Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-28
Written for THE EVENING STAR
YOUTH AND BEAUTY.
Shirley Dare Tells How Both May Long
BE Preserved.
TO LIVE LONG AND LIVE YoUNe-rHE rHREE-FoLp
AGENCIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WHO
ARE BELLEs-sECRErs OF BEING LOVELY ALL
ONES LIFE COSMETICS AND SKIN MEDICINES.

ARE BELLEs-sECRETs OF BEING LOVELY ALL
ONES LIFE COSMETICS AND SKIN MEDICINES
The world so far has been content with max
| ing good living, combined with more or less
moral improvement during life. But with real
| progress we cannot always be satisfied with SO
| little
The good We must insist upon ENJOYING
longer, and since lie without vigor is a mere
penalty, we must have freshness and attraction
to go with it. The looks Of women have i'm
proved greatly within the last twenty years. in
which the arts of dress and physical culture
have received new impulse. Pretty women at
thirty-fve do not feel obliged to lay aside their
queenship, and when a woman of over forty
| looks aud is the incarnation of youth
| and vitality no one thinks to question her
| age or mutter the odioGs words: well pre-
! served" There is..suoh thing as life OF con-
| slant work, simple HABITS, generous feeling
and intellectual activity. keeping mind and
body IN such harmonious play that failure has
no ehance to mar Its working. The springs of
| such life are incessant activity, with close
| physical attention and not too much over
| work 1t Is not work that kills people, but
| mental worry and unhealthful surroundings.
The oyercharged heart and taxed hands would
bear their strain nobly to the end if it were
| not for the close Office, the overheated house
with air drawn from the cellar, the vitiated
| food at restaurant or poorly kept home,
which poison heart and paralyze brain.
| CONDITIONS OF BEAUTY.
The conditions of beauty are threefod-the
culture of body, mind and the affections We
| cannot neglect one of these and look for salts
| faction from the others. Due care and oppor-
| tunity must be given to soul and intellect alike
| II We would have the full perfection of the
| physical. The cultivation of beauty is the cant
| OF the day, but gymnasiums, reform dress and
cosmetics can never give allurements which
VIII stand one hour against the same looks
which add measure OF keen wits. These in
| turn go down against the dainty lip, which
takes the curve OF pride and tenderness at a
| thought. the brilliant eyes keen with discern
ment and full OF passionate affection as they are
pure, lit for heavens searching the rose bloom
ing face which can be arch with coquetry or soft
with unutterable devotion,yet always generous,
always sincere, from the very nature and fiber
| of its soul. Thank heaven such women. though
! Incredible, are not impossibiIties. Such
natures had the historic beauties. who drew
hearts after them as long as they could smile
| Great generosity and keen mind seem insepa-
| rable from this lasting loneliness, and when we
| come to look into it scientifically they are the
very rise and causes of its being. Acute feeling
| stimulates the nerves and quickens circulation,
which actively carries away dead particles of
| the skin, leaving it fine and clear. quote from
| the advance sheets OF Mrs. Stanton's most able
and suggestive work on physognomy: "A fine
thin skin Will give corresponding bright
| scerotic and retina to the eye. bright
| eye Is never seen in combination with
| coarse thick skin. The second cause of
| brightness is the quality and expansion
OF the optic nerve. The nerves of sense of
high quality and activity, in connection with
the thin covering of the eye, give the bright
ness and vlvaclty observed in the mentally
gifted person and absent in the dull and stu
pid: This quick circulation also gives color
to the cheek and fairness to the general COM
plexlon, besides favoring the muscular activity
which gives fine limbs, freedom and grace of
movement. The nearest approach to these con-
ditions is to be found among actresses who
! study the art of self repair, who are under con-
tinual artistic stimulus, and if they do not throw
themselves away by dissipation of all women
| preserve their charms longest
BEAUTIFUL GRANDMOTHER.
lately paid a call upon a well-known actress,
whose trim, elegant figure, glossy black hair
| and fair vivacious face, coupled with fault
less taste in dress, defied any idea of being
over thirty-six. ought to know women, and
yet sat within a yard of her without suspicion
OF her real age, and was taken aback at hear
| ing one cry out afterward THAT womanl She
must be sixty, and she has been a grand
mother don't know how long," 1t may be, yet
shall always think Of her as one of the most
fascinating OF women, with the sentiment and
vivaclty OF youth about her, as it will be until
she dies. know one New York grandmamma
with the most superb rose-leaf complexion.
melting dark eyes and plant figure, without a
| redundant line, with arms one feels like kissing
for their lovely taper and velvety skin, vet this
belle mere, as the gracious French term
ftly expresses it, is one of the keenest
business women in New York. life which
keeps WON ms activities on the alert giving
her contact with the world while feeding her
sentiments I'D affections and leaving time for
personal CT res Is the ideal life for the preserva-
ton OF beauty. Women who marry and settle
down. as it Is phrased, give themselves too
often TO monotonous cares grow plump, padded
and expressionless Wrinkles come easy to
such women's faces. Sentiment not sentiment
talism by the way, is after all the great beau
tiher Of women. and yet they rule it out of their
lives as contemplate, if not dangerous But
sentiment, alas! is not. perhaps in fancy pack
ages, sold at the pharmacy. One can only in
dictate its worth, as doctors say and 60 on to
the care of the cuticle.
One would imagine that all had been said
upon this subject. Science shows how much
there is to discover in the search for
THE LOST SPRING OF YOUTH
That spring is vitality. If this is active in
supply the system readily throws off its old
WORKOUT matter and creates new. the waste and
repair are SO nearly equal day by day that
age comes slowly and imperceptibly. The
reason people have not this vigor is principally
food.
In an institution for elderly people of the
better class near one Of our largest cities, is or
was man of ninety-six, who was a most re-
markable specimen of vigor at that age Up
mornings at o'clock. playing his flute for di-
version, studying hard and gardening or walk
ing far he spent as active a life as most men of
fifty-five, and did not look much past that age,
except the change in the cornea of the ewes.
His sight was keen, his hearing good and his
memory of events and dates phenomenal.
Our food should be our tonic and medicine.
and it is either that or our poison. Its work in
eliminating old matter from the system must
be carefully secured, this tells most strik-
ingly upon the cleanness of the skin
This skin Of ours, which the Japanese saw
keeps US from seeing our souls. is horny film,
in the outer layers pierced by minute sweat
glands, protecting the lymph vessels and Juices
below. II not cleansed frequently it takes ad-
ditional thickness. The magnifying glass shows
coat OF dead skin watery and oily exudations
which serve to hold dust and fibers from
clothing. Water will not remove nor pass
through this layer entirely; alcohol will not i'm
mediately cleanse it. Steam and spray, or mist,
dissolve this coating and alkalis and soaps clear
it away. Only the securing processes Of
the blood, aided by warm alkaline baths, will
keep the skin in its purity, velvet to the eye,
soul to the touch. This regime, pure food,
pure habits, will give beautifully fine skin,
but to undo our long neglects some aid from
cosmetic agents is welcome. The true cosmet-
les are the medicine of the skin, and those who
take 1t upon themselves to denounce cosmet-
les, to be consistent, should never use salve or
oil on sore lip, or rub cold cream on a sun