The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-14
SMOOTHING AWAY {
LINES OF ACE
Sermons of a Woman on the
Preserving Of Beauty.
scovfing on the Forehead Shen
Temper Gains Mastery Pro-
vokes Wrinkles

One of the easiest things to preach
about and one of the hardest to prac-
tice. is keeping young So few women
have any intelligent ideas upon this sub
ject early i'm life. The lectures that come
TO them later may be well worth consid-
Grafton. but can the help they offer be
of any real benefit to habits of long
standing?
I. Take. for instance. the girl who has
been allowed TO lift her brows ever since
she was a mite. The lines are rigid
across the forehead until. with the slight
est facial movement. they furrow the
skin. One. two, three such lines age a
face ten years every time they appear.
How about the lines between the eyes?
/ see them deeply etched in many faces.
says Dorothy Maddox. AS a girl devel-
ops into womanhood she is annoyed with
their appearance and attempts to ex-
plain why she is disfigured. 1 find she
has been allowed to squint ever since
she was a child. No effort was made to
help this trouble and so the two very
deep indentations over the nose spoil
face that might have been comedy.
Nothing hurts a woman's looks so
much as lines. The fallacy of rubbing
the deeply seated ones away is shown.
Not all the cream or massage in the
world will do more than keep them from
becoming deeper. With incipient lines
much can be accomplished
/ say lines because wrinkles make us
vince. Cream and massage should be
employed long. slong before woman has
reached the age for wrinkles, although,
IN Undo hx-f ba rifalr Hoe
come early. ] am constantly panied by
the very young women who carry on
their brows. under their eyes and about
their mouths lines that will give them
al forty the appearance of crones. 1t is
because they were neglected in child
hood.
And yet. mothers. lamenting their own
etched skins, say they cannot encourage
vanity in a young girl by thrusting tot
let notions in her way, notions that only
women OF maturer years should bother
with.
Women of maturer years find they have
matter for serious reflection when they
start i'm 10 eradicate evils that come from
neglect. Thirty years ago. perhaps, there
might have been some excuse for us
There is none today. We are wiser i'm all
toilet details than any women who have
lived in the centuries that have gone
woman on the exquisite beauty of her
forehead received this explanation: "Nev-
er since ] have been old enough to know
anything have been permitted to scowl
or use my forehead to express emotions
/ never show temper in my face. When
[ am angry I do not for one instant for
get to control my features. This may
seem odd. | suppose II comes from long
continued training.
With S11rh sr0od sense ffrna SarN-er
there is no reason why this fortunate one,
now the mother of large family of chill
dren, should not become a grandmother
and a great grandmother without show
ing facial lines.
According to your theory" was the
comment made few days since. "a wo-
man must go about with face lake
craven image" According to my theory.
we had better never have emotions if our
face must express them. The eyes light
up, the mouth curves into pleasing con-
tours The sparkle, the glow of feeling
can be expressed by these two features
without encouraging grimaces that soon
distort and finally destroy all pretensions
to beauty.
] do not wish to discourage those of
my sex really in earnest in their efforts
10 smooth away lines. II they are very
deep they can be kept from getting deep
er, and il heroic enough they can be
eradicated by the specialist who contracts
to keep her sisters young and beautiful.
Begin early enough in life, and you
may be your own specialist Here is a
woman who was used to water on her
skin for years and never a drop OF
cream. The skin gets dryer and dryer,
until finally the slightest movement of
the face brings TO view tiny lines as fine
as the hairs of ones head. They creep
about the corners of the eyes, and so
stealthy is their approach that their first
appearance gives one dreadful shock.
They came in the night when the head
was tucked down in a downy pillow; they
came because the sleeper has always had
a trick Of sleeping with her hand slipped
under her check: they came because re-
pa ted housings of soap and cold water
or constant applications Of hot water
without a tonic to follow We're the only
means ever employed to keep this poor
face clean.
Many time when its owner might
have soothed with delicate unguents a
complexion clustered and fretted she has
increased the irritation because too care
less or too ignorant to apply proper
remedies.
For years this woman has powdered,
and the powder has been dumped over a
skin unprotected by cream For years no
attempt has been made TO do more than
shield this skin from the sun that Bills
ters and freckles and tans. Not the
coarsest bit of linen in this woman's
keeping but has received more care than
her poor face.
And the lines settle deeper and deeper
and finally the daintiest clothes only ac-
centuate an age that has no earthly right.
according to Beauty's code, to claim its
victim for years to come.