The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-04

herself, and the adverse fates.
The new beauty cult teaches that
to be beautiful one must keep ones
temper. The Christian Scientists say,
also, that to be healthy one must
keep ones temper. The Theosophists
preserve always calm and even tenn
per and all the occulist maintain that
the calmness of the body is one of the
surest paths to happiness and lite
everlasting.
But the beauty specialist does not
go as far as this. She stops at the
preservation of the countenance. She
seeks to keep away the wrinkles.
But she understands perfectly well
that beauty, in this case, must be
great deal more than skin deep. She
knows that a woman must be calm,
that she must keep her temper down,
her spirits up, her face composed, and
| that there must be sweet serenity
underlying it all.
The beauty specialist understands
moreover, that the whole thing is a
matter of nerves and that, the nerves
be kept calm, the spirit and the body
will follow suit.
But to keep the nerves calm is
difficult matter, easier to say than to
do, for a woman is delicate bundle
of nerves. What woman does not
know what it is to have an agitated
mind, duttering heart, a pair of
emotional eyes, and, horrors of hor-
rors, nervous, trembling hand
1t is all nerves, but how are you
going to get those nerves under con-
troll and keep them there. And it
would be well enough if only the
heart, the mind, eyes and the hand
were affected by those out-of-order
nerves.
But it is not so. For the face also
shows the agitation of spirit, and lit
tie lines cross and recross the fore
head, making a veritable spider web,
a fish net, a criss-crossing which is
unmistakable, for nervous agitation is
plainly shown.
All women might look young for
ever were it not for these lines in the
face. In Paris, to take them away,
they perform a surgical operation
which consists in filling up the hol-
lows with paraffine. The parafine is
introduced by subcutaneous injec-
tions, and the hollows, wrinkles,
creases, folds and the like, stay filled
until the patient has stretched the
skin into a new set of wrinkles, when
the paraffine must be injected over
again.
The parafine treatment is expen-
sive and not always available, and it
is accompanied by little danger, SO
it is said.
But wrinkle treatment that is ac-
companied by no risk, and is, conse-
quently, highly to be advised, is the
one which works upon the nerves yes and Us
tient happy as we'll as beautiful.
Nerves are peculiar part of the
organism, and no two sets of nerves
are exactly alike. That which quiets
one PERSONS nerves disturbs another.
There are those who are soothed by
perfumes others that are upset by
them.
There is temperament, which is
another term for nerves, which can
not bear music unless at some dis
tance. Another likes sweet sounds
close at hand, the loudest music be-
ing acceptable.
The Greeks quieted the nerves of
their women with beautiful-sights,
fine paintings, statuary, the tinkle-
tinkle of fountains, the softest of fres-
Goes and the most picturesque of rooms
in which to dwell. There were no
outside, discordant sights allowed.
The Arabians gave their women
sweet perfumes. And the odors of
Araby are famous to this day. The
Arabians enclosed their women in
beautiful gardens wherein they might
rest the nerves and be happy.
For nerve cure sights are better
than medicines-so say the nerve and
beauty specialists and, if woman
can become quiet and happy by
course of nerve treatment, is it not
the part of discretion for her to take
it, and Immediately?
In New York there are some wo-
men who make it a part of the daily
regime to gaze into the depths of
fine crystal, which is hung from the
chandelier. The plan is to concen-
trate the thought upon the crystal
and to watch the play of light there
in. The sight acts in highly sooth-
ing way upon the mind, lifting it
above the commonplaces of the day,
and the vexations of the world.
There are others, who, when ner-
vous, find it a relief to listen to sweet
music; and there is regular musical
cure for those who will take it. It
consists in the striking of sweet chords
until the whole system is at peace.
This is being tried with very good re-
suits in insane asylums, and the pa
tients are soothed by the melody. It
is said that many are actually cured
by the power of music upon the mind.
But the woman who is merely vex-
ed by small cares can strike sweet
chords, or have some one else strike
them for her; and, under their in
huence, she can Danish disturbing
thoughts and be happy again.
One is to sit quietly and think.
Repeat something soothing, verse,
a wise quotation.
Look at matters in a broad way.
Realize that the person who has vex-
ed you had probable side to his or
her case. Perhaps you did not know
the whole of the story, only your side
of it was apparent to you.
Think of your dearest friend, how
kind she is, how much you love her
-or him Think of trees, the sun
shine, the pleasant weather that is