tV&J i. J- ;?? 9. 'f v20 TEEB HTTSBURG- SSSPATOH, StJNDiftr, ' l&ffAIiY 1,' 189L . u. ?? FANCIES FOR THE FAIR, Appreciation of Uio Fitness or Things by the TTomcn of America A Dress 7ust Irom London The Dance Dinner Is the Latest Novelty. It must be conceded that the American woman, on the whole, has but scanty appre ciation of the eternal fitness of things, and is deficient in that nice sense of discrimina tion which makes the chic of the Parisian, be she grisettc or grande dame, writes Countess Annie de Montaigne to The Dis rATCir. Gorgeousness is not elegance, and the well-dressed woman is like a beautiful picture where the tints are so blended and the design so artistic as not to call attention to any particular portion, yet forming a harmonious whole, winch is a perpetual de light to the eye. Tints and not colors should be chosen, the starting aniline dyes and the geometric figures, the plaids which remind one of the prison bars, and the bouquets of Brobdignagiaa proportions should all be eschewed by a woman who de sires to please by the appropriateness of her toilets. Monotones are alwavs restful, and the grays, browns, dull reds and greens are almost universally becoming to both lair and dark women. Any strong color coming in contact with the flesh is apt to deaden it by con- Jurt Jictu-tied From London. llrast, few complexions being perfect enough to withstand the damngmg effects of bril liant colors. A woman with hair of that dulii&h brown !een on the underside ot an autumn leaf, and with just a suggestion of a warmer tone, can produce a glorious har lbony by following out the scheme of color to the very minutest detail. Such a gown was worn by a young girl recently returned from Londou." The cos tume was designed for her by a world-renowned artist, and garbed in it she was a veritable poem in brown. The clinging lorreau skirt was of leaf-brown camel's hair bordered with mink lur. above which was a braiding pattern in silk soutache with a iugestion of dead gold. The Louis Quinze cut was cf the same material, bound with fur and worn over a long flapped waistcoat of superb brown fa'lle, with 'a vermicelli design of brown and gold; the Valois collar was braided on the outMile and lined with brown fur. The high Vienna sleeves were in an all-over design like the waistcoat, and l.ad deeu cufls of lur; the linings of the coal were of old rose moire. The Itubans hat was cif long-haired felt with a .border of brown ostrich feathers: three Prince of "Wales plumes nodded over the hack, while m front were several short brown tips anions which nestled a tingle tinv one o! faintest pink, over which hovered a "jeweled dragon fly. Colored flower pots for the windows is the latest fashionable craze in London. Manu facturers are making the pots so they can be fastened together with a china leaf. They tints appear as one solid piece. Ol course, the pots can be detached at any time and used s.ngly for indoor decoration. A boa of cock's feathers is a dainty addi tion to outdoor dress. It is lighter, softer and more Injurious than fur, and fully as warm. Fashionable folks in London burn a great deal of incense. There are two sorts the Algrian, in cones, at 4 pence the dozen,and the Chinese, in sticks, at 6 pence the packet. The Algerian is the same as that used in riiurchcc The other is the nicest for draw ing rooms. Incense burners arc made in the oddest shapes conceivable. A dinner dance is an idea imported from England and improved on here, says the New York Times. It ranks with many cf the good thinrs that are amusing and fasci nating because thev are bad. It is directly opiiossd to all accepted hygienic rule;, j JSte Ifti ctfp! Jill" I ifllW vV "After dinner, rest a while." The repose under the table, of which in the good old days that are gone we hear so often, when men drank hard and deep, seems much more in the order of things. The dance after a dinner is often a punishment of pleasure. The dinner dance is only a reception with several hostesses instead of one, and the eating preceding instead of following. It has brought about one change. If one must dance one must hare dancing legs, consequently young people must replace their elders at the festive board and they naturally wel come the change with delight. To be in vited to dinners is an advance to a certain grade of social distinction and recognition for which debutantes hope and to which they look forward. A dinner has become much more an affair of amusement than it formerly was. 2o longer do the "buds" add to their litany, "From a dinner deliver us." They want'to be asked to dinners; the invitation implies a selection. Thev feel they are recognized as women with minds. Most older people like the leavening of youth. They no longer wish to be left on the shelf of reverence; they want to reach back and assimilate themselves with youth and be youthful. One happy change the dinner-dance has brought about the meal can no longer drag itself wearily along by the hour; it must stop some time; it must have a reasonable limit. Fashionable women no longer care for silk underwear. When actresses and the world at large take kindly to a thing, milady begins to look upon it with disfavor. Miss Clara D. Forsterer makes an excel lent living in the uncommon industry of mending bolting cloth, a precious and del icate fabric, good as gold in any market. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie has several spoons, both English and continental, of consider able antiquity. One of these is carved in bone and ivory and has a pear-shaped bowl, with an acorn affixed to the point of the handle. Two others in silver do not differ greatly in form, but are surmounted, the one by the device of a pomegranate, the other by the head and shoulders ot a maiden. All these are attributed to the period before the English restoration, per haps to the time of Charles I. Thev differ from the modern type in every particular, and their ornamented character is quite in harmony with the decorative and artistic fashions of their time. "A man can smile and smile and be a vil lain," and a woman will kiss a sister and with the same lips defame her character an hour later. "We are threatened with an invasion of the Louis XV. coat, which appears in many varieties, the long close shape, however, being always preserved. A superb one de signed for a stylish brunette was of plum colored velvet; it was slashed in three pieces and narrowly faced with Persian