The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-20

- FAUTY is not skin deep" Don't
TX you believe a word Of it. Real true
Il j beauty of the enduring sort lies
away. down deep in the character
and disposition. A pretty face and hg-
ure of perfect proportions never yet made
a truly beautiful woman.
If there is not a pleasing personality,
g frank and cordial manner, together
with sufficient sense to walk in cut OF a
hailstorm. why the pink and white com
plexian. the eyes of heavenly lOveliness
and the white and shaprly hand won
amount to a Cancelled postage stamp
These are but the external embellish-
ments of a structure that will not with
stand the storms and weatherbeatinSs OF
Time unless. underlying IT is something
more enduring than mere physical love
illness, such as sweetness OF character
and a cheerful. love-compelling tempera-
ment So, in your effort to enhance the
physical don't forget that the mental
needs refurbishing also.
Furthermore, there cannot be perfect
beauty without perfect cleanliness.
Cleanliness is next to godliness
That's another aphorism with which am
inclined to find fault. for to my mind
cleanliness comes before goodness. l do
not mean by that that think it discounts
in its results physically the practice of
all the virtues. but I do think one has TO
be clean before one can be good
once asked q fastidious youth what at
tribute he most admired in woman.
'Neatness." he replied without a mo-
ruent's hesitation. When one walks down
Kearny or Market street and observes the
number of women who seem to be filling
the role of a sidewalk mop, gathering
up with the hens of their gowns the
sweeplngs of the streets, whose faces are
painted and plastered until they look as
though they would crack If they smiled
and whose hair parts itself all over the
head in little sticky strands, one cannot
but agree with the aforementioned youth.
With her skirt all frayed at the edges.
her fingers sticking through the ends OF
her gloves and yesterdays mud stu! on
her boots a woman is not the winsome
creature that she might be were perfect
neatness and order the predOmina ting
characteristics of her toilet. We all in
stiuctively Ike the clean people and nate
the untidy
yourselves correctly. Try and keep IN
mind the eternal fitness Of things: When
you have or an old mussy frock, don I
ton il of with dressy, delicate-hueo
har ana don't insist upon wearing white
gloves on all occasions. no matter now
soiled the gloves may be. II you must
wear white gloves, then keep them wnlte.
Five cents worth OF gasoline VIII clean
several pairs of gloves. and will take put
a few minutes of your precious time
IF your dress is q bit worn and SHABBY
II really doesn't matter much, so long as
your skirt is whole and well brushed,
your shoes nicely BACKED, your neckwear
fresh and clean and your scoldIng locks
pinned neatly back. These are little de-
falls but they count for a whole lot in
the makeup OF an attractive woman.
Oh yes. and let me beg OF the little
women not 10 try and lose themselves
under a heavy hat of enormous proper
lions. and OF the big ones with round, fat
faces not to -tog themselves IN little
round affairs that give 10 their heads the
appearance Of a child 5 balloon with
doughnut perched atop il.
Clothes tell a story OF themselves. a
Frenchman, I think il was. once said:
SHOW me a woman's clothes at different
periods OF her life and l will tell you her
history
AS a lastly" TO to-day's Beauty Talk
I would like 10 add some "don'ts which
| stumbled across the other DAY and
which I think might be pasted on the
back of many a woman's hand mirror.
They are: Don't worry. Don't hurry.
Don't overeat. Don't starve. Breathe
fresh air every day and night Sleep
and rest a great deal Spend less nerv-
Gus energy every day than you make.
Be cheerful Work like q woman. but
don't be worked to death Associate with
healthy people. Health is contagious as
well as disease. Don't carry the whole
world on your shoulders, far less the