The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13

/ Is either pale or yellow, her nails are
/ white, her hands are dry looking and her
| hair Is crisp. inclined to break, shows diff
! ferent colors and lacks all gloss. There
/ fore, the first secret of beauty is good
/ health. The next is cleanliness and after
| that woman needs to be wise enough TO
look after her diet and to have on her
| toilet table the simple connections that are
to be used for simple complaints. Once any
! thing of Importance is the matter with
you, do not try to cure yourself If you
wish TO keep beautiful Start off to the
Zee to make you well. Not to just cure
the ailment, but to find what caused it,
and 10 force that 10 disappear.
Foolish women once in a while announce
that to keep beautiful a woman should
plunge into a cold bath. Now, to the
average American woman, cold bath is
a terrible shock, and shock is followed
by nervousness, and nervousness means
loss of beauty. The best bath is a tepid
one. This should be taken in the morn
ing, and If II Is followed by a good rub
ping, one can go out, even in the coolest
weather, without fear Of catching cod
An occasionally extremely hot bath
should be taken at night This is a pure
ly cleansing bath, since IL forces the
skin to open its pores and throw out
every particle of dust that they have
managed to accumulate, and to which
they hold with a tightness that is Won
derful. While l am preaching, l might
Just as well tell what is an absolute
truth. One-half the women are not as
particular about their linen as they
should be. They wear clothes that look
clean, but that are really not pure from
the standpoint of good health. Be as ex-
traVagant as you like with three people
and you will be beautiful. These are your
laundress, your cook and your doctor.
Then give great deal of thought to the
way your table appears because YOU
must tempt your own appetite
A good story, translated from the
French, is going the rounds Of the Eng
lish press, but il may not have reached
You yet. 1t is this: Baudeiaire remarked
to friend; Il have just seen an adora-
bic woman. She has the most beautiful
eyebrows in the world which she draws
with the point Of a crayon; the most beau
tiful eyes-produced by cosmetic-laden
lashes; the most perfect mouth-fashion.
ed out of carmine and, in addition, not
hair that she can call her own"
The friend answered; She must be a
monster"
No" said Baudelaire, "she is a great
artist" l do not tell this story to en-
courage girls to use cosmetics but L tell
1t to encourage my listeners, who hap
pen to be Aunt Maria, Nanny and the
girl from next door, TO use everything
that is right TO make them look more
beautiful. Men should be handsome in the
sense of being well made, well kept to-
gether and strong Women should he
beautiful. not necessarily through having
perfect features, but with white skins,
with soft, expressive eyes, with tender
hands, with beautiful hair, beautiful in
It's gloss, in its quantity, I'm its color and
IN us arrangement, and then they should
move around in the quiet way so essential
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voice that woman must cultivate be.
fore she can even be pretty. A woman
VINO talks through her nose who speaks
loudly, who uses bad grammar is not a
beautiful woman. A woman who trots. a
woman who gallops woman who strides.
Is not only not a beautiful woman, but
she makes one wonder whether she Is a
woman at all. IT is as easy to learn to
walk well as 1t is 10 speak well, to laugh
well and to be happy,
Being happy is a necessity If one wishes
to be beautiful, and being happy really
means being hopeful. 1t means forget
ting the sorrow Of to-day and looking for.
ward TO the happiness of tomorrow. 1t
means forgetting the worries of life and
thinking of its joys. 1t is so easy to be
happy II one win only make UP one ; mind
to 1t. Find pleasure in everything. and
II you can laugh merrily at everything
that comes into your life, and laugh prop
eriy, you will be pretty even If you are
not beautiful, for your mouth will shape
itself we'll
BY the bye, speaking OF the mouth. un-
less you have beautiful teeth learn TO
hold your lipe close together
Get over the bad habit of permitting
your gums to be seen. But you ought Ia
have beautiful teeth. The dentist OF TO-
day is magician, and toothbrushes are
| cheap, and II you have nothing better
soap is good dentifrice. Pearls in the
shape of lovely teeth should be in the
| mouth OF every woman while diamonds IN
| the shape of interesting words should fail
from her lips whenever she opens them.
Women are always generous; that is, the
normal woman. II is the abnormal woman
who Is miser And when a woman grows
| greedy. or too fond OF money she grows
ugly. She draws her lips too loosely TO-
| gether, her Jawbone seems to fall down
| and beome square rather than curved
her eyes, In their desire to see everything
becomes small, and with her loss of gen.
crosby comes the loss of good looks. Nc
woman need be q spendthrift, but every
woman can be generous and share her
goods gifts with those who need. II be.
comes woman to be kindly and to think
Of those who in this world have less than
| she.
1t makes one love a woman 10 think
that she remembers what you would like
|
| Once woman grows stingy she loses
friends and lovers. oftentimes in heI
| greed for wealth she does not care about
this. She Is rapidly becoming less OF 4
woman and more of a machine. In time
| she becomes that most disgusting of all
creatures. a woman of business. Thai
woman who measures the hours of the
| day by their value, who counts life as
worth nothing. since il is not bought OF
sold. She is the trader and not the wo
man. She may be desirable back OF thu
desk, but she Is a monster beside a sick
bed or where death has come She will
try to haggle with death when he de.
mands that she shall follow him, and
then, and then only, will she ind that gold
is worth but little, that 1t buys no future
and that she cannot take II with her
Fancy her deathbed! Thank goodness.
her number is few.
Aunt Maria looks frightened. Nanny
and the girl next door are Wondering what
am talking about, and when the preac h.
er has reached that part of his sermon
II Is time for him to pronounce the bene.
diction, take up the collection and 90