Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-14

NOW, myself have formula for beauty
making that is not only eficacious. but which
possesses the additional advantage of brevity, SO
that if it were to be printed even as often as
once a week there would yet be room in the
newspaper columns for something beside the
modus operandi for steaming ones face or the
elaborate directions for compromising cos
metics.
why, my goodness she exclaimed. throwing
down the paper in disgust ''if one were to fol-
low all these suggestions for improving one s
appearance there wouldn't be time left for any,
thing else. The wood would remain unhewn
and the water undrawn as far as any assistance
from wOmankind was concerned for she simply
wouldn't be able to get an hour off from her
brews and applying them to some portion of
her frame.
And how the originators of these devices con-
tradict Themselves she went on. why, one of
the most prominent writer's on the subject
what is her name?-will tell you one week that
really the only thing for the hair is prepare
ton OF soap bark. and a few days after you will
read where this same wiseacre has averred that
your hairs salvation depends upon beaten
egg being rubbed into its roots. and week later
rain water in which saturated solution of
borax and camphor has been introduced is pro-
nounced the ultimatum on hair restorers. In
deed. If these writers inconsistency didn't en-
rage me couldn't help but admire their in
genuity, for -"
But what is your recipe for beauty" inter-
rupted a freckle-nosed young lady guest. who
having run the entire gamut of frecke effacers
from lemon juice up, hoped at last to hear of a
sovereign cure for this particular i'll to which
her complexion was heir.
My recipe? Oh. yes nearly forgot. 1t is
simple. you'll see at once. for it consists merely
of two items. First. to wear pleasant express
sion OF face, and, second, to carry one self cor
rectly.''
The freckle-nosed young lady guest looking
both disappointed and skeptical at this, her
hostess reiterated in somewhat argumentative
accents:
Indeed it is so, just two items. to look pleas
ant and to stand straight. They are the i'm
portant points and for the simple reason that
they contribute more largely to ones general
effect than all the other details put together.
and it is a general good effect that one should
strive for rather than this or that pretty detail.
for We all know the woman who has one or two
pretty points that still fails of being beautiful
because her general effect is poor, while another
who. according to the artistic standard. would
fall short in finish of detail. has notwithstand-
ing an ensemble that leads her to pass for a
beauty.
''Of course it goes without saying that every
self-respecting woman will, to begin with, be as
clean as pOssble-yOu remember what Beecher
says about a cake of soap being the first means
as her means allow. All this is understood
Well, then what is it that attracts you most in
a woman! Her expression Of face. is it not? For
If this indicates narrowness of thought and pet
tlness in her standards you don't like her even
If her complexion lis the proverbial milk and
roses while very indifferent complexion is lost
sight of if there is a look back of it indicating
the presence of any of the graces of SOUL
The freckle-nOsed young lady here looked as
II she wished it were not impOlite TO rescue the
rejected paper from its ignominious position OIL
the floor and see what she herself could make
out of the beauty column, an expression which
the highly respected matron took no notice of
but continued
And since correct carriage is neither more
nor less than a good expression Of the BODY
why, this second condition of comeliness is really
only a continuation of the first If Won are
walking behind a woman who carries herself
well Ism there an expression of self-respect and
frankness and force in her mere attitude with
out seeing her face at ali which the pose of q
round-shouldered, awkward sister by no means
suggests?
I'm quite of the opinion of the Del Sarteans,"
went on the highly respected matron, THAT the
body is capable of as much expression az the
face, and if women only realized as they grew
older how much a proper carriage of it had
to do with deceiving the public into thinking
they were still young they would spend less
time on complexion beautifers and more on
make woman look so old as dropping. weak
backed, crane-necked way of sitting and walk
ing. She looks Immediately as if the world and
time and everything else had got the better of
her. Why, even q round-shouldered child has
q look of youthful decrepitude
Il once read" said the highly respected
matron, at which prospect of literary reminis-
cences the freckle-nOsed young lady YEARLY in
clined her head backward into the depths OF her
velvet chair and fervently hoped that the car
riage for church would be announced ..some-
thing to the effect that in every individual.
however i'll dressed and demoralized mentally
and morally, there was yet the possibility of
beauty, and since then have found it an ex-
cellent time killer when l am obliged to wait in
depots to attempt to discover this latent lowell
ness in my fellow beings. Sometimes it is all
but buried. I've even had to go SO far now and
then as to mentally wash some individuals faces
before their beauty could be exhumed, but
given in imagination suitable dress, an ami
able and intelligent expression of face and an
upright and graceful carriage, and any one,
whether short or tall, or whatever his style Of
features, will look WE'LL for indeed what is good
looking but looking good"
But supposing these people haven't any
amiability of nature or any gracefulness of
spirit to put into their faces and forms, what
are you going to do thenY' inquired the freckle-
nosed young lady, reused to a languid interest
by so preposterous theory. and who seeing.
too, that the highly respected matron was bent
on talking till church time, wisely concluded
that more entertainment could be got out of a
dialogue than monologue.
"What them" repeated the highly respected
matron, looking, with reflective quicker on her
brow, into the open fire, from whose flames she
must have gathered some light, for after brief
pause she went on; with her old emphasis:
''What then? Well, should most decidedly
advise the woman SO unfortunately situated as
all that to assume the outward guise of the good
she did not possess; to adopt the erect buoyant
carriage that betokens hope, the serene face
that indicates faith in the universe, and to per-
sist in it, for while one may put on the mask of
virtue for a few minutes or an hour without the
real MIXTURE being affected one couldn't do it for
month or year without finding the nature
changing to fit the mask. You've heard of the
hermit crab, haven't you?''
"Oh, yes, indeed-soft shell crabs Won mean,
don't you?" said the freckle-nosed young lady,
rising animatedly from her reclining position,
cheered and surprised at the sudden and con-
genial turn that the conversation had taken
1--WE had some 80 deliciously prepared at that
luncheon yesterday, and--
81 am not referring TO any Of the items Of q
MENU" responded the highly respected matron
with some dignity. The freckle-nosed young
lady's head returned to the chair depths.
"A hermit crab 10 q species Of that name
whose peculiarly is that it takes up its abode
in the cast-oH shells of other water creatures,
| till at last it has become SO altered through
adapting itssh to 1T this shell that il would
scarcely be recognized Is q true crab Now