Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
berry cream, or of new way to serve water
melon at dessert.
Vfrri, HTust Re nropped.

berry cream, or of a new way to serve water.
melon at dessert.
Virgil Must Be Dropped.
rather like myself to read Virgil at
| breakfast, but the classic bard does so stop
over trif1es of hair dressing and bathing and
amounting, raising and serving fruit and
rural repasts that shall have to drop him.
Henceforth "Cushing's Manual" and Digest
OF the Code must be our table reading. How
! perfectly scandalous in Miss Somerville and
Miss Milford to sit gossiping over the best
way to turn old gowns when the prylHg
young women want to saturate themselves
with their wise talk. They ought to have
been conversing on the motions OF the
heavenly bodies or the restoration OF the
lost pleiad Are you not just waiting anx-
lously hungering for the paper which is to
discard all women's present interests for
the first principles of politics and Miss
Chevallier on Christian science and Bishop
Brooks. should think that gifted lady
could fill the want of something not too
light for feminine digestion.
Soross says all wise women know all
about taking care of their compilations. OTIS
a pity they don't make better use of what
they know then.) I'm afraid, by the shoals
OF letters on this very table, that all women
are not wise. Perhaps all the wise and
really intelligent women are in Sorosis, and
we foolish ones must get in all information
before the edict comes, 'no more cosmetic
items'
Cash and Cosmetics.
That will be probably the week after next
at furthest Funny, too, just when tine
suffrage leaders are signing recommends
tions of a new list of cosmetics. Mrs. Liv-
ermore, Duchess of Melrose, signs an adver-
tisement of q new toilet cream with all the
gusto imaginable. After all the berating
the suffrage women gave cosmetics only last
year too. Perhaps they have found out
there is money in cosmetics. Do you sup
pose the new cream company gives the Bos-
ton party half the profits for its Endorsement
as the Jenness-Miller did? Did they not
Hallat her lecture, that half of every dollar
paid for the dress magazines or for patterns
would go to the treasury of the Boston
Women's Union? The new company could
afford to do as much. 1t sells cosmetic
gloves at only S. pair, and a four ounce
bottle of the new lotion for 81.
That is to say the lotion with a new name.
1t is the same old bichloride and glycerine
wash which fills the bottle of every toilet
company advertising. Your druggist will
give you an eight ounce bottle for 80 cents
and make 30 cents profit But then he
hasn't contributions to the suffrage party to
make out of it. These eminent recommen-
dations have to be paid for in cash or kind.
shall be glad for one thing when the no
women's topics law comes in force 1t will
stop these women who continually write to
ask for "a remedy for superfuous hair, sure,
safe and permanent
Facts About Superfuous HAIR.
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of tissue similar to the horn of the nails.
You may just as well expect to get some
thing to stop your toe nails growing at one
or two applications. Besides this it hurts
my feelings to have people think am gen.
erous and benevolent minded enough to
have such preparation, to give it to every
one who asks. No, ma am. If had it, I
should cheerfully sell it for not less than
S10O patient, and build a home for needy
women out of the proceeds. I know what
will stop down growing on the face as long
as you keep applying it, and the prepara-
tion is as safe as new milk. Further the
oracle saith not-at present.
Speaking of women's homes reminds me
of the inquiries for the original of the wo-
mems hotel mentioned in' "Greta's" letter
a month or two since. I wish to say once
and for all that I cannot be responsible for
from my own. Such will always represent
one view of case, sufficiently interesting
for consideration, but which may or may
not be confirmed by further acquaintance.
The stories in that letter about other wo-
mems clubs and experiences in New York
hotels rest entirely in the word of other per-
sons. For my own part, l have travelled as
much as most women, and am bound to say
I have yet to know of any woman who
meets with incivility or difficulty in secur-
ing prompt attention in the ordinary hotels
in any part of the country, provided she
wears the look and manner of decency.
Reserve is a Woman's Safeguard.
On the contrary, I have known q fright
tened woman to receive as prompt and chiv-
alrous care from the management of large
city hotel as she could have found in her
own fathers house. The delicacy, the con-
sideration shown in such an instance would
go far to make one think we'll of all hotel
men.
But, in fact, never knew of any hotel
manager, however wanting in the courtesies
which adorn most of his class, who would
not take care that lady guest was pro-
tected from annoyance in his house. A
woman who dresses and behaves quietly can
go, 1 believe, from Maine to California with
no more incivility or unpleasantness than
she will find going into Boston ten miles by
the New York and Narrow Escape Railroad
the road that always Keeps its hat on talk
ing to a woman.
To tell the plain truth, learned from ex-
perience, should advise my friends never
to go to woman's hotel-unless it was
under the management of men who know
their business thoroughly. And anybody
who has to do with women's "homes' and
boarding houses will know the reason why.
SHIRLEY DARE.