The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29
THE WOMAN
BEAUTIFUL
Just How to Look and
Be Fetching.
MISS FLETCHER'S BOOK
Most Interesting Volume Written for
the Fair Sex by Know
ing Author.

II want to help you to grow as beauti-
full as God meant you to be when He
thought of you first.
This is the very pretty theme upon
which THE Woman Beautiful" new
book by Ella Adefia Fletcher, is builded.
1t is book that will appeal to every
woman everywhere, and, perhaps, with
particular force to the women of Hawaii,
for our climate. despite its Wanted mild
ness and equability. has the reputation of
being hard on woman's beauty, well
as woman's health, and the purpose of
Miss Fletchers book, its raison d'etre is
their health and their beauty. 1T has
long been an acknowledged fact she
says in one of the opening chapters of the
book. that health is the very foundation
stone Of happiness and usefulness for
both men and women, and We now recog-
nize it as the cornerstone of beauty.
/ And so. taking this as a premise. Miss
Fletcher gives womankInd a practical
tire atise covering every branch and rami-
fication of the subject of beauty and
health and their nter-relationshp. She
| goes carefully into the subject, teaching
| by practical illustration and good, com
mon sense. advises how best to preserve
| these qualities of face and form which
make woman attractive not only to mar
bug to her sisters. 1t Is a most Sensibls
book. 1t puts forth no radical reforms OF
thee ries, but treats of beauty as based or
the good old-fashioued principles Of
ne alth postulates health necessary be
fore beauty car be acquired or preserved
and then sets to work to tell how TO make
the. two walk hand in hand
Miss Fletcher spares no pains in hel
endeavor to tell all that is to be told OF
the subject of healthy living and healthy
dcirg. No detail is too small for her anC
ia her book she has devoted separate
chapters to almost every portion of tn
human body, as well as almost ever
function of il. Physical culture Sh'
treats at length and most interestingly
correct breathing and walking she tell
all about, from both the theoretical AM
practical standpoint. She 6evotes chap
tiers to the care of the complexion, of tn
hair. of the feet and hands, and also I
the principles of taste and hygiene 4
dress and even to the subject or sleep
Recipes are given by the hundred for tn
cure of every Imaginable evil and the rec
tifioation of every conceivable i'll tina
hcme remedies will right. In snort, ther
is nothing that experience and years Q
research have brought TO light conductv
to health and beauty that is not set fort
,, at length.
Yet let 1t not be thought that Nils
F1etcher's book is a mere catalogue
rtrscfpes and remedies for the ills OF IN
flesh. 1t is much more than that, for II
a work of far more than usual literar
merit, and besides treating practically
? the subject it goes into the history an
? the philosophy of beauty.
: Take this passage of the first chaptt
5 for example; IF there were a woma
xrh did desire win affectlOn al
> 1--we she would be an abnormal creatul
4 whose idiosyncrasy must be accounted f6
e on purely pathological grounds; with M
we have nothing to do. 1t is simply III