The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-15

Broad stone basins fairly wrought.
The two famed springs Of xanthus, hot and
The Trojar kdames and their fair daughters
WASHED their su.lptuous robes
to where Nsusicaa's mother.
"The stately daughter of Antiphdtes
Gave 20 her hands cruise ~ gold,
With smootn amounting OIL i.r her
And her attendant maids,
ss they went TO wash first the linen, then
their own fair bodies In tho river by the
sea- II tho early Greek girls were more
beautiful than any other women the sun
ever shone upon. they were also useful ns
few have been before or since. IL Is work,
duty. most musical Of words, which per-
petuate beauty. The shapeiisst hands 1
ever saw, and the sleDderest natural
waists belonged to two OF the hardest
working women who had wrought since
childhood at common domestic duties
Comparing the trim,. graceful ngures 4
have known among farmers wives ana
busy housekeepers with the red faces and
overblown busts OF society women, whose
tight corsets cannot keep down their black
satin waists, the advantage is clearly
with busy women after thirty. 1t Is not
work that ever makes FARMING women
ugly, but careless unhealthy habits Con-
! stant activity keeps down flesh and tends
to a lighter step than mere piano practice
and driving to pay calls.
wish I could reach the mothers Of a
| certain class, families OF 10 special for
| tune, with income largo enough for the
small gentilitios Of lite, the very last ones
| who should fall out Of traditional actiyi-
| ties-shopkeepers' and ministers and
upper clerks families whose mothers,
| with mistaken indulgence, are letting
| their daughters grow up without duties
| and without work. School fancy work,
| little music, some church work, some
| society, somo pottering about Hover beds
some driving, ILLS their time, but not
one thing to really develop muscle or start
healthy blood. They go TO bed when they
please get up when they piasee. eat what
coaxes their squeamish sppetitos, and
take walks when other girls come Tor
them. OF course, they appear delicate
and are in failing health at l5 and the
mother spends her life and energies at
| her time OF necded rest anKiously watch
| ing and doing the work OF her daughter
| That devoted mother is making life very
| hard for that petted daughter, defrauding
| her of beauty, honorable esteem and too
probably OF life. The slerder, anaemic
chorotic girls who stay upstairs writing
| essays for clubs and classes, whilo their
| mother irons their Inuslins or finishes oil
their gowns-the plump pasty-faccd gig
| Cling damsels, who loll In hamnucks
! with supply OF bonbons and library
novels, while mother ard aunt go 10
town in heat and dust to draw coupons
| and entertain uniD Dteresting visitors; the
| artistic young women, who pin "en.
| gagged" on their studio doors and hold
| themselves excused from every claim not
! personally agreeable, one and all deserve
what comes upon them-wrinkles and
| pallor or cold and erysipelas In the face
| by 90 They Ego off, suddenly In looks
| and the doctor has enough of them. Let
your girls do housekeeping vigorously
/ 10 tt.f hO
| garden. dance or play tennis afternoons
and sing part songs In the evening, but
! never let them shirk the interest, the de-
velopment that lies In real work.
| The bath is woman's best antidote to
| pain, the tonic for her strength and pres
| ervative Of freshness Chronic irrcgulari-
ties and periodic attacks of pain seldom
refuse tn yield 10 course OF varied baths
| From the time girls enter their teens
preliminary aches and laDguor call for
hot foot baths. One OF the best foot tubs
is the three gallon tin can In which pep
permint oil comes for druggists, which
allows tho legs TO be Immersed To the
knec. Such a leg bath with very warm
soap and water sitz bath on retiring, wip-
| ing on warm towels and getting imme
| diately into "a warm bed with hot bricks
or soapstones, Is hygiene which steals
| countermarch on the acute disorders
which ruin girls scholarship, good
| looks and comfort. In contradiction 10
nearly all doctors advice on the subject,
say, don't finish the hot bath with a
| cool douche or sponge In cases where
there Is ache or pain, however slight.
Warmth Is vitality and anodyne 10 pain.
Rather have roDe of Turkish toweling
TO slip over the nightgown warmed for
sleeping. III IL leaves ore 80 warm that
she can sleep with the window oTen. so
much the better for her complexion and
well being. Fresh air by night and day
a.. nlt. e.,afn
amount OF cold bathing. The first ap-
proach Of malaise with girls should be
signal for prompt curative practice OF
the kind named. This prevents the flush
ing and limples, the heada ches and
Righteousness OF growing girls. When
these disappear or n few days after IL the
time for cold sponging of the back below
the waist and the hip muscles Finish by
rubbing with alcohol or bay spirit. Such
treatment transforms girls from lumpish,
awkward creatures TO supple, yivacious
ones, If they are not educated 10 death
over their books. The complexion OF
black and livid yellow. which remind one
Of the colors OF night 1de disappear
u ,der this practice, ard otul carriage
re uli from improved oins,. ,.city CT the hip
and leg muscles
City bathing establishments number an
increasing list Of medicated baths quinine
and iron baths for malaria oil baths and
peat baths, tar baths and pine needle baths
for consumptives, and creosote baths for
eruptions. Domestic practice is we'll
equipped with ammonia, alcohol and cleo
trio baths which are simpler than they
sound. Ammonia baths. given by spong
ing with hot or tepld water, with a spoon
ful of liquid ammonia 10 the gallon are
of great benefit In ali disorders Of acid or
fotid perspiration, as i'm consumption,
dyspepsia, tumors and rheumatism for
which they should be taken at least every
other day. They are very agreeable II
spirits Of lavender or toilet water is
added. For refreshing and keeping no
the strength. the alcohol bath in its
varieties Is supreme. IL people would
quit using alcohol internally. and use it
outside, they would find more stimulus
and support. The fingers of good
spirits is enough to sponge one from head
To foot and perfumes add To It's efficacy
and pleasure. A tonic every woman should
keep on hand Is n bottle of the finest bay
spirits, not common tay rum, but the
genuine st. Thomas distillation. IL costs
only 81 for wine quart, which viii