Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-03
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY
The Broad, Low Brow is a
Powerful Attribute.
SHAPINGTHE FOREHEAD
THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM OF CURING
BROWNING.
A Brand-New Wrinkle to Eradicate the
Worrying Kind-Things
to Remember.

Written for The Evening Star by Katherine Morton.
Copyright. 1908. by T. c. McClure)
The forehead has been called 1.-The gate
of the SOUL
Features alter. Eyes. nose. mouth may
change their aspect from thousand
causes. Accident may mar them pain dis
tort them, old habits frequently give them
some popularity of form or expression.
They are like the hands on the clock dial:
they move and change with wear or exter-
nal Influences. But the forehead Is like the
dial itself. 1t remains substantially the
same throughout life.
The perfect forehead should be smooth,
clear, white and spacious, and one-fourth
the length Of the head in height. The
broad. low brow is the most beautiful. This
is the Roman or classic brow, as shown in
painting and sculptured marble.
The Greeks preferred the high and rather
narrow brow; this is the shape uniformly
represented In Greek sculpture.
The owner of high forehead is popular
~ supposed to be person of mighty intel
lect and saint, while the villain Of life or
of the drama Is always supposed to be dis
tinguished by a low. beetling brow. And
these notions survive and flourish among US
despite the fact that the most brilliant
people have their full share Of low fore
heads, just as the least intellectual often
own angelic 'arched brows."
Whether high or low, capacity and
strength of mind are indicated If the brow
Is rounded and slightly convex. Prominence
On the region of the eyebrows indicates
strength Of the perceptive or observing
faculties; prominence of the middle and
upper part indicates strength of the relec-
tive or thinking faculties, and prominence
of the upper and outer portions indicates
strength of the imaginative faculties.
Sharp and DARING
If the forehead rises slantingly, the per-
son is supposed to be sharp and daring; II
it is full at the outer angles. the owner has
plenty of ideas. Where it Is fullest in the
middle, the person is shrewd and guarded
in her conduct
A knotty forehead shows perseverance,
activity Of mind and body, and also harsh
ness and intolerance. A small dent in the
forehead just above and between the eye
brows shows insincerity and lack of judg-
ment. g."
Quick. energetic and useful people usually
have short. narrow fereheads. A straight
forehead. one that rises from the eyebrows
in perpendicular line is a sign of inflexi-
bility and tenacity.
AS to heads in the beauty market, the
small one takes the prize. The American
girl must realize this fact. for she has
once had. Today she has the delightful
little head of the southern woman Of French
descent, that SMALL we1l-poised head which
Is so pretty that 1t is ideal. Nothing adds
so much to beauty as a we1l-shaped head
nobly poised like that Of a Psyche or a
Galatea. >" -
If her head is too large for beauty the
girl of the present day is clever enough to
make it seem smaller by dressing her hair
compactly and by smoothing it at the sides
She twists little knot low at the back of
her head. or coils it smoothly on top, and
her head seems small and we'll shaped
whether nature intended that 1t should be
or not
Suits Her Fancy.
The shape of her brow, too, she alters to
make herself more lovely to look upon She
shapes 1t as best pleases her. making 1t
low or HIGH or wide or narrow, or oval or
square. She wakes the hair to grow up or
down. to lie in rebellious little waves, or
to go back smartly from forehead that
needs to be raised little. Broad and low
Is the preferred pattern in brows just at
present.
Even with a pompadour this shape may
be managed by means of soft waves of hair
partly covering the brow.
Any one with too broad brow should
wear little hair possible on the tenn
pies and dress 1t high. One with too low a
brow should keep the hair off the forehead
In front and arrange, few wavy locks on
the temples. A receding brow should be
partly covered with fluffy hair. A maiden
with a brow both high and broad may al
low her tresses to ripple and wave and flow
over 1t like those Of the heroine of three
volume novel.
To keep the forehead fair. smooth and
youthful is easy enough, If a little time and
thought is expended
The first rule is, don't scowl" when
reading, writing or talking seriously. This
causes two little perpendicular lines to
plough between the eyes. 1t is a habit al
most impossible to correct when once
formed, 1t is done unconsciously by a
great many young people. Even in sleep
their brows will be drawn together in this
frown that is the abettor Of age
She Cured Herself.
A bright and studious young woman, still
in her early twenties, found herself the
victim of this scowl, which had already
made two fine hairlines In her brow. She
set herself to work to cure the habit by
placing her mirror before her face when
she read, wrote or studied. But as this
distracted her attention from her work, she
finally placed white ribbon band tightly
across her brow, tying it in knot at the
back of her head. At night she slept with
the band. After several months the lines
disappeared, and she is quite cured of the
diSfiguring habit
removing wrinkles in the forehead is worth
trying If lines are threatening the appear
ance of the brow.
The Russian way is to bind hot cloths.
then to lie down. AS the cloths should be
changed frequently maid accom-
modating friend is useful adjunct to this
toilet rite. The patient" is given vinai-
grette of soothing salts to quiet the nerves;
she Is directed to- think pleasant thoughts
and to hold her face as quiet as possible,
that the lines may be allowed to dsap-
pear under the magic influence of the hot
applications. This is a treatment which
must be taken when, time is not pressing.
The cHE,rorupar
Another new wrinkle for curing wrinkles
Is the "frowner." This is designed pri-
marily to blot out or erase the wrinkles
caused by frowning, but it may be applied
with equal success to crows feet or to the
literary wrinkle"-the one deep crease
between the eyebrows.
The frowner consists simply of a small
and rather stiff bit Of white paper, with
coat of gum arabic on the back. The bit
of paper may be round or square, and just
large enough to cover the lines 1t is de-
signed to cure. Moisten the paper and
paste 1t on wherever it is needed. The bits
of paper may also be kept on by means OF
narrow bands of ribbon.
Heavy writing paper from which to fash
ion these frowners is available to ALL