Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24

| mel or gray linen, and this complexion she
can have with open air, sound sleep and a
! little care with a good cosmetic. She need
! not become a Blowzalind because she lives
among daises and hybrid perpetual roses,
and there is no earthly need of coat of
freckles and tan if one begins the season
| with the right kind of cosmetic
The Development of the Figure.
The well bred English women who love
gardens are excellent examples, both in
Complexion and good sense. Mrs. sLou-
years ago, remains the most complete guide
| for the amateur bower gardener, work
| which shows an author of ability and eul-
| ture far beyond the common. Yet she
recommends the labor of garden work.
spading and digging, picturing garden
| tools which are anything but the childish
| affairs now sold for ladies' gardening; and
wheelbarrow which looks to be particularly
meant for service.
Digging with ight-handled garden fork
| in sunshiny air particularly strengthening
| that particular development of the figure
which women crave the best possible pre-
scription is course of work out of doors
which brings the muscles of the shoulders
into play English women of refinement
are most, fond Of real garden work.
One of the rewards open to any quiet
gardener is that of bringing some new hybrid
into flower which will enrich the world long
after he or she is under the mould. The
burial of all others one could wish would be
to have ones ashes after cremation scattered
at the roots of ones flowers.
1t Is an Ideal Occupation.
In truth gardening is to be the physical
regeneration of women, and, I believe, their
most successful mode of income. Cultivators
cry out ''there is no money to be made in
gardening" because they cannot make
fortunes in the turn of hand, as in business
speculationa But women will be glad to
reap what they disdain. A living does not
content the "rousing young business man"
of the day, but women who toll hard for un-
certain returns, teachers fretted by the irk-
some supervision of school boards and the
worse pecking of 'tthe parents" office
women growing grizzled in hair and temper
by lives shut away from sun and fresh air,
and all the doubtful class who want some
thing to expend their energies upon with
out particular talent for anything, will find
gardening the open way to a living and
satisfaction in it.
hear the buzz of angry protest against
this opinion. "It is too hard work, " from
women who stand from morning until night
behind counters and faint in dog days for
want of air. "It is too coarse" from dress
makers who cannot imagine existence possi-
BILE without tight corsets and the last cut of
skirts, who lunch on beer and strong cheese
in foul workshops, and whose gossip is often
fouler yet. SIT doesn't pay and is not re-
fined" from women who are haggard over
stock concerns and scarcely have time to
glance at book or picture long enough to
even talk about it; who must concoct and
csjole, stoop, fatter and endure sights TO
carry out their business projects, whereas
people must have fresh flowers and fruits,
and the finest command almost their own
prices.
Trash That Gets Into Stomachs.
Nothing is harder to find to-day than fine
fruit or really choice flowers, though the
markets may be choked with inferior stuff
have gone this spring through the best
markets of the metropolis hunting high
price shops for fruit fit to be eaten by per-
son in delicate health and found little Of 1t,
even at fancy prices.
India river oranges at 60 cents dozen,
and Hamburg grapes at 81 q pound, were
the only things relishing or suitable to i'm
sick person to eat is not very wholesome for
the well, and is certain to pull down the
strength sooner or later.
We have good deal to learn to be choice
in our eating. We know enough to reject
tuberculous meat, but are insensible to
tuberculous diseased fruits and its corrosive
acids. The trash that goes into the mouths
of a city is unspeakable. People will know
the difference just as soon as really good
fruit becomes plenty inthe market, and that
will only come by the careful cultivation of
are suited by their painstaking taste, and it
ru,lI ho 10 DO
undertake it.
The Corsets Must Go.
The disagreeableness and drawbacks of
gardening are not few, but every years ex-
perience convinces me that they are by no
means inyincible. Women will be quick
est to devise remedies for uncomfortable
conditions. They will find that they must
give up corsets, and that gardening can't be
attended to in blue veil aud ruffled muslin
frock. They will be vastly more comfort
able in the flannel blouse or the cool linen
which the English lady chooses for her gar
den and country dresses.
They will also find that O mat to kneel
upon, low seat for many operations with
portable awning are all practicable, and that
it is possible to leave work in the noon sun
for the sorting of fruit and flowers in shady,
airy sheds.
The College Boys VIII Help.
The best fruit gardens are so planted as to
secure shade from parching suns, and though
second rate cultivators will laugh at the no.
tion I do not say this without the best
authority. AS for help, all the idle factory
hands will line fences rather than handle
the spade, but the ministers sons and the
boys preparing for college are not above
working out of school hours, am proud to
learn, and we can look to them for help un-
til ssaur slender, frm-built Dianas gain
strength and practice to lay out the garden
themselves.
The order of the world is reversing itself
The lower classes disdain labor, slight and
shirk it by every possible means, while ed
ucated young men of good families are find
ing a charm in intelligent culture of the
soil. Best of all, women of taste and char
acter begin to look into the garden for their
best paradise of independence and security.
There is no getting through the world any
how without work, and the sweetest work
in it is gardening, without committees or
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