Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-05
THE QUEST! OF BEAUTY
To Make a Pretty Girl Out Of
an Ugly One.
UPWARD LIP CURVES
coUNTENANcEs SHOULD BE
A PART OF THE TOILET.
A Feminine Philosopher Who Has
Found Good Looks Price
of Serenity.
UPWARD LIP CURVES



Isabella Moncrief has discovered that to
be beautiful she must be always serene.
That she must commence the day with a
| smile.
Il would soon think of leaving my
room in the morning before putting on my
Dress" she says las before putting on my
| face"
| She considers it positively rude to her
| family, well unknd, to appear at the
| breakfast table in what may be called facial
dishabille, Most every one considers her
| morning toilet complete when she has done
| with tub and dumb bells, dressed her hair
and put on her Clothes yet no woman
| should ever venture beyond the threshold of
| her bed room until she has coaxed smooth
and smiling reflection in her mirror
| Melancholy and beauty cannot exist to-
| gether in Isabela's theory. II never once
| permit myself to fall into a fit of the
| blues"
! For example" she cries. springing erect
| from the low, luxurious divan on which she
| IS lounging, 'let me show you little what
| it is to be sad. Observe now my express
| SION" and she lets the lines of her face to
| relax, droOpS her lids and mouth and bends
! her head until she presents a picture of
gentle detection.
DO you see, l have but to let my mus
| ceS fall, drop the jaw little and, wear
ing a face like this, in week lines will be-
| gin to appear, the cheeks to sag bit, then
my shoulders go forward, and in month
l am changed fortnight of megrims
! would ruin my looks forever"
My supreme desire-to quote some one,
| perhaps it's HONEYWELL say it's Homer
is not to be learned, rich, famous or power
! full, but to be radiant and beautiful, to ra-
| date health and life, to be pleasing pic
ture for any friends to behold. If the mind
| is healthy the body will be healthy, and
| things will work smoother, plans carry out
| pVprVthing tOnphpG Snnppp6S
How do l manage it, you ask, to keep
! the corners of my mouth turned up?'
| Regardless of the mood that may pos
| Sess me when l get up in the morning, l
| first 'deVitalize' my face, that is, cast out
| the unlovely expression in possession, by
| encouraging a sensation of droop through
| out the features, so that cheeks, lips, chin
| and lids may sag heavily, while the mind
| is. as far as possible a blank After soz-
| zling in this state of relaxation for a few
| moments, | summon up pleasing mental
| picture, and then allow a little smile, rip
| ping over the face from opening eyes and
| parting lips, to gradually bring the fea-
! lures into place and expression If one is
| afflicted with obstinate facial detection or
| melancholy this operation should be re-
| peated several times. l have known it to
work wonders in most unpromising cases.
Just try running up the corners of the
| mouth, regardless Of your mood, and see
| how it. makes you feel. Then draw the
corners of your mouth down, and you will
| declare that there is something in it, and is
|
| and suienness and dependency for smiles
and contentment and a happy heart?
! 1t is a sad fact that attractive coloring
| and a satiny texture of skin mean Infinite
| ~ more to the ordinary run of women than
| do the stories their fla ces are weaving from
! moods and lenses and thought habits.
And how short-sighted this preference is!
| 1t seems to be forgotten that the years
| go by the facial architecture alone will
| main intact-that the tints must somewhat
| fade. Let us bear in mind the fact that the
| f,11 f,;r AL. Of ,inl, tl,E
| builders.
! The American feminine countenance hap
| PLY is one that leans toward smiles, and
| is there not cause for a smiling compla-
| cency in the demonstrated facts that Amer
| lean women are the best-dressed as well as
| the most independent and problem-free of
all women? To have the right things on
! ones body and the wrong things off ones
| mind, is certainly to be as happy as it is
| possible for womankind to be.
The Internal Laughter Cure.
The internal laughter cure is another way
| of making pretty girl out Of plain one.
| 80, my! is that actually you!" said a
! pale, red-haired girl to plump dark-haired
one who sat beside her in the street car.
yes, it's me-" with cheerful disregard
| of grammar.
But you've changed so! Why, you're
you're actually getting pretty. You used
| to be so thin, and you didn't have such
awfully good complexion as you've got
now. and you used to have such a melan-
| choly 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 beautiier in the world
This Is the way of 1t. 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 posi-
ton you part the lips slightly and then
laugh internally, and laugh and laugh. as
though you We're 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
not? Well, you take this cure when you
| first get up in the morning, the last thing
at night, and often as you can during
the day. 1t will give you fine appetite
and complexion that is the envy of all
the girls-in fact" she added, with sly
| look, at might make a pretty girl OF you
in two months or less.
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 show
ed symptoms of growing good looking-if
| not positive beauty
Il will try it, and perhaps turn out
| raving beauty in no time"
The reason the internal laughter cure i'm
proves ones looks is that it improves the
| circulation by stimulating 1t, sending the
blood bounding through the veins. This is
the benefit Of all laughter ifthearty enough;
it causes deeper inspirations, calling into
active use every part of the lungs, favoring
an increase of lung power. and thereby de-
velopng healthy chest b.
When the chest and breast are lifted and
expanded the sagging. weeping willow lines
of the face disappearn Therefore laugh
little every day. Laugh and live long and
| keep young Ir y
| The greatest benefactor of the century is
that periodical which, not long ago, opened
a smiling contest through its columns and
| Off cred prizes for smiles.
Every one who could make, the first sem
! bance of a smile FASTENED to the photog
rapher's to smile for the contest.
Men and women who had forgotten how
to smile stood before their mirrors and
practiced. Men who met each other on the
street. paused long enough to say, Let us
SMILE" and disappeared behind glass doors.
Each contestant smiled for tie pure joy of
smiling. Giggles and laughs counted as
smiles, and large number of smirks and
grins, masquerading as smiles. were sent
| in. Every mail brought punches of smiles.
The contest was gay challenge to pes
slmists in general, and on a par with the
prescription of the doctor who makes