The Holly chieftain., 1899-06-23
sERMoNErTE ON BEAUTY.
The Society Smile Leaves Lines -
the Face That Are Hard
to Enace.

Our faces get Just as tred as our
backs or our feet, and then, II we know
enough, we long for the soothing toueh
of fingers trained TO knead and pat ano
stroke our muscles.
The sensation is delightful. T-n vel
vety balls travelling around our chin
under our eyes, across or foreheads,
and each ball carrying along cool ut
tie dab of something creamy and soft
and fragrant.
Many's the spell of cross -grainness
have had chased off in this way. Social
indulgences must he paid for.
Weare obliged to grimace. Some peo
pie call it smiling" We expect oui
smirks to bring lines.
We look to the artful rubber TO keeE
facial muscles SO strengthened that
they will resist the strain 10 which they
are subjected.
We are also wise enough to learn
few massage tricks as well.
And how careful we are to get to-
gether delicate lotions that will help
our-ten fingers to DO the work demand
ed of them.
ihS hoN tLt raw Va ="
pledged to six euchres week and
whist or two thrown in must need mas
sage. There is nothing on earth more
cruelty unkind to good looks than those
persistent efforts of ours to be agree
able. We cannot go into society with
sealed lips and expressions that are
funereal. We begin the great grimac
ing act from the moment we give our
hostess our first handshake to the time
for the final adieu
We can actually feel. if 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 consequences
II so we let threadlike weaves appear
and that cunning scamp - Time - de
lighted to be allowed his WILL 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
blemishes, but, alas! a few crows feet
Or network of wrinkles spoils every
thing.
II is all folderol to tell woman of 30
that she may look as young as n girl of
49, If true to the trust nature has re.
posed in her she has no need to envy
the bud. If she has cared for each gift
with which she has been endowed, she
can afford to laugh at the pretensions of
south with all its guacheries, all its in
ipidities. II, however. she has been
negligent of the arts that beautify. an
unbeliever in science as cure-all for
)ur infections, she must simply bear her
punishment. She will be punished
ietribution may loiter 1t arrives. if
not promptly on time, early enough to
torment, to harass, to reproach.
Life may not be such picnic to any
one of us that we desire TO cling to
youth. We may even long to end it.
We should without delay be coached re-
yarding the ironclad rule which prog
ress insists shall be learned. namely.
that we are expected to be beautiful.
wholesome, physically 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.
Malice and snarling work havoc with
the fairest faces. Defy the laws of
common sense and hygiene and see
where we will bring up. Go on from
time to time, planning reforms without
carrying out single plan. and see how
we will come out. There is no dissipa-
ton. it matters not how small, that does
not leave its impress. have no pa
tience with wheezy old age, with
sallow-tinted. bloomless maturity.
have no patience with shriveled.
decay, with lean or a
fat old womanhood. Grow old beauti-
fully. If we do not know how it can be
done we should lose no time in finding
ont.-Dorothy Maddox, in Philadelphis
Inquirer.