lamb, as was also the front and the high Airing collar, which reached almost to the ears; above the fur border was a narrow gold embroidery, studded with amethysts; two curved ornaments in the shape of con ventional flowers swept away on either side of the bust, and were repeated in a smaller pattern upon the mousquetaire cuffs. Some of the coats show a tendency toward a slight fullness, being shaped to the hips by a few gathers, and in some instances flat plaits. Many of them are formed by having the skirts set outo pointed waists, and oc casionally they end on each hip, the bodice being quite short in the back. The sweetest thing to pnt in the scent bottle is lavendar salts, whose fragrant odor is very grateful In a crowded theater or ball room. Mrs. Thomas C. Piatt has a great fond ness for cats, sayi the New York Times, and her family of these pets is numerous and valuable. They are kept at the old farm near Turner's, on the Erie road, which is the Piatt summer residence. Some of them are remarkably intelligent, and one will sit at the tabie with admirable manners, striking the bell when it desired to summon a serv ant. Kot long ago an interloper in the shape of a dog, sent oyer by an English friend, created havoc among the pussies by goins mad and biting several of them. Bather than loe her pets, Mrs. Piatt" sent them to Newark to be treated, and no bad results have followed. The purse glove is the latest novelty. It is simply a clasp purse fastened iu the nalm of the glove. It is thin and neat and in no way interferes with the use of the hand. It enables the wearer to get at her car fare or ticket without clumsily fumbling for her pocketbook, and as the pucketbonk is usually lodged in the woman's pocket, finding it is usually a formidable task. The continual replacing of the skirt braid is a vexation and a cross to womeu bereft of a handmaiden. A common-sense woman of my acquaintance says that she has solved the problem by facing her skirt up on the under side to a depth of three inches with velvet or corduroy, allowing a tiny row to appear on the right; my econom ical friend declares that this does not wear out like skirt braid, and is a great saving of time and trouble. At the present time.a popularpresumption exists that all girls -wish to marry, and fail to do so only because they lack an eligible opportunity, writes Edward Bellamy in the Ladies Home Journal. This presump tion exisu on account of the obvious fact that women, being able with difficulty to support themselves, have in general a greater material interest in marriage than men nave, oureiy mere can be lew inci dents of an unmarried woman's condition more exasperating than her knowledge that because this is the undeniable fact it is vain for her to expect to be popularly credited with the voluntary choice of her "condition. She must endure with a smile, however she may rage within, the coarse jest or innuendo to which it would be worse than vain to reply. Nationalism, by establishing the ecouomic independence of women, without leference to their single or married state, will destroy the presumption referred to by making marriage no more obviously desir able to one sex than to another. ' The gondolier and the plateau hat do not seem to have palled upon womankind, in spite of their nnbecomingness. A stylish hat of the gondolier -shape was nude of naniv velvet faced with cloth of gold, and with an aigrette upon which swayed a jew- cled humming bird with gauzy wins. If one is at a loss for ft frame on which, to mak the plateau hat a card basket would be fonnd to admirably suit the purpose, as that is the shape as nearly as it can be described. A pretty one of turqoise blueVel vet covered with silver spider webs was exceedingly showy and unique, and to carry out the fable'of the "spider and the fly" a great jet spider with ruby eyes and a big blue-bottle fly seemed to be enmeshed in a filmy silver web, which rested upon a knot of blue vel vet, A very unique idea for the engaged young lady is to wear on a tiny gold chain round her neck a pendant in the shape of a heart, the gem forming the latter being the lucky stone of the month in which she was born. A new idea for window furnishing is an effect in white and silver. A house just fur nished in New York has cash curtains of some sheer white material with a narrow silver line running through it. These nre draped back by means of silver bands. The window shades arc pure white linen, and the inside curtains are white lace, over which hang heavy curtains of a silver-gray brocade. The effect is novel and pretty, and could easily be imitated iu an inexpensive way with good results. The accompanying illustration, says the St Louis Globe-Democrat, shows the latest thing in designs for silver table service. It is an abrupt departure from the reg ular geometrical patterns, but commends itself in the very tangle and oddity of its lines. The pot shown is a tea, but the other pieces of the service are in harmony. Late Parisian models show rather an alarming tendency toward the flare-skirt, which is interlined with some stiff material in order to make it stand out, thus oflering a hideous suggestion of the crinoline in vogue during the Second Empire. An English physician who is a specialist on dyspepsia and all affections of the digestive organs has a large clientele among women. Aside from the skill which at tracts, he has doubtless much of the tant which is also necessary, if o'ne may judge bv a remark attributed to him. A suggestion that women were habitually untruthful elicited this correction: "I draw a distinc tion between macenracy and untruth, "Women are often inaccurate because they are emotional. They describe sensations rather than relate tacts, but this is a consti tutional not a moral fault." A tastelul theater hood, both dressy and warm, can be made ol fine creme-colored flannel, or the new eider-down flannel that comes in such pretty shades this season, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two strips of goods three-eighths yard long and one quarter wide are rounded offa little, pinked at the edge, and sewed together in such a manner in the center of the hood, .t-"- . n A Theater Hood. that the scallops form a small head ing. The lower part ot the hood is gathered to fit the throat and garnished with a broad ruffle of the same material pinked at the bottom and top. A facing of velvet of heavy gros-graiu silk oi some light shade to