Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-29
Shirley Dare Tells Women How to
Live Long and Live Young.
THREEFOLD AGENCIES OF BEAUTY.
Disclosing the Secrets Of Being Lovely All
Ones Life.
WHY SOMEGRAEDMOTHERs AREBELLEs
rwnIrrnN ToR THE D1sPArcH. !

isfied with so little.
The good we must insist upon enjoying
longer, and since life without vigor is mere
penalty, we must have freshness and at
traction to go with it. The looks of women
have improved greatly within the last q
years, in which the arts of dress and physi-
cal culture have received new impulse.
Pretty women at 35 do not feel obliged to
lay aside their queenship, and when q
woman of over 40 who looks and is the
incarnation of youth and vitality, no one
thinks to question her age or mutter the
odious syllable: "well-preserved There
is such thing as life of constant work,
simple habits, generous feeling and intel.
lectual activity, keeping mind and body in
such harmonious play that failure has nc
chance to mar its working. The springs Of
such life are incessant activity, with close
physical attention, and not too much over
work. It is not work that kills people, but
mental worry and unhealthful surround
ings. The overcharged heart and taxed
hands would bear their strain nobly to the
overheated house with air drawn from the
cellar, the vitiated food at restaurant, or
poorly-kept home, which poison hearts and
paralvze brain.
The conditions of beauty are threefold.
the culture of body, mind and the affections.
We cannot neglect one of these and look for
satisfaction from the others. Due care and
opportunity must be given to soul and in
tellect alike If we would have the full per-
fection Of the physical.
WHAT IS BEAUTY?
The cultivation of beauty is the cant of
the day; but gymnasiums, reform dress and
cosmetics can never give allurements which
will stand one hour against the same looks
which add measure OF keen wits. These
in turn 90 down against the dainty lip.
which takes the curve Of pride and tender
ness at a thought, the brilliant eyes keen
with discernment, and full Of passionate af-
lection as they are pure, fit for heavens
searching. the roseblooming face which can be
arch with coquetry or soft with unutterable
devotion, yet always generous, always sim
cere, from the very nature and fiber of its
soul. Thank heaven, such women, though
incredible, are not impossibilities. Such
natures had the historic beauties, who drew
hearts after them as long as they could
smile. Great generosity and keen mind
seem inseparable from this lasting Ioveliness,
and when we come to look into it scientific
ally, 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, Ieav-
ing it fine a2d clear. quote from the ad-
vance sheets of Mrs. Stanton's most able and
suggestive work on physiognomy:
"a fine thin skin willgive corresponding
bright sclerotic and retina to the eye. A
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 con-
nection with the thin covering of the eye,
give the brightness and viVacity observed in
the mentally gifted person, and absent in
the dull and stupid"
This quick circulation also gives color to
the cheek and fairness the general COM
plexion. besides isvoring the muscular ac-
tiYity which gives file limbs, freedom and
grace of movement. The nearest approach
to these conditions is to be found among
actresses, who study the art of self-repair,
who are under continual artistic stimulus,
and if they do not throw themselves away
by dissipation, of all women preserve their
charms longest.
A GRANDMOTHER AND A BELLE.
I lately paid a call upon a well-known
actress, whose trim. elegant figure, glossy
black hair and fair vivacious face, coupled
with faultless taste in dress, defed any idea
Of being over SO. L ought to know women,
and yet sat within yard of her without
suspicion of her real age, and was taken
aback at hearing one cry out afterward,
''That womanI She must be so, and she has
been grandmother I 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 vivacity Of youth
about her, as it will be until she dies. 1
know one New York grandmamma
with the most superb roseleaf COM
plexion, melting dark eyes and plant
figure, without a redundant line, with
arms one feels like kissing for their
lovely taper and Velvety skin, yet this
bellemere, as the gracious French term ftly
expresses it, is one of the keenest business
women in New York. A life which keeps
q woman's activities on the alert, giving
her contact with the world, while feeding |
her sentiments and affections and leaving |
time for personal cares, is the ideal lie for |
the preservation OF beauty. Women who |
marry and settle down, as it is phrased,
give themselves too often to monotonous |
cares, grow plump, padded and expression
less. Wrinkles come easy to such women's /
faces. Sentiment, not sentimentalism by |
the way, is after all the great beautifer Of |
women, and yet they rule it out of their |
lives as contemplate, if not dangerous. But |
sentiment, alasI is not perhaps in fancy |
sold at the pharmacy. One can
only indicate its worth, as doctors say, and |
70 on 10 the care of the cuticle.
One would imagine that all had been said |
upon this subject. Science shows how much |
here 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 of its |
I'D, worn-out matter and creates new, the |
waste and repair are so nearly equal day by |
lay that age comes slowly and lmpercep- |
IDLY. The reason people have not this |
7igor is principally food.
ACTIVE AND GAY AT96.
In an institution for elderly people Of the |
better class, near one OF our largest cities, is |
,r was man of Sc. who was most remark |
lble specimen of vigor at that age. Up /
at o'clock. playing his flute for |
diversion, studying hard and gardening or
walking far, he spent as active a life as most |
men of %, and did not look much past that
lge, except the change in the cornea of the
,yes. His sight was keen, his hearing good
ind his memory of events and dates phe-
lomenal.
Our food should be our tonic and medi-
line, and it is either that or our poison. Its
work in eliminating old matter from the
ystem must be carefully secured. as this
ellis most strikingly upon the eleanness Of
he skin.
This skin of ours, which the Japanese say,
zeeps us from seeing our souls, is horny
lin, in the outer layers pierced by minute
weat glands. protecting the lymph vessels
md juices below. If not cleansed frequently
t takes additional thickness. The magnify
ng glass shows coat of dead skin, watery
md oily exudations which serve to hold