Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-09
. INTERNAL LAUGHTER CURE.
A New Method of Acquiring Beauti.
full Complexion.

The internal laughter cure is another
way of making pretty girl out of d
plain one.
"Oh, my. is that actually you!" said
a pale, Ted-haired girl to a plump. dark
haired one who sat beside her in the
street ear.
Yes its me-" with cheerful disregard
of grammar.
But ol've changed 50! Why, you're
you're actually getting pretty. You used
to be so thin, and YOU didn't have such an
now ana you used to have such a melan-
choiy expression. What has happened?
Why, I've been taking the internal
laughter cure
What in the world is that?"
Its the best tonic l ever tried, and the
best complexion beautifier in the world.
This is the way Of it. You stand Up very
erect. with toes turned out, and hips and
shoulders thrown back, and your hands
on your hips. When you get the right
position you part the lips slightly and then
laugh internally, and laugh and laugh, as
though you were hearing the most anus
ing thing in the world, or that you had
fallen heir to millions, which would be
the most amusing thing in the world,
would it not2 Well, you take this cure
when Won first get up In the morning, the
last thing at night, and as often, as you
can during the day. 1t will give you d
fine appetite and a complexion that is the
envy OF all the girls-in fact" she added,
with sly look, 1T might make pretty
1A4i VI pu III ~ lllDlllIlS VI 1858.
Your complexion would begin to clear
right away. and the color to come; your
hair would stop coming out, and new hair
would begin to come in, and even your
rival would have to acknowledge that you
showed symptoms of growing good look
ing-if not a positive beauty"
= Will try it, and perhaps turn out q
raVinS beauty in no time
The reason the interior laughter cure
improves ones looks is that it improves
the circulation by stimulating it, sending
the blood bounding through the veins
This is the benefit Of all laughter if
nearly enough, 1t causes deeper inspira
tons, calling into active use every part Of
the lungs, favoring an increase of lung
power, and thereby developing a healthy
chest
When the chest and breast are lifted
and expanded, the sagging, weeping
willow lines of the face disappear. There
fore laugh little every day. Laugh and
live long and keep young.
The greatest benelactor of the century
is that periodical which. not long ago
opened a smiling contest through its col
umnS and offered prizes for smiles
Everyone who could make the first
sfmblance of smile FASTENED to the
photographers to smile for the contest.
Men and women who had forgotten how
to smile, stood before their mirrors and
practised. Men who met each other on
the street paused long enough to say
Let is smile" and disappeared behind
glass doors. Each contestant smiled for
the pure joy Of smiling. Giggles ana
laughs coQpted as smiles, and a large
nunDer-of Smlr.SS and grinS. TnaSquerad-
ing as smiles, were sent in. Every man
bought punches Of smiles.
The contest was gay challenge TO
pesstmists in general, and on a par with
the prescription of the doctor who makes
a speciality Of nervous disorders. To his
halt hundred or more melancholy pa
TENTS this is the prescription: all.
keep the corners of your mouth turned
a ~ Il !
tons for taking are: ''Smile-keep !. on
smltlng-dont stop smiling" The doctor
treats his patients to medicine when nee
eSsary, but when the case is one of pure
melancholy without bodily ILL., he simply
recommends the smile cure. He has the
patient remain in his Office and smile: If
II Is not the. genuine article it must al
least, be an upward curvature of the corr
ners Of the mouth. and the better feel
1nSS follow inevitably. 1t takes cnnsiti-
cradle patience to induce some of the pa
tents to apply the cure, and of course.
the greater number Of patients are wo-
men for when a man is blue he is bound
TO be blue, in spite of everything, but A
woman is more easily persuaded to try
and find cure.
We must not forget. however, that there
its uses.
Cry and improve your circulation" is
some ones advice who adds: Tears a%e
positively beneficial For one thing. bv
pressure to the brain is reduced: this
would seem TO make in favor of what is
known as "a good cry" But. let this
good cry be only occasional, once a year.
say, or once in two years
Feminine tears have rather gone out of
fashion or fallen into disfavor \ century
ago it was different
Heroines then wept for hours. and for
whole days, or even, on and off, for a
week. and all about trifies They altered
SO BEAUTIFULLY, toO-slow, crystal tears
from Redeemed eyelds. 1t was charming
IN novel. Is have emotion may be the
fashion. and amusing enough, but they
wrinkles is an old beauty recipe.
Smiles would seem to be preferable for
everyday life, for when the spirits are Sc
rene and buoyaut, the body is not only
healthiest but most beautiful.