match the color of the hood, sets off the whole very charmingly, and the soft velvet makes a beautiful frame for a fresh young face. The cord with which the hood is tied must correspond in color with that of the facing. Dresden china is the latest material that is used for umbrella handles. It is stout and thick when put to this use, and does not break as easily as one would suppose from merely hearing of the fad. The color of the Dresden varies according to the taste and dress of her who carries it. Pins for the hair are worn in all sizes, makes and designs, and in as great a quan tity as one can boast. A pretty combination of hair pins is set in tortoise shell and gold. Three of the pins have gold heads, all differ ent in design, with tortoise shell prongs, and the others have twisted gold prongs, topped with the most exquisite shades of tortoise shell, varying in color from a lovely amber to a deep wine brown. Handkerchief holders have been revived, says a DISPATCH fashion correspondent. This is a sensible innovation, as where shall a woman carry her kerchief is almost as vexed a question asj"ls marriage a failure?" Fashion absolutely forbids us to tuck it away in, our bosom or hang it to our belts. The tailor utterly refuses us the pocket, and there seems to be no place for it either in the umbrella case skirt or In the bodice with its mysterious fastenings. Our sleeves are not like those of the Japanese belle, adapted for the purpose, and held in the hand it in variably finds its way to the floor in some unaccountable manner. A dropped kerchief affords an excuse for flirtation, and we shonld keep in mind these lines of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mind your kerchief most of all. Fingers touch when kerchief tail. Of all the fresh, cleau covering that goes on a floor wheat-colored matting is the fresh est and cleanest Miss Franks, an English woman, has im proved upon the Jenness-Miller legelettes. She advocates in her school of hygiene that the divided skirt take the form of knicker bockers. In her judgment the best material is homespuns, which will stand any amount of wear and washing. The rage for gathered and puffed sleeves is so great that they have even invaded the precincts of the decollette gown. This seems almost impossible, yet it is managed and in such a cunning way as to defy detection if really well done. A gown is made low necked and sleeveless. Over the shoulders is fastened a tight-fitting silken strap, and on this strap is gathered a full, long sleeve which extends to the waist and is there gathered in unou a band. CHANCE FOR REFORM. The Governor ia ills Message Over looked One Field of Endeavor, WORKING TYOMEK NEED HELP. ThelrAverago Earnings Scarcely Keep t Body and Soul Together. FALSE PRIDE BESOM'S IN HARDSHIP rwmnra tor the DisrATcn.j In his inaugural speech Governor Patti son represents that this great Common wealth of Pennsylvania is in a very bad way. He maintains that the Constitution is being continually violated that while it forbids extortion, oppression and unfair dis crimination, yet these evils exist and flour ish in our midst none the less that while it aims to prevent monopolies and to make corporations subservient to law, yet even under the broad seal of the State these wield a power notoriously to the disadvan tage and injury of the best interests of the people. He then dilates upon the abuses of the ballot how the industrial and political bosses trample upon the rights of good citi zens, how brutal coercion and corruption prevail at the polls, destroy the sovereignty of the people, and subject them to the rule of unscrupulous leaders who, by their "gangs of organized ignorance and pur chased vice," carry out their schemes fpr self-interest by making it their aim to over throw virtue, liberty and independence. His Opinion of Taxation. But as if all this was not bad enough, he asserts that unjust discrimination and un fair taxation are working untold evils to the farmers of the State; that under the present corrupt system of administering the laws the rich are exempted from their fair share of taxation, and the poor are oppressed by extortion, and that such manifest evils are day by day establishing unfortunate social distinctions that are foreign to our principles of government, destructive of the happiness and energies of men, and blasting the hopes that we have all prayerfully entertained of our country becoming the home of a con tented and happy people. Altogether the Governor has presented us with a very melancholy picture of the con dition of our grand old State and the nation at large. With corruption, bribery, extortion, oppression, injustice everywhere rampant in defiance of law and gospel, with the iron heel of the despotism of the dollar crushing out the happiness and contentment of the peo ple, it seems likely that the Governor con sidered the condition of affairs at present too gloomy and dark for him to add further blackness by even a passing allusion to the additional sorry fact that half of the citizens oi the Commonwealth are Denied Voice and Tote in their own behalf that they are subjected to a system of what Lord Camden calls rob bery that the laws under which they are defrauded and wronged constitute an abuse of power that finds no excuse or support in the principles of democracy, ana has not a prop to stand upon save prejudice. How anxious the worthy Governor is to preserve the workingmen and the farmers from the tyranny of capital, of soulless corporations, of political trick ery apd unjust taxation is plainly to be seen in his speech; but it is amazing to note how utterly silent he is regarding the wrongs of the citizens whose money is taken with out their consent, who are subjected to un just laws, in which they have been allowed no voice, who are legislated for as if .they were imbeciles. Governor Pattison mourns over the wrongs of the farmers, who have, power to protect themselves if they chose, but he expresses not a shadow of sympathy for the other people, who are denied any choice. Although women-constitute three-fourths of the membership of the Methodist Church, Brother Buckley, and others of his stamp, cannot see any sense in permitting women delegates to sit in the General Conference. He is obstinately opposed to allowing Fran ces Willard or Mrs. Vankirk or an other woman either voice or vote in church mat ters. His heart and soul and conscience are unanimously against