Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02
TAKING LIFE EASY.
Shirley Dare Finds a Summer Resort
That Is Almost Perfect.
ALI Is RIGHT BUT THE TABLE
Answers to Troubled Correspondents Written
on the Piazza.
BIG JOINTS, FRECKLEs AND FLESH

BIG JOINTS, FRECKLEs AND FLESH
rwmrTEN FOR THE DrsrArcH.l
Never In summer let me be more than 30
feet away from the edge Of salt water. Ii
my immediate ancestors were not vikings
their immediate descendant is, and loves
only the shore and the flowers which grow
between wave and hilltop. The beauty OF
California is that one can have seacoast and
mountain scenery together, and live between
yellow sands and blue water, and the dream
colored distance Of eucalyptus and redwood
groves, with spiry mountain peaks piercing
the vapory skyline. But that is thought
ono does not wish to take out too often,
considering ones peace of mind.
More safely dream Of Sicilian gardens
flushed with roses. or the bowery haunts OF
Corsica, tho garden spots Of the world, for
there tempest and earthquake lurk behind
the charm, and keep one aware Of mortality,
| whereas in California's tempered cline you
only realize imperfect conditions when you
buy cooperative shoes or pay express rates.
PERFECT EXCEPTING THE TABLE.
There are very good spots, however, this
side the continent, and had the luck to
find one the other day: A hotel with huge
piazzas draped in woodbine and set in pict-
uresque plantations, IL minutes from 9
great city on the very brim of the water.
Fancy a seaside hotel with actual shade
about the grounds, so that one can enjoy the
supreme luxury and benefit of the season,
sitting in open air under pine boughs, which
give an infusion of sunlight without danger
ioF1 bofo
desert spot as possible, intolerable with
| out sunshade on the piazzas, where the
| overdressed throng are on evidence, and
glare of sunlight and blare of brass try the
| nerves to the utmost.
| There is not even q merry-go-round at the
place found, nor a toboggan slide, nor q
Sunday school convention. The music
plays seldom, and it is q string band, which
makes content complete. If the table
equaled its other recommendations, the
hotel would be a prime favorite with people
who know what life is worth. But the cot
tony tablecloth, neither clean nor well
ironed, the black rimmed potato chunks in
the chowder, the yellow waiter, in three
fection here below.
ANALYzING 4 SEA BREEzA
Is there anything moro painful than .
fine hotel run down from bright and strict
| order of service? To say that the grounds
redeem the place even with such shortcom-
| ings will give an idea of its charm. 1t is
| the place I have been looking for, where
there is absolutely nothing going on. Not
even the people, for they know when they
are well off, and come to stay.
An hour spent on the shore with the fresh,
steady breeze blowing from the Atlantic,
revives wasted strength as night dews and
shade lift the dropping lily. Just the cool
ness and absolute purity, the absence of mi
crobes, only to 1000 parts of sea air, and
that fine, curious infusion of iodine, bro
mine and ozone, which give the positive
properties of ocean air-iodine with its anti
septic touch on vitiated lungs and blood,
bromine to soothe tired nerves unutterably,
and the ozone which leaves you akin to the
force and crispness of wave and breeze.
| And these potencies are diluted almost in
| finitely, in volumes of vapor which the sun
robs Of superfuous moisture as it rises from
| the sea. Only vapor with such slight med
| ication of these invaluable things that it is
| a wonder our hasty scientists do not deny
| It's power for good because it is so small in
! absolute quantity. But they forget what
| wonders nature works with i finftesimals
A WOMAN OF BROAD CULTURE
The wittiest of women is my companion,
| one of those cosmopolites who favor US with
| glimpse of what the sex might be, and will
| be with fuller culture and wider sympathies
| In her company have never known what
| it was to be dull or over stimulated, as with
| your bright high pressure women, don't
! care whether mending the heel of stocking
or lace ruff1e, gossiping over change Of
| chambermaids or historical parallels, she
would entertain a courtier with her discreet,
fine favored flow of talk. She does not deny
being past so but her manner and her con-
versation caplivate men Of all ages. For
her talk Harvard youth in white flannel
will forget his tennis bat, and the polished
club man put off leaving till the later boat.
"You wish me to assist with answers to q
few of those letters in the basket which is
never less than full?" she says in our privi-
legged corner of the porch where camp
table with her embroidery and my letter
budget keep company. The piazza is de-
serted, the world being strolling or sleeping,
and we two never work in doors if we can
be out. GAS you have only $50 there L
should think we might get through them by
Thanksgiving. Amy slight assistance might
be tolerable in such task"
MY LADY HAS SORE FEET.
"I am afraid" writes one, "you will
think my souls burden trivial, but as the
smallest quantity of air will expand and
fill an empty space, so the smallest guam
tity of trouble will expand and fill soul
devoid of other trouble. Is there any
remedy for large joints on the feet?"
Bless me! Does the woman consider that
a small trouble? have known ladies who
could not sleep for the pain these large
Joints give with the impossibility of getting
a well-ftting shoe. Why, Mrs = never
drives out (and she never goes out unless in
a carriage) but in slippers, which she drops
off under the rug as soon as she starts and
puts them on just before she alights. Those
feet are the reason she always wears long
skirts like a Spanish Queen, who, you
know, has no feet, for no one has ever seen
them.
People have just learned to have a den-
tist care for their children s teeth promptly,
and if they would have chiropodist look
after their feet, as they do for the foot
soldiers in the army of the Emperor Will
lam, ill-shaped feet would be unknown in a
generation or two. There is no help for it,
your friend must wear as large, soft, thin
shoes as she can find, ready to drop off her
feet, for q year or two, and treat those feet
pretty constantly. She must bathe them
in tepid water every night of her life, soak
ing them five or ten minutes, then paint
the large Joints with brush and tincture of
iodine every night and morning If she
wishes she may use small faradic battery,
applying one of the poles to the joints.
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