Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-22

I can, and this move will do more to lowel
the price of expressage than any direc
action. As one house has taken the hrs
step in this direction the rest must follow
with the result that the Sierras and ranch
homes can order the newest fashions from
the cities and do their shopping from their
own verandas at their ease.
Think: of the advertising, pictorial and
descriptive, that will be necessary to set
things forth to the purchasers
| Advertising is fine art as it is, and this
| new enterprise will call it still more into
use. Photographs which show the very
texture as we'll as the pattern of fabrics
which are in demand, and color photography
and printing will be drawn upon to q vast
extent. In ordering from the large houses
there is really very little risk of not being
suited, as they have it ground into them not
only that honesty is the best policy, but that
il is better to suit a customer than to make
asharp bargain.
Millionaire Huntington and Massage.
Cosmetics and cosmetic treatment are to
have thorough exposition in the coming suit
OF noted New York complexion artist
against the wife of an equally well-known
millionaire. The case seems to stand that
the great lady took treatment for reducing
her size and improving her complexion for
two months, taking two or three hours
massage in day, and found bill of $500
too much for the luxury. She refused to
pay, and the complexion specialist brings
suit for her bill.
Several suits are on record in London
against the celebrated Mime. Rachel, whose
paints. powders and enamels were the acme
of art in their way till the new era of mas
sage and electricity.
The suit involves not a mere personal in
terest for lady specialist, but is Of interest
to all women, as it will decide whether a
very useful and fairly remunerative calling
will be supported In Its claims and remain
open to sex poorly provided with paying
vocatIons.
In fact, for the hundreds of gentlewomen
born. who find themselves dependent on
their exertions for a living. with poor
preparation, few employments are more
available or more acceptable to the public
than that of the masseur and toilet special
ist- Fraud is quickly found out and does
not pay, and the profession requires chiefly
honesty, faithfulness and a good pair of arms
for giving treatment. The benefits to So
clety of honest, competent toilet specialists
are great
Room for Toilet Specialists.
Treatment is one of the greatest luxuries,
inexpressibly soothing to the nerves and
stimulating in the safest way. At the same
time it is a decided call upon the operators
strength and nerves to make passes over
tieshy woman for an hour together. Con-
sldering there are not a dozen women of
good standing In the United States capable
of treating case skillfully, it is not at all
unreasonable that they should reap the
reward of exceptional ability. 1t is not
fnN 70 aho far
treating a wrinkled or obese face, and an
equal amount for an arm is not exorbitant
in view of the benefit given. A fashionable
doctor will not hesitate to ask $500 for case
involving far less time and effort, and his
rich patients will not think of disputing the
bill.
The trades have good story apropos of
this of a company that had new S25, 900
steam engine, which unaccountably re used
TO work satisfactorily. One educated en-
gineer after another inspected it without
finding the reason. Finally hearing of a
mechanic noted for managing engines, they
sent for him. He studied the engine an
hour or two, took his hammer and frightened
a nut or rivet with a few strokes and set the
machinery working. The company were
delighted and asked for his bill, which he
said was sgt. 1t seemed large one for SO
little work and he was desired to send an
itemized bill, which came next day: ITO
two hours time repairing engine, So; to
knowing how, S25."
The company saw the justice of the charge
and paid the bill. 1t is always the knowing
how that counts.
What Mrs. Huntington Got.
In the massage case the customer without
it would have been deprived of the pleasure
of wearing a costly necklace or would have
had to enlarge it at a cost Of S., 900 at least
Her health and looks were greatly improved
by the treatment. to say nothing oflu1urious
hours spent almost daily for a month under
the operators hands. Yet the bill she re-
fuses for all this is far less than she would
pay for a single ornament and not half what
she would pay any WEN known physician
for similar benefit.
Women are at fault to their sex in this
injustice toward toilet artists. Paint and
powder and making up are dear at any
price, but massage and scientific treatment
are lasting benefits, worth all their pro-
fessors ever get for them. Yet women will
grudge paying $50 for the removal OF blem-
ishes which render them hideous to their
friends and make life a burden to them
selves.
One woman who knows perhaps as much
of toilet art and medicine as almost anyone
In the country, SAID not long since Lnat the
few times when she had consented to give
other women the advantage of her knowl-
edge were the signal for so much cheatery
that she had resolved to burn her recipes be-
fore sne would ever impart one of them, and
the rest OF women might 90 as hideous as
they pleased, with superfuous hair, atrophies
and hypertrophies; they never should be the
better for anything she could tell them.
When I came to know the history of her
cases could not feel the decision uncslled
for SHIRLEY DARE