woman savin? her say in either church or state. .Brother Pattison is of the same mind. In his estimation The Women of the State have no wrongs to bother about. He has nothing to say as to the betterment ot the working women of Pennsylvania, who have their 'share in the industrial conflict in which the world now appears to be engaged. Carroll D. "Wright, who has won reputation as a master of statistics, testifies that he made a most careful and searching investi gation among working women not includ ing those engaged in housekeeping and domestic pursuits to ascertain their physi cal and economical condition. As a class, he says in his report, the working women are virtuous, industrious and are engaged in a heroic struggle to support themselves upon the smallest wages under the most trying circumstances. His figures were made upon his study of the industries of Massachusetts, but they will apply as well with little variation to Pennsylvania and other States. The aver age income of the working woman in Boston from all sources is $269 07. Out of this small sum she has to find her expenses of living and clothing, which, by his state ment for positive necessities, amount to $26130, leaving the wide and extravagant margin of $7 77 for religious purposes, doc tors' bills, books, amusements and sundries. For Three Dollars a Week. Without the figures to show, it can fairly be inferred that the working women in the mills, the factories and workshops of Penn sylvania are not a whit better off. There are plenty of women working in the stores and workrooms of Pituburg to-day for S3 a week. If the most of these did "not live at home, it is not hard to see that their strug gle for an existence would he arduous in deed. When such a condition of little more than half starvation is imposed upon work ers iu this country ot "smiling plenty" and abundant prosperity, cau it be wondered at that the long smoldering fires of justice begin to blaze, and that revolution is pre dicted? The royalty and nobility of France heeded not the murmurings of poverty and discon tent. They laughed and danced and feasted on the banks of the volcano. "Alter us the deluge," said Louis A.V. The deluge came in blooiL The despotism of wealth is no less hard to bear in this country than that of royalty and nobility founded on heredity and alleged blue blood. Parts of a 3fachine. Helen Campbell, who has spent more than a year in investigating the Condition of the working women of New York, says that the "slop work" in the clothing establishments, at which thousands of women are employed, includes every form of oppression and out rage that workers know. The closeness of competition has sharpened and hardened the Christian until he has acquired every art and device ot extortion, and he "grinds his victims with a composure born of the idea that they are merely parts of the great pro ducing machine." In order to save rent, light and heat, the manufacturers now in sist that each worker shall do her work at home, and thus these expenses come out of her scanty pay. Then the proprietors evolved a way to make another little profit lor tli em selves by insisting on sending the packages of work honie nt a charge of 15 cents to the worker. As the cost of delivery was to them only 12 cents, they gained a lit tle rake off of 3 cents a head. To save this IS cents some of the women volunteered to call for their work. But no; they were plain ly told that "there are plenty waiting to take our terms if you are not willing." The wages of these women have been brought to the lowest point of subsistence, says Mrs. Campbell, and they in every large citv in this country constitute an army of haggard, weary, hopeless wretches who subsist mainly on "rank tea boiled over and over with baker's bread, and no butter." A tack of-Sympathy. Well-to-do women, it Is said, pay but lit tle attention to these revelations, as made by the Vice President of the Sociologic Society. This is hardly surprising. -They cannot sympathize very deeply with the poor woman half starving in a fireless garret, and wearing her fingers to the bone in a struggle to keep herself alive by her needle, and sub mitting to outrage and oppression at the hands of manufacturers, to whom business is business, and not philanthropy. The pa thetic stories told of the hardships and suf ferings, the miserable wages and scanty fare of these poor working women only empha size their own folly and ignorance, since with them it is mainly a matter of pride and prejudice. All over this broad land, at least, there are mothers of families suffering for help in their home affairs. Women in domestic life are harassed and overworked, who, with comfortable homes and good wages to give, can yet secure no one to take them. What is it that keeps this supply and demand apart? What is the intanzible something that makes a woman ratherchoose the straits of direst poverty than to accept a comforta ble living and lull opportunity to lay up a good iat bank account? A few weeks ago a young woman applied at a mill for work in this vicinity, where the wages were ?3 a week. The proprietor, favorably impressed by her appearance, said he had no place in the mill to give her, but his wile needed help and would pay her $3 a week and her board, which wpuld be bet ter than the mill work. The voung woman went to the house, but reiused to accept the position unless it was agreed that she should Eat "With the Family and sit with them in the evening when she chose. Now, imagine the men who work in the mills and factories dictating such terms to Mr. Carnegie or Mr. Jones. If a woman rejects a good home and high wages, and chooses to endure outrage and oppression and a miserable life in a garrett, with bread unbuttcred, and "kettle broth" and the poor house to top off with, rather than sacri fice a foolish prejudice, she has a perfect right to do so, but she cannot certainly be credited with, common sense. Work in a kitchen for wages can no more degrade or keep down a woman than driving the mules on the tow path of a canal kept Garfield from rising to the top of the he3p; than splitting rails at 50 cents a day kept Abra ham Lincoln from becoming an eminent lawyer, and finally President of the United States. A young woman I chance to know "lived out" doing general housework for some years. She was ambitious to become a trained nurse. To this end, when her work was "done up" in the evening she'attended night school to