The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-17

| Beauty is nowadays not a matter OF
luck, but of money. 1t is possible for
the ugly girl to go over to Paris and
put herself into the hands of specialists
who will practically make her over,
remove her defects or else render them
unnoticeable and improve and accentu-
ate her advantages in such a manner
that in a few years she win be recog-
nized as a beauty.
The process takes time and rnoney, a
great deal of both. One well known
American who married a French Count
is a famous example OF what may be
done in this way in few years, while
any number of the women of the stage
are cited as instances of the same
method.
1t costs. not only to attain such re-
suits in the way of physical making
over, but also to preserve the results.
The services of a specialist must be
employed and a large amount must be
spent each year ON the various creams,
lotions and appliances that are requir-
ed
The artificial beauty of quarter OF a
century ago was creature of enarlel-
led skin, of false hair, of rouge and
powder, of pads and make believe gem
orally. The beauty of today, who has
become SO by the aids of dermatology
and its kindred arts, has charms at
least skin deep. The charm that is Gull
tivated in her physical appearance does
not wash off, although it requires con-
slant care and attention to keep it up
The woman who decides to be a beauty
today must concentrate her efforts on it
as she would on a profession From
her rising in the morning to her going
to bed at night she must keep the one
thought before her
From her head TO her feet the beauty
course is progressing, and she knows
that badly adjusted gown, corset or
hat, wrongly selected luncheon. an
urwisely chosen companion on a shop
ping tour or drive will cause her COM
plexion to grow pasty, her lines to
deepen in forehead and throat and her
appearance to suffer
Mental scientists say that beauty is
only question of properly directed
thoughts. The beauty doctors uncon-
sciously employ TIE mental methods by
getting their customers so worked up
on the subject of skin, hair, wrinkles
and other things that practically moth
ing else is thought of.
One we'll known woman of the stage, |
whose fairness of complexion end beau
ty of form are proverbial, devotes a |
good half of her life to the care of her
body, to her dressing, to her massage. |
10 her dentist, to her corset maker and |
70 the rest of the people who now make |
goodly living through this new branch |
If industry.
She spends thousands of dollars ey-
cry year to preserve her beauty. She |
axes steam baths daily and bodily |
twice day. Even when she
sleeps her body is encased in bandages
md appliances that prevent the flesh /
rom sagging in the ungainIy lines once
ieemed inseparable from middle age
Gymnasium work. while part of the
'egime necessary to the making of a
modern beauty, does not in all cases add
o the beauty of the face, although it
lardens the muscles and prevents the
accumulation of fat.
1t comes hard TO the woman who has
lot been habitual exerciser from
'outh. While it is in most cases bene-
ieial to the health, the fatigue fre-
Iuently produces a strained expression
# the eyes and a tired look which the
kin doctor viii at once object to.