclsy.
You will see women whose faces were
| rough with pointed pimples like a
pincushion with pins wrong end up, coming
out, after their first baby, with complex
ions transparent as a flower. But the con-
sequences are pretty hard on the baby,
which takes the vitiated blood from the
mother. What that baby doesn't go through
with scald head and crusted tetter the first
two or three years of its life isn't worth
mentioning.
1t is just as we'll for brides-elect to follow
4 4l,o Ia of
ried last Easter, who vigorously took a
series of Turkish baths during the winter
that her complexion should not shame the
pearl white luster of her wedding gown.
She rose from her communion the morning
of her bridal as pure in soul and body as
becomes one to whom marriage is sacra-
ment.
And, talking about the purity of girls,
purity of blood has much to do with it in
preserving steadiness, clearness from fancies
and the foolish malady of love-sickness,
which is just as truly malaise, disorder
of the system, as any other bilious symptom
laid down in the books.
The Hygienic Phase of Love-sickness.
What we are pleased to call love-sick less
and the green sickness of girls and boys is
an effect of bad nourishment and not enough
outdoor exercise The biliousness and the
manner which offends so in young people
Ask Sir Andrew Clarke, physician to Queen
Victoria, and any other candid doctor who
studies disease in itD mental as well as its
physical aspects.
Men of no breeding are in the habit of
talking very cruelty and ignorantly about
the ill-health of girls and some doctors lend
themselves to the practice who ought to
know better. The ill-health of young per-
sons arises almost solely from disordered
nutrition, caused by unsuitable diet and
want of open air. That this brings
forward precocious stir of the af-
fectional nature may be true, but it
is an effect just as bile breeds melancholy
and religious sadness in older people. The
world is not ruled by love dreams, even in
hysteric girls and boys, who are quite as
often victims of hysteria as girls when kept
from the air too much. Give your girls
pursuits and tastes which will take them
out of doors as much as possible if you
would keep host of repelling symptoms at
arms length and secure cheeks of damask
instead Of greeny brown, the hue of incip-
lent cholera, or it's slow sister, hysteria. The
two diseases have one origin-fermentatio
instead of digestion.
How Household Was Wrecked.
The old practice for biliousness in spring
used to be rousing emetic or big dose Of
calomel, which left traces for the season in
a powerful weakness and taste of lead in
everything eaten. Cynthia, neatest and
sensiblest of chambermaids, pins her faith
in mild dose of that herb mixture known
as Garfield tea, which is mostly senna taken
with a small teaspoonful of epson salts, ''to
take off the grippe" Somebody told her of
the good effects of the salts with the tea, on
which, with woman's usual reasoning, she
concluded that it would be safe to take
larger dose than common, and kindly pre-
scribed for several of the household besides.
The result, graphically narrated to the
ladies next morning, was a physical and
mental prostration to that degree, says
Cynthia. 81 looked at my petticoat and 1
was too far gone to tell which way to get
into it, while John, the tall, stout furnace
man, who had been treated to Medea's cup
overnight, was invisible for two days, and
the smart hall boy in buttons asked to go
home, by which suspect Cynthia had been
practicing on him in her generosity. 1t is
ungrateful to make fun, for wiser grown
Cynthia treated her ladies next morning to
wineglass of herb decoction the color of
good tea, Which cleared brains and COM
plexions delightfully."- and helped them to
bear the April heat with some elasticity.
Hot Water for Indigestion.
In common with DR.. Benjamin Rush, of
former generation, and many of the first
doctors in this, have a great respect for
herb teas. Hot water in large dilution
quickens and intensifes the effect of the
principles of the herbs, and itself assists in
rousing perspiration and cleansing the
ducts of the body. If you have good
specimen of greenery-biliary patient,