Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-11
Written for THE EVENING star.
BEAUTY AND YOUTH.
Men and Women Who Wear Well and
Look Well.

Men and Women Who Wear Well and
Look Well.
WHAT RCoYANT, MrRTH-LovrSe SPIRIT AND COR
RECT NOTIONS OF LIVING NAY po-oLp METH-
obs FOR THE TOILET n FRANCS WHICH WOMEN
MAY COPY TO ADVANTAGE.
To live long and live young is the dream of
the poets almost forgotten of men, which yet
haunts them with a sense of remedies loss.
We are cruel to ourselves in that We live so
short time and yet waste two-thrds Of that
time in decline. The world feels grateful to
those who keep their youth for the encourage
ment of its hopes. Never smile at the man who
wears well and looks and is younger than his
wears; that is, than our feeble idea of their
limitations. People take the least possible care
OF themselves, their health. their life. their
vigor and resign themselves fatuously to
tne consequences, even deriding those who
would put back the hand shadow on the dial TO
Its appointed place. As well ridicule those
VINO seek to escape death as those who would
escape age, which is the messenger of death.
we all want to bring things down to our own
limited measures, and because are stiff in
the wits, half cross with bad digestion and run
ing down by reason Of unthrifty waste of
health cannot abide the sight of fellow NOR
tais wiser than ourselves. The conventional
notlon OF sobriety is chargeable with this loss
OF youth. The tradition Of a Spanish gravity
ana stihness OF demeanor is the cause of much
loss OF healthy spirit and life. The precept
translated in Scripture, BE SOBER" really
reads In Greek. BE earnest" and a terrific en-
dowment of earnestness and will is consistent
with as high flight of spirits and daring humor
as ever worn by court jester or his knightly
master OF the crown. The greatest minds of
the world have always been men and women of
spirits 30 brilliant as to be chargeable with
Eghtness by their less gifted fellows. The great
fighters, from Charlemagne, could laugh loudly
ana Jest keenly; the great reformers, Luther at
the head, were men of Astounding humor; the
great poets and artists were young till they
Died, and wherever you find this
BUoYASr MIRTH-LovING QUALITY,
this capability of youthfulness, it argues
vitality which, rightly priced should carry its
owner through life with force undated and eye
undimmed. As well cared for, your fast Ken
lucky roadster will out last slow, weight-car-
rylng Norman. Men half comprehend this
truth, and give more thought to the conserva-
ton OF their youth. Society counts scores of
men who have copied Lord Palmerston in the
care of themselves, the limited delicate fare,
the hot baths weekly, or oftener; the daily fric-
ton, which supplies the want of exercise as far
as 1t can be supplied, and SO keep an attractive
ness which satirizes their years. If American
men could train themselves to taste good
dinners discreetly and tear themselves
| from their offices for active exer-
else out Of doors daily they would be
younger and handsomer at sixty than they are
| at forty. MIR. Gladstone is a good example of
what studious care will do for a man mediocre
| In everything except ambition; but of whom
| the opinion of Prosper Merimee stands unre-
versed, There is i'll him the something of the
| child, the statesman and the fool" man
might train himself or life might train him,
by hardy youth and temperate, hard work
/ ing middle years, for an age which should in
reality be life's prime, ardent with the electric
| force of mind far-sighted and keen-sighted,
with the single -mindedness which all men,
| kings and councillors, learn to wish they had
! used before they come to die. Instead, they
| rear themselves for the shrunken limb the un-
| steady gait. the rheumy eye.
| The tradition OF Lilith, first wife Of Adam is
| that she left him in anger that she might re-
| main filr, and became head spirit of evil tor
| mentlnS the dreams Of man as her daugh-
| tiers do to this day. The legend has the fallacy
OF all myths, which contain half compre hended
truth: Is 1t Christian to assign supreme power
and beauty to the spirits OF evil! Is she any
more queen of female demons than Solomon
| was OF the geni and do we dread Solomon's
| wisdom and attraction, who SENS to have
| been sort of oriental Goethe, wanting the
seihshness! 1t was not Lilith who ate the apple
| winch tempted Eve. 1t is Lilith who forseeIpg
| the pain and sin of life, takes away the Young
children mercifully in sleep, and women ignor-
| antly hate her for It, forgetting how they slay
and MAIN them for life in their ignorant cruelty.
| They also hate her because. knowing the Will of
nature, she remains ever fair and the sight of
| her lace lures men, would lure them to the
| spiritual, the mental, the lasting, and teach
them lnfatuation for all things good and
WISE AND IMMORTAL.
| But men, being doomed to work out knowI-
edge OF the unspeakable folly and bitterness of
| lower things, have but one reading of inten-
| ton, and would bring her to the level which
| Eve taught them; SO with the coming of Lilth
| there Is strife. Her daughters may a while for
| get their birthright, but they remember it in
| time and the world holds the tradition of
women who never grow old Such are never
| forceless women, childish and slight as thev
| may SEEM But while Ewes daughters are
| questioning and lameuting their want of ipfiu-
| ence over the minds of men, and ascribiDg all
| manner OF baseness to them to account for it,
Lilith's daughters smile; for, good or bad thew
Will not lose their power until the end The
| secret OF Lilith's power is her deep humility.
| She knows her limltations-Eve will not be told
| that she has any. Lilith knows the sway of
| sense must have an end and will neither
rule by it nor neglect it, but Eve craving to
| be as gods, will have her power scarce short
| OF the Divine, and loses, even when she
| seems to win. 1t is Lilith who has left in
| the world knowledge Of the secret of pro-
| longing youth as well as beauty. Ewes
| daughters have ignorantly been content to
L
which LETT the form diseased ana fatigued
Lilith's wisdom teaches them to keep the skin
ever young and fair without masking it in
metallic oxides ground in toilet lotions, which
Is genteel sort of house paint. There is the
| greatest difference between such paints and
| the creams which soften and supple the skin
| without spreading over it a metallic film i'm
pervlous to air and moisture.
The hot dry climate OF France is most like
| our own of all the provinces of Europe and
we may copy the old methods for the toilet
with benefit Women who divided their lives
between the toilet and display were likely to be
shrewd mistresses OF their art Devotee and
| women of the world alike used cosmetics even
the nuns not disdaining to bind thin plate of
lead about the forehead to free it from yrin-
kles and give a celestial purity below the Golf.
Convents made famous additions to their in
comes by the preparation of toilet waters and
cream, and many fine lady made her pious
| retreat serve double purpose of getting back
her beauty sleep and her roses, as she mended
her complexion with Liant virginia. and eau
celeste or balm marie between her prisons
MADAME DE MAINTENoS's TOILET.
The cabinets of laurel and cherry wood in
the dressing room of Madame de Maintenon
were repositories of cosmetics, which she had
made on SO large O scale that her relations with
her perfumer were state scandal Probably she
used nothing worse than strawberry water, dis
TILED from the whole wild plant and berry.
which has an exquisite smell and is a fine wash
to remove freekles and spots on the face.
French ladies use the mice of the sfra ubarrv ao