The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-09-03
SEVEN SECRETS OF a SMILE.

beauty are required. These are:
good complexion, good teeth, a Gu
pid's bow mouth, correct nose, ex-
pressive eyes, fascinating blush,
and good turn Of the head. To this
list one might add dimples.
A child has the lovliest smile in
the world, and the reasons are sew
eral. A child's skin is creamy, its
flush or blush is natural, its eyes are
smiling, and they laugh when the
rest of the face laughs. All people
love laughing children.
With the grown up smile it is diff
ferent. Few people smile well.
Before you can smile there are
certain things which you must pos
sess. You must have good teeth.
Unless you have good teeth you can
not afford to part your lips. Ii your
teeth are not perfect, and still you
want to smile, you must employ
dentist to put them in shape.
The Cupid's bow mouth depends
largely upon the shape Of the lips.
Compressed lips never bow prettily.
They are pressed together in hard,
straight line, and often they are col
orless. They are never curved, and
they have cruel look, which is disa-
greeable.
To obtain the Cupid's bow mouth,
learn to how vour 1ips. Learn to
hold them easily and prettily. Give
up trying to look determined.
Many women have determined
look, of which they are unconscious:
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do not know that it takes away all
softness of expression.
Learn to let the lips just touch
each other in a natural way and do
not try to press them together.
Never bite your lips if you want a
Cupid's bow mouth.
To keep the lips nice, so that they
will bow properly, learn to use night
ly lip emollient. Never let the lips
chap or grow rough.
If your lips are blue, look out for
your health. Blue lips indicate a
poor circulation.
Next, when keeping your lips nice,
try to make them red. The natural
lips should be bright glowing red.
Cherry lips are noted in poetry, but,
alas, they are more often found in
poetry than in natural life.
To make your lips glow should be
your aim. It is done by keeping up
the circulation; it is done by exer-
cising them. 1t is done by outdoor
exercise, by cheerful thoughts. And
it is also done by coloring them.
There are little boxes of vegetable
rouge which gave the lips
nice shade. It takes but a touch,
and, in these days, ladies of refine
ment are using it. To color the lips
seems step toward the impossible,
still one sees very estimable women
doing it. And after all, is it worse
than using face powder, or hairpins
OR, for that matter, any of the ar
tifces of everyday life?
To make up the mouth into Gu
pid's bow, if you have arrived at the
point where you are willing to make
up, there is little art required. You
must have bit of vegetable rouge
and some cream colored face pow
der.
Open your pot Of vegetable rouge
and dip your little finger into the red.
Now Just touch the middle of your
upper lip slightly, just sufficient to
make an ideal Cupid's bow. You
will need only a very little dab of
the red, for it is not good taste to
use enough to be visible to the naked
eye.
Now take a little powder and ap-
ply it to the corners of the mouth.
This is to shorten the mouth. 1t is
too wide and you want to make it
look short and thick, like the bow of
Cupid.
You can really take an inch off
your mouth in this manner, and can
transform it from a great slit, mar
row and colorless, into something
that greatly resembles the Cupid
bow of verse.
The rosebud mouth is a gift of
nature. You cannot cultivate it.
This is the little round mouth, with
the heavy red lips and the wonder
full glow.
It is the mouth seen most fire.
quently upon the three-year-old, but
very seldom upon the grown-up.
Still, if your mouth is very short,
and if your lips are thick and red,
you can go in for it.
Shorten the corners with touch
of powder and apply just very lit
tie red to the lips at the thickest
part. You may succeed; and if you
do, you will have a. wonderfully
handsome mouth.
No smile is nice without nice eyes.
But, oh, how difficult it is to get
theml
The eyes must be kept clear, and