Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09

Single woman Delng not The l6dSV useluAS AH-
iuential, moneyed or fortunate members OF
their sex and Of the Commonwealth.
Now in summer is the storage time for
health, the girls need to be looked sitter
kindly to make the most of their vacations
for strength and beauty, Strange we never
think ofstrength as factor of beauty, when
it is the main one. Force of the heart sends
the blood freely through all the fine capil-
laries of the skin, so that waste and repair
are carried briskly on, with the result OF q
clear, brilliant complexion. A skin In good
working order throws off the hundred frets
and ails of duller systems, and its reaction
frees it from freckle, blotch and pimple.
The strong digestion uses what is sent 1t to
good purpose, and does not make obstruc-
tion of its cereals or go acrid over new pota-
toes and brown gravy. A girl with rich
complexion will be able to ride, walk, dance
or work far better than pasty faced Great
ure who has hardly vitality enough to carry
on her internal economy.
STRENGTH, NERVE AND BEAUTY
The beauty may not be used to work, but
the ability is there to be developed, and all
the better for the preservation of her looks
if she trains it to use. Strength and nerve
are the foundation of beauty. But sitting
on hotel piazzas, with ever SO agreeable
tiirtations going on, riding in stuffed barge
through dust and byways or dancing in
heated room of an August night do not
score much to the account of improvement
in looks,
The greatest benefit Of the summer Is the
outdoor bath in salt water, lake or pool
Fashion has done women no service by
frowning down surf bathing at seaside re-
sorts. No performance of hygiene adds so
directly to yerve and beauty OF complexion
as bathing in open air and sunshine, where
you get all the great invigorating influences
of nature together The stimulus of light,
the bleaching from the chemical rays of the
sun, the ozone which puts all the internal
strings in tune, the circulation of air play
ing about the limbs and freshening up the
skin, the rest in the warm sand, where you
are between the magnetism ofsun and earth,
are some of these influences. Venus rises
still from the waves and the secret of her
beauty is with them.
THE DRESS FOR THE SURE
Women do their best to shoulder off the
benefit by dressing to death so they can
breathe little enough of the generous salt
air, which would make their color rich and
eyes brilliant; their prudery allows only q
mufied run and dip in the sea- perhaps in
the seclusion of dingy bathing machine
as briefly as possible, to be followed by
casing in corset and heavy skirts again, and
the thrice shaded stroll under veil and hat
and sunshade leaves the sun not chance at
them.
To get the highest good Of bathing you
want to spend hours on the beach, whether
of salt water or fresh. The luxury of dip
in the velvety waves of some inland lakes is
like bathing in distilled waters for suppling
limbs and softening the complexion. Only
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and yelling waters, softened and purified
by sleeping in the sun through long days
1t Is queens bath and no lavement of
milk, honey or fragrant essence compares
with it. One wants to lie and sleep in the
water, as Unna, the great German specialist
for the skin, makes his patients remain for
hours and days in their baths of running
water, to renew and purify the flesh. The
consummate benefit Of bathing with bodies
bare to the sun convention unfortunately
forbids. Nausica and her maidens would
hardly find river or pool on the globe
where they might bathe in Grecian safety
and freedom, but the famous beauty of
Greek women owed much to the habit of
bathing nude in streams that flashed with
sunlight
BATHING IN NATURES UNIFoRM.
Let men who obtain the primitive privi-
lege of taking the sun in secluded bays and
boys who sun themselves in rows on pond
or river bank, with their shirts on the
bushes, say if they would part with the in
diligence. Let them hold fast their Gber-
ties in this respect, even if the Government
has to set apart regions of shore for them.
AS for women, let no prude censure the
bare arms and ankles of those who go in
bathing, for they need all the free exposure
that can be tolerated. The elastic freedom
into which human nature falls at the beach
is infinitely more hygienio than the prudery
of stockinet from toes to ear lobes, and
vastly more innocent. People in bathing
have something wholesomer to think OF
than those who stand on the bank and pick
out improprieties with a spyglass. Cool
salt water isn't medium for heshly attrac-
tions, even in bare arms and blue fanneL
The precisians may import that English
prude pen, the bathing machine, and wash
solemnly in dark bath houses run down into
the water on wheels, but the common people
will prefer the laughing and splashing in
the exhilaration of wide sun and sparkling
sea- If people like to bathe in closets on
the oceans brim let them, but do not suffer
them to arraign their freer, healthier-minded
neighbors who bathe in the open. We don't
get half the benefit from baths they are
capable OF yielding.
A BATH OF HOT SALT WATER
Hot salt water baths are rejuvenation for
nervous diseases as well as rheumatism, but
few seaside resorts furnish them, and then
the water is tepid rather than hot. 1t wants
to be hot, stimulating and kept at an even
temperature to the close, the patient cool
ing off by tepid dip or a plunge in the
surf if reaction of the skin is good. No one
should ever bathe outdoors who feels chilly
after dip. Better hot sponge bath of
salt water in ones room, which in time may
bring the strength up to the point of enjoy
ing the shore bath. Sitz baths of sea water
warmed in the sun are wonderfully strength
ening for women's diseases, and bedridden
invalids who can lie in the sun and breathe
sea all and be sponged twice day with
equal parts of saltwater and brandy are in
as fair way of recovery as earth allows. A
teacup of the mixture Is enough for bath,
O small part of the person being sponged at
O. time and then rubbed dry with the hand
of the operator. Weakly children gain by
this method remarkably. Congresses wet
in this mixture and laid on the stomach dur
ing the resting hour assist dyspeptics in |
gaining tone, though often the mere change |
to sea air strengthens digestion to its nat
ural state.
Weak eyes should be strengthened by |
bathing them FIVE or ten minutes at time |
in full basins of sea water, which allow the |
hands to lave the closed eyes, the water |
yelling over them gently without shock. |
No one has any idea of the relief to over
tasked eyes till they have tried this method.
You might ask me for good many things |
would sooner give you than the gallon glass |
bottle of sea water brought with pains in
land for sponging the eyes
SHIRLEY DARE