The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-18
GOOD SENSE I'M
BEAUTY CULTURE
Women Apt to Go From Ex-
treme to Extreme.
Some Have an Adherence of Even
Harmless Means; Others ReCk-
less in Using Cosmetics.

There is a certain kind of conscience
which suffers severest castigationS be-
cause of its owners wish to become
beautif al, .ays Dorothy M4dd *. such
a conscience is fearful stumbling
block in the way of beauty culture; it
is a conscience that keeps one con-
stanty ruffied; it is conscience re-
sponsible for timorouS efforts which
yield but the most meager returns.
When a woman makes up her mind
that she has crow to pick with Dame
Nature, the sooner it is picked the bet
ter off she will be as far SO. peace of
mind is concerned. 1t is the work I'M
hedged by misgivings that accom-
plishes something worth talking about.
Never is this so true as when a plain
faced woman sets about to get ria, of
her plainness. 1t is worse than useless
to try to remedy personal defects, if
DOUBTS and fears prevail. Half of our
troubles are the result of tcuwArdice
Our fears weave about us web from
which ii is next to impossible TO ex-
tricate ourselves. rgt.fas
There is the broadcast margin bet weAn
fear and caution. The one is tooIoften
senseless, the other always sensfble. /
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ture as plaster image. who look Upon
pot of pure. delicious toilet tcream
with an aversion amounting to horror
some day their faces will resemble a
checker board. Their loud appeal for
help, If answered in the form of ungu-
ents, will raise a fearful commotion in
their breasts. Should a time ever ar
rive when softening lotions, in place Of
cold water and bad soap, are adopted,
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that results will utterly fail to satisfy.
Complexion specialists have written
reams, talked themselves hoarse over
the camers- hair brush. and with all
this coaching there are scores of wo-
men who stand off and view the inof-
fensiVe little article as if il were a CO.
bra. Then don't know what to do with .
it. They imagine they will have an ele-
plant on their hands if ever they are
wheedled into the purchase of one of
these brushes.
There are women scared to death OF
hot water; they fear that its use will
make the skin f'abby or yellow or
something. Cold water is equally dis
liked by others. The blessings il is
capable of comforting they know moth
ing of and never will. Women are
shaky over massage. Electricity is a
bugbear to them. They go about with
nose that shines like a glass stopper
because face powder they have been
taught to dodge. You may even see
them shying away from a harmless
dust of arrowroot.
Dead indeed must be the conscience
that would ever permit the use OF a
delicate tinge of cOlOring on cheeks as
pasty as the side of unbaked dough.
Women have no right to daYdle
away two-thirds of their lives in mac
tive service to personality, and expect
the other third, if they happen TO come
TO their senses, to blossom out into ra-
diant loveliness. Too much time is
spent in making up our minds Deci-
sive action is what we need. There
would be small necessity for plastic
surgery were We early in life made to
understand, as a writer puts ii. the !
prevention of destruction" II Is the
shilly- shallying of our methods that
launches into middle age victims of
facial and figure blemishes of all kinds. +!
bIemishes SO deeply rooted that science
cannot eradicate them. Dearly do we
nav for every golden hour wasted.