secure the requisite knowl edge. She saved money, and finally went to a hospital and was graduated as a nurse. Her wages now are never less than ?15 a week. Ifshehadnothad "go" in her she mieht have been a poor ground-down victim to "slop sewing," as millions of silly women are to-day. The sort of missionary enterprise required among such people is not the establishment of sewing schools, but rather such effort as will bring supply and demand together for mutual benefit and will tend to root out the idea that any respectable work is degrading. Bessie Bramble. UHCLE DICK OQLESBY. A Story of the Illinois Statesman Who Suc ceeds Senator Farwell. I met Representative Cannon, of Illinois, the other day, writes Frank G. Carpenter to The Dispatch, and asked him to tell me something of Governor Oglesby, who de feated Senator Farwell for the United States Senate. Said he: "Uncle Diek Oglesby is one of the best liked men in Illinois. He is as quick as a flash, as bright as a dollar and as jolly as a satyr. He can make a good speech, tell a good story and there is nothing conceited or snobbish in his make-up. "Not long ago he was riding with an Illinois politician on the cars, and during the journey he appeared to be in deep thought. His companion wanted to know what be was thinking about, and he replied by asking him to take a look back over his own life and to tell him what good he had done, what he had accomplished and how the world was any better for bis having lived in it. The politician, who was a little man with a big head thereupon, recounted his numerous virtuous acts, and as he closed he said: "And now, Governor Oglesby, what good have you done? And what noble works have you performed? "That's just what I've been thinking about," replied the Governor, "and do you know, my boy, I have come to the con clusion that Uncle Dick Oglesby is a darned old fraud.' " THE FIGHTIKG PHAGOCYTES. How the Guardians of the Blood Battle With the Bacteria, rail Mali Budget, The illustrations show the phagocyte in its great act of destroying the bacterium. The diagram (a) shows photograph ot a phagocyte from the blood of a frog which has been infected with the anthrax bacte rium. The phagocyte is in the act of en gulfing the bacterium. The diagram (6) shows a photograph or the phagocyte taken a few minutes later; the shape of the phagocyte is changed, and' the bacte rium is completely engulifd. (ti) marks the nucleus or central part of the phagocyte. When an animal recovers from a bacterial disease it is because its phagocytes have triumphed over the bacteria, but when the animal dies it is- the bacteria which have got the best of the phagocytes. THE POPE'S GOLDEK HOSE. Something About the Pretty Symbol of the , Favor of the Holy See. A great deal is being said in the papers of the Pope's Golden Itose. It has not been presented for two or three years. The last person who received it was the Queen Itegenl ot Spain. Three or four years ago' it was presented to Miss Caldwell, of Phila delphia (who has since married a French nobleman), in recognition of her having iounded a Boman Catholic University in Washington. The Golden Bose is well worth having, if only a a work of art. It is made by a firm of jewelers in Borne, who have had" the privilege of making it for many generations. It has several "flowers, a thorny branch and leave, the one principal flower at the top being of pure cold. The practice of presenting it seems to have arisen in the thirteenth century, but it is not known which Pope instituted it Henry VIII. re ceived the rose from three Popes. It was also sent to his daughter, Queen Mary, by Julius III. The last English Sovereign to receive it was Mary of Modena, wife of .Tames II., to whom it was presented when she was in exile in France. Napoleon III. and Queen Isabella II. of Spain also re ceived .this recognition of Papal favor. Can Ton Do Any Better? The dolphin is said to be the fastest swim mer In the seas; it has been Observed to dart through the waters at a rite decidedly greater than 20 miles an hour, and it is often seen swimming rbund and round a vessel which is sailing ao its highest speed. T -fy2y F00D FOR BEAUTY, bhirlfy Dare Says She Never baw a Good Looking Vegetarian. CONSUMPTION CORED BY MEAT. Dilated Cream Is Easily Dige&ted and Eggs Are a Necessity. DISINFECTANTS IN THE PEKFDMES rWBITTXK TOB THZ DISPiTCH.) A correspondent has been so indoctrinated with the vegetarian theories that she has felt as if her salvation depended on abstain ing from flesh. But recent facts have awakened doubts as to the entire advisability of living on milk and beans, and she wants more facts bearing on the subject. Dr. Asa F. Pattee, of Boston, told a meet ing of the American Medical Association that he bad the gout for years, and, accept ing the popular idea that high livingcaused it, eschewed beef and ate vegetable food mainly. He saw reason in time to change his mind and ate beef freely, with the result that his swollen, painful joints were de creasing in size and gout disappearing. Dr. John Cutter, of New York, tells of a woman who had been three summers at one of the large Western sanitarinms so widely advertised, but received no benefit. The doctors at the sanitarium told her rheumatic gout was a fiend and incurable; that milk was a perfect food, though in this case it clogged the liver so as to cause serious trouble; that beef was unclean and not fit for food, etc. She went on a diet of meat and a little bread, as vegetables caused bloating,- and in three weeks saw. decided improvement. A finger that she had not been able to bend to the palm was able to touch it without pain. Scraped Beef Palp Broiled. Doubtless not a few of the cases of large waists and bloated figures among women, all which are on the way to fevers and rheu matisms, would improve by thestrict diet of scraped beef pulp broiled, with toasted brown bread, with little sugar or starchy food. It .is the experiment of physicians that children of tuberculous parents properly fed, with no fermentation of their food, do not die of tuberculosis, but live to grow up in decent health. Dn Cutter says: "The bacteriologist is terribly at task to find how the bacillus gets into the lungs, and even Koch can throw no light on the question." The student of the blood has no trouble at all. He holds that the spores are absorbed from the intestines by partially paralyzed organs and transmitted to the lungs, and form, by their