The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-07-22
sERMoEErTE ON BEAUTY.


Our faces get just as tired as on
backs or our feet, and then, IL we knov
! enough, we long for the soothing topcl
of fingers trained to kneasl and pat an,
stroke our muscles.
The sensation is delightful. Ten vel
vety balls travelling around our chin
under our eyes. across our foreheals
and each ball carrying along a cool lit
tie dab Of something creamy and sof
and fragrant.
Many's the spell Of cross-grainness
have had chased OF in this way. Socia
indalgences must be paid for.
| Weare obliged 10 grimace. Some peo
pie call 1t smiling" We expect Gun
smirks 10 bring lines.
We look to the artful rubber TO keel
facial muscles so strengthened thai
they win resist the strain TO which the,
are Subjected.
We are also wise enough to learn q
few massage tricks as well.
And how careful we are to get TO.
gether delicate lotions that will heir
osir ten fingers TO do the work demand
Ell Of them.
Imagine how the face of woman
pledged to six euchres a week and q
WHIST or two thrown in must need mas
sage. There is nothing on earth more
cruelty unkind to good locks than those
persistent Efforts Of ours 10 be agree-
able. We cannot so into society With
sealed lips and expressions that are
funeral We begin the great grimae-
ing act from the moment we give our
hostess our first handshake 10 the time
for the final adiSu.
We can actually feel, il we have
grown sensitive upon the subject OF
wrinkles, the lines coming about our
eyes, and around our mouth every time
We contract the muscles.
We may be ignorant of CONSCIOUSNESS
II so we let threadike weayes appear,
and that cunning scamp Time = de-
lighted TO be allowed his win. sees to it
that they become day by day deeper and
deeper.
And there arrives time when even
Venus mirror refuses TO shelter de-
fects. Our eyes are still bright. our
color fine, our complexion free from
eiemishes, but, alas! n few crows feet
or a network OF wrinkles spells every
thing.
1t is all folderol to tell a woman of 30
that she may look as young as a girl of
IS. If true 10 the trust nature has re-
posed in her she has no need TO envy
the bud. II she has cared for each gift
with which she has been endowed. She
can afford to laugh at the pretensions of
youth with all its guacheries, all its in
iipidities. II, however. she has been
negligent Of the arts that beauty, an
uEhelievel- in science as a eure-all for
Cur infections, she must simply bear her
She will be punished
EetribUtion may loiter. 1t arrives, if
not promptly on time, early enough TO
torment, 10 harass. 10 reproach.
Life may not be such picnic 10 any
one of US that we desire 10 cling to
youth- We may even long to end it.
We should without delay b. coached re-
garding the ironelad rule which prog
ress insists shall be learned, namely.
mat we are expected to be beautiful.
wholesome, physically 4 delight and to
please others and not ourselves.
How are our faces scanned? We
should not hold the years we have lived
responsible. but the lives we have led.
N2iie2 and snariing work havoc with
the fairest faces. Defy the laws Of
coEmon sense and hygiene and see
where we viii bring up. Go en- from
tlne to time. planning reforms without
carrying cut a single plan, and see how
we will come out. There is no dissioa-
ton. II matters not how small. that does
not leave its impress. l have no pa
uencc with whey old age. with n
Sallow-tinted. bloomiess maturity.
have no patience with a shriveIed,
Parehment-hke decay. with 4 lean or n
lat old womanhood. Grow old beauti-
uliy. If we do not know how it can he
lone we should lose no time in finding
2ut.-Dorothy Maddox, in Philadelphia
Inquirer.