Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-08
WOMEN OF THE HOME
Contrasted by Shirley Dare With Con-
vention. Wire-Pullers.
THE MEETING AT WASHINGTON.
Action Against the Cosmetics That Was
Entirely Uncalled For.
HEAT Is A SPLENDID MEDICINE
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.I

Of course the Women's Convention at
Washington cannot get on without its little
fling at the frivolity of cosmetics and the
women who use them. The convention
represented, perhaps, $4,000 women at a
liberal guess. What are they to the 5,000,-
900 good wives, mothers and girls who do
their duty of individual responsibility of
their own motion, without having to join
society or wear badge to remind them of it,
and who are not at all above or beyond look
ing as well in the eyes of those dear to them
as nature will permit?
The women who 90 the right and pleasant
thing naturally, instinctively, by the grace
of God, and good mothers who keep their
poise and place without needing any annual
or triennial round Up to get the convention
brand, are the women of influence in these
United States as yet, and the convention
mongers will have to work vastly harder
than they have yet to begin to counterbalance
it.
Points on Convention Women.
We are told the purpose of the conven-
tions is to educate American women to
broader views" No such thing. The OBJ
ject of these affairs is to concentrate infu-
two leaders and secretaries who sit in hon
nets on the nIatforms throueh the sessions
and get bead.cbes and sbed their hair bv 60
doing Convention work ia verv had for
the nair anyhow; and politics turns it gray
faster than tronbIe while as for wrink les
Won might have the sernent's tooth and the
thankless child together for craving tools,
and you could not write the lines deeper
than carking ambition carVes them in these
One 3bin, viii so,r for +bas. ,vor,an nm
ventions and associations from somewhat in
timate insnection that M noIit;caI machine
is rnn witb sncb raIentless aocr-acv or utter
;onnr,n, of nr;no;nIa nc thasa ,ror,sn,s
noIitics and no ward Nv county "hoss"
keeps such rieid rule over his forces as those
convention women in bonnets consnicuonsly
good One rule is common tn women and
:Iesnits that the end aanotifos tbe meono
and the end and The beginning are never far
anart in the consnmmafe s'I', of the worker
''oinan A'eai Hnpi iS
had ever SO good an invite TO the per-
IoInanee, iIsiue view anu aii, pus nate 10
near trees and then 7 tbink too mucb Of my nv
health and nerves N sacrifice them in oIoss
convention air to such sIioht purnoses NV
dear women cant Won learn that the indi-
reef Influence Of vour ser is the onIv ire.
sistible one Won have? What the mischief
does anv sbrewd woman want to snoiI her
complexion and temper in stuffy couyen-
tions when she can sit at home in blessed
sunlight AMONG her flowers and control from
3 to 500 votes. not by some Irresistible smell
of beauty or amiability. but by that of right
feeling and sound sense which men will hear
and bow to, whether from prophet. priest.
workman or woman holding the force OF
truth. which comes not of seIt-seeking and
naltrv ambitions or desire to ruleI
Convention leaders cannot hold in more
utter contempt than 1 the beauty worship
which makes a cult of cosmetics and nv It
seeks empiry over man. Itisoplvin stories
that the prettv woman wins bv walkover
every time, and turns the heads of states
men. business men and bows by look. One
NAV Somewhat accurately apnraise the
worth of vital enduring good looks az
worth naming in tn, scale with polished
manners and social talent. not an end at all,
but a very clever means toward making life
pleasan''
"orshipers Oh "omens Beauty.
1t is only half-drunk politicians and
naturally fuddled, weak-headed literary
men and ministers who pretend 10 worship
women's beauty. But you want a good
complexion az you want your boots clean,
and faulty features mended as you want your
coat to set we'll. When all women are good
looking there will be very little vanity left
in the world.
And now my dear young women who
honor me with your condolences, about your
compilations mostly, it is just the turn of the
season you want to secure good health and a
clear skin for the twelvemonth.
Chiefly avoid taking colds In March and
April winds. These thawy, moist days one
feels the chill more than in midwinter with
dry air near zero. 1 can't begin to tell you
the harm done by the slight colds, conges-
tions and checks of perspiration which no.
body thinks OF. Especially do these account
for the stray plmples, the rashes, the vexa-
tious stye in the eye, and, must we say it?-
the boils which girls have as well as their
brothers. 1t is mercy when these disor-
ders pass Oft with SO slight though annoying
effects as boil or two, or. a breaking out.
Youth throws these things of and thinks no
more of them.
Tn. Old Tina ya,or Ratbs.
Ia -. .i tu o. >, IN
80: - - G-o1 H.. aLoaI-r -
married anu unlnarrleu: nnu tnese cneGhs Sr,I VI
retentiops of secretion. these minor conges-
tions which leave at first only a feeling of
weight and dullness, are the cause of
fbroids and tumors with their history