chemical and mechanical action, tubercle. When the tissues are un dergoing decay and the cough has come on, of course the bacteriologists will find the bacillus in what is thrawn off. But if they study what the cases eat they will get more light as to the contagion of tuberculosis. A Case of Consumption Cored. In 18S1 a young man lay apparently dying of consumption; a skeleton, wasting by night sweats and cough which threw off lung fibers, with frequent hemorrhages; cavities in both lnngs, heart enlarged, pulse 120, respiration 20 and more times a minute a desperate case. He was fed on beef from the top of the round, scraped from fiber, the pulp daintily molded with knife and fork, not even thehand allowed to touch it lest the human heat should change the condi tion of the meat; the beef broiled and seasoned to taste with pepper, salt, butter and lemon juice; even a little Worcester shire allowed. The patient was fed this three times a day, given gentle tonics, bathed twice a day with ammonia or acid sponge baths, and care fully watched, for life was likely to slip away at any moment. The cough and sweats left, the patient arose from his ill ness, went through college, married, and calls himself a well man. Old Dr. Cutter claimed years ago that consumption was curable by proper food and treatment. "He published 70 cases in 1880, of which only 17 failed of cure. Those who could control their appetite and com mand care got well without going off to dis tant States among strangers. Food in Fibrous Consumption. Five years ago a middle-aged woman came under treatment for fibrous consump tion, Bright's disease and fibroid tumor, for consumption and tumors are near of km. She dieted rigidly for six months, then other foods were brought in and the disease dis appeared. This is not the first case of fibroid tumor cured by lood; usually galvanism and food cure together. A little below these accounts I came upon a singularly good definition of these diseases: "Actions in tissue of pro ductions of the different fermentations in food." I trust Dr. Cutter will not find fault with this extract of his wort, given here with a double Intent to dissuade women from veg etarian error, which has led to fatal endings, and to let some of the worst sufferers on earth know their case is not without help. As Dr. Cutter himself says, "The taking away of hope kills many," and it is abso lutely true that of those who die yearly thousands might be saved by knowledge and nursing. Food and Good Looks. Food has almost everything to do with woman's good looks. I never saw a vegeta rian vet who was comely in appearance. At best they look like badly cured invalids, gaunt, dull-eyed or with gutters' below the eyes and faded complexions. Vegetarians allow and largely use the most difficult foods in the world for sedentary people, milk and eggs. The yelks of eggs are said by one physician to be hard to digest and a promo ter of rheumatism. I thine he can hardiy be speaking of fresh laid eggs 12 hour from the nest and lightly cooked. But it is true that stale eggs or those heated by carrying or kept in unwholesome contact develop a poison as deadly as the tyrotoxicon of im pure milk, if not identical with it. We must one and all protest against the taxation imported eggs- The Hamburg eggs at 9 cents a dozen will answer for painters' work and dressing glove skins, which call for millions of eggs yearly, but failing the foreign supply must cripple home resources and take the invalid's chief nourishment away from his lips. Avoidable Errors of Mothers. Errors in food are dangerous In nursing mothers, who not only damage their beauty for life by poor nourishment, but fail to supply children with strength of constitu tion. Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent writer on food, says: "Most of the diseases which embitter the middle and latter part of life are due to avoidable errors in diet. These errors begin many times when the child is a lew hours old and continue through the earlier years of lile, laying the foundation on which to build the future person." "To fully nourish a child," we are told, "the mother or nurse must furnish from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds of good milk during the first year ol its life, and this must con tain from 125 to 140 pounds of solid matter more than many womeu weigh," says Dr. FREE and at th: same time extend our business make new customers.wejiave decided to make this special ogjr. Send us a Cabinet Picture, Photograph. Tin Type, Ambrotype or Daguerro'type, oFvoursclFor any member of your family, living or dead, and we wilf mak: you a IiTPB SI2B ORATTOIT PORTRAIT FREE OP OHARGE, provided you exhibit It to your friends as a sample of our work, and use your influence in securing us future oiders. Place-name and address on back of picture and it will be returned in perfect order. We make any change in picture you 'wish, not interfering with the likeness. Refer to any bank in New York. Address all mail to PACIFIC PORTRAIT HOUSE. BROADWAY THEATER BUILDING, NEW YORK.S- PLEASE BE Cool, who goes on to state that the nervous system contains as a constituent a phosphor ized oil found in the yelk of egg, in the hu man blood, nnd In butter and cream espe cially. ''Without this phosplioriz;d oil furnished by the blood lor the use and growth of the nervous system, it would cease to grow, and with it would decline the en ergy of all the functions of the body." Cream Easily Digested. Babies and women alike need this, and it is most attainable in cream which, diluted, is 'far easier of digestion for the youngest child than cows' milk. Many of the worst dyspeptics find themselves able to digest pure, sweet butter and diluted cream as well as soft-boiled Iresh eggs, and our nervous, scrawny women want to secure these articles of food in their best quality and freshness. When shall we have the admirably con trived parcel post service of England and the Continent, which furnishes the Xondon housekeeper with fresh cans of cream, and butter churned the same morning iu the Cheshire dairies, with boxes of new-laid eggs in sawdust, and cherries in moss, as well as cut flowers from Scottish gardens for her gaslit dinner table? Why on earth isn't it as easy to send a pound of fresh butter from the Genesee Valley to Madison Square by post as to send three pounds of silk from Twenty-third street to the Genesee? Instead of putting a prohibitory tariff on foreign