Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08

hot soapstone or bag of hot sand to apply
and sleep with it. Your hot water compress
is fraud, wears out too easily and vets the
bed; ANYHOW it doesn't keep hot long
enough to paw for the trouble of filling.
When will druggists keep the nice thin
slab of soapstone or white porous brick
with cover of cartridge paper and flannel,
or the sandbag and cover which keep hot
not lukewarm but hot-till you get up IN
the morning?
If you have a cold on the chest the hot
sandbag is the best thing applied over the
lungs. Aches of the abdomen fly before
thorough heating by hot stone. and no.
flannel or silk after, and one of the best
remedies for the sleeplessness of nervous
persons is to lay a hot soapstone against the
stomach on going to bed.
Topical Treatment for Dyspepsia.
Another thing, no better relief for the
malaise of dyspepsia exists than to apply
this hot comfort to the stomach for 10 or 10
minutes after eating. 1t stimulates the flow
of the digestive secretions and draws the
blood where it is needed. Heat is great
medicine for all diseases.
Lastly, ,dyspeptic and fatulent persons md
great relief by wearing the little japanese
handwarmers which burn bit of punk for
hours over the stomach or below 1t when
discomfort occurs. This sort of hot compress
can be resorted to in offices or where other
appliance is impossible, as the whole affair
is about the size of a card case. Sea cap
tains and business men wear them under
their coats, women hide them In their dresses
and avoid many pain and annoyance by II.
The world is full of helps for minor
troubles if we only knew Of them. and 1t is
very much safer applying heat in this
external way than using mustard plasters or
stlmulants in most cases.
She Took Some Antipyrine.
Correspondents bring their troubles for
solution. One lady has taken large doses OF
antipyrine for neuralgia and suffers tor
menting rash in consequence, and is at
loss to know if her cosmetics have anything
TO do with it. The action of antipyrine IN
causing eruptions is perfectly well known,
and the cosmetics from different makers, the
composition of both of which l happen to
know, are innocent as the soap used in this
case. A pure soap will aggravate a rash
from antipyrne or bromide, and only the
purest white vaseline, sweet cream or fresh
goosefat will prove soothing till the effect of
the medicine passes of.
Clean, fresh goosefat is nearest the COM
position of human fat of any substance
known, and is readily absorbed by the skin.
the use of oils and fats as cosmetics or as
medicinal ointments. Vaseline, lanolin,
etc., are relegated to the physician as bases
for his ointments and unguents, applicable
to wounds ulcers and eruptions of serious
sort. Their use is temporary, and oftenest
over a broken skin.
To Keep Hair From Falling Out.
Cosmetics, on the other hand, are daily or
nightly used as the great cosmetic, water, is,
and we do not want substances to feed or
or stimulate the hair-bulbs of the skin as
lauolin or most fats. do. They have use
enough in medicine and for the hair of the
scalp. En- passant, as hair begins to fall in
spring, a nightly dressing of vaseline or
wool fat is advisable, parting the hair in
many places and applying the vaseline to
the scalp with the finger, leaving it to diff
fuse itself through the hair by night in
sleep and brushing well next morning. The
strong yellow vaseline is best for the hair,
especially to keep it from turning gray.
I'm afraid vaseline will darken blonde
hair, and the only remedy is to let the sun
bleach it again. From now till May is the
great bleaching time of year, when sunlight
has more whitening effect than in summer.
German blondes go about barehesded
great deal in the fields and gardens and
keep the fairness OF their locks into middle
age. When they turn housewives, put on a
cap and stay by the chimneyside indoors,
it turns faxen brown.
A girl correspondent is informed that she
does not want to put oil of tartar on the hair
at all unless she wants to go bald. 1t is for
the skin only in much dilution.
SHIRLEY DARE.