The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-09
HOW TO BE LOVELY
YEARS DO NOT COUNT
After All, Beauty, Like Wisdom Is
Greatly TO Be Desired.
WHAT FACIAL MASSAGE WILL DO
Indifference May he Changed to Acc
tive Intcrest--Not Only Beauty OF
Expression But LONELINESS of Com
plexion aud Contour OF Feature
May be Gained..Wrinkles May b
smoothed Out and the New Woman
Proposes to Have None.

Proposes to Have None.
Every mothers daughter of us wants
to be attractive. There is nothing
more pathetic than the spectacle pre-
sented by some discouraged hopeless
woman when she reaches the stage of
doing her hair in hard knot, pulled
tightly back from her brow and for
getting to wear a collar. She Is really
in a desperate state of mind, and her
life is a sad example ofwhat tawoman's
| life should not be. Yet forlorn and
| apathetic as she may seem-devoid of
all pride, ambition or interest I'm
| feminine fancies-yet if her husband
| or some one of her family should
| whisper a word of recollection of what
| she used to be, when her hair waved
| low down over her ears, when her
| throat swelled softly from a white
| frill and when her wrists were plump
| and supple the beholder would prob
| ably note a change the very next day,
| If in nothing more than a pitiful at
| tempt to relax the cast iron severity of
| the bands of iron gray locks. or to
| change the careless custom of attire.
What a herculean task would we
|
probation? Sometimes there are those
| of us who stop at nothing to merit it
| or at least to receive it. There are
| those who would stain their tresses
| sky blue, if such a feat were possible
| and if by SO doing they could win an
| approving word from lips they love.
| Often they do succeed in securing a
| pale green tint after the gold of the
Oh. N;e.t 1a- g., JAI l,y,
their flashing teeth a jet black, or
| shave their eyebrows, run skewers
| through their noses or do almost any
| other absurd thing If thus they could
| obtain a word of praise from those who
| seldom notice whether their women
| kind are arrayed in a modish tailor
| gown or in sack-cloth garnished with
| ashes.
| The feminine longing to be beautiful,
| because to be beautiful is to be loved,
is shown not less by the white darling
| of riches and luxury, emerging pure
and dainty from her down and satin
| nest, than by the daughter Of the slums,
underfed, unmatched, and INTENDED,
yet betraYing the instinct of her sex
| in the tawdry bit of lace or the gay
| ribbon at her throat.
What is it Kipling says in his pleas
ant brutality?
| when you get to a man in the case
| They're like row of pins
| For the Colonel's lady ana Judy OGrady
| Are sisters under their skins
| Why shouldn't we try to look well
| just as long as possible. and wage a
determined war with age even to the
point of robbing him of his terrors?
| A ma
| speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, and If she has a complexion
that looks sallow and uncared for, her
words are often unheard while people
| are wondering if she has something
the matter with her liver. She may
have a reputation for being very clever,
very intellectual and entertaining but
| if she looks haggard and worn and
| habitually wears ill fitting and unbe-
| coming frocks most people and very
| intelligent people, too, will lose inter-
| est in her and privately decide that
she is overrated. She may get the bal
| lot and work reforms that will make
| mems head spin but she never will ac-
| complish this unless she makes a good
| appearance, looks out of bright eyes,
| gives some attention to her hair and
| dresses in good taste.
| Now this does sound horribly worldly
| and not at all new womanly, but the
| real new woman isn't trump. She is
a nice bright person with ideas of doing
| good and she follows them out with
success and incidentally looks as pretty
| as possible.
THE NEW WOMANS THEORY.
Ia these end of the century days she
| is growing wise and realizes that she
| has possibilities of beauty that have
| never been developed and she "goes
| in" for that sort of thing to a liberal
| extent.
The time was when it was believed
| that only the young girl, or the woman
| under twenty-five need attempt to do
| anything to improve her looks as far
| as complexion and contour of the face
| was concerned. After that age if she
| hadn't managed to secure a husband,
she might make spasmodic efforts to
.primp" but it would be only pitifully,
| foolishly ludicrous. OF course if the
husband was a verify and had actually
been acquired there wasn't any use
| of bothering. Muddy skin and dull,
| thin tresses were not to be interfered
| with, for they We're inevitable and
| therefore proper.
But we have changed all that. Now it
is realized that woman may not only
| preserve her youthful looks by care
while still young, but that it is possible
| to restore much of the freshness and
| lovelness of youth by hygienic rational
| treatment even after years have come
when the precious gift of beauty or
even of passable fairness had been
thought to be lost forever, and when
previous thoughtlessness, or worries or
toll have done much to make the task
| difficult.
There are not a few women in
Scranton whose soft exquisite com
plexions and firm roundness of cheek
and chin continue past the time when
a dimming of the beauty might be ma
turally accepted. There are young
women who preserve yet the fair girl