supplies, let our lawmakers allow us cheaper transportation of parcels by post, and the producers of the Far West and South will soon have no cause to complain of competition for their produce. Fresh, well molded butter from the North Caro lina and Tennessee pastures, wrapped in paraffine paper in a pasteboard box will travel in perfect condition without injury to other parcels, and the canned half-pint of condensed, unsweetened cream, which is one of the last experiments in cannery, could go from New Hampshire to the milkless regions of Texas unchanged. Your pre served fruits, my dear madam, in Virginia or Mississippi or Los Angeles wquld go in a chip box direct to your customer in New York as easily as the return check by letter. Pointer for Aspiring Statesmen. Think of the hand work that could travel by mall between the leisurely women of lonesome villages and the overtasked ones in towns. It would be possible to fix standards of work and have patterns so clearly understood that much work could be done in country places which now the country dwellers must crowd ihe towns to find. If any politician would deserve well at the hands of his grateful countrymen, and specially of the women, who influence the men, let him make the parcel post of England a reality here. If it cannot be done by rail, start the pneumatic system, which has more fortune in it than any of the electric schemes now afoot. That's all on politics, my dear lady. Only food has so much more to do with your beauty than cosmetics, and transportation has so much to do with food, that we can't afford to be indifferent to it. Some French recipes of undoubted value must make up for the digression. A prep aration for drying greasy hair has been asked repeatedly. The Hospital St. Louis uses salicylic acid 1 part, starch 100 parts. powdered and sifted, sprinkled in- the roots of the hair and combed out with a fine comb next morning. For falling hair, after wash ing the hair clean with soap and water, the following pomade is applied: Salicylicacid, 2 parts; precipitated sulphur, 12 parts: lano- Iine and vaseline, each 50 parts. At night frictlonwith the following lotion should be made with a soft brush: Spirits of rosemary, 100 parts; tincture of cantharides, 10 parts. Some Medical Tteclpes. A German prescription for preventing cold sores and boils from coming to a head is to paint them five to ten times daily with equal parts of boracic acid and water. A noted surgeon treats large carbuncles with out using the knife in any way by covering the swelling with bicarbonate of soda, moist, with a bandage. In a few days, the surface is found in a state of suppuration, when a poultice and soothing ointmen t effect a cure. It strikes me that as soda heals burns and carbuncles, it must be effective in pimples of the face and arms, and a paste of raw egg beaten up with a tablespoonful of baking soda would be a good dressing over night. It should be applied only to the pustules, not spread over the skin. Dr. William Murrell, of the Westmin ster Hospital, London, recommends various forms of incense as useful in relieving chronic bronchitis, and as this is pleasant treatment for all his recipe is appended: Styrax, 5 drachms, benzoin, 3 ounce;; sum bu! OTJatamansi, 1 drachm; frankincense, 5 drachms. This will be found richer than any of the pastilles usually sold. Agreeable Disinfectants. According to M. Keldyche, who has ex- penmenieu in nospiiai waras, air saturated with eucalyptol is perfectly disinfected and will no longer breed bacilli in gelatine. If this is true, and everything points to its truth, 'we have a pleasant disinfectant which is an incense of itself and will prevent dis ease without warninc the neigbbois off like carbolic acid or iodoform or raising unutter able thoughts of sulphur, not to mention chloride of lime. One recalls with a sigh the air of the California valleys, balmy with eucalyptus, and the long September days, hazy and aromatic as with the fumes of a perpetually burning censer. Euca lyptol has a clean scent, like pine, and san tal and thyme together. A writer in the Popular Science Kews re ports that he has watched the action of per fumes on the system for years, and believes chat not only is inhaling the perfumes of flowers and plants a valuable therapeutic agent, according to Prof. Schonlein's opinion, but that the living in perfumed air will prevent lung disease and arrest con sumption. In his connection with the per fumery business for 30 years he has em ployed several persons of both sexes con demned to die young of the inherited disease, but who lived to a good age in the saturated air of perfumes. ' Flower Care and Work Core. The same belief is found at Grasse, in the south of France, the flower mart of the world, where the air is full of escaping vapor from the distilling of perfumes and ethereal oils, which is the chief manufacture of the region, and the air out of doors and in is saturated with the exhalations of flowers the year round. Imagine the flower cure, the next lEUhetic craze after the faith cure and Christian science. I beg pardon of the flowers there is truth ia their cure, the others are delusions. Apropos, the Queen of Sweden has been renewing her health by the working cure, making her bed in the morning and sweep ing her room and spending most of the riav at work in the garden, by order of her phy sician. When women take to real work in gardens half their maladies and more than half their ugliness will disappear. Dandelion is thejcoming nervine for wom en. More than one experienced physician tells of its use in cases ot nervous depression and melancholy almost suicidal. Hysteria with indigestion are most successfully treated by dandelion alone, using a strong decoction of the roots. For school girls growing green and black with overstudy obad circulation from any cause, for excitable women and those hvsteric subjects who make their friends' lives a burden if not their own, the simplest remedy is a cup of strong dandelion coffee three times a day. But it must be strong and from the roots, fresh ss possible, not the dried staff sold as dandelion, which is half bread crumbs and the other half any age with the life roasted out. Shirley Dare. IFOIR, 20 ID.A."YS From date, of this papsr. Wishing to introduce our CRAYON PORTRAITS and SURE TO aZEPfriOISr THIS PAPEK. EAT MUSH AND MILK And Threw iu Plenty of Jobnny-Cake and Pone Bread if You I W0DLD BE HEALTHY AND PBETTY. Fariou.3 Dishes Mads From the Cheap and Kntritioo3 Meal. ITS USES 0THEE THAN -FOB COOKING rWElTTXir rOB THE DISPATCH.! A famous physician sums up the virtues of cornmeal in the following words: "Fat s good bowl of mush and milk for your break fast, and you will not need any medicine. Indian corn contain a large amount of ni trogen, has qualities anti-constipating, and is easily assimilated. It is cheap and has nutritive properties. A course of Indian meal in the shape of johnny cake, hoecake, corn or pone bread and mush, relieved by copious draughts of pure cow's milk, to which, if inclined to dyspepsia, a little lime water may ne added, will make life, now a burden, well worth the living, and you need no other treatment to correct your nervous ness, brighten your vision, and give you sweet and peaceful rest" The following recipes, gleaned from re liable sources, have been well tested: STJPEEIOE COEN MCTFEfS. Sift together two cupfnls of yellow cornmeal, one capful of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls or baking powder, and a level teaspooaful each of sugar and salt. Beat until lieht the yelks of three eggs and mix with a pint ot milk. Pour into the meal, add two tablesooonf uls of melted butter and beat rapidly for flva min utes. Whisk the whites of the ? zgs to a stiff froth and stir zently tbrongh the batter. Grease the muffin pan with fresh lard, warm it, and drop the mixture In by large tablespoon fuls, one betas: sufficient for a muffin. BaEe 15 or 20 minutes in a brisk oven. In measuring the meal and floor use a coffee cup of ordinary size and nil it level full. Serve the muffins, just from the oven, folded in a. napkin. COKN GRIDDLE CAKES. Sift together a pint of cornmeal, a pint of floor, a level teaspoonfnl of salt and three tea spoontuls (heaping) of baUng powder. Add the beaten yelks of two eggs, a table spoonful of molasses, a tablespoonful ot melted butter and milk enough to make a thick batter. Beat well for a lew minutes, add more milk to thin it, stir in the beaten whites and bake on a hot, greased griddle. Serve with maple syrup, or honey. A tablespoonful or two of new fallen snow will improve these cakes, and we may here say that snow is an excellent substitute for eggs. ISDIAX PUDDING. Stir into a qnart of boiling milk, one quart of cornmeal. ntitb a teasnoooful of salt. This should be added gradually and beaten smooth. Stir in one small cuntnl of butter a rnnfnl of molasses and a teaspoonfnl of soda dissolved in a rery liiuo ooiung water. Turn into a buttered mould and steam for three or four hours. CORXMEAL WAITI.ES. Take a pint of yellow cornmeal. sift twice, add a teaspoonf al ot salt, a pint of new milk, the beaten yelks of two eggs, a tablespoonf nt of melted butter and a half teaspooaful of soda, dissolved in a little hot water. Mix well and stir in the whites beaten stiff. INDIAN BREAKFAST CAKE. Sift together two cupfnls of cornmeal and the same quantity of flour. Add three copfuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonfnl of soda, and two of crextn tartar. Bake 30 minutes. EDIAX PAXCAKES. Sift together a 'pint of Indian meal and a level teaspoonf ul of salt. Four in enough hot water to make a thin bat ter; and when cool add the beaten yelks of four eggs, and one-half cupful of flour and three tea spoonfuls of baking powder (sifted). Thin the batter, to the consistency of griddla cakes, with sweet milk, stir in the beaten whites and bake at once. CORN BREAD. Take two cupfnls of yellow cornmeal, one of flour, one teaspoonfnl of salt and three tea spoonfuls of baking powder. Sift together, add two well-beaten eggs and a pint.of new milk Bake for 30 minutes. STEWED CORN-. This recipe originated In the Valley of Vir ginia, and may be relied upon as a peculiarly excellent one, the sweetness of the corn being unsurpassed when the directions are exactly followed: Choose well-filled but tender ears. Cut it from the cob with two cuts to the gTain. or, in other words, shavs it lightly, hay ing first made incisions lengthwise of the ear. It can then be cut off the cob without tho sklu. Put the cobs in a stew pan. cover with wxtnr and boll 20 minutes. Then take them out, and into the water in which they were boiled put the corn and cook for ten minutes. Season with salt, pepper, cream and butter. A little sngar may be added it the com is not very sweet. CORN PUDDING. Take a dozen ears of sweet corn, gash the kernels through the center, cut from the cob and season with salt. Stir in a pint of milk, and add a lump of sweet batter. Have the oven hot and bake SO minutes. Some Odd Uses. An old rule In regard to making mush is to "cook it until it is done, and then cook as lone again." It is not an unusual thing for some cooks to boil or steam mush for half a day slowly simmering it in the back part of the range. It should not be made too thick if it is to be served with milk. A CCPFCI. of cornmeal should be kept in the bath room. It will remove dirt from the hands more readily than soap, and for this pur pose is invaluable to the mechanic and the laborer. Wet the bands, dip In the meal and rub thoroughly, rinse and dry. Jlusu made to fry will brown more readily if the meal is mixed with milk and then poured into boiling water. To make a tnugh steak tender smother it ia cornmeal and bake it. Use yellow cornmeal for gems, pono and johnny cake. THEvalneot cornmeal as a cosmetic has long been known. Maiza soap, to be found at any pharmacy, can be safely recommended to cleanse, soften and whiten the skin. Physicians recommend cornmeal water for obstinate cases of tetter. Sponge the parts af fected. For blackheads rub them with a bit of soft wet linen or inusltn, dipned In sifted meal. Ths application should bo made at bed time, or when not going out. or expecting company, as the process reddens thsskln somewhat. Give the children cornmeal to wash tbeir hands with in the winter season, to prevent chapping. Emjce Serena. A .Politico Necessity. Cbicaso Times. Ex-Bnrglar How, gentlemen, you see your folly in not electing me to the Legisla ture. Bartender And what could you do. Eed Pete? Ex-Burglar I'd show 'em how to pict that deadlock In a jiffy. See? The Biggest Boom. The greatest distance at which, artificial sounds are known to have been heard was on December 24, 1832, when the cannon at Antwerp were heard in the Erzebiree, 370 miles away. '" !" no4&-Kusa SkFsBxt -&- .